Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Lippmann

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Phaedrus

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

Troy Robinson

We prayed for the families. We prayed that he would get tired of running. We prayed that he would give himself up and we prayed that it would be a peaceful surrender, and that's how it happened,

Lao Tzu

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

James Nicholson

When Yuri detects narcotics or other substances, he's trained to sit and put his nose on the location where the substance is hidden. Sometimes he'll get himself into a pretty contorted position trying to show me where something is located.

Svetlana Zhurova

We did so well because our president loves sport and because he himself is sporty.

Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Ben Shapiro

President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.

Patrick Modiano

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Travis Leggett

When a tree is down and power is off, whether it's late at night and it's raining, it doesn't matter. You do it.

Don Herold

When a speaker says, "Well, to make a long story short," it's too late

Najib Mikati

In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

Cheryl Ward

You know how some people just need the latest cell-phone technology? If you could say, I just got this from Punt, you were at the top of the heap.

Reed Johnson

Those late runs are always huge. We only had a 2-1 lead at the time, and we were able to stretch it out to 6-2. That's huge, and it takes a lot of pressure off our bullpen. We haven't been able to do a lot of that lately for our pitchers.

Jerry Bell

We'll maybe find out something there later this week.

Tony Blair

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

Gus Frerotte

Yeah, that would be nice. That's kind of how it goes, how it should be. The world doesn't stop turning. Eventually, your time runs out.

Jim Tracy

We got the three runs in the third, but we did nothing else. That's all we did.

Alan Trammell

We didn't score any runs. We had opportunities to score runs and we didn't do it. That was it.

Howard Fast

It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.

O. J. Simpson

We had two runs and we didn't get third.

Rich Falter

We have a little different theory about when teams get runs on us. We like to keep it up tempo and tire teams out.

Rogers Beasley

Water runs right through it. No more sloppy racetracks.

Jon Gruden

That was the play of the game. He runs down on that and just makes an unbelievable effort. There were just a lot of things like that for us today.

Pam Adams

We really should have scored 10 runs in that game.

Arron Afflalo

When you're on the court, it's strictly about that.

Agnes Obel

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Steve Lekwa

And it will be strictly enforced. There will be a lot of unhappiness about it.

Paul DePodesta

I don't think we know that yet. We're not under any kind of strict time constraint.

Ronnie Arnold

That's strictly the principal's decision. He doesn't have to give a reason.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Tom Coughlin

There was no fight. Were there discussions? There were discussions all week. I talk to a lot of guys, but that's strictly player-coach.

Robert Budi Hartono

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Candice Olson

In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

Stephen Wilson

We have very tight travel restrictions. It's not like we're going off to Hawaii.

David Morehouse

Time is tight in a two- to three-year span, not a two- to three-month span.

Tres Thomas

We wanted to keep it tight between the University and SMG until we got the go-ahead from the band.

Dennis Franchione

We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.

Jason London

Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Jason Statham

Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.

Jane Siberry

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

Chuck Feeney

I happen to enjoy grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches.

Rand Hoch

Tom Lynch may not be the only one who could use a sensitivity workshop.

Don Meredith

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

Scott Baio

Tom Bosley may have passed, but through that part and that character, a part of him will live on forever.

Richard Gentles

We'll know tomorrow from the vet if he can be released.

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Spurgeon

No one served God by doing things tomorrow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Loesje

You do not have to be a hurricane, to turn things around

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Ned Yost

We haven't pitched very well. But those things turn around.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.