Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cavendish

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

Walter Smith

There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

Debbie Stothard

The pattern of detaining, releasing and detaining Aung San Suu Kyi is symbolic of the one step forward, two steps back strategy the regime has perpetrated on the entire country.

David Remnick

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

Larry Gill

We plan to meet holistic needs of the entire family.

Mike Raidt

We probably shot under 20-percent for the entire second half. We got a lot of good looks, we just couldn't hit a basket.

Sam Harris

Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.

Tyler James Williams

When kids tried to pick on me, I always had one line to shoot them down with: 'I make more money in a week than you'll make in your entire life.' Which probably wasn't true, but they thought it was.

Alexa Von Tobel

Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it.

Paul Little

The outlook for the group is very positive.

Tadashi Yanai

Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

Vincent Gallo

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

Nick Saban

We are not in the playoffs, but it was not all in vain. This group was a team for the last six weeks of the season, for sure.

Chris Hughes

When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.

Nelson Mandela

Tomorrow the two groups will meet on the ship,

David Evans

To me, the whole strategy is how to communicate information to a group of people. People tune out if you don't hold their attention.

Shannon Wallace

We're doing this to provide residents or groups an opportunity to use tools they might not otherwise have for beautification. It's a large, 9-foot trailer that will have everything from a rake or a shovel to a hedger and a lawnmower.

Walid Jumblatt

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

David Eagleman

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Pete Rose

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

John Reid

We're not sure all that legal procedure has worked all that well at the tribunal.

Sandy Close

We haven't been listening to legal immigrants. We've been taking their name in vain.

Ambrose Bierce

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Stewart Baker

The point is, you can't be sure if you're legal in a lot of areas.

Tom Jackson

What he said to me was that it's the right thing to do. It might be legally gray, but it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

Well, senator, as a legal matter, it is abstract,

Rijkman Groenink

You can safely take that any legal procedures will be stopped.

Brad Goreski

I enjoy lifting weights, but I hate doing cardio.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I have a Brazilian trainer here in New York and we do a Brazilian Butt Lift workout.

Lamar Odom

We get to have a light practice, lift a little weights, have a steak and relax a little bit.

Fred Jones

We haven't even met with lift manufacturers to know what our options are.

Jethro Tull

The poet lifts his pen as the soldier sheaths his sword.

Rick Murphy

There are construction techniques that you can remove those walls, and lift them out, and set them in other locations.

Bob Iger

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

Chaske Spencer

The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

Diane Centeno

We're getting a lift from markets where we hadn't advertised previously. It's small now, but we're starting to see it.

Keitaro Matsuda

The overcrowding problem is likely to get worse.

Anthony Chan

The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.

David Hewson

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'

Frances Beinecke

Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.

Trip Adler

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

William Gilmore Simms

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

Susan Newman

There are any number of men who have this problem, too. But when you say who's more likely (to say yes), it's more likely to be women.

Oscar Arias

A nation that mistreats its own citizens is more likely to mistreat its neighbours.

Mark McKinnon

If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Nuno Bettencourt

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Carolina Herrera

I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

Adrian McKinty

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.

Lilly Singh

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Earl Butz

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Deng Xiaoping

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Paul Allen

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

Cui Yugui

If they insist, we will keep their profile confidential.

Jim Turner

It raises our profile all around the state.

Howie Carr

The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.

Margot Robbie

I make my friends pull up their profiles and I'm like, "Show me everything."

Clint Zandt

A profile is an investigative tool. It is not science, it is not DNA, it is not latent fingerprints. ... It is just one more tool investigators have. But a profile does not tell you who did the crime.

Donald Trump

Like the whole concept of profiling, you know, I mentioned the other day profiling, everyone goes, profile and profiling. Well, profiling is you know, in Israel they're doing it and they're doing it well.

Monica Crowley

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

Herman Frazier

We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year.

Gertrude Stein

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Patti Stanger

I had a breast reduction.

Craig Carper

Hopefully, we'll see a reduction in those numbers.

Bill Wright

Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.

John Carioba

If you put all that together you end up with a reduction in volume.

David Stern

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season

John Collins

Phil's not going anywhere. He hasn't been fired, and he's not going to be fired. There is no reduction of responsibility. There is no rift.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Dear Abbey

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

York Chow

We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Charles de Gaulle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Jack Kevorkian

I am not a sentimental person.

Irving Babbitt

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Frederick Wiseman

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

John Taylor Gatto

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

Noam Chomsky

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

J. K. Rowling

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

Lao Tzu

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

William Shakespeare

Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.

Charles Stanley

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

Charles Spurgeon

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

Carl Jung

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

William Shakespeare

I came, saw, and overcame.

Elizabeth May

You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

Barbara Tuchman

To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

Ban Ki-moon

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty