Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Themba

The creation of a senate is in no way a move to improve legislative oversight. It has simply been created as an extension of presidential patronage, aimed at soothing bruised egos in the ruling party.

Mariella Frostrup

Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.

Scott Docherty

She has a heck of a bruise to the left ankle. That is why the mound should be moved back three feet to 43 (feet). Most people don't know it, but it is faster than pro baseball. There is no reaction.

Manson Hill

She has a deep knee bruise and we'll see how she is (Monday).

Gary Davidson

She's banged up and bruised a bit. Fortunately, she didn't have anything more serious than that.

Mel Rael

She's got that inner fight that's rare in a female. She walks into the wrestling room and her knees are scraped up, her knuckles are bleeding, there's a bruise over her eye. She likes the roughness of scrapping with anybody. It's something you just can't teach.

Jason Fletcher

I have a bruised shoulder, I have some lacerations on my head and I have two impact fractures on my spine.

Chris Cairns

My ego's bruised but I've climbed too many hills for this to be the end,

Imelda Staunton

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

Carol Kane

My face is my career.

Carol Vorderman

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Tom Shanahan

We want to reunite a child with the parent because kids can't sit in foster care forever.

Anders Rasmussen

We want to reform hospitals, ensure better care of the elderly, increase maternity leave to one year... tighten policy regarding foreigners and, from day one, put a lid on taxes.

Jennifer Williams

We want to provide more holistic, spiritual care, ... Part of providing good health care is spiritual care.

Patrick Cescau

We have seen a return to strong growth in personal care and in developing and emerging markets. Performance in Europe improved compared to last year.

Jim Perrin

We have to go up there and take care of business. We'll need to go there playing well, even though TSU doesn't have a great conference record. They've played a lot of one- and two-run games, so we can't take them for granted.

Rob Friedman

We have not always been as careful as we could have been. The current ratings system provides a solid foundation for helping parents guide their children and the enhancements that we propose today offer substantial potential for improvement.

Rob Friedman

We have not always been as careful as we could have been, ... The current ratings system provides a solid foundation for helping parents guide their children and the enhancements that we propose today offer substantial potential for improvement.

Noshir Kaka

The reality is that this shortfall can be fairly easily met by industry.

Jason Schultz

The reality is that this isn't going to stop any kind of so-called piracy. All this technology does is inhibit you from making the same kind of personal, fair-use music you've always made. The real pirates are going to easily circumvent this technology. The bootleggers won't even blink.

Jason Schultz

The reality is that this isn't going to stop any kind of so-called piracy, ... All this technology does is inhibit you from making the same kind of personal, fair-use music you've always made. The real pirates are going to easily circumvent this technology. The bootleggers won't even blink.

Chris Rupkey

There is considerable momentum here that will not be easily slowed. This economy is strong, and it is likely to surprise on the upside.

Daniel Goleman

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

Karen Joy Fowler

If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

Lupita Nyong'o

I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We can easily get our lives out of balance.

Lester B. Pearson

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Carol Kane

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

Charles Dudley Warner

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Charles Stross

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Ricky Gervais

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

Brian Eno

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Brian Eno

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.

Laura Bush

very emotional and very moving to be here to see these sites.

David Schwimmer

I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and that feeling of realization and catharsis. And, the other half were adamant about keeping that last scene.

David Guetta

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Eid Kabalu

We have no confirmation (of their presence in Mindanao). As far as the MILF is concerned, there have been no sightings. We have no personal knowledge that they are here,

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

Greg Gilchrist

When you're winning, you don't have to make excuses, or when you're losing, you shouldn't come up with any, either. As far as I'm concerned, we just got outrun today.

William H. Macy

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Bob Grantham

We want our property tax rates lowered significantly and substantially and meaningfully. So far we have not seen anything in that direction.

David Jones

We want it (the fire) far enough out and in an open spot.

Mats Sundin

We were back on our heels far too much.

Tony Woody

We were a step late all night long. We did not do a good job of matching their intensity. They played hard. They played like a team that wanted to go a little farther (in the playoffs).

Criss Angel

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

Tupac Shakur

Been livin lavish like a player all day.

Shia LaBeouf

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Ben Horowitz

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

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.

Brandi Carlile

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

Antisthenes

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Barbara Hambly

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

Catherynne M. Valente

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

Bill Hybels

Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

Bob Ainsworth

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

Ed Pastor

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

Bart Gordon

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

Billy Bragg

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Demi Moore

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Aisha Tyler

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Martin Meehan

The psychological wounds can be much more destructive,

Erwin McManus

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

Sherman Alexie

Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.

Marie Lu

Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.

Matthew Henry

God warns before he wounds.

Lucan

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

John Eldredge

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.