Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Freeman Miller

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

Jonathan Gross

Work ethic is something that's conferred by example. Kids are much smarter than we give them credit for; it's about what they see.

Eleanor Catton

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

Seamus Heaney

But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.

Emily Dickinson

Superiority to fateIs difficult to learn.'Tis not conferred by anyBut possible to earn.

Sara Sheridan

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

Oscar Gonzalez

Record crude prices usually mean record trade gaps. Nobody sees relief on the energy front any time soon.

Sam Bodman

SPR was put in place specifically for this kind of an event -- something that interferes with flow of crude oil through our refiners and then to our citizens,

Alan Stern

Out Earth-based observations are still too crude to tell us much about what we'll see when we finally get there. We still don't know what we don't know about Pluto.

Brad Hintz

Physical pricing knowledge in crude and refined products represents the keys to the castle.

James Ritterbusch

We need some help from gasoline before crude oil can pick up.

Morgan Stanley

We now think that (U.S.) crude oil could reach $61 before a meaningful sell-off occurs. Long-term price patterns point to even higher prices.

Gene Gillespie

I think crude has been overpriced for the last 12 to 18 months. I think all parties understand the situation. They're going into a seasonal increase in the fourth and first quarters, and they're anticipating an increase in demand.

Trilby Lundberg

I think two factors to look at in considering the rise are crude oil prices and gas demand.

Mark Serwotka

It is now time for the government to take stock of the havoc that is being wreaked by crude cuts to key public services and to seriously think again,

Michael Vaughan

Spin's going to play a big part, but we've come up with a formula to tackle India's slow wickets.

Joseph Jackson

some form of normalcy with all the madness going on.

Tadahito Iguchi

Our pitching staff is not in good form recently, so we need to provide support with good offense and fielding.

Jim Navolio

Our statement is strong on the non-proliferation of gambling. Is this going to make it through the legislature in the form presented? That's highly unlikely.

Bruce Condon

Our formula is simple. We don't have additives.

Kurt Barnard

plays itself out on Main Street U.S.A. in the form of muted retail sales.

Paul Perry

I'm hoping this turns out to be a very strong form race.

Jeff Johnson

We'll also have it set up with all the necessary forms to submit your film online, and generally have the Web page be a better way for people to get information about the festival.

Paul Holmes

It is a style of broadcasting that has been missing from the New Zealand television landscape for a number of years. The longer length interview format will give me the opportunity to find out what makes the guests tick.

Zachary Abuza

suffered terribly in terms of arrests - more than 300 around the region - including its founding leadership.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We no longer want an immigration that is inflicted (on us) but an immigration that is chosen, this is the founding principle of the new immigration policy I advocate.

Michael Ignatieff

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

that the warheads will not be targeted at the states which have signed the (NATO-Russia) Founding Act.

Monica Crowley

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.

Ram Shriram

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Aron Ralston

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

Sirus Nasseri

I think that would be a grave miscalculation by the U.S., and particularly by Europe,

Jonathan Schwartz

I think Scott will go to his grave as a Sun employee.

Jalal Talabani

He killed people to protect them, ... He put hundreds of thousands of people in mass graves to protect Iraq.

Jayantha Dhanapala

It is a grave setback to the peace process. Restarting (the peace process) will be seriously undermined.

Sarah Newton

If this hurricane had not happened we would not have had to spend money to do this work. But now, without their participation, we would be in grave danger.

Dave Otto

He'd probably be laughing in his grave about what the kids are doing here.

Donald Davis

Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.

Edward Abbey

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

David Bowman

San Antonio had to rely on the hold harmless provision this year.

Richard Bentley

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself

Dave Bristow

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

Mark Peterson

I watched the way he prepared himself before games. Before I saw Colton I never went to the outfield before to long toss or run before games. Now, I have my own routine before I pitch.

David Patterson

I think he should have won the Nobel Prize. I don't know why he didn't. He was sort of a shy person who didn't promote himself outside the scientific community. He would rather work in the lab.

Five Live

I think he's a centre-half but we know he can play in that position, so I think he's done himself a lot of good.

Bob Bradley

I still think it will happen. I think this was a little setback but there's no reason why he can't push himself forward.

Bobby Cox

Jonathan has come a long way since he was a little teenager. He's made himself into a real nice player.

Chris Smith

John's been preparing himself for this role for the last three years. This is his time to shine. He's really impressed us with his work ethic. He's got to make the plays that we know he can.

Mike Trapasso

Justin wasn't trying to overpower people and get strikeouts. He had to stay within himself and learned that.

