Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Tryon

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.

David Dunkel

Recent accounting-related legislation is having a significant impact at a time when the pool of qualified prospects is declining due to the 150-hour rule instituted by most states. As a result, many hiring managers have more work than they can handle with current staffing levels and cannot find enough capable new hires.

John C. Wright

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

Fernando Martin

Real Madrid cannot say it went off to look for him -- but that doesn't mean he doesn't interest us.

Wayne Dyer

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your ''now,'' is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

P. James

Our recruits and officers obviously cannot practice high-speed chases on the streets of Newark. Yet sadly, they do happen, and our officers must train for them. By making use of modern technology, Newark's finest will be able to simulate and train for these incidents.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Gleick

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

Reed Tuckson

Regardless of who you are or what group you're in, there is a significant gap between the care you deserve and the care you receive.

Vince Carter

Regardless of our seeding, as long as we're playing well and rolling into the playoffs, that's what we care about. We're just looking at whoever we play, we have to be prepared.

Vitali Klitschko

Recently I have been fighting more often with injuries than with my opponents. It's hard to retire from this sport, but I want to finish my career at the summit and leave the way open for my successors.

Greg Mason

Reggie has just had a remarkable career and continues to give us a solid offensive presence that makes us a lot better.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Henry Johnson

Previous winners have come from all walks of life in our community, and they all had one thing in common, the uncommon way they cared about our community.

Nate Rien

Our passing was awful. It's so undervalued in today's game. We make a lot of careless decisions at times.

Don MacAdam

Our passing was abysmal. Passing is a caring skill. If you care to put the pass on the guy's tape, you can make it. I haven't played a game in 30 years and I know I can do it. I do it in practice every day.

Michael Howe

Our partnership with CVS has been crucial, ... They are visionaries, and their involvement in support of retail-based health care has been huge.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

relations with the United States are not a cure for our ills.

Brian Mason

People literally are dying on the transplant list who could be cured with this,

Gary Lewis

Over 90 percent of patients with APL are cured because of overall treatment of chemotherapy and retinoic acid, ... If you're cured, you're cured, but if it would happen to relapse, another arsenic derivative can be used as treatment to cure the disease the second time around.

Jim Doyle

Respect for human life means you don't your turn back on cures that can save human lives,

Bill Sanders

It is not a cure all for the problems.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

Reyes Hernandez

It doesn't cure it, but it stops it for a time. If I turn it off within 30 minutes, I'll be back to dragging my feet and stuff.

Glenn Davis

I tell people 'man, they don't have anything to cure this', ... Don't get this disease.

Larry King

I am going to get out of this chair, throw it away and walk, ... We are on the threshold of a cure -- maybe in five, seven, eight, ten years.

Jane Harrison

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

Piers Anthony

Much of what is published is actually science fantasy, seeming possible but actually impossible, such as faster than light space travel.

Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.

Robert Burton

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

William Godwin

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

William Godwin

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Leonard Alfred George Strong

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

Vera Brittain

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

Mike Harris

No one thought the (Fabulous Palm Springs) Follies would do as well as it has (when it opened 10 years ago). I'm not sure they (Cirque Dreams) will be full every night, but ... it's going to be good for the merchants.

Rory Bremner

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

Josh Billings

Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.

Thomas H. Huxley

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental

Princess Anne

To a lot of people they really are just follies but this one is much more interesting and it gives a wonderful view.

Craig Colten

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

Scott Norton

Reasonable' probably doesn't mean if you were out a whole semester you make up a whole semester.

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.

Steve Sparks

Patrick's a little embarrassed by the signs. But it shows what his being at UK has meant to our community.

John Street

People have to go vote. Polls don't mean a thing,

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.

Marcus Giles

That'd be cool, ... and it'd mean one of us is going to the World Series.

Ed Baker

Part of it is just that they taste so wonderful.

C. S. Lewis

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

C. S. Lewis

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Bethenny Frankel

Taste everything, eat nothing.

Bernard Berenson

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Daniel Kessler

That was the worst taste you could have as a player. . . . That?s something you just don?t forget.

Tommy Amaker

I wish we could play. When you come off of a disappointing loss, you want to get back at it and get the feeling, the taste out of your mouth.

Jeff Lindsay

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

Miley Cyrus

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Beeban Kidron

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

Beck

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Beck

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

Beck

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Beck

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.