Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliot Perlman

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

John Key

It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I'm not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

P. J. O'Rourke

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

Leo Nikolaevich

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

George Bernard Shaw

No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests

Matt Blunt

I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court's decision. The decision is highly offensive to traditional Missouri values and is contrary to state law, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from being spent to facilitate abortions,

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Enrico Fermi

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Robert Brown

Where is the thread now? Off again! / The old trick! only I discern - / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn.

Lactantius Lactantius

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

Tamsin Greig

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

Emily Dickinson

Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness

Frank Nothaft

Mortgage rates remained fairly stable this week as the financial markets tried to discern just how quickly the economy is growing and how sustainable that growth will be.

Jaime Ray Newman

My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.

Gene Robinson

Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.

Adam Lambert

I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

Frederick Henry Hedge

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

Evan Savoie

When he fell, I was the first one to jump down and help him. He stood up, his eyes just got wide and big ... then he just fell.

O. Henry

The eyes shout what the lips fear to say.

Robertson Davies

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Leo Veness

The eyes say many different things without having to verbally say anything at all.

Yiddish Proverb

The eyes are the mirror of the soul

Charles Cochran

This was a tactic to ruin Roger before the eyes of the public. But Roger stood up to the union and said, 'What you did to me is wrong,' and the jury has vindicated him.

Kim Cattrall

There's a look people get in their eyes when you're talking to them and they're not seeing you, and you know it's because they have a movie running through their head.

Charles Jones

We're in a period in which all eyes have moved away from Bush. Having a term limitation is an invitation for turning your eyes from what was to what is likely to be in the future.

Napoleon Hill

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Brian Wilson

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

DJ Qualls

Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.

David Mitchell

Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.

Jane Birkin

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

Alan Rickman

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Akshay Kumar

Kareena Kapoor is my lucky charm

Chita Rivera

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

Brian Bosworth

I'd rather be good than lucky.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Jeff Judkins

We have to go in and play with a lot of confidence. We know if we win we are in first place no matter what.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Charles Stross

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Tim Sheens

We've sort of got used to him being in the squad no matter what.

Marc Newson

The process is always the same, it doesn't really matter what the object is, whether it's a prototype or whether it's for production,

Richard G. Scott

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

Bret Easton Ellis

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

Ridley Scott

When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Mia Masten

We did look at the site. It doesn't meet our criteria.

John Key

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Carlos Slim

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

Judy Leiterman

Word's getting out. It will be interesting to see how many others will be able to pull it off.

Anderson Cooper

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

John Oates

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

George W. Bush

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Owen Arthur

But for others like me, today is a day to be proud of those we love.

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.

Steve Klesaris

She stood out pretty strong on our list. She had the qualities we liked.

Tom Davies

I think he's very well prepared. I think he has all the qualities you have to have.

Rig Veda

In real worship,we just not do ritualistic worship but we try to imbibe the qualities of the one we are worshipping.

Todd Wuerger

Verona has kind of become a rival for us.

Bernard Hinault

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

Elbert Hubbard

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Benjamin Franklin

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

Ryk Neethling

What makes it important is the kind of rivalry we've been talking about with Australia, with England, with New Zealand, with Canada.

Carl Jung

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

Keith Primeau

From the travel standpoint, it's a lot better for the players. From the rivalry standpoint, it's a lot better for everyone.

C. S. Lewis

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

Bruce Arena

This is probably the fiercest rivalry in the group.

Aaron Tveit

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Chris Hadfield

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Chris Crutcher

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Michael Irvin

Shut up. Goodbye. Get off the phone, man.

Spanish Proverb

When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.

Jimmy Epperly

Basically, Woods shut us down in the middle.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Danielle Panabaker

I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.

Willie Randolph

We'll just see how it goes, ... He isn't shut down.