Famous Quotes & Sayings

Candice Millard

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

Robert Stone

We are proud to work alongside Carte Blanche Greetings to represent Bobble, the Little Blue Owl and his friends in the United States. Carte Blanche Greetings Ltd. is one of the world's premier greeting card and gift concept companies and Bobble the Little Blue Owl has quickly become one of England's most beloved characters. Bobble is destined to become as loved in the U.S. as it is in the U.K., giving our licensees the opportunity to share in the success of this adorable and highly sought after character.

William Shakespeare

Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.

William Shakespeare

If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved.

William Butler Yeats

Until the axle break That keeps the stars in their round, And hands hurl in the deep The banners of East and West, And the girdle of light is unbound, Your breast will not lie by the breast Of your beloved in sleep

Brenda Ueland

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

Juvenal

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

Kitty Kelley

When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.

James E. Faust

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

Tom Callos

Yes, a black belt should be able to execute precise, effective, beautiful, and technically proficient martial arts techniques, whatever the style. But just as importantly, a black belt should be able to execute precise and beautiful ideas, equal to or better than their physical techniques. A black belt should have an attitude equal in its brilliance to his or her physical skills.

Patrick Arney

We're just not playing on all cylinders. We're misfiring here and there, with moments of brilliance and moments where we're just not good. But we've got a tough game (today). Harlingen High is going to be ready for us. We're the ones that knocked them out of the playoffs last year, and I hope my girls are ready because they look good this year.

James Sinegal

The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

Alexandra Stoddard

Always remember your brilliance.

Jackson Katz

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

Eugene Volokh

He is a person of proven legal brilliance and judicial temperament, and he is respected by scholars on the left as well as on the right,

David Vise

He felt like an outsider. He felt angry, and he felt his brilliance was being overlooked. And he felt much smarter than the people around him.

Michael Bolton

I'd like to write again with Bob Dylan again. I have some ideas about where I want to go and I'd love to work with him, at least lyrically. It was a really painless writing experience, again I was intimidated and star-struck - in awe of his brilliance and the music that I loved as a kid, the songs of his I did in clubs. When I was in his presence, I was a kid, trying to quiet my mind from this mantra of 'Oh my god this is Bob Dylan!'

Wiliam Constantine

Today allow yourself to radiate the brilliance of you expanding to all you touch!

Ellis Verdi

We've always felt that no other agency could match our creative strengths in retail advertising, and this year's continued success at RAMA is a testament to our ability in marketing leading retailers.

Josie Bissett

When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.

Alex Coletti

We're going to see these mountains and it's going to be gorgeous. You can get more creative visually because you want to do it justice.

Kathryn Hahn

And then 'Wanderlust,' Ken Marino and David Wain wrote the funniest - they're amazing. That was one of my most favorite creative experiences; we're all up at that commune, a small group of people. Everyone was funnier than the next. It was an amazing ensemble feeling. Everyone gave and took in the best way.

Jan Chovanec

When we anticipate guests? needs, when we are flexible, when we are creative and we create a sense of privacy, all those five-star ratings will come.

Brian Graden

When we first uncovered the creative genius of the underground skateboard mentality of 'Jackass,' we knew it would resonate with our young adult audience,

Aaron McGruder

We wrote the script, we did a six-minute presentation, and then it died. Fox wanted a sitcom with an 'A story' and a 'B story,' and there were just very rigid creative rules that work on some shows and don't work on others.

Tom O'Neill

What Hollywood has done is push the responsibility for funding movies onto the creative people who make them.

Anne Sweeney

What hasn't he done for prime time is more the question. I think he has brought a strong new creative spirit and the wonderful ability to take chances back to network prime-time television.

Michael Deaver

When we were engaged in the intensive parts of the investigation or trial preparation, I did not have time for anything else.

Richard Peddie

What we're missing out on is the single game sales and when you start the season 1-15, that doesn't get the heart racing. People aren't engaged yet.

Joel Klein

We believe we have presented strong evidence through witness deposition, testimony and documents to support the government's case that Visa and MasterCard engaged in conduct that stifled competition and harmed consumers, ... The litigation team led by Melvin Schwarz did an outstanding job.

Andrew Morris

The positive energy and the overall tone of this event are almost euphoric, ... To have 2,400 people collectively engaged in an act of goodness like this restores one's faith in humanity. Indeed, this demonstrated capacity for altruism challenges the notion that it is always about self-interest.

Sam Veda

The person who is basically evil by nature will always be averse to virtuous deeds. He is always engaged in bad karma.

Cathy Elkies

The Plaza is one of those places where everyone had an emotional moment. People's parents got engaged there, people got married there or fell in love there.

Gerry Byrne

We are pleased that we have engaged the American reader in the voting process for a significant book award, We're delighted with the outstanding works of the well-regarded nominees--authors who we were proud to honor here tonight. We look forward to growing the Quills in the years to come.

