Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate.

Jim Tracy

Some of the elements we had last year that made us successful were not here this year,

Tomika Ferguson

Outdoor follows the same rules as indoor triple jump. The differences are the physical elements of wind, a major factor, and also temperature and weather.

Alvin Wyatt

Right now the elements haven't been kind to us.

Guillaume Duchesne

M&A is a strong element of support for the stock market. It's pushing shares higher.

Bob Elsner

I'm here to help the organization get some of these elements done that have long tails.

Carl Rogers

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

Raven Goodwin

I went to elementary like any other kid, but I was just always a little different. I had that sparkle, and everyone told my mom, 'She needs to be on TV, acting.'

Lonnie Nielsen

I was just so far out of my element out there.

Eamon

Recent events on the national level show that response times are critical,

Michael Eisner

Recent events make this a particularly challenging and somewhat anomalous time for our company,

Brian Woods

Our research shows that for events like the Super Bowl, (groups) are often gathering in the home of an HDTV owner.

Grant Woods

Sporting events will no longer feature anything to do with tobacco,

Alan Justad

Some of the harmonics of seismic events will reveal some surprising results.

Darl Keller

Our field events did great. We got a first in the throwing. ... We used some freshmen and sophomores in the (400 relay) and got second. That is nice.

Timothy Ghriskey

Overall, the issue for the market right now is oil. Today it seems to be about the events in Nigeria, but with oil it's been just one issue after another lately.

Erik Skarvan

Out of all these great events around here, none are dog-friendly. What we do in our free time for normal recreation we do with our dogs, so why keep leaving them at home? This way you don't have to leave your friend at home and they can share in the experience.

Charles Moore

Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.

Douglas Alexander

Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed a machine worthy of the message. I grew up with a peerless Conservative machine, with vastly superior resources.

Tai Hui

People have more faith in Hong Kong's logistics.

Bob Woods

People in the system are losing faith in it.

John Ruskin

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,/ The faithless coldness of the times.

Sathya Baba

Respect the differences between the faiths and recognize them as valid so far as they do not extinguish the flame of unity.  

Bible Bible

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

Roland Martin

We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.

Bill Shuster

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Kevin Starr

Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset.

Dan Castellaneta

Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.

Alexander Pope

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

Dane Cook

Sometimes, like we all do, I look at myself in the mirror. Sometimes I cry. Like a really hard cry like you just watch yourself cry but then you're done and you're just glowing and you're staring at yourself.

Andrew Greeley

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

Ann Beattie

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

Ansel Adams

The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

Ricky Gervais

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

David Brainerd

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Xinhua Agency

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Richard Boucher

little pieces being picked out of a larger context.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

Sam Yagan

I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Rupert Murdoch

He was a man who you could truly say was larger than life.

Marilyn Praisner

We've taken what should be a small unit and made it much larger than it needs to be.

C. S. Lewis

This moment contains all moments.

Carl Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Amy Irving

Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal... whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own.

Colum McCann

I think we're moving toward moments of grace and understanding. And I think these things take time.

Allan Houston

I always wanted to be in those moments when you could have an opportunity to win the game,

John Smith

I can't remember too many moments that exciting.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think it is tough; I think it is difficult. But you know that's just the nature of our business. I'm sure he has moments of frustration and/or disappointment. But he has a lot of fiber.

Randy Shaffer

I have my moments - my ups and downs.

Cate Blanchett

When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.

Bertrand Russell

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

Lenny Goldberg

I don't think it's out of the ordinary because revenue estimating is always difficult.

Catherine McAuley

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Bernardo Alvarez

Mr. Robertson is no ordinary citizen, ... has been one of the president's staunchest allies.

Barbara Mertz

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.

Edward Abbey

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

Mike Meixler

Volunteers don't have to spend a lot of money. They can just do ordinary things.

Cynthia Ozick

The ordinary is the divine.

Dana Taylor

Robby is fast, very powerful and has a quick shot.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you?

Barry Lopez

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Bill Crawford

All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!

Bill Crawford

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

Bianca Jagger

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

Bianca Jagger

I don't need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I'd much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.

C. S. Lewis

What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction

B. R. Ambedkar

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Bill Shuster

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

Bhagat Singh

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

C. S. Lewis

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

C. S. Lewis

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.

C. S. Lewis

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

C. S. Lewis

Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

C. S. Lewis

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Jon Gruden

That was the play of the game. He runs down on that and just makes an unbelievable effort. There were just a lot of things like that for us today.

Neil Morris

That would be a dream. Every time we get him to the races, he runs a big race.

Ronnie Reyes

That's the way to never say die. You were two runs down and you got on base.

John Sullivan

It is important our door-to-door service runs efficiently, ... I'm worried about the transportation issue.

Joe Nelson

He's a big kid, who, for his size, is agile, runs well and is still powerful.

Dick LeBeau

He runs real, real fast. And he's very instinctive. He just can diagnose and get to the right spot.

Tony Gerharz

We have to be better than that. There are going to be a lot of runs scored at Sunset Park. Kimberly did the runs scoring.

Robb Quinlan

If we're going out and scoring one or two runs a game, it is tough to win ballgames.

Dean Montzingo

He (Tyler) runs the show. We're comfortable about that.

Kristan Higgins

I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

Fergal Murray

That?s the one everyone seems to go straight for.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Jim Smith

I tell them it's the future. It seems to be where truck tires are heading.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Randy Ready

(Johnston) has been hot. Anything he touches right now seems to work out for him.

Jay Haas

I'd like it to go back to no carts. It just seems right. It seems like if spectators can go out and walk, we can, too. It's part of the competition.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

David B. Coe

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be...

Elaine Post

Until you know where the source is, how do you know you're treating the right one?

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

Scott Benedict

That's what he does. He's been steady all year.

Wayne Primeau

He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.

Perry Davis

She was just steady all through the game.

Elaine Jennings

There has been a steady stream all day.

Randy Thompson

Oh, my gosh, it's been pretty steady all year.

Scott Cross

He's just been really steady for us inside.

Peg Stipetich

Our slowest time through the day was from 2-4 p.m., but we were still busy. It really was steady throughout the day.

Harriet Tubman

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.