Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Sharon Cannon

Part of it is a desire for lifelong learning. Part of it is for a job requirement. Part of it is for educational goals. Some of it is to earn more money.

Bill Watterson

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

Christine McVie

Suddenly the desire to write tricked back into my life again, not that I would want to tour or go on the road. Once you have been writing all of your life, it is part of what you do. What else do you do?

Paul Jewell

Overall, I thought we were more than worth a point, we showed great determination and desire not to lose the game.

Ken Williams

Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.

Dennis Hastert

out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.

Debra Roberts

Remove the shackles from me and set me free, free to be the woman you desire me to be.

Thomas Bauer

Reserves can't have any role in earnings targets or the desire to meet an earnings target.

Jennifer Johnson

I think these women are taken in by these inmates. These inmates somehow say the right thing.

Tessa Thompson

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

Clifford Irving

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

Danny Trejo

I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.

Bruce Perry

We don't want to make the meals too good. The inmates might not want to leave.

Warden Rustin

It was a combination of sheets that were braided together -- pieces of an inmates uniform that were braided together.

Don Fuller

It's your worst nightmare. It's tough. Any seasoned inmate will tell you lockdown is worse.

John Fougere

We spend a lot of time saving the lives of inmates who, quite frankly, don't want to be saved.

Joe Arpaio

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.

Heat Moon

Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.

Bucky Lasek

Staying on top is what keeps me going, but I pick my spots more,

Brandy Frazier

That's the main thing, as long as they get done the momentum keeps going. You have to pick it up, that play is over and the next play is coming.

Paul Hornung

It all keeps me busy, I love Louisville. I'll always be in Louisville.

Jim Montgomery

I think the theaters are wise to find a specialty, something that is their forte, that they can then sell or entice theatergoers to come to because that's what they're looking for. You'd be nuts not to give it to them. It keeps the theater alive.

Stephen Kay

I don't ever think she should be paroled because she keeps minimizing her participation (in the killings),

Jim Peterson

I'd like to see it keep going, but it's just not there. We're getting less and less people in there and the overhead keeps going up. I don't know what else to do.

Brian Gionta

He kept us in the game. Obviously Marty is Marty, he always keeps us in the game. There's not much else you can say about him, we're just lucky to have him back there.

Keith Richardson

He keeps switching the names of the owners on the deed,

Bede Griffiths

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Billy Corgan

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Billy Corgan

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

Bill Clark

The permit limits are pretty close to what the reality is.

Bill Cowher

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Bibhu Mohapatra

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

C. S. Lewis

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

C. S. Lewis

Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.

C. S. Lewis

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.