Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Antin

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.

Sathya Baba

We can be successful leaders only if we are disciplined followers, who do not issue commands to others but rather set an example of service in our actions.

Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

Gary North

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

Antonin Scalia

Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

Astro Teller

Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.

Muhammad Yunus

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

Monica Johnson

Young people are not immune to following God's commands concerning discipline.

Mark Trakh

Brooke Smith commands a double down. She's so skilled and her footwork is so good. She's like an old-time player with her back to the basket, and she's got all the moves.

Elian Gonzalez

We reiterate that Lazaro will not disobey the law,

William John Wills

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

Emma Roberts

I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.

Richard Hamilton

The peak of an NBA player is 29, 30? So we're still young. We can go as far as we want to go.

Anita Leveke

The past two seasons have been great successes as far as overall improvement in times and getting kids qualified for state.

Bruce Braley

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

Benicio Del Toro

As far back as I can remember, these are the first movies, the Universal horror movies where I knew the title of the film and I also knew the names of the actors in those films.

Darell Hammond

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.

Judith Butler

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Donald Trump

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

Chris Squire

I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Rollie Massimino

We have a lot of friends. It's been a great run. . . . I've got about 15 or 16 of my former players tonight.

Remi Oyo

The prerogative of the return of former President Taylor remains that of the Liberian people and government.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Laith Kubba

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

Ivan Golde

There is a potential suspect, but it's not a former client.

Henry Charles Carey

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.

John Morley

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

Scott Bisbe

I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.

Dennis Washington

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Martin Heidegger

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

Hosea Ballou

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Bill Callahan

He's progressing, getting back to form. He's not where he should be right now, but he could be by the latter part of the week.

Cory Booker

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

Rex Stout

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Lisa Unger

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Calvin Coolidge

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.