Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry J. Lundgren

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

Salmon P. Chase

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Richard McGinn

Lucent is focused on the fastest growing markets in communications networking, and professional services and support is clearly one of them,

Susan Brown

Madonna and Guy are clearly very much in love.

Mitchel McLaughlin

liberating impact. ... It may take some little time but clearly the way is now clear for people who wish to see politics replace conflict on our streets to take up their responsibilities.

Larry Sabato

Lott has clearly recovered from the incident that lost him the leadership.

Helen Hudson

Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled

Thomas Mellon

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.

Blaise Pascal

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Blaise Pascal

We like to be deceived.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Ben Macintyre

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

Bill Johnson

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

Beth Moore

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

Benjamin Franklin

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

John Bunting

We're going to have to do a great job shifting gears in getting ready for something that's absolutely, totally different from what we've faced, ... It puts pressure on everybody. It is another form of the triple option. The forms of deception that they have with their form of the triple option is unique. It was last year, and it is this year.

William Blake

There is a smile of love,And there is a smile of deceit,And there is a smile of smilesIn which these two smiles meet.

Elaine Chao

We are very focused on the fact that people do not have a paycheck at this point. We want to get money into their pockets so they can make their own decisions on what they want to do,

Bill Hybels

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

Tyra Banks

What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it's day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it's, 'Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?'

Timothy Noah

Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

Brent Guy

Leon made some nice plays. He knew when to run and get the yardage. ... He is making better decisions.

Jack Greenberg

We want staff functions to support line decisions and maximize their impact.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Christina Sims

We use to discuss decisions. While he was over there I tried to keep him from worrying about what was going on here so he could concentrate on getting home safe.

Yasin Malik

The people of Kashmir should be involved in a process where their destiny is decided. So far, all decisions about our destiny have been made by others and later communicated to us.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Tomas Vokoun

We had been scoring a lot of goals and maybe we felt like we just couldn't lose. We started playing loose, but now we're not scoring four or five goals a game per night. And in this NHL, you're not going to win many goals scoring two goals a night.

Gia Coppola

When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.

Michael Burgess

When I got up this morning, I felt good. This is a big win for us.

Gene Luen Yang

When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.

Van Horn

When the jury returned the verdict, I felt high, but then I realized, I still had lost a son.

David Viscott

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Hyde Pierce

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

David Hobson

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

David Icke

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.

David Hume

If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Ben Braaten

We usually have 10 different players in every quarter.

Joe Browne

We're going with young players who want to play in Pittsburgh.

Nell Fortner

She is one of those players that is worth the price of admission.

Maria Sharapova

Most of the top players are playing, aren't they?

Lori Ulferts

She's one of the most underrated players in the league. Even when she wasn't scoring in the first half, she was the source of most their points.

Dave Rubio

She's not there yet, but the top international players are making over $200,000 a year now. It speaks well of the sport.

Lee Pipkin

She's not just going to score points. She's going to do everything. Considering all the stuff she does for us, I think she's one of the better players in the state.

David Henry Hwang

There's a reason why the form was originally silent

Barry Commoner

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Blaise Pascal

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Blaise Pascal

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Gregg Shotwell

We're just going to have to take them to the mat. There's no reason to take concessions. It doesn't save jobs.

John Kasich

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

Jenna Morasca

Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Joe Battista

We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.

Roger Wilson

We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Terry Jenkins

If we wouldn't have done anything, we would have spent more.

Marco Tempest

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

Jimmy Cliff

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Carson McCullers

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Ted Morgan

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Luke Bracey

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Sandra Lee

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

Dennis Quaid

I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a lot of fun. No actors in particular. I don't consciously seek out things to do.

Eva Mendes

I have a four-month-old and I also have a toddler, so that takes up all of my time.

John Kelly

After Todd asked, how could you say no.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

George Borjas

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

David Hume

To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

David Hume

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.

David Hume

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

David Duchovny

I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

Audre Lorde

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Antonin Artaud

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

Denise Levertov

I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder....

Denis Waitley

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Al Gore

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

Red Herring

Walker Digital's going to be around for a long, long time,

Abraham Lincoln

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

Charles McDonald

Even the slowest walker will be done by noon.

Frank Melton

The whole thing with Walker was for his own protection. It had nothing to do with getting his testimony.

Kate Bush

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

Diana Nyad

Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me.... It's grueling. There's nothing physically pleasurable about it. If you're doing a hard workout, you're throwing up in the gutter. At night you cling to your pillow and just hope that your body revives before you have to go back and do it again.

Al Yankovic

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.