Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Cahnman

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum is in my county board district. I'm not going around claiming credit for it.

Joe Klein

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.

Ken Ham

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?

Carly Simon

I feel that if John Wilkes Booth hadn't shot Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln would have come through his pain and emerged like Livingston has. This album was made with the wisdom that comes from allowing yourself to be recklessly entwined with your agony and sorrow.

Larry Sabato

Kerry's great advantage, despite what some people say, is that the threshold is low. People who have decided to vote against Bush are looking for an acceptable candidate, not another Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Lawrence Small

I'm amazed that you could have the greatest portrait in the United States, of George Washington; you could have the Declaration of Independence desk, the desk on which it was written; you could have the hat that Abraham Lincoln had on the day he died, in buildings that really not only possibly endanger them, but the American people coming to look at them.

Christopher Reed

When they got into the hallway, they saw blood on the floor, so they knew the information they had was good, ... Abraham Gomez was in the basement apartment. They brought him outside.

Kevin Yoder

Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.

Mario Cuomo

My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better.

Heidi Bayley

Part of the beauty of hanging ice is seeing the drops fall as it melts people are amazed because the ice doesn't melt as fast as they expect it to due to the size of pieces. Plus, it just looks cool.

Boyce Thompson

Researchers were amazed at the messes they encountered.

Rob Shepard

Mel is playing really well right now. Collins was on tonight. She wasn't missing any three-point shots and she totally amazed me.

Tamsin Greig

I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

Gurinder Chadha

I went to my local pub to watch the games and was amazed to see grown men crying when England were out of the cup. I'd only ever seen the country like this when Lady Diana died. I had got the football bug and thought wouldn't it be great to take all this energy, and put two girls in the middle of it all?

Dick Cavett

I was just talking to someone who is technically versed and he was amazed at the quality,

Tom Galvin

I was looking at industry groups that do well during recessions, and I was amazed to find out that many of these industry groups tend to be beneficiaries of the mere flaws of human character, ... In the last 12 months, the Vice Squad was up 20 percent, even though the market is down 25 percent.

J. Maarten Troost

It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

Cliff Politte

Just a fastball in the middle. It was down. I didn't expect him to hit it out, especially to left field. I thought for sure if I was going to get beat, I was going to get beat in, it was away. I'm still amazed that it went out, really.

Idotha Neal

Rehab is occurring all around us. However, there is a significant funding gap keeping the buildings from being financially viable for high capacity developers.

Harry Wadsworth

Some of our buildings got a little wet from the hurricane, but it was sporadic.

Sam Roberts

Our buildings are all safe. The changes are nothing big at all. The report reflects well on the maintenance staff.

Jeanette Woods

We need the custodial staff because of the square footage we have in the buildings. It's kind of a waste of money if you fix buildings up but you don't maintain them.

Brian Anderson

We'll also operate a clubhouse and skilled-care facility. These different types of construction can be more or less spread out and the heights of the buildings will also be different.

George Ferguson

It is a shining example of what 99% of PFI-funded buildings are not doing.

Andrew Arrington

It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're still considering what the charges will be.

Kathy Sierra

That was quite an experience right there, ... We went to New York the year after it happened. It was weird, because there was just like a big ol' gap in between all these buildings and you could tell where the damage had been done.

Chris Browne

It is nothing like it used to be, ... All these buildings were once growing concerns. That was the engine that drove the economy back then.

William Gray

Regardless of whether a major hurricane makes landfall this year, it is inevitable that we will see hurricane-spawned destruction in coming years on a scale many, many times greater than we have in the past.

John Stroger

Refugees are those people coming from foreign countries.

Phil Flynn

Refineries are squeezing out every gallon of gasoline possible, and they?re doing a good job of it. The problem is, it?s coming at the expense of the other products like heating oil.

Source Unknown

Reincarnation: People coming back to life at quitting time.

Joe Vaverchak

Previously I don?t think we won two doubles matches in any of our matches. So, today was a little stepping stone with that, especially with the one team coming back from a set down.

Liza Kelly

Oregon does a lot of traveling, so they make a big deal about coming back east and they also have a number of eastern teams come out and play them. They actually had Hopkins come out and play them in Hawaii and all the girls were like, 'We wanna go to Hawaii.' But they definitely still get a lot of good opponents out there, so it's very similar.

Bobby Moresco

Paul and I tried to write from a place that was real and honest. Maybe the issue of race isn't the same as it was, but it's still here. We tried to dig into the soul and find the place where it was coming from.

Shari Walling

Patrick didn't let the bronchitis he is coming off of slow him down. He's a very tough competitor and he made sure we scored the points we needed to win the meet.

Joan Heller

Patients coming out panic stricken are spreading the contamination. They're gonna run. They're scared and hurt and want to get away.

Larry Sanders

Some of those guys will work the desk now.

Tom Richards

We'll be able to provide (small- and medium-size businesses) with powerful, yet easy-to-use telephony and desktop capabilities,

Paul Gallico

Law is a mental hair shirt. He admits a great longing for financial independence from the routine of desk slavery.

