Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Tanner

We actually didn't lose a game in the summer league against the Maryland teams. That kind of got our confidence up. That gives me chance to try people out in different places.

Aaron Huffman

Waynesburg is a solid team. I don't want to jinx it, but it seems we always play well against them.

Chris Coleman

Wayne is still not fully fit. But he's only going to get better. I was pleased with his performance against West Ham in the last game and he will get fitter and stronger as he goes on. He'll be back in the squad for the World Cup.

Doug Herzog

We always hold out hope against hope. We would very much relish the opportunity to be back in real business with Dave.

Jim Elliott

We always do well against Newman. We're a little young, but I think we're going to be able to hold their own the rest of this season.

Felipe Roque

We always considered and continue to consider the Pope a friend, who fought against poverty, neo-liberalism and for peace. We will also always remember his words against the U.S. economic embargo that our people suffer,

Stephen Decatur

We always come out against Washington with a mental block anyway,

David Hall

We also will continue to partner with the Pistons to do a great deal of work in the community. Rock Financial has given away nearly 20,000 tickets to area youth organizations in the past two years and we'll do that again this year. Many of the young people that receive tickets might not otherwise have an opportunity to attend a professional basketball game.

Rich Dalrymple

We also wanted to have it during a big game against a tradition rival like the Redskins.

Jane Elliot

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

Rohit Shetty

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

Jon Corzine

Let's award public contracts by competition and quality, not contributions.

Neil Portnow

Lou Rawls was one of the music world's most versatile vocalists, covering gospel, R&B, soul, jazz, blues and pop. A three-time Grammy Award winner, his deep, smooth, soulful style exemplified his classy elegance and made him one of the most recognizable voices anywhere. And his philanthropic efforts on behalf of many charitable causes further displayed his passion and commitment to helping others through music. We have lost a true musical pioneer, but his legacy will continue to inspire us all.

Faith Nicole

Last year we had 50 local sponsors who awarded 106 scholarships to 49 of our seniors.

E. Hicks

Last year they had a guy hand it to him that he didn't know. This year they said they wanted to personalize it a little bit. I'm not sure if he picked me to do it or if it was somebody at Duke or somebody with the award itself.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.

Bill Stevens

We are honored to receive this award from General Motors. It is especially gratifying as Motion Industries serves to set the benchmark for quality.

Jason Aldean

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

Richard Holbrooke

By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.

Andrew Black

We've ruled out foul play on behalf of any of the passengers. We're looking at it strictly as a possible suicide or an accident.

Dewi Anwar

The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?

Les Kotzer

More often, it's the lawyers who have to work it out. And once a lawyer gets between your kids -- say the lawyer sends a letter to a sister on behalf of a brother -- their relationship won't be the same anymore.

Don Aaron

Mr. Overton filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family. He is zealously representing them as their advocate. I think it's best that I don't engage in a debate with him over the lawsuit.

Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, economy is an old-fashioned thing. It savors of horse and buggy days. I am only too glad, however, to say a few words in behalf of economy, for in economy, in frugality, and in the thrift of our Government I think we shall ultimately find ourselves and our salvation.

Allan Lichtman

selling out the American people on behalf of a very few, big corporate interests.

Arthur Schlesinger

She was a quiet revolutionary on behalf of all women,

David Walliams

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

David Walliams

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

David Walliams

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

David Walliams

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

David Walliams

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

David Rockefeller

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

David Riesman

One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

David Riesman

The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

David Henry Hwang

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

Merv Adams

We always had to work on Saturdays and Sundays. That was our commitment to them.

Diablo Cody

He wasn’t a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That’s about all it takes to bang my gong.

Denis Waitley

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

DeForest Soaries

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

Dennis Anderson

You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.

Alan Cumming

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Al Gore

Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.

Al Gore

The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel's security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps necessary to ensure that security. That is Israel's prerogative. We accept that. We endorse that. Whatever Israel decides cannot, will not, will never, not ever, alter our fundamental commitment to her security.

Theo de Raadt

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

S. Jay Olshansky

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

Peter Fonda

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

Jim Kennedy

made a good-faith effort to respond to the questions despite the fact that they were designed more for a partisan purpose than a constitutional one.

Eric Maskin

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.

E. F. Benson

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

Steve Lantsberger

We designed this for 2010. We anticipated growth. We spent a lot of years on this project.

Tom Taft

We designed our own place. The most important thing was capacity.

Mark Phelan

We designed Nationwide L-Inc with maximization of allowable income in mind.

Barney Frank

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

Dian Fossey

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Ludwig von Mises

To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

Timothy Noah

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

John Key

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Arthur Ashe

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Ayn Rand

Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

Bertrand Russell

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

Audre Lorde

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

William Blake

Mechanical excellence is the only vehicle of genius.

