Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Weeks

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

We did not have to fight this war, and we did not have to go to war when we did. We could have waited until we had more safe body armor and we chose not to wait.

Oscar Goodman

When we were growing up in Philadelphia, she would drop us off at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on weekends, ... I was enamored of the armor collection of knights and weapons.

Chan Gailey

You don't know what the kinks in the armor are until you see him play more. You didn't see the vulnerability in that ballgame.

Melanie Krauthoff

We're constantly exposed to bacteria and our bodies are always fighting off invasions. When a piece of our body's armor has a kink in it, that's when a virus breaks through.

Jamie Wyeth

My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.

Ben Stein

I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

Theo James

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

Thomas Wilson

We have continued to pound away on the garrisons and continued to take out vehicular storage areas, maintenance areas, support buildings, barracks, and primarily where they have some of their armor and mechanized units and their heavier equipment and heavier ammunition,

David Snyder

We have to grow our dealer body - we are going to need a significant number of dealers to sell our product. We have to really improve what they call the consideration funnel, where customers actually will consider Ford.

Matt McGorry

When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

John McDonald

When you're told to go home and sit in a chair, your body doesn't get the feedback that comes from physical activity.

Steve Alford

When he got healthy as an individual, it obviously helped this team. He got his own body back. He could move defensively.

Agnes de Mille

Dance in the body you have.

Agnes Varda

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

Charles de Lint

A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

Charles Dickens

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Queen Latifah

When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.

Roger Wicker

We were available, but FEMA chose to send them to San Antonio or Utah or other far destinations,

Talib Kweli

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Edward Brooke

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

Edward Brooke

I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.

Lori Wilde

To be honest, I chose romance because writing a book seemed so dauntingly long. I looked around for something short, discovered Harlequin romances, and decided to read a few to see if I could do it.

Jessie J

I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

M. Night Shyamalan

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

Carol Moseley Braun

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

Carlos Fuentes

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

C. S. Lewis

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

Dennis Northcutt

We have to get better. This is a long season and you fight every week to win games and get better. And obviously we're not getting better on punt returns.

Mark Patton

We have to focus on the next game and not think about UAB or the tournament. We got them down there so they're going to be ready to fight us here. We have to get ready for UCF.

Madeline Albright

We have never had a fight with the Serbian people.

John Hudson

We want people to know that Como's not going to be a dumping ground. The drugs left a stigma, but we're fighting that.

Agnes Smedley

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

Alan Sillitoe

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

Jared Zabransky

When you see a big safety back there, it's more of a threatening presence.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Dianne Feinstein

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

David Shore

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

Bruce Wilkinson

The single best way to develop leaders . . . is to take people out of their safe environment and away from the people they know, and throw them into a new arena they know little about. Way over their head, preferably. In fact, the more demanding their challenges, the more pressure and risk they face, the more likely a dynamic leader will emerge.

Jandy Nelson

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

Jane Austen

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Guth

It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Darah Huffman

We've waited a year for this game. Look at that ... I'm still shaking.

Neal Schon

We waited around for about a year and a half.

Felipe Alou

We waited a long time, so if we wait another day or two or three, it's OK.

Byron Dorgan

I think this is nonnegotiable, ... You've waited too long.

E. B. White

I would have waited for the nationwide search.

Craig Biggio

It's indescribable, I've waited so long for this to happen,

Sheila Newman

I'm probably the person who has waited the longest.

Byron Dorgan

This is non-negotiable at this point. You waited too long.

Marcus Williams

I waited it out, but I was tired.

Carol Moseley Braun

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

Carol Vorderman

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

Carlos Castaneda

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.

Carlos Castaneda

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

Carlos Castaneda

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.