Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Manchester

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Ellen G. White

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

Ellen Key

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Bella Abzug

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

William Henry Bragg

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse.

Yani Tseng

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

Clay Shirky

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

John Remington

The pilots would argue they're free to strike, and the airline would argue they legally couldn't. It's unclear. But the pilots are satisfied they could legally strike. And if they can't, they may do it anyway.

Niki Lauda

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

Michael Kelley

The Pentagon team, led by General Jeffrey Kohler, along with representatives from the US Air Force, the US Navy, Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, will meet with top members of the ministry of defense.

John Moody

The Pennsylvania was the first American railroad to lay steel rails and the first to lay Bessemer rails; it was the first to put the steel fire-box under the locomotive boiler; it was the first to use the air brake and the block signal system; it was the first to use in its shops the overhead crane.

Bill Hader

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

Werner Herzog

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

Will Friedle

It's fun to see a lot of the crowd become embarrassed. You're kind of watching them almost wanting to not watch the screen, but they have to because it's so compelling!

Warren Stephens

One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.

William McDonough

We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.

William Henry Ashley

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.

Webb Simpson

I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Marc DeForest

We pride ourselves on being truly independent and basing many of our decisions on how our fans will benefit.

Edmund Daukoru

We know we are taking a risk. But it is not a world free of risks. We've taken a decision full of risks.

Chris Liddell

We have made a strategic decision with respect to next year that, given the set of opportunities and the revenue growth potential we see, we're willing to make that trade-off.

Michael Niggli

We have made a strategic decision to invest heavily in natural gas.

Jim Pogue

We have made an administrative decision to waive the requirement that a prescription drug be purchased in the United States or one of its territories.

Julie Salz

We'd like that decision to be left up to medical guidelines.

Paul Browne

We are not lessening our protection of the system because of (the Homeland Security Department's) decision to return to level yellow.

Paul Browne

We are not lessening our protection of the system because of the Department of Homeland Security's decision to return to level yellow,

Rick Perry

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

Malala Yousafzai

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

Jerry Starkey

Today's generation of workers are focused on family and social activities. In suburban communities, it's not uncommon to spend 1-1/2 hours each way commuting to work. That's destroying the quality of life.

Hank Johnson

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

Roy Barnes

This is not about destroying heritage, ... This is about being united as one people.

Marguerite Valois

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

George E. Pataki

September 11 wasn't just aimed at destroying the two towers and killing thousands of people. It was aimed at dividing us and frightening us and taking away our freedom and taking away our confidence,

Charles Bukowski

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?

Erik Brynjolfsson

Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Tim Roberts

We probably won't know our destination until we get on the plane to leave.

Jana Kramer

When I get on a plane, I kiss the plane and I tap it three times. If I don't do it... I have to do it. One time I sat in my seat and I had to get back up to touch the plane.

Billy Mays

Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Luke Treadaway

If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.

Billy Corgan

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

Kristy Curry

We had a point to prove. We made a statement. We were tired of overtimes. We had something to say and we said it.

Jeff Gundy

When he (Alston) was not healthy, or out for a while, and we were without a true point guard, we were much more plodding. We want to be up the floor, which is what he does best.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

There has to reach a point where you've said enough.

Anthony Wollschlager

We didn't put up the points we wanted to. Obviously, there are still things we need to work on. Over the summer we're going to get this thing right.

Paul Guen

We are having discussions but we have not yet reached the point where we sign a contract.

Javier Solana

We still have points on which we are separated, but we are making progress,

Tony Catanzaro

We actually had more points then they did in the second half, but we were terrible in the first.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Gareth Williams

Up until now it's been a psychological battle, but that doesn't preclude them reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Jason Kenney

It's going to impinge on underlying profitability ... profitability is reaching a peak.

Mallory Factor

He's reaching out to all of us. He may not be winning converts, but he's making gains.

Arvind Parmar

Reaching the quarterfinals of an important tournament like this is fantastic.

Leo Veness

In life, there are those who are reaching upward, and those who are reaching outward.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

John Pecchia

If you thought, 'There's got to be more,' that's reasonable doubt.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.