Linus Torvalds

I don't expect the desktop to come quickly. It will take time,

Honore de

I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.

Jan Brett

I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.

Jenny Nimmo

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

Howard Dean

If the American people will put us back in power in '06, we will have on the president's desk things that outlaw all those kinds of behavior.

Steve Reich

He was very good. He could sit at a desk and write this music and, unlike a lot of them who faked it, he could really hear it in his head.

David Hogan

It doesn't really matter whether it's the federal government that oversees the protection of endangered species and open space conservation or the state,

Richard Pombo

has failed to produce the goal all Americans share the recovery of endangered species.

Norm Dicks

Here's my problem with the Endangered Species Act: We don't take any eagles. We don't take any wolves.

Stu Rothenberg

His seat is in significant jeopardy now. I don't know how much more endangered he could be.

Arthur Tucker

If it's an endangered species, they store it here.

Brett Nelson

Since we picked the scrub jay this year it was only natural to work with Oscar Scherer. The Florida scrub here is the most endangered environment in America.

William Bratton

We are taking the unprecedented step of sharing what we can with you, but I am not about to give to any of you tactics that might endanger my officers,

James Madison

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

Stephen Kintner

Scrub is probably the most endangered habitat type left in Florida.

Kweisi Mfume

Our minds are open, ... I reached out to George Bush. I wanted him here.

Denis Freeman

Manning doesn't miss many good shots. And the other kids around him understand their roles. George does a great job with them.

Cindy Sheehan

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

Nick Zito

I think right now, George is very happy.

Fay Vincent

I think he should hire somebody like John Dowd or set up a committee. He needs to do that, maybe headed by Mario Cuomo or George Mitchell, somebody of that ilk.

Pat Howard

I think George is a very good player, and it would have been interesting if he had had a shot at the Tests.

Lisa Rinna

I think George Hamilton is going to be a good competitor.

George Foulkes

I'm still regretting that we were bounced into sacking George Burley. I think that was a very big mistake,

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Sun Moon

Our movement has the greatest weapon if you use that word truth. We also have the greatest target: the human heart.

Layzie Bone

Man, we love El Paso. We've put on some of our greatest shows in Texas.

Wendy Nehring

I was able to interact with the greatest minds in all disciplines that serve this population.

Kurt Knauff

That was the greatest thing she ever did.

Shimon Samuels

That was the greatest disappointment for a man who had invested his whole life in this.

Brian McCann

That won't sink in for a while. He's one of the greatest pitchers of all time.

Tony DiCecco

That was one of the greatest thrills we've had here. It was just a monumental win for our program.

Dustin Hermanson

That was one of the greatest leaps I ever had,

David Ayers

That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and sit down right over there. Then there's people like myself who think that it's the greatest thing ever. And you can't get enough of it.

Rudyard Kipling

Pass the hat for your credit's sake, and pay- pay - pay!

Gregory Lagana

People know when they take this job this could happen, because it's the nature of the contracting business, but it still hurts. We hate to see this happen. We hate to lose the work and we hate to lay off employees.

Harold Duarte-Bernhardt

People never hate you! They just dont like themselves in your presence.

Joseph Conrad

Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all saving instincts, of all faith, of all devotion, of all action.

Charles Caleb

Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

Bruce Fein

plant the seeds of racial separateness and of hatred in the law.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Patch smiled. “You come by your red hair naturally?” I stared at him. “I don’t have red hair.” “I hate to break it to you, but it’s red. I could light it on fire and it wouldn’t turn any redder.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.

Barry McGuire

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

C. S. Lewis

The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Carrie Chapman Catt

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

Becky Huckaby

Just because we had Independence in the market, we didn't stop looking for (another) low-fare carrier.

Marsha Blackburn

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

Jon Oringer

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

Boris Kodjoe

I think that women need men and that men need women and we need each other and that independence and meeting somebody is not mutually exclusive.

Rory Bremner

Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.

Karen Morgan

We won't get independence this time, but we are on our way.

Ayn Rand

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

Mirko Slomka

Lincoln played very well and showed what a quality player he is from the minute he got in.

Mario Cuomo

Lincoln isn't a man with ingrown toenails, he's an idea.

Joe Birkett

I don't know. She's at another Lincoln Day probably, another Lincoln Day dinner.

Susan Eisenhower

What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.

Richard Norton Smith

Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

Phil Harris

They want us to run a Lincoln program on a Yugo budget,

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Maria Altmann

I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.

Alfred Stieglitz

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

E. M. Forster

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

Anthony Powell

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Anatole Broyard

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

Rebecca Loos

Jealousy? Not at all. Sad, if anything, I thought. There is nothing she has that I could possibly want. Not even David.

Michael Young

I think he's doing all he can possibly do, probably.

Deborah Moggach

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Lynn Dooley

I don't know what I could ever possibly say to them, because thank you is not enough.

Danny Ferry

He could possibly be back and participate in the post-season.

Arno Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Marina and the Diamonds

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Herb Vincent

We may have an announcement on that very soon, possibly Friday.

Brandon Orr

He got me started as young as you possibly can.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Alex Berenson

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Colin Powell

The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

Colin Powell

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'