Famous Quotes & Sayings

Granth Sahib

The One, who holds all creatures in His Hands, is never separated from them; He is with them all. Abandon your clever devices, and grasp hold of His Support. In an instant, you shall be saved.

Colin Powell

We stand ready to help, but that help can only come when North Korea has abandoned its programs to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, something that the international community thought it had done years ago,

Nicolas Maduro

The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I hold that establishing mixed schools will not harm the white race. I am their friend. I said in Mississippi, and I say here, and I say everywhere, that I would abandon the Republican party if it went into any measures of legislation really damaging to any portion of the white race, but it is not in the Republican party to do that.

Trent Yawney

We abandoned what worked in the first period. We wanted to pass the puck into the net, not shoot it. It goes back to very simple hockey. Pucks to the net create excitement for everybody.

Trent Yawney

We abandoned what we did in the first period. That's when we shot and went to the net. After that, we started looking for the pretty play, and the pretty play wasn't there.

Trent Yawney

We abandoned what was working in the first period, and that was shooting the puck. We wanted to pass the puck into the net. In the first period we shot the puck and went to the net.

David Levy

We have not abandoned the SLA, ... Our gates are open.

Bruce Babbitt

We have no choice but to manage these forests to get the fuel loads down. We can't abandon this program. What we've got to do instead is to correct the mistakes,

Larry Brown

We started out good. We all talked about respecting them with Allen out. We had a seven-point lead and then we just completely wilted. We had a lot of guys that didn't bring it to tonight and they had a lot of people that brought it.

Mark Mears

We started off a little slow, but I thought the guys wrestled well. Outside of Allen (Park, at 119), everyone's still in it. We've got nine guys still wrestling, and five in the semis.

Nayvadius Cash

G-Rock from the Westside, from Allen Temple. He gave my name, The Future; he was like, 'Man, you the future.' Just stuck with the name.

Maurice Cheeks

We have to get other guys involved. We're not just trying to win games with Allen and Chris doing all the scoring.

Kyle Korver

We?re just playing together, we?re playing with a greater sense of urgency, and Allen is leading us. I really feel like he?s the key. He?s the leader and he?s been playing great. He?s been a lot more vocal. He has a different look in his eye. And when he has that look, he?s pretty tough to stop.

Jack Bicknell

We're basically back to where we were last year. Matt Kubik will start based on the fact he played the most last year. Donald Allen will play early on and we'll leave it at that and see where we go from there.

Corey Stoll

Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

Mimi Melgaard

Mackenzie Allen comes in and tries to follow her heart in the job. She doesn't have to give up her femininity for power.

Seth Shostak

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

Alan Parker

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Caroline Kennedy

I've been a Democrat all my life.

Mark Bubriski

The personality is stronger than the policies. These are issues that Democrats are talking about.

Nicolas Maduro

My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

Gunter Grass

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Bernard Williams

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Bob Beauprez

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

Tracey Schmitt

Whether she's a man or a woman is completely irrelevant. If some Democrats want to fall back on the gender card, that's their problem.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to lose Social Security and Medicare if Republicans and Democrats do not come together and find a solution like Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill. I will be the Ronald Reagan if I can find a Tip O'Neill.

Alan Parker

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Nicolas Maduro

My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

Gunter Grass

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Bernard Williams

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Kevin McCloud

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

Robert Reich

A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive.

Elliott Abrams

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

Lee Miringoff

She remains a controversial figure when she moves out from the Democratic primary sweepstakes.

Lynn Swann

Minorities give their vote to the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party has given them lip service in terms of being involved in the party and in being major players.

Eric Lewis

I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I put into it without losing the shape of the sound and the contour, and it really holds up well.

Sam Kinison

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

David Dinges

My sense is that planned, permitted, endorsed napping by management is still rare.

Ray Zaborney

Obviously, it looks good now, but we're going to keep working until Lynn Swann is the endorsed candidate.

Craig Kilborn

John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

Yemane Gebremeskel

If they think their invasion should be rewarded, it is outrageous. If they are throwing away this peace plan endorsed by the international community, then that means more war.

Kuniko Inoguchi

The party itself never officially endorsed or recommended him.

Marty McOmber

We think the consultants' report endorsed our vision of what to do with downtown.

Ron McKay

They have endorsed entirely the initial libel judgment. It's a humiliation for the Telegraph and a vindication for George Galloway.

Ludivine Sagnier

It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.

Tom Fitzgerald

We've all had explained as to what is going to be called. Players were on the rules committee, so we all have to adjust.

Karen Hughes

We're in a war on terror. We are still at war. And to succeed in this war, we must effectively explain our policies and fundamental values to people around the world,

Nayvadius Cash

I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.

Sarah West

Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices.

Kristy Curry

We explained to all of them they were going to have to get their feet set, square their shoulders, be fundamental and knock three's down.

Brad Richards

We're just fragile right now. Wish I could explain why.

Lawrence M. Krauss

To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.

Kevin McDonald

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

John Boyega

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Ron Reagan

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Adam Carolla

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

John Henry Newman

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

Gaston Gaudio

He was serving unbelievably and I couldn't do too much.

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Mary Thomason

This is a strong serving team and we have height. But not just height, there's talent there. We should be strong.

Stephen East

They're serving a need much more than a want than say a Toll or a higher-end builder.

Richard Feinberg

If you're not serving the customer, you better be serving someone who is serving the customer.

Caroline Norton

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

Oswald Chambers

God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

Michael Franti

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Dale Parsons

We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.

Dave Reed

We want somebody who is really going to do it.

O. Winston

We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney. Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney, ... Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Rich Rodriguez

Somebody just has to step up and take over. With our backs, somebody will do it.

Cliff Herberg

Somebody is supplying these lawyers. They've got an agenda.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Camille Paglia

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [...] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university

Carl Levin

I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Kesha Rogers

I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

Frank Luntz

Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.