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,

Noreena Hertz

The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too.

Roger Ouellette

We played well as group; defensively, to hold them to three points when it mattered - and they have some weapons in that spread offense - thought we defended it real well.

Paul Gillis

We played 60 minutes. We defended with energy and we played with urgency.

Royce Chadwick

We play defense, but we don't specifically play to defend the 26-foot 3-pointer, and they hit some of those.

Sergei Udaltsov

We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.

David Kopel

When a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery -- from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing -- produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success.

Cristiano Ronaldo

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

James Lancaster

We did what we had to do tonight; we had to defend the home court. The pressure was on us. (Clarke coach) Jon (Davison) knew he had a step and a half up on the league if they come in and get that win tonight.

Cathy Inglese

We did watch (the tapes) to see how they defended us and what we did that was successful.

James T. Walsh

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

Calvin Klein

There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

Jennifer Freeman

We're limited as to what we can say,

Raymond Kelly

If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either.

Jalal Farzaneh

We were students on a limited budget. We had to move.

Michael Schroeder

Unlike a lot of retailers, they are somewhat limited in what they can offer. I just don't think they are ever going to make much money on their retail stores.

Karl Graf

You have the convenience of one statement, but you're not limited to one company,

Sonya Boralv

We don't have other announcements of any other hotspots. At this point, we're testing these limited locations.

Byron Scott

We've had limited practices but from what I've seen of him in practice, I like what he does.

F. Schumacher

You do not need to be very prophetic to say the Championship is over.

William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Jim Wallis

Why?' is the prophetic question.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Bob Dylan

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

Isaac Asimov

There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

J. K. Rowling

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally,' said Dumbledore, 'if only accidentally.

Gerard Way

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

Patrick Rothfuss

There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

Robert South

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Alan Ladd

I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

LaVar Arrington

We can't give up the big play. That's what we do, and we have to stop that. That's got to be part of our maturation process.

LaVar Arrington

We can't give up the big play, ... That's what we do, and we have to stop that. That's got to be part of our maturation process.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,

Jimmy Kennedy

We've got a new attitude. We want to stop the run.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

Mike Nichols

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

Jim Lovell

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.