John Barton

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

Mark Shapiro

We're still engaged in conversations with a few clubs. By the end of the week, we should have some resolution to that.

Chogyam Trungpa

The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.

S. Hughes

Words of Muslims are important. It's important for people to know that Muslims think that terrorism is the epitome of injustice because it targets innocent people. People need to hear those words, and they're more credible from Muslims themselves.

Elizabeth Taylor

Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.

Brad Goreski

Marilyn Monroe to me is the epitome of glamour, and always has been since I was a kid.

Paul Epstein

I would have to say that the modern Sam Goody store is the epitome of what has gone wrong in the music retail world. It doesn't surprise me that this has happened, although I am not happy about it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.

Ted Cruz

On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

John Dunlap

Glen was the epitome of the servant leader that Southeastern is all about. He's always willing to help anybody, anywhere, any time. That was his legacy.

Jackson Katz

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

Wayne Chrebet

We've always taken great pride in going to other people's stadiums and sticking it to them. We have a great opportunity this week to not only show ourselves, but show everybody with a national game, that were certainly better than a 2-4 team.

Mike Sponseller

We've always had our event in the second week of January, beginning on Monday. They're the ones who changed the date.

Tiger Woods

When we were taking the carts back to the tee, ... I couldn't hear anything. In my left ear, I'm half deaf, people whistling and screaming, and then my right ear, I'm half deaf. It was electric, it was loud, people were really into it. J. D. brings huge galleries everywhere he goes.

Kevin Young

When we were making our run it was fun. Everybody's game changed. Everybody was playing together. If this team can get that it would be awesome.

Roy Wood

When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.

Lorenzo Williams

When we went to the media timeout with eight minutes to go, I just told everybody that we're down right now, but we have a run in us. Eventually, shots started to fall, we started to get stops, and we found ourselves back in the game.

Kyle Whittingham

When we went to 12 games, everybody kind of went into panic mode because scheduling a game is not quite as easy as you might think. Usually, these games are scheduled five, six, seven years in advance.

Tamar Kvaratskhelia

When we went into the spring break everyone was exhausted from matches, school, and tests, and it was really bad. Now everybody is feeling really fresh, and over the break we got to sleep, so that was good.

Dennis Quaid

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

Sylvia Rhone

Nobody can illuminate our greatest hopes, soothe our deepest fears, and put us on the musical high road like Stevie Wonder.

Jackson Katz

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

Chris Hadfield

What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing.

Haley Barbour

Local people have to make the decision, ... The purpose of this commission is not to impose decisions on you. It's to illuminate the choices.

Rick Perlstein

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Nancy Kress

All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.

Mandy Patinkin

It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

Candice Olson

Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

Chinua Achebe

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

Cherry Jones

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

Clare Short

Where Tony Blair is, is propping up Bush in the continuation of oppression and injustice in the Middle East that is feeding the anger of the world.

Leopoldo Lopez

Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent.

Cesare Pavese

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

Catherine the Great

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

S. Hughes

Words of Muslims are important. It's important for people to know that Muslims think that terrorism is the epitome of injustice because it targets innocent people. People need to hear those words, and they're more credible from Muslims themselves.

Beryl Bainbridge

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

Bayard Rustin

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

Shawn McDowell

We've always thought this senior class had the physical skills, it was a matter of them jelling together as a unit. A year can make a big difference both mentally and physically and the kids have really matured.

Richard Foreman

We've always respected Israel's right to defend itself, including going after armed groups and armed men in some of these areas. But we've always said they need to do that in a manner which has the utmost care to avoid harm to civilians, particularly when they're conducting operations in heavily populated areas. And we've said that often results in tragedies and numerous deaths. And that appears to be what's happened again.

Ransom Antoine

When we were up by 10, I thought we had it, but we couldn't get it together. We had the mental lapse that we normally have.

Tom Jordan

When we were asked to go down there and help, the city only had four hours to make a decision, ... They said at the time that they couldn't send the men or the truck because of budget constraints and I respect that decision.

Bryce Taylor

When it comes down to it, it seems like we are putting too much pressure on ourselves. As a shooter, you have to stay confident. It's all mental when it comes to our shooting.

Bob Watkins

When it came time for the announcers to introduce Elvis, the stadium was filled with anticipation. At the mention of Elvis' name, the modest crowd cheered and looked expectantly at the parked Cadillac.

Nick Saban

We're modern-day gladiators, that mental toughness, if you will, is really important to have in a good team. It's got to permeate your team and there has to be a core group of guys that buy in and believe in that.

Nick Saban

We're modern-day gladiators, and that mental toughness is really important to have (in) a good team. It's got to permeate your team, and there has to be a core group of guys that buy in and believe in that.

