Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.

F. Stone

Our world has changed and our children are in danger. I choose to surrender my right to bear arms in exchange for the peace of mind of doing the right thing,

Tim Bates

Our biggest improvement is our pitching staff. We have a much deeper stable of arms and our (Nos.) 1 and 2 are back, so we have experience. Our pitchers have worked hard and learned new pitches. They're going to keep us in games. We just have to find a way to score some runs.

Ken Bacon

Remember, our goal is disarmament. We don't want to fuel the fighting and the arms race in Kosovo; we want to end it.

Abraham Maslow

Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood

Jeff Choate

I might treat him a little differently as a freshman. I put my arms around him and looked in his eyes and said you have to have a clock in your head and know when it hits four (seconds) to fair catch.' We do those drills where we count to four in practice.

Bert McCracken

Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.

Bethany Hamilton

Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.

Bernard Arnault

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

Massoud Barzani

It is an historic day that crowns the sacrifice of martyrs.

Shari Maxwell

That way you get more stuff with it - the wand, the crown and the wings.

Don Patterson

It feels really good to be able to cut down the net on Senior Night. We were ready to play and the girls felt like they had something to prove. We played hard all season and winning a share of the district crown is one of the rewards for that.

William Cowper

I crown thee king of intimate delights,Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness.

Mike Dunne

has always recognized that Las Vegas service is a crown jewel for this airport. In the past we've been disappointed that we could never get a schedule to Las Vegas that we needed. Now we'll have a four-day schedule.

Charles Dickens

Half a crown in the bill, if you look at the waiter.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I found the crown of France lying on the ground, and I picked it up with a sword.

Scott Kessler

For some time now Western Union has been the crown jewel of this company.

Bible Bible

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? / The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

J. Tillman

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

Steve Martin

I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.

Brian Williams

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

Mary Kay Ash

Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.

Patricia Cornwell

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Antoine Rivarol

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

Matthew Hale

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Al Embry

He is doing well, he's just stressed out a little bit. But praise God, he got out of the thing.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Aristotle

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Abdul Kalam

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

Deng Xiaoping

The minority yields to the majority!

Ben Jonson

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Aldo Leopold

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

David F. Houston

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Stephen Jay Gould

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.