Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

Stu Loeser

The picture focuses on Brooklyn and Queens, and reinforces our message that Mayor Bloomberg has made all of New York safer, ... We hadn't asked or considered where the photo was taken from, and we don't plan on using it again.

Aidan White

What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom.

Karl Marlantes

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

Mohammed Morsi

We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.

Wole Soyinka

One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.

Ann Cooper

Togolese authorities must investigate this assault fully and prosecute those responsible, ... This kind of brazen attack cannot go unpunished.

Marsha Blackburn

You look at the violence that is there in entertainment, in video games, and don't just go say, 'We're going to do an assault weapons ban, and that's going to solve the problem,' because it is not going to get to the root of the problem.

Noam Chomsky

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

Jodi Kantor

Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.

James Thompson

We actually got several of the sexual predator and sexual assault cases down in Provo last week.

Warren R. Austin

As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

Cordell Hull

Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations.

Mark Peperkorn

We probably had 20 or 25 third- to eighth-graders just wanting a picture taken with her when we got back to the pep assembly (on Sunday). What this is going to do for my program the next few years ...

Akio Toyoda

For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.

Andy Grove

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

Mahmud Othman

We can still prepare the draft without the Sunnis. All the groups elected in the national assembly can come together and prepare the draft by Monday evening.

Jason Miller

We'll let him stick to the gimmicks. Gov. Sanford's focus right now is on getting the charter schools bill over the goal line, passing a strong eminent domain bill, and encouraging the General Assembly not to spend every dime of tax money that flows into Columbia.

Jason Miller

We'll let him stick to the gimmicks. Governor Sanford's focus right now is on getting the charter schools bill over the goal line, passing a strong eminent domain bill, and encouraging the General Assembly not to spend every dime of tax money that flows into Columbia.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.

Chelsea Cannon

We were gonna read the whole (Bible) together. We were gonna get baptized together.

Maria Monk

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

J. Horton

That's the date traditionally that Christ was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. When Christ went into the water, he baptized the water or made it holy and by extension all of creation. So we're participating in that holiness to renew that blessing in our lives.

Pope Benedict XVI

The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.

J. M. Roberts

Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ.

Stephen Baldwin

I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Stanley Hauerwas

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.

Adoniram Judson

When Paul was exhorted to be baptized and to wash away his sins, there was an evident allusion to the use of water in the ordinance of baptism, and had there been no application of water on which to ground such an allusion, we may be certain that we should never have heard of washing away sins in baptism.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.

David Zayas

I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.

Victoria Osteen

You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as a gift from the Almighty; that she has no greater mission than to rear them in light and truth, in understanding and love.

Valerie Azlynn

There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.

Christine Ebersole

My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.

Margaret D. Nadauld

The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.

Margaret D. Nadauld

It is a great blessing to have light in our lives - a light that helps us see things as they really are, light that illuminates our understanding, light we can follow with confidence and perfect trust.

Dean Stanley

The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

Victoria Osteen

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

Willie Aames

I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day.

Willie Aames

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

William Jay

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Billy Graham

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.

Ellen G. White

A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.

Samuel Butler

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Erwin McManus

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

Erwin McManus

I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith.

Abraham Lincoln

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Victor Hugo

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman

Martin Luther

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

Martin Luther

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

Harry Gunatillake

So many have threatened to fast unto death, but no one has died so far. I don't think the clergy should get involved in politics like this.

Monica Johnson

If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.

Donald Wuerl

When I was a young priest in the 1960s and 1970s, there was much experimentation and confusion in the Church. Teachers and clergy were encouraged to communicate an experience of God's love, but to do it without reference to the Creed, the sacraments, or the tradition.

David Saperstein

Over this next month, clergy from the pulpits, teachers in the classrooms, volunteers throughout our churches, mosques, temples and synagogues will be engaged in this effort,

Eric Reed

Even with extensive coverage of clergy misconduct over the past decade, congregations still make no plans for handling moral failure until it happens. Then it's too late.

Henry Fielding

For clergy are men as well as other folks.

F. Sionil Jose

It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.

Malala Yousafzai

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

Nigella Lawson

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

LaVar Arrington

It's a total injustice. Things like that happen in life.

Plato

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Mahatma Gandhi

Make injustice visible.

Bryant H. McGill

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

Edmund Burke

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Elie Wiesel

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

Patrick O'Brian

In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

Al Alvarez

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Demetri Martin

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you doing here?! (Aimee) Come to inadvertently insult you some more apparently. Who knew? (Fang)

Plautus

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

LeBron James

I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.

Maureen Brunt

You can't really insult us anymore. It is an Olympic sport.

Tom Waits

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Mary Tavenner

We have Longfellow and Whittier. I don't understand why we don't' name one after one of our own writers.

Walter Benjamin

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

John Schafer

We're like a small city. Name a job, we probably have it.

Cheryl Hayashi

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Brian Rea

We just didn't make baskets. We were just a little juiced. They wanted to play so well, it just tensed us up a little bit. They made everything, and we didn't. That's just the name of the game.

Paul Haggis

I don't know how much credit I can take for 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever.

Bob Watson

We'll know (Tuesday) by three o'clock where he's going to play. I will save a spot for him on our roster. I just didn't name him tonight.

Gail Carriger

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

Graham Spanier

what undoubtedly will be painful, costly and protracted litigation.

bell hooks

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Plautus

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

Maya Angelou

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

Augusten Burroughs

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Brene Brown

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Terence Smith

I thought it was a shame that I didn't know my own.

J. K. Rowling

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life..

Jennifer Lopez

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Erich Maria Remarque

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

Laura Marling

Womanhood is something you dont consider until it hits you.