Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Thomas

United Press International is a great news agency. It has made a remarkable mark in the annals of American journalism and has left a superb legacy for future journalists. I wish the new owners all the best, great stories and happy landings.

Jose Rizal

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.

Ban Ki-moon

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

Edward Everett

And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.

Charles Montesquieu

Happy are the people whose annals are boring to read

Stanley Gold

It is an unprecedented no-confidence vote in the annals of American business,

William Story

Speak, History! Who are life's victors? Unroll thy long annals and say:Are they those whom the world calls the victors, who won the success of a day?

William Story

Speak, History! Who are life's victors? Unroll thy long annals and say: Are they those whom the world calls the victors, who won the success of a day?

Eddie Compass

In the annals of history, no police force in the history of the world was asked to do what we were asked.

Alexander Farrell

One of the main purposes is to explain why the studies found in the literature have such divergent results.

Park Geun-hye

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

Hope Davis

The film's interested in exploring how two siblings, who grew up in the same house, could have such divergent world views.

Veronica Roth

I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.

Veronica Roth

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

Veronica Roth

I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.

Veronica Roth

I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.

Jeff Burton

The fact is, our sport is not as diverse as it needs to be.

Tracy Morgan

I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

Tracy Hickman

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series.

Timothy Noah

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

Richard Fitzgerald

Since we have such a diverse population, we need diverse programs to keep students interested and keep them in school.

Kendall Schmidt

I'm into Incubus. Growing up, I was a huge Taking Back Sunday fan. I'm still a fan, but I don't listen as much as I used to. When I was 13 or 14, I started getting into emo-pop-rock, so that influenced me. I also love Drake... I have a pretty diverse collection.

David Brin

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

Rick Nielsen

Like all of our records, good or bad, it's a diverse kind of record. It's not a heavy hit-you-over-the-head rock record. It's a dozen good songs.

Phil Powell

New Hope was one of the most diverse towns that I had ever been in.

Lance Randall

Because of the level of domination that we've had in the FVA in the last few years or in the last nine years, I don't want these guys to take it for granted. It is a really special thing for us to go through the league the way we did this year.

David Byrne

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

Rabindranath Tagore

Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.

bell hooks

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Charles Krauthammer

The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.

Mike Scioscia

Domination is not even a word that's in anybody's vocabulary. This game with its twists and turns could have gone either way for the whole nine innings, but fortunately we got an early lead and held on.

Mike Scioscia

Domination is not even a word that's in anybody's vocabulary,

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Therese Fowler

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Sugar Ray Leonard

There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Toyin Odutola

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Thomas Starr King

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Jane Goodall

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

Elijah Cummings

Since 1987, the month of March has been designated to give special prominence to the women who have made lasting contributions to our society.

Deepak Chopra

The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

Benjamin Netanyahu

lead to a real peace, a lasting peace, not a minute-long peace.

Latin Proverb

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule

Ed Rollins

I do not think it is a lasting issue. I think it is just a series of things that this administration has done that makes it look like they are not always forthcoming.

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Joschka Fischer

For me this is the end of a period of my life lasting 20 years, and a new beginning.

Dan Gelber

I think it will be a lasting legacy, in a sense, because he has so many picks.

Lindsey Graham

We have polar opposite views on a lot of things,

Don Bluth

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

David Sedaris

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

David R. Brower

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

Bryan Callen

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

Bryan Stevenson

The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.

Chad Harbach

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

Jane Austen

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Alan Watts

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Marc Chandler

We've seen speculators try to get out of short yen positions, which were at record levels.

Ben King

We used to record with string sections, so it's like going back to that time.

Tom Odell

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Elton John

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

Kid Rock

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

Jane Austen

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Carlos Castaneda

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

Agnes Repplier

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Jane Austen

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

Edmund Spenser

Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.