Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcy Kaptur

Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.

Julissa Martinez

She told him to wait on the curb outside.

Christian End

If other fans communicated when something isn't appropriate that would curb the behavior. Many fans don't want to get involved.

Rick Watson

I wish there is something we could do to curb the use of the drug. We're right on the edge, but we're at a loss over what to do.

Yan Xiaohong

We still have a serious problem of piracy. We need to study more forceful and effective measures to curb it.

William Cullen Bryant

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,Throws its last fetters off; and who shall placeA limit to the giant's unchained strength,Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

John Schleimer

Green in the past has been ugly. Now, it's got more curb appeal.

David Wolf

Part of that may be the fact that there is speculation out there that this may curb the Fed's enthusiasm for tightening somewhat, either short or longer term.

George McGovern

that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and waste and the devastation of war.

Kerry Wilson

She, I hate to say it, uses men to move herself up. It's kind of a rags to riches story, but she was not well-liked by the military or the aristocracy. It's like 'Cinderella,' only the ending is not happy.

Chua Bin

We started the year on a low note and we are ending the year on a high because all sectors bounced back.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Unless the market can get a firm perception that the US Fed is ending its interest rate hike cycle, the ongoing weakness of the yen may not come to an end.

William Becklean

Revenue growth is likely to be stronger in the second half (of the fiscal year ending in July) than in the first half.

Chrissy Mastry

I can't say I'm disappointed. I could not be happier that we got here. Ending my senior season going to state was amazing.

Jeff Sanders

I can't remember a week ever starting and ending with that type of excitement before. It was a great week.

Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put

Jon Banner

For us, this is very much ending our mourning period and trying now to start fresh, to aggressively get back into the game. Peter's legacy is everywhere, in everything we do.

Nicole Jordan

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

David Remnick

I actually have great hopes for the future.

Baroness Orczy

even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ...

Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Louis Lupin

We always hope we can resolve things short of litigation.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him. I hope they don't stop walking him.

Amy Hill

We always get a lot of last-minute registrations. Hopefully we are on target to reach our goal.

Alain de Botton

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

Blaise Pascal

Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Wallace Wattles

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

Brad Pitt

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Juvenal

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Billy Sunday

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Bill Gates

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

Arundhati Roy

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Erik Solheim

Let us keep expectations at a realistic level.

Hiroshi Kamide

No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more.

David Henkin

I don't think it's at all realistic for them to get the EIS done before they deploy in August.

Abdolkarim Soroush

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

Aaron Finch

We set a realistic vision on the playoffs.

Clint Eastwood

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

Dwayne Johnson

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.

Debby Ryan

I'm very practical and realistic.

Maira Kalman

who never told me to do anything realistic and who never told me to stop daydreaming.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Ronda Rousey

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

David Bergen

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Paul Giamatti

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Eliot Spitzer

Somehow the vitality of New York state has been sapped.

Diana Gabaldon

This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?

Councilor Cyr

Let's not waste any time. Let's do it and get it done.

Bobby Scott

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

Dexter Scott King

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Barbara de Angelis

when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

Brad Lidge

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Eli Roth

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.