Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Sionil Jose

Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

Bible Bible

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Jim Palmer

We started this thing (the Josh Palmer Fund) to help people who were hurting and were in need of a helping hand. There's nobody hurting as much in this country right now as those people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Although our primary mission is to help young people afflicted by cancer and ultimately to find a cure for cancer, these people need help right now and we're going to do our best to help the American Red Cross help them.

Barry Ritholtz

When you stop and think about it, if the Fed were to pause, what does it actually do for anybody ... in the afflicted Gulf region? At this point they're more concerned with basic food and shelter and not really comparison-shopping for mortgages.

David Shuster

Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

Caitlin Moran

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

Jimmy Carter

We have 11 grandchildren and two of them have been afflicted with lazy eye.

Bhagavad Gita

Those who have taken refuge in this knowledge attain unity with Me, and are neither born at the time of creation nor afflicted at the time of dissolution.

Peter Jackson

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

Idris Elba

I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

Ramy Attalla

We can be a stand-alone solution or a safety-net for when Medicare drops coverage, either way it's a soft landing.

Annalee Newitz

'Interstellar' is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan's last original film, 'Inception'. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions.

Chris Wickham

The helicopter and the aerial drops that we've been doing have made a difference.

Doug Johnson

Our main focus right now is our D zone coverage. Hopefully when the puck drops we'll be ready.

Alan Vituli

Sure it's a loss, but losses are funny things, when thing are going well, any piece that drops out of the equation seems like a loss. But things often work out.

Jay Greene

It does give us a perspective that we didn't have, which is the perspective of the student who drops out.

Ken Leonard

I was not surprised, ... He's passing for 70 percent and our goal is to have 75 percent completions. If you take the drops out of there, he's at 75 percent. So far he's done a great job.

William Cowper

The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Peter Bell

We're lining up the land planning on that site right now.

Angela Ahrendts

Store windows are like landing pages on the website.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Bible Bible

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

John Milton

Thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait

M. Wolfe

Truck traffic was a big problem for people in my ward when the landfill was open,

Ludwig von Mises

In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards something. Its ultimate end is always to get rid of a condition which is conceived to be deficient-to fulfill a need, to achieve satisfaction, to increase happiness.

Norma Aviles

The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.

Pratibha Patil

There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.

Eddie Lee

We promised the unit when they left that we would welcome them back the same way.

Clint Hurdle

We probably didn't get the number of runs we should have been able to get. We left a lot of people on base.

Cory Hardrict

I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passed away while I was still in high school, so I got that on my right arm.

Sylvia Bennett

We're not going back, ... Why should we go back when they left us.

Jerry Foster

We still have snow shovels left. We still have salt left -- in limited quantities. It's going to go fast.

Dave Wannstedt

We still have a lot of work to do. It was real obvious there were a lot of plays out there that we kind of left on the field, particularly on offense.

Jason Marquis

We still had, what, six outs left to go when Tony was tossed?

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Peter Jackson

It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.

Kabir Bedi

Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

Willie Robertson

Si's beard is really awkward. One side is longer than the other, and it's about three different colors. I don't think he washes it. It's nasty.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Steve Sullivan

We had a lot of positives this year, but this is no longer acceptable.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Frederick Pollock

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

Malik Peiris

One can narrow potential culprits and be prepared with vaccines.

Madeline Albright

There are gaps. We're trying to narrow those gaps,

Patrick Cunningham

It is a very narrow population and this is pretty much unique,

Waris Ahluwalia

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Ernest Hemingway

Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Willie Randolph

I don't think you can look at one leader, ... You narrow yourself and get into trouble when it's only one guy. Because if he isn't always there, what are you going to do?

Larry Wachtel

so you can see how narrow (the rally) really is.

Andrew Maynard

Product development will always outstrip our understanding of risk, but there is a lot we can do to narrow that gap.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

Rebecca Jackson

We don't have time for plain friendships, to go out or have fun. The shroud comes first.

Grace Paley

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.

Eric Katzman

When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Owen Meredith

One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.

Laurie Colwin

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

Ann Miller

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

Peter Ustinov

It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself

Ernie Els

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Vanessa Ferlito

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

Creighton Abrams

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

Oliver Goldsmith

Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, / That foundst me poor at first, and keepst me so.

Ron Wilson

We made a poor play on the power play and they took advantage. We could have quit, but we didn't.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Judd Terwilliger

We were never able to sustain (momentum). We'd get leads, but then they'd come back.

Paul Stone

We were never able to sustain a run.

Donna Griffin

We are trying to sustain or make more improvement.

Karen Evans

If it's useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.