Ian Campbell

Reliable high-speed Internet service is probably my No. 2 requirement in a hotel, right after hot water.

Robin Oakley

such a hot potato that it was dropped.

Julie Smith

P. I. on a Hot Tin Roof: A Talba Wallis Novel,

O. Winston

Red Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army.

AJ Pierzynski

We need someone to get hot. It seems like everyone is not hot at the same time. We need something to get it back. It's been kind of a letdown.

Matthew Smith

The 30-year is the hot IPO of 2006.

Hank Harris

That's the thing about these songs, they're not about hot licks. They're about the stories. It was tempting to do these songs very modern. But I kept them very minimal.

John Wolkonowicz

That's the hottest part of the market right now.

Christopher Kubasik

That still seems to be the hottest market.

Frank Sinatra

She never had an unkind word for Jack. And the time she stabbed him, it was an accident. She was in his office and she reached for the revolver, the knife slipped out.

Malala Yousafzai

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

Rich Brooks

It was just like somebody stuck a knife in our stomach. It's a shame.

Christopher Darden

And he's using a knife to settle a score. He stabs this woman and she's right there, one on one.

Dan Gelber

I think it will be a lasting legacy, in a sense, because he has so many picks.

Ed Rollins

I do not think it is a lasting issue. I think it is just a series of things that this administration has done that makes it look like they are not always forthcoming.

Joschka Fischer

For me this is the end of a period of my life lasting 20 years, and a new beginning.

Deepak Chopra

The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

Elijah Cummings

Since 1987, the month of March has been designated to give special prominence to the women who have made lasting contributions to our society.

Benjamin Netanyahu

lead to a real peace, a lasting peace, not a minute-long peace.

Latin Proverb

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule

Dale Carnegie

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

Jane Goodall

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

Bob Richardson

presents all the options; we show the library of tea.

Gordon Woods

I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.

Charles Spurgeon

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

Arthur Ashe

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

Arthur Ashe

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

Carl T. Rowan

The library is the temple of learning.

Brandon Sanderson

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

Archibald MacLeish

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Augustine Birrell

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Craig Colten

Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.

Akinobu Okada

Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.

Cheri Cihak

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.

Lisa Busch

State means everything to this team. As seniors, it means so much more for us.

Barack Obama

Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home.

Mahmud Abbas

Our security services are trying to use all means to prevent their arrival.

Phil Klay

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

Sharan Burrow

(We need) a broad-ranging inquiry, one that travels around the country, so that working people can talk to the senators about what it means for them.

Joe Hymer

It is an encouraging sign, but we don't know what it all means and where those smelt will end up.

Scott Hand

Our North American operations remain a vital base,

John Kelley

People normally wouldn't do this but they have to come in.

John Mulaney

Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn't be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red --at least not on the outside.

Bob Dickinson

We normally sell those rooms for a lot of money. It was frustrating that no one wanted to come.

Andy Reid

We normally do that if a player is playing his old team.

James Thomas

We normally don't have to go to trial on them.

Carrie Underwood

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

Matt Birk

Playing with pain is part of the game,

Carol Kurdell

Really to me it is the most sensible way to do this as painful as it is.

Lindsey Kildow

I'm in a lot of pain. I just need to go rest.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Here it comes," she said with an expression of pure bliss. "Drug rush ... any moment now ... the surge of warmth ... bye-bye, Mr. Pain..." "Vee-" "Knock, knock." "This is really important-" "Knock, knock." "It's about Elliot-" "Knock, knoooock," she said in a singsong voice. I sighed. "Who's there?" "Boo." "Boo who?" "Boo-hoo, somebody's crying, and it's not me!" She broke into hysterical laughter.

Bill Crawford

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

Bill Engvall

I believe pain is nature's way of saying, 'You're still alive, and life sucks.'

Bill Cosby

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

Bhagat Singh

We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

C. S. Lewis

In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One must observe the proper rites.

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Brian Reilly

He's been through it. He just says to stay patient.

Mardi Gras

If we can do this, it says we're back.

Damon Hewitt

If the state says there's a plan, that's an overstatement.

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Denise Roberts

He says he wants to be a firefighter,

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Proverb

The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Adolf Hitler

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Margaret Garcia

We don't know. Mia didn't play soccer. She was a cheerleader all her life. She cheered for (the University of Colorado).

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Earlon McWhorter

We're willing to look in the mirror, see what we see and do what we have to do to make this university better.

Dana Snyder

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Abdul Kalam

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

Deng Xiaoping

The minority yields to the majority!

Ben Jonson

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Aldo Leopold

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

David F. Houston

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Stephen Jay Gould

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.