Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Patterson

Patterson Beams was probably the most tricky. Even now, every time I change it is worrisome because of the possible unintended consequences.

Joshua Chamberlain

Our loss had been severe. One-half of my left wing had fallen, and a third of my regiment lay just behind us, dead or badly wounded.

Daniel H. Hill

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

Nelson A. Miles

Replying to your long telegram, one point is of vital importance-the difficult Indian problem can not be solved permanently at this end of the line.

James Longstreet

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.

Abraham Whipple

I was ordered by the Colony to go to the Island of Bermuda in order to seize on the Gunpowder in the British Magazines.

James Stockdale

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

John Buford

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

George Haven Putnam

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

Jimmy Rollins

Records are meant to be broken and it's good to have an opportunity to chase them. But I'm more focused on how we do as a team.

Dick Anderson

Records are made to be broken and one of these days someone will do it, ... I hope it never happens in my lifetime, but it is certainly possible.

Dan Jones

Real Madrid's top spot represents a remarkable transformation in the club's revenue generating capacity. It has broken the mold.

Stanley Hauerwas

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence.

Jenny Wieland

People know that they can call us no matter what. Whether you've been robbed or had your car broken into, people are victimized by that.

Richard Davies

Some of these post-bubble things make sense. The real question as a buyer is whether there is so much broken glass there it's not worth the effort.

Michael Green

Our clients look out their window and their neighbors are on the ground with guns to their heads. The next thing they know, their door gets broken open.

Irish Proverb

Many a man's nose was broken by his mouth.

Jack Warner

Most records get broken by small margins. This was a no-doubter.

Frank Degen

Previously, someone like a plumber, who may have run his office from home and had a secretary there, could not take this deduction because he provided goods and services outside the home. Of course, the IRS realized the inequity there and changed the rules.

Liz Boyd

Our position hasn't changed and we would expect her to veto this legislation just as she did before. It's a divisive piece of legislation. The suburban communities and the city need to work together on these issues.

James Nykolay

Our relationship grew when we stopped hungering to be noticed and we started to meld into each other. We talked about how the weight was lifting and how our world changed overnight.

Craig Fugate

Our recommendations have not changed since I've been here we need to get people to evacuate from storm surge, ... If you're not in that evacuation zone, the safest place for you may be in your home.

Nancy Engel

Our ranking hasn't changed much over the years of doing this survey.

Aaron Parchem

Our mind-set and preparation have changed so much over the season. We are two totally different people than we were in October. Now we get to do some fun things like shows and seminars.

Alan McMillan

Oracle's changed the game in terms of its acquisitions. IBM's stated policy is that it will not compete with applications vendors, but I'm curious if that will change going forward.

Kathy Reichs

People love the cliffhanger endings to chapters. I get a lot of comments that I've changed people's lives, how they've never read and now they have, how they were depressed and now they have a passion.

Kathy Reichs

People love the cliffhanger endings to chapters, ... I get a lot of comments that I've changed people's lives, how they've never read and now they have, how they were depressed and now they have a passion.

Thomas Lynch

It is not enough to be a corpse any more. Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.

Dan Walters

I'd like to thank the Marine Corps for everything they do to protect our country,

Elie Wiesel

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Robert Harris

I think it's great for them to come out and give their time and give some support and some acknowledgement to the Marine Corps and the base. I think it's awesome.

Larry Fitzgerald

He's a great person to be around, ... He's a great influence on not only me, but the whole receiving corps and this whole football team. He's going to help us out in the locker room and he's definitely going to help us out on the field.

Turner Gill

He's kind of had some flashes. He'll have a great day and then he'll have some days that are not so good. But it was great to see him come back today in a game-type environment and make some plays for us. We've got to have guys in the receiving corps to step up and make plays for us.

Studs Terkel

If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.

John Barry

My intent is not to point the finger. I still have a high regard for the corps. Holding back the Mississippi River isn't an easy thing to do. They've done an extraordinary job at flood control, and that's what makes this all the more devastating. I'm sure the corps is devastated, too. They know people put their faith in them and that faith was betrayed.

Giles Foden

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

George H. W. Bush

We need more troops to defeat 'The Illusion of Failure' in Iraq....29 million should do it.

Carrie Fisher

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

David Coltart

It is a monumental defeat for the government.

John Higgins

It had nothing to do with Graeme. It was just the way I played, the way I approached the game and the state of mind I was in. I have never felt as down after that defeat as I did then.

Brian Kapusta

I thought he wrestled a great match when he defeated Mark Brown. He wrestled smart.

Laurent Fournier

I don't have any explanation for this defeat. I'm stunned, and I don't know what to say.

Guillermo Coria

I didn't want to go out with a 6-1 6-1 defeat. This was an incredible match.

Bay Buchanan

Ideally, I would have hoped these people would have heard the fat lady singing and they would have realized the defeat for what it is.

Pat Hill

getting a lot of big payday games in big venues, which is great for those programs. I think that has defeated the purpose for us, anyway, of getting really high-profile games, even though they're on the road.

