Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Lavielle

Price, price, price. We're looking at value instead of price and trying to offer good value to a broader range of people coming into stores.

David Williams

Our markets are home video and dvd, cable and satellite television, and broadcast television. Select theatrical dates are a distinct possibility,

Joaquin Almunia

Our main priority is to confirm the Lisbon strategy (a program for broad economic reform in Europe) should be implemented.

Micah Johnson

Our opinion is that it's a good broadcast and that it honors the troops, ... We have a lot of people in South Carolina and North Carolina that have sons and daughters that are fighting over there. It's a good program and they deserve to see it.

Micah Johnson

Our opinion is that it's a good broadcast and that it honors the troops.

Robert Patterson

Our niche is we're going to tell a broad story.

Bob Doll

Our new Internet-specific fund is designed to complement the Merrill Lynch Global Technology Fund, which gives investors broader exposure to the technology sector.

Charlotte Bergeron

Our laws are very broad about what is a public record. They can be in any format.

Raghu Rau

Our MOTOwi4 branding encompasses a comprehensive platform of wireless broadband solutions and services that enable our customer, the service provider, to use multiple technologies to reach more of their customers. It's a complete tool kit; they just pick the tool that works the best.

Jim Collins

He confined her to residences and hotels within Montgomery and Prince George's counties.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.

Risa Stewart

Gyms deal in sweat. It's OK to be stinky. But in a confined space, like a spinning room, it can be unbearable. You do need to monitor yourself.

Jim Jenkins

He's a crippled man. He has one leg. He's had his spleen removed. He's been confined to his house this entire time.

Hosni Mubarak

We live in a world in which all realize the suffering is not confined to one party and the flames of this conflict extend to all.

Steve Gantt

(Main Street) is such a confined space. You're going to have conflicts when you have groups of people working that closely.

William Safire

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.

Katie Hafner

Unlike most divorced parents, whose interactions are confined to the topic of the kids, people still sharing a house have to talk about clogged sinks and moth infestations.

Malcolm X

When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

Kevin Rogers

Our fertilizer products come from natural gas, so our price of nitrogen fertilizer has gone through the roof in the last six months. And diesel has completely skyrocketed,

Source Unknown

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

Christine Gregoire

Literally, today a gallon of diesel is costing our farmers more than they are getting in return for a bushel of wheat,

Mike Rudd

I found diesel and gasoline and several petroleum products. Some of them were kind of 'hot' stuff -- not just ordinary products. There was a lot of stuff down there.

Maori Proverb

He who stands, lives, he who sleeps, dies

Titus Maccius Plautus

He whom the gods favor dies in youth.

Icelandic Proverb

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

Latin Proverb

He dies twice who perishes by his own hand

Latin Proverb

He dies before he is old who is wise before his day

P. J. O'Rourke

Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

Annie Jacobsen

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

Dorothy L. Sayers

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

Eric Sevareid

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Niels Bohr

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth

Stephen Breyer

a hallmark of American justice in the last 30 years.

Ken Auletta

Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us.

Tim Finchem

Stature is something that we don't determine. Others determine.

Tom Donahoe

Some have durability issues. Others haven't produced for more than one season. They're kind of all clumped together and no one has really separated himself.

William Butler Yeats

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

Ed Abner

Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.

Genghis Khan

It is not sufficient that I suceed - all others must fail.

John Connors

Like many others in the industry, we are seeing slowing PC sales as the quarter progresses.

Dolores Smitley

I was the one who was always telling the others how to do things because I had more experience.

Lalit Modi

If others want to play they can. Why should we play in October?

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Lee H. Hamilton

I was personally kind of discouraged with that statement. This is not a new problem.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Gary Grant

He should have never plead guilty, we also think that the sentencing is too harsh.

Taryn Thompson

I prayed that somehow he would plead guilty.

Isiah Thomas

Our prayers and thoughts are with him. We will do everything that we're supposed to do and beyond.

J. J. Johnson

Our prayer has been from day one that other towns can see that we can do this.

C. S. Lewis

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

C. S. Lewis

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

C. S. Lewis

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

C. S. Lewis

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

C. S. Lewis

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Nick Bennenbroek

Part of the reason for the dollar's weakness today is positioning,

Lee Rainie

Part of the reason for that is resources,

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Someone had blundered:/ Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Graeme Smith

We never really got a reason from the umpires, I think that was probably the most frustrating part.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Andrew Strauss

I think there'll be a result and if we play like we have done there's no reason why we can't win it from this position,

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Drew Endy

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Bruce Henderson

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

J. J. Johnson

The scope of this one is so large.

Jim Balsillie

It was very important to get the scope we wanted.

Pat Monroe

Somewhere in that scope of things there was a breakdown. Specifically where, I don't know. It's a tremendous disappointment.

Nitin Nohria

Education can change the scope of an entire family

Bela Bartok

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.

Bede Griffiths

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

B. R. Ambedkar

Learn to live in this world with self-respect

B. H. Liddell Hart

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

B. F. Skinner

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

B. F. Skinner

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

Billy Corgan

I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

Bill Crawford

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Bill Crawford

The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.

David Harvey

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

Charles de Lint

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

Erich Fromm

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

Franz Liszt

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

H. P. Lovecraft

The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.

Paul Cezanne

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

Paul Cezanne

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

Oscar Wilde

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

Michael Crichton

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

David Spears

That's a true dilemma. But we don't know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.