Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Bible Bible

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Erik Anderson

What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose them in the wild, there's an option.

Bob Barker

There's only one solution to the tragic, the embarrassing elephant problem going on at (the zoo), and it's to release those elephants from captivity and place them in a sanctuary.

James Loney

I'm eager to tell my story of rescue and captivity but I need a little time.

Evelyn Waugh

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

Evelyn Waugh

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

Roy Hallums

Coalition forces rescued American Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from captivity in an isolated farm house located 15 miles (25 kilometres) south of Baghdad,

Bible Bible

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

Patrick Surtain

regains the form he had a couple of years ago.

Brian Champion

Reese, he's always competing. He left some pitches up in the first couple innings and we made some blunders. ... But he stayed within himself and kept battling, kept competing.

Winston Justice

Our relationship is very, very close. He visited me a couple of times when I was suspended and he helped me through the whole process.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat, when he goes in there it's like he's been there the whole time. He managed the game well, made a couple of big plays.

Jay Mergenthaler

Our main goals are to finish over .500 and to win a couple of tournament games.

Shahid Ghori

Our leaders have been receiving threats for the past couple of months and we had informed the government about it, but no security was provided to our leaders.

Chauncey Billups

Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that I made it. I'm an All-Star. It's still a little surreal right now. It's something that I always wanted.

Steve Massey

(People need to) stop irrigating their lawns. This time in the winter, you don't need to be watering the ground around your home but every couple of weeks.

Harold Evensky

People have historically benefited from a couple of different types of immediate annuities.

Bryan Allen

Our parking lot frequently (has) people cross through it. It could be anything.

Anand Sharma

Passport is a must before crossing the international border.

Bill Whitman

Our marketing strategy encompasses young people as well as adults and we do that through various media and marketing strategies that cross all demographics.

Jay Gates

People like it like it is. There is a threshold you can't cross and remain the Phillips Collection.

Philip Kerr

Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.

Sidney Crosby

Some guy was just yelling at me. It wasn't the first time. I'm not going out there to start something with a fan by any means, not at all. But it gets to the point where some of the things they say cross the line. Trust me, I don't usually talk to fans.

Annette Lee

Our prayer is for people who have searched for 'it' in things or in other people and have been disappointed, that they take another look at the cross and the power of the resurrection.

William Spindler

Our staff on the ground reports that a trickle of refugees are crossing the Palk Strait to India in small fishing boats, fearing an escalation in the violence.

Ken Hutcherson

Our global movement started over 2,000 years ago on the cross with Jesus Christ,

Paul Netzer

Overall, the season went pretty well. We played the hardest we could every game. We didn't always win but we knew we had the toughness to win.

Curtis Sliwa

Last week was the hardest week of radio I've ever had to do. It may be even worse now that the jury has rendered its decision.

Eric Steege

Last week was a long week for us. We try to put the week in perspective. We are still optimistic. The first third of our schedule is probably the hardest part of our schedule.

Stuart Faris

That was the hardest part, leaving him. We had done all we could do to help him there. Now, we've got to get him home.

Jerious Norwood

That was the hardest I've been hit in my life.

Doris Causey

That was the hardest decision, but I knew it was the right decision. I thought they were gone, because of everything we were hearing.

Curtis Barney

That was one of the hardest things I've had to do. I couldn't even speak her name to tell her to go in. I just had to push her out there.

Valentino Rossi

That was one of the hardest races of the season,

Craig Alexander

It is one of the hardest things to forecast. So, get used to it.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Josh Herring

That could have been a big turning point in the game. If we tie it there, we would have the momentum.

Hans Blix

that could be risky from the point of view of proliferation.

Robert Fitzgerald

Our selling point is, if you have to get through, it's Ricochet.

Randy Gumbley

Our strong point is that we'll be solid on the back end.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Phil Condit

Overall, at this point I'm pretty positive, ... We've got things going in the right way. Now, we've got to go out and do it.

Rick Simon

Really, it's getting to a point where it's really serious now.

Olli Jokinen

We need points right now, and we can't keep throwing them away.

Mark Shapiro

Our No. 1 priority now is a closer.

Mary Green

Our priority is to get them situated here.

Darrell Sanders

Our suspect has a prior drug history. In fact, she just recently got off probation on drug charges, and she's back in business.

Bill Warren

Our first priority of course, is the safety and welfare of our guests.

Bethenny Frankel

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Jakaya Kikwete

I will make sure research and development is a top priority in agricultural development.

Tom Coburn

It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Walt Frazier

Red would get in your face. But not in the press.

Bill Shankly

Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.

Bernadette Peters

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

Arsene Wenger

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Roberta Anding

Just as there are more antioxidants in red wine versus Chardonnay, the same is true for beer.

Wendy Larry

I wish I had my red shoes on. There's no place like home. There's no place like home.

Rain Bojangles

It is better to be redundant than remiss.

Daron Rahlves

I'd like to be wearing the red (leader's) bib in downhill.

Brad Thor

Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot.

Sara Shepard

My sister and I visited Iceland in 2001, and I incorporated it into 'Pretty Little Liars.'

Dennece Knight

Most of our visitors will be here to have fun.

Harry Friedman

We know our visitors like to see us in different cities,

Angelus Silesius

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

Ellen Gilchrist

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

Diane Abbott

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Charles C. Mann

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Ari Fleischer

These visits will be rescheduled when circumstances permit.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

John Batina

We've been doing that for two weeks now.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Trisha Goddard

I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.