Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rowan D. Williams

More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle.

Michael Douglas

She is such a tremendous spokesperson for Britain in general, and Wales in particular, that it hurt to see how she was treated in this whole process.

James McAvoy

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

Alice Lowe

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

R. Ingram

I am happy to be in New Britain this season. Going to Double-A is a big step and I'm really excited about the opportunity.

David Miliband

I am the 'change Britain' candidate. We can only change Britain through a united Labour Party and I am the unity candidate. I have got support from the Left and the Right of the party.

Tony Blair

cement the new modern relationship between Britain and India.

Maajid Nawaz

For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.

Stephen Kinzer

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.

Kevin Burns

One hundred percent of them said they liked it, they thought it was convenient and they said they'd use it again.

Joy Bauer

Men have a tendency to grab whatever's convenient and also gravitate to whatever they grew up on.

Ken Wilson

So it was very convenient so it worked out for our employees.

Brett Galloway

We are seeing a surge in wireless network infrastructure in places where it is not convenient and would be very expensive to run a wired network.

Howard Gordon

(We) felt like we'd told David Palmer's story, we knew that there was no place more to take him. So it was a convenient way to sort of jump-start the year.

Jason Bartlett

Working out has become a huge part of training, and it's nice to have this be so convenient for us to use.

Dennis Hastert

There are some people who would have it politically convenient to have a recession because that means they would have a political advantage. We are not going to let that happen, ... By moving that tax cut early and having it in time to kick this economy up and get it going, we are not going to let that happen.

Ann Sims

I have immediate plans to pursue a doctoral degree in education. That will be more convenient if I'm back on the other side of the mountains.

Andie MacDowell

I can't see as well as I used to. Which is actually convenient because everything I see is in extremely soft focus! I think that's God's little gift to me.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Kylie Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Lee Westwood

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Tony Ciriello

Majority rules -- and this is the vast majority. It's not fair to people who are standing in a line 10 tables back.

Bob Gammage

Let's put the wealth of the state as a whole on the table. Let's put every conceivable source of revenue on the table and forge a plan where every person in Texas pays their fair share.

Kara Walker

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Debbie Johnson

We are not anti-union, but we are working to protect the rights of our employees. We just want them to use fair tactics.

Jerry Ragland

We did not get a fair trial up there, period.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

Antony Beevor

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Jane Austen

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

Benjamin Disraeli

London is a modern Babylon.

Benjamin Disraeli

The gondola of London [a hansom].

Boris Johnson

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale,

Britney Spears

I'm gonna start off somewhere small like London or England.

David Mitchell

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Maajid Nawaz

During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

Megan Smith

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

Carl Forti

Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

Bob Castellini

We operate it. We don't own it. That's a big difference.

Thomas Hansen

We operate in this state under a series of rules.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Jim Frederick

Our restaurant is operated by our family, for families.

Josh Lewsey

I was only operated on a week ago and I have made spectacular progress since then,

Kathleen Bergen

Many airports operate very safely without an ASDE system.

David Horowitz

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

David Hume

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

David Hume

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

David Hume

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

David Hume

...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.

David Hume

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

David Hume

To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, 'tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate reason, why past experience and observation produces such an effect, any more than why nature alone should produce it?

David Hume

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

David Hume

When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

Kim Cattrall

I've seen some women who are not particularly attractive but they have an assurance, and there's something so attractive about someone who doesn't have to work so hard.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

S. Walker

We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.

Marc Morial

To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

Dennis Kucinich

We show our support and love the troops, whatever our opinion.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Kathleen Blanco

Let's just support the Saints. That's what I say.

Vandana Shiva

My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

Thomas Collins

We are here to support ECOMIL and we want them to succeed.

Jason Chaffetz

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

Janez Drnovsek

It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

Ayn Rand

The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.