John Toshack

It has been hard for some of them, stepping up from the lower divisions where they are playing a lot more games, is tough.

John Haley

I was hearing from other people, other captains, that he was going around in their divisions ruffling feathers,

Robin Oakley

I don't think we'll see huge divisions here in Greece.

Sepp Blatter

Obviously, you'll still need a few stars elsewhere in the world, but not the hundreds and thousands who play in the second or third divisions in other countries.

Rick Perlstein

My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.

Miguel Cotto

To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

Robert Williams

We will have three different divisions playing. We should have great participation and it should be as competitive as it has always been.

Roger Winter

The (rebel) divisions have not been healed yet. It is a major issue for us.

Kathleen Hohl

Regardless of the number of men we ordain to the priesthood each year, that number does not keep pace with the number of priests who retire from the ministry. As a result of fewer priests, the need for well-trained lay ministers is even more important.

Graeme Edge

(Rehearsal's) mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.

Jon Peck

Our report can only reflect the numbers provided to the state. There are larger communities that reported fewer than some smaller communities.

Karen Hoem

Our overall goal this year was to make the playoffs. It's been a few years since we've been there.

Chris Shaw

Our question mark is in the back. We lost a few and our goalie. We are young in the back, but talented,

Ken Goldstein

Part of the real story here is that, through July, producers were still getting more output, with fewer labor hours put in. Productivity in the third quarter is probably going to be stronger than in the second quarter, confirming the idea that, while the stock market's not in good shape, the overall economy's not that bad.

Markus Persson

PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.

Brad Radke

Our offense is much improved. We had a few guys who had down years last year. They'll help out more.

Chris Liddell

Our market share remains broadly where it was in the last few quarters, ... It's a monetization issue, and that is something we're going to have to reverse in the future.

Zygi Wilf

Regardless of what is found in the investigations, we will take the appropriate measures for those who were involved.

Jim Cabucio

Regardless of the outcome of a Friday night game, each Saturday morning, Kyle could be found teaching our youngsters the fundamentals of the game.

John Byrd

re-emphasized all the reasons the jury found him guilty in the first place.

Zachary Abuza

suffered terribly in terms of arrests - more than 300 around the region - including its founding leadership.

John Lasseter

Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.

David Pollock

Starting yesterday, we activated our volunteers and found how many and which ones would be available.

Debbie Cox

Someone must have found them and put them there.

Pat Summerall

somehow found out I'd got the liver. But they said they didn't care, didn't want to meet me.

Dennis Hastert

Our problem was an embarrassment of riches. In many cases, we found three or four people qualified to play the role of chairman,

Pam Collins

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Jon Harmon

Steady progress is being made on the issues, but there is still some left to go through. We're looking at several hours left, certainly, if not longer.

Peter Goldman

Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

Nancy Floreen

We need more options, not fewer. We need them to increase trains and hours to get people out of their cars.

Ken Matthews

We never taught him to sit. We spend hours teaching them to stand (for show).

Jason Isbell

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

Bill Burr

You're not chasing syndication any more. It used to be a big thing. "Let's make 100 episodes and we'll get paid for life". You know? And what does the sheer amount of content that's being made do to syndication after a while? It just seems like there's more content than there is hours for everyone to watch it. But it's some of the best content that's ever been created.

Andy Anderson

That's the type of response parents need. They need to know what's going on now, not three hours from now.

Phil Savage

Reggie has a lot of talent. In my opinion, with Reggie Bush, more could be less and less could be more.

Sathya Baba

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

Katsuhiko Machida

Survival today means innovating and doing things that no one else does. This is a lesson not only for Sharp but for all of Japan.

Drew Frank

That'd be nice. Maybe I should. As I teach, I don't keep lesson plans from one year to the next and I don't keep anything from one season to the next.

Stephen M. Walt

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Andy Newman

Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's going to be.

Louis Benevides

Plano West is just an up-and-coming team. They've come a long way in less than a season.

Darrell Nichols

I think there's less tolerance for repeat problems. I think they are now going to be a little more strict with what's going on.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

James Miller

solid as a plank -- and as wooden.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

Lucius Thomas

But rallying the troops turned it around for me to some extent.

Brian K. Vaughan

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

Betty Buckley

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

Robert Kiyosaki

Texans don't bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is formula for all winners.

Paul Parkin

There was a standing ovation. There was raucous applause. I think it will become a rallying cry.

Pranab Mukherjee

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.

James Connolly

The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.

Valentino Rossi

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Jason Mraz

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Emilia Clarke

I wear tinted moisturized since, on the stage, we tend to wear such heavy stage makeup.

Lleyton Hewitt

I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.

Ron Eldard

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

Donnie Edwards

I don't even worry about that anymore. .Ê.Ê. Ten years it hasn't happened.

Joel Robuchon

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Gilbert Arenas

It got weird toward the end on this one, but it was our third win in a row.

Kyle Gilchrist

I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.

Robert Eenhoorn

He can play first, second, third or the outfield.

John Smoltz

If it were the old way there would have been another four-spot in that third inning.

Marc Crawford

He was a difference-maker in the third period.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.