Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Carlisle

For the last 10 days, we've spent a lot of time on fundamentals, individual work, screening and footwork. We know that doing the little things at a high level is going to be key for us winning some games.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

Brian Bell

For our high-value applications and those that require high performance, Web services technologies are not robust enough for the job.

For now the rate hike will have mostly a psychological impact on the market. Investors will probably use this as a reason to push prices down before re-entering the market at lower levels.

For the first time in the history of that program, Maine's number one project is ranked number one in the country.

For the first time in history, we're going to make voting fashionable,

For our size, I think we are safe. There has been a lot of highway reconstruction. Danbury would have never been the same if I-84 hadn't been widened.

For someone to have me in junior high to pick me, that was quite an honor,

Gloria Steinem

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.

I wear high heels for long legs.

Harry S Truman

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

H. G. Wells

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

H. L. Mencken

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

Guillermo del Toro

I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

Greg Jackson

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

The history of one is the history of all.

George Herbert

Praise a hill, but keepe below.

Geoffrey Ward

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

Geoffrey Ward

Journalism is merely history's first draft.

Jessica Simpson

Is this chicken or is this fish?

Jessica Simpson

I'm not anorexic. I'm from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I've never heard of one. And that includes me.

Jerry Bridges

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

Jerry Bridges

God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

Jean Ziegler

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Jeane Kirkpatrick

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Jeanne Moreau

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

Jean Nouvel

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

Gertrude Stein

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Ellen DeGeneres

Now airlines charge for everything... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen.

Francis Walsingham

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

Ian Mcewan

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.