Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erin Delaney

We've basically been playing a similar offense, we run the same offense. The purpose of the junior varsity is to work together. It's not about wins, it's about getting better.

Antonio Villaraigosa

What a great actor and what a committed human being, ... For years, he's used his fame for the purpose of developing new talent and providing positive role models for Latinos.

Kim Bauer

What historical purpose would it serve? It (wouldn't) change the facts of how he became a great president. I would fall on the side of leaving President Lincoln alone.

Jeff Petersen

We felt it tied in with our purpose for Acappellastock. It is a community event, and a community is a group of people that come together for a commonality, a cause. We hopefully build one another up to build a better future for tomorrow.

Donald Fehr

We believe very strongly that the purpose of penalties ought to be to deter, not to punish for its own sake.

Bill Wilson

Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain.

William Shakespeare

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

William Shakespeare

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Chelsea Peretti

When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.

Edward Kennedy

We're going to support the servicemen and women, ... But when you're asking for the tens of billions of dollars in reconstruction, we're entitled to the answers to those questions.

Michael Franc

What they know is that the actual answers to increase supply or take down demand offer no quick fixes.

Larry DiRita

What he's doing is elevating the perspective of the leadership of this department and asking: 'I don't know the answers to these questions, but they're on my mind and I want them on your mind too.'

Scott Taylor

We got within two in the fourth, but they made some plays and they hit their foul shots. It seemed like we'd get four points and they'd get five. They had the answers tonight.

Tom Hall

We are getting a lot more 'yes' answers (to invitations) this year. We worked very hard to get some good films, some recognizable actors and directors.

Stephen McCausland

What sparked this? A lot of work remains before we have any answers, and some of those answers we may never get.

Tim Roemer

We're going to have a plethora of questions for the FBI and for Justice. And I'm not sure they are going to have any good answers to those questions.

David Sommers

We're expecting some answers back in the weeks and months ahead.

Ariel Sharon

We respect them (the Palestinians) and have no aspirations to rule over them. They are also entitled to freedom and to a national sovereign existence in a state of their own,

Peter Murphy

What this bill would do is a poison pill amendment to require the school board to approve the existence of a new charter school going forward. So this idea that this is some kind of compromise measure, that it lifts the cap but provides the oversight, is completely misleading. In fact, it's designed to pretend to lift the cap, but in fact, squash any new opportunity going forward.

Jan Adams

We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and other government watch lists. And we succeeded in doing so by making public hundreds of pages of documents that not only confirmed the existence of the 'no fly' list, but exposed many of the serious problems with the secret list. Only by informed public debate can we make our government accountable and our country safer.

Alan Alda

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

Charles Ives

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Bill Laswell

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

Lucy Lawless

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Michel Onfray

We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it to endure the coherence, cohesion and existence of their small, threatened people.