Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Liss

I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.

Rick Magnante

The adage I use is of Jack and the Beanstalk, Gulliver and the Lilliputians and David and Goliath. All of them apply, there's no doubt about that. But if we can find the magic beans, or if we can zero the stone, then you never know what can happen.

Ivo Daalder

I think she's proving the adage that where you stand depends on where you sit. It's moved her to a situation where the only tools are talk and travel. She can't send military in. Her role now is to talk and to travel, and she's doing it reasonably well.

Brian Billick

Getting the ball in Jamal's hands more, which is always a point of interest for everybody, lends itself to the old adage that a back doesn't get cranked up until he gets to that 20th, 25th run. That may have something to do with it,

Robert Balentine

I would think the adage of going away in May probably won't hold this year.

Greg Valliere

I think it's bad karma when you start talking down your own currency; it smacks of desperation. If this turns into a rout, that will prove that classic adage -- be careful what you wish for.

Andrew Davis

For much of the 20th century people left Wales, but today the old adage 'You have to get out to get on' no longer holds, ... For the first time in a long time we now have more people coming in than leaving.

Martin O'Malley

There is an adage in business that says that you should only compete when you have a competitive advantage. When it comes to cybersecurity, Maryland has a whole host of competitive advantages.

Joyce Banda

If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.

Tom Knight

Refining problems are behind the higher prices today, which have pushed Gulf Coast cash prices extremely high

Woody Allen

Recently there has been a lot of controversy between the countries, and I would hope that now the two countries could put all that behind them and start to build on what really has been a great friendship,

Damon Galgut

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

Javier Aguirre

Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because we're at home, we're only a point behind and we can make history.

John Hughs

President Bush's speech relieved some fears that war is imminent, it boosted the overseas markets and gave us a little short-covering rally at the open, but I'm not that impressed. There's nothing behind it,

Jim Folkman

Our reputation is behind this. We want to make sure that when a house reaches a certain standard that it does perform at that level.

Chris Baca

Our players play a physical type of game. Some teams aren't used to that and don't like it, and feel we are playing dirty. But they were pushing our players from behind and knocked down a few.

Mike Beaumont

Patrick pitched well. He just didn't have anything behind him.

Kenny Gray

Payne had moments where he struggled with his control, but he pitched well. He had good defense behind him and that was good enough to get the win.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Kurt Kutay

Our market is national. All of us (in the industry) want to live here. We love the outdoors, and what greater place is there to live than the Pacific Northwest?

Richard Dodd

Some of the species, like the pipistrelles, are increasing, and the rarer species, which include the greater horseshoe bat, are actually stable, so we are trying to find ways to increase their populations.

Steve Phillips

Our BI system provides information that helps us seek out greater efficiency.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Robert Teeter

We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President's programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

Kevin McCarthy

I think the sooner we get it done the better off we are, the greater trust the public will have,

Steven Anderson

Larry King has been in the paper for a very long time. But we want the news to be trendier, newsier and to have greater impact than it has now.

Wesley Moultrie

It is having a much greater impact, I think, then what had been anticipated.

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Valery Yashin

Our main task is to strengthen our position on the market through investment in the development of new services.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Andrew Steer

Our strong view is that private investment will surge in the second half.

Richard Pierce

Our taxes are going up anyway. It's an investment in your children. You owe it to the kids to vote for the budget.

Tom Burns

Our value proposition for advisors is very strong. We learned that it pays to invest in our people.

Allan Katz

Retailers who haven't already invested in a POS system think they are too expensive.

Pat Summitt

I think they understand there is a lot of tradition here, and there's a lot of players that are upset. I've had phone calls. That just speaks volumes to what they've invested in this program. Still, they are like family. When we lose, they lose.

Boris Yeltsin

It is a significant sum for those who invest in Russia.

Jonathan Swift

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after

Jason Ward

Our numbers are down this year. We used to get around 350 players but this year we only had 96 players that signed up. That's partly because some had to work and also a lot of our youth leave each year. We also lost a lot of our women to Monday night women's hockey.

Ron Redmond

People leave or try to leave regularly in a situation like Iraq's where the security situation is deteriorating and increasingly violent.

Danny Daniels

Some of us come from the streets, some of us ain't had no jobs, ... So, that means some of us hustled. And some of us feel that, 'What are we going to do right now? What should we do from here?' They don't want to turn back to the streets, but when they leave a man without nothing to do, that's his next option.

Richard Branson

Our plans for Virgin are pretty much to leave it as it is.

Michael Jackson

Please, no! You have to give us some privacy. Please, you have to understand his position, he is with his kids... you need to leave us alone.

Sami Hassoun

Please leave him, for the sake of God, for the sake of his mom and dad.

Deron Williams

We needed a win. We're trying to leave this road trip 2-2. We didn't do too well in the state of Florida.

Pat Binns

Well ah, hah, I'll have to leave that to see what really happens,

Brian Ballard

I think his legacy is pretty well assured.

Jim Boeheim

He cemented his legacy long before this. But people will remember this four-day performance forever.

Bob Harlan

I don't think his legacy will ever shrink.

Maya Angelou

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Al Davis

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

Anthony Romero

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Terry Belanger

making the world a more secure place for the irreplaceable legacy of the book.

Eduardo Paes

Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.

Gary Arnold

When we use that term and link it with something like wrestling, that's saying that the midget is part of the entertainment, so it kind of reinforces the legacy of people of short stature being used in entertainment.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

Bon Bean

We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.

David M. Shoup

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

Douglas Hamilton

That's how we think the jovian rings are formed,

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

Mike Scioscia

He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.

Mickey Spillane

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Rocky Marciano

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

Joss Whedon

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

David Spears

That's a true dilemma. But we don't know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.

Jeff Probst

Survivor. With all the women together, there's no modesty.

B. R. Ambedkar

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Carrie Snow

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Heinrich Heine

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day

Stephen Lewis

It is always the village women who drive these things.

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.