Kevin Wilson

We want excellence in every area. We don't want excuses.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Bruce Schneier

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Brian Tracy

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Bill O'Reilly

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

Bill Gates

Hey, size works against excellence.

David Icke

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.

Barry Bonds

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Audrina Patridge

I always take a cold shower to wake me up and close my pores. Then I moisturize my face.

Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Dennis McKenna

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Charles Colson

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

Kiesza

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

John Johnston

We needed a face for our business, something that better represents us.

Robert Stevens

We're just glad that we could do this for the families involved and for the public in general.

Robert Burton

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

Bill Richardson

make sure American families keep warm this winter.

Janet Taylor

Last year we gave out about $600 to help families with their bills. This year we've used $3,000.

Bill Shine

Let's be proud that we put our families first, and let's start a movement to go back home with our babies.

Elizabeth Emken

In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly half a century, is out of touch of what women and families are going through in California.

John Doolittle

The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.

Khloe Kardashian

Most families aren't all in the public eye as we are. It works as a blessing. It works in our favor.

Julia Glass

If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of their own, I'll still be wondering how I can be a better mother and worrying about the things I overlooked back when they lived under my roof.

David Draiman

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

Antonio Tabucchi

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Charles R. Swindoll

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Charles R. Swindoll

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

Charles R. Swindoll

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles Darwin

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

Bobby Darin

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Kourtney Kardashian

This is my life. I don't need a piece of paper to make it a family unit.

Kathleen Battle

Some of the things that have been the most meaningful to me have been experiences I've shared with my family.

Larry Miller

The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.

Unknown

She offered her honor, He honored her offer, and all night he was on her and off her.

Bill Gibbons

Phoenix is honored to be the newest member of the Glen Raven team.

Woody Johnson

I am honored to serve on this committee.

Britney Spears

I am honored to be a part of the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans this year.

Scott Stevens

I am truly humbled and honored to be here tonight.

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Alan G. Poindexter

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.

Henry Cisneros

If we are not honored with the games, that might be for the best. We don't want to mix motives here, and our motives are to be helpful.

David Vitter

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Arthur Scargill

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

Antony Jay

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Antony Jay

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Denis Waitley

The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'

Dee Hock

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Charles R. Swindoll

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

David Rockwell

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

David Rockefeller

This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.

David Heyman

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

David Heyman

I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.

David Icke

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

David Brainerd

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God

Arnold Schwarzenegger

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Bengie Molina

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

Benazir Bhutto

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Michael Williams

There is a stereotype to the word travel being somewhat of an all-star team. Why else would parents want to do it?

Joyce Haldeman

The outcry from the parents was so terrific. Safety issues.

Erica White

One of the things we always wrestle with is trying to get parents to read to them at home. Time is a factor, and work schedules. A lot of them work at night.

Tom Riley

She was just a victim of her parents' callousness,

John Whiting

We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource.

The Talmud

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

John Banks

Throughout our lives, we were in the system. Our parents weren't stable enough.

Parry Aftab

I have 11,000 volunteers working for me, and I still can't keep up. I don't know how parents would.

Rep. Hogue

I feel real strong that violence should be in (the statute). We need to give parents a tool to protect their children.

Mike Eggl

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

David Nail

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

Mark Cuban

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

Jane Goodall

I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then there's the violent, brutal side that has evolved with us. The question for each individual is: which side is going to come out on top?

Jason Alexander

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

Ron Cowen

I don't share your optimism. We can talk about this for 19 hours, because I get pretty passionate about it.

Gary Bettman

He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind.

Bridgit Mendler

I'm really passionate about music.

Bruce Hornsby

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

Tim Hearn

We're sensitive to consumers, we recognize there's more out of people's pocketbooks,

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Suzanne Vitadamo

She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

O. Singh

I am a sacrifice to Your slaves, who recognize only the One Lord.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Willie Davis

If they didn't recognize me as the new owner, that would get me in somehow.

Bobby Gonzalez

I don't know what it was with Jason. I didn't really recognize him today.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

Denzel Washington

Thank God in advance for what's already yours.

Deborah Norville

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

Al Green

I'm thankful for every moment.

Charles Kelley

One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.

Charles Kingsley

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Charles Barkley

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.

Jane Austen

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

Augusto Pinochet

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

David Viscott

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David House

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Brainerd

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

David Hockney

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

Al Gore

Plant trees, Lots of trees

Charles Darwin

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

Alana Beard

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

Albert Schweitzer

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

Jane Austen

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Art Spiegelman

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

Carson McCullers

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

Edward Ruscha

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

David Brainerd

In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.

Benazir Bhutto

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

Beau Willimon

Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices. And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.

Audre Lorde

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

Audre Lorde

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.

Audre Lorde

Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.

David Levithan

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.