Tony Vis

We're mentally tough and we were not going to go away. We got down 10 and could have easily folded the tent on the big stage. The kids just kept fighting and plugging away and got us back into that thing. They put us in a great position at halftime.

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

John Stossel

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

John Battelle

When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.

Louis Michel

We remember the victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia. But millions of vulnerable people in Africa are exposed to natural disasters like droughts, floods and insect infestations as well as armed conflicts. These are silent tsunamis.

Russell Simmons

We're going to register millions of young people to vote and the benefit concert will help us fulfill our goal,

Peter Lee

When we consider that it is small business that drives the economy to have that engine resting on the backs of millions of uninsured workers is a bad proposition for the U.S. economy,

Simon Wiesenthal

When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'  

Sue Brush

We found that only about 4 percent of our guests smoked in their rooms. Obviously, it was a risk, because 4 percent represents millions of dollars in revenue. But we concluded we could get more business as a result of making this change.

Tony Kee

With the King Kong film opening this past weekend, Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie features the ending millions would love to see -- King Kong alive and back on Skull Island.

Ellen McLaughlin

I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.

Beth Henley

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Noah Hawley

I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in the 1930s and '40s. And my twin brother, Alexi, is a writer on 'The Following.'

Jeff Lindsay

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

Tracy Letts

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

Bob Dylan

I'm not a playwright.

Robert Anderson

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

Jackson Katz

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

Neil Baldwin

His name has been on the list for a couple of years now. He's America's greatest living playwright and one of the playwrights of modern times.

Jim Davis

What 9/11 represents to us was not only an opportunity to look at new product offerings, but an opportunity to extend current product offerings.

Fred Siegel

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,

Sue Brush

We found that only about 4 percent of our guests smoked in their rooms. Obviously, it was a risk, because 4 percent represents millions of dollars in revenue. But we concluded we could get more business as a result of making this change.

Darren Jackson

We grew earnings per diluted share by 85 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, so it represents the most difficult earnings comparison for the coming year.

Daniel Renouard

We believe this represents a fundamental shift for the company and, at a minimum, indicates management is serious about considering all options for profitable growth.

William Brownfield

What's most important is to think about the interests and the well-being of the indigenous communities here and what best represents their interests, ... I am still hoping for direct dialogue between the mission and the government to resolve these differences.

Linda Sanford

World Community Grid represents a new model for philanthropic giving,

Jeff Jaffe

With Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell delivered an outstanding solution for transactional and fixed-function desktops. With its successor, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, we are now positioned to serve the sweet spot of the market, the general office worker. This desktop is already generating great interest in businesses of all sizes, and it represents a tremendous new opportunity for Novell.

John Bolton

The outcome document represents an important step in a long process of U.N. reform, ... We cannot allow the reform effort to be derailed or run out of steam.

Richard Natonski

We respect the law of war, unlike our adversary, who uses mosques,

Jeff Cole

We're small so the fuel issue isn't as big, because we don't have dump trucks we run, ... we hire that out. It affects our grader but it's not terrible, and the police car uses a combination of township gas and Dandy gas.

Michael Cammalleri

The one thing you realize when you play with Sean is how good a hockey player he is when he's not doing all the other stuff. Sean can score, he's got skill and he has unbelievable speed. And when he uses those tools, he's tough to stop out there.

Judy Woodruff

We're interested in knowing, ... how much each one of you uses the Internet. How much time do you spend on it?

Lucien Engelen

We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses for digital technologies like Facebook but also real-life social networks to improve healthcare provision.

Doug Mirabelli

Woody uses it more as a strikeout pitch. He's using it the way other pitchers might use a splitter or a cutter. There's no doubt it's a good weapon when you're working with it like he does, ahead in the count.

Kenneth L. Pike

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

Edward M. Lerner

Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work.

John McWhorter

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

Tamsin Greig

When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

Justine Bateman

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.

John Travolta

When I was a kid in the 60s, believe it or not, most of you are younger and don't know that, but it was a blast to fly! You dressed up, you got in your Sunday best, women wore white gloves, you had room to stretch your legs out, you had a very nice meal, the stewardess paid particular attention to you. It was an event. It's so different today.

Margaret Johnston

To my delight, instead of the usual unkempt, gum-chewing, tobacco-scented, tired and bored woman in a bad part of town, I was greeted by a lovely, clean, organized and educated lady with a deep and true love of children.

Bryan Hilferty

We're going to operate simultaneously throughout the entire eastern and southern part of the country so we get inside the decision cycle; so we hit them before they can hit innocent men, women and children,

Kenneth Jay Lane

Men always like to please women. Women like to please men, too - some women. Some are very good at it.

Kavita Ramdas

I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.

Kavita Ramdas

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

Katie Lowes

If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the best. I have a group of girlfriends that I would lay in front of a bus for. They've picked me up through really, really bad times and I can definitely say I've done the same for them.