Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Hawkins

I think he would have been so pleased, not just for himself but for the tribe and for his community. Bravery is a cultural value for us. Humility is a cultural value. So, in a way, it's kind of fitting because there's all these other soldiers who wanted him to have it.

Mike Healy

I was delighted that they were selected. It was a unanimous selection of the dinner committee. I think they're very deserving and exhibited tremendous compassion and bravery and initiative for what they did last spring in response to the tsunami disaster in their homeland of Sri Lanka.

Dan Rather

He had the looks of a leading man, ... He was a scholar and correspondent and he had the bravery of a knight.

Jewel

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your stregth to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery and you shall live a life oncommon.

Albert Pike

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Ann Turner

In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.

Victor LaValle

On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

Sam Endicott

We're called The Bravery because that's the mindset I was in when I was writing the songs,

Amber Heard

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

David Smith

Our message is one of sympathy and compassion. This takes human compassion to respond to this kind of devastation. We are in this for the long run and there are no easy fixes.

Alan Wong

Our spirit is to be considerate and have compassion for people. It's a social responsibility.

Bhagavad Gita

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

Bill Ferguson

Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.

Carl Safina

The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.

Bethany Hamilton

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

Susan Adams

It feels like a total lack of compassion. A total lack of humanity.

Atharva Veda

It is foolish to try to shape the World; shape yourself as the embodiment of Peace, Love and Reverence. Then you will see all as Love, Compassion and Humility.

Steve Evans

Paul has been in fine form at Chester and he's delighted to be back with us.

Russell Johnson

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.

Barbra Streisand

Jim, I'm delighted to be here as your wife. I'm very proud of you.

Ian McGeechan

Lawrence is one of the giants of the English and world game and we are, of course, delighted that he is remaining with us for a further 2 years.

Chris Kelly

I was honored and delighted by his support and the support of his wife,

Greg Knapp

It doesn't happen overnight. We're delighted with Mike's progress.

Fran Dunphy

I'd be delighted if we could get a lot more of those opportunities now that I'm at Penn -- sorry, Temple. First of many times, probably.

Lamine Diack

I am delighted to see such strong interest from so many different parts of the world.

Aguri Suzuki

I am delighted to have signed two drivers with such great experience.

Dan Morgan

I was just real happy for Dan, ... I watched the induction on TV and he's just the greatest, in my opinion, football player ever. So he's the most deserving guy, I think, to ever get it. I've always looked up to him. I love him.

Dortha Chapman

I was honored. I was shocked. I still feel there's someone more deserving than I. It was an honor.

Michael Toups

I did not want to lose on Gene's big night. He is so deserving of the honor. I wanted our players to play with the passion and enthusiasm that would be appropriate in honoring him.

Terry Floyd

I think it's a deserving thing for him. He's one of the top pitchers (in the area) with one year left to play.

Terry Bradway

I think it's important that Eric get off to a good start with the right people in place and the fact that Mike is very deserving of this opportunity, the fact that he has a good relationship with Eric will be a plus for the Jets. I know those guys will work tirelessly.

Ahmed Ibrahim

It is a damned country, banished from divine mercy and deserving only of being cursed.

Don MacAdam

He's a very knowledgeable, efficient, hard-working trainer. He's very deserving of this.

Bobby Jackson

He's deserving of it, man. He's a great guy, great coach, was a great player. People said he wouldn't win the championship with the San Antonio Spurs, and he proved them wrong.

John Grahame

He's deserving because he's so well-read. He has a hunger for learning.

Nick Faldo

I want you to know we had a field day at dinner with that story.

Bill Vaughan

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.

Thomas McDaniel

I was with one of my girlfriends, and one of her friends is (Voigt's) goddaughter, and I had no idea who we were going to have dinner with, ... Most Hollywood actors out here are very snobby, very rude, and he was just very nice. He doesn't treat you like you're not a person.

Jason Ritter

I was in L.A. having dinner with a guy I'd known in high school,

Ellen Gillespie

I think maybe people are skiing and going out to dinner and not shopping.

Kurt Busch

I'm still the down-to-earth guy who'd rather go have dinner with my grandma and her meatloaf than go out and do things with some friends.

Zina Garrison

I am extremely proud of my team. Everybody could see that there is teamwork on and off the court. We hit together, fight together, have dinner together. I couldn't wish for a better spirit.

Steve Toltz

I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.

Larry Martin

Pastors and spouses and staff members were so involved in ministry to people after disasters that nobody was ministering to them. They were exhausted.

Michael Konken

Such a vast power in a single hand is a disaster for the diversity of opinion in Germany.

Michael Chertoff

State and local authorities have the principal, first-line-of-response obligation, with respect to a disaster of this kind, ... Obviously, the law recognizes they can't do it themselves.

Jason Chaffetz

Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.

Carolyn Gorman

Renters insurance is very valuable. And for not very much money, it can save you from disaster.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Brad Sherman

People who lived through the Northridge earthquake have a special sympathy for victims of another one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history,

Anthony Collins

Man, it's a disaster down there, ... Everything you're hearing about it is pretty much how it is.

Bill Vaughan

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

Arlen Specter

Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,

Ellen Tauscher

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

Condoleezza Rice

Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

Haim Ramon

We, as the homeland of the survivors of the Holocaust, will not tolerate that regime in Austria.

John Cook

We are disappointed ... the military value and homeland security value of Ellington wasn't realized by the commission.

Thomas Murphy

The terrorists are still here. I really do worry about our troops' being sent overseas and depleting our homeland security.

Newt Gingrich

As a test of the homeland security system, this was a failure, ... woefully inadequate.

Nawal El Saadawi

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

Tom Ridge

The homeland is secure when the hometown is secure.

Louis Brandeis

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Bill Young

I find it interesting that some people would position the sales tax initiative with this. It's simply not true.

Bob Verbeeck

Kim has taken the initiative to thank her fans.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we don't make it at this meeting it's not a time to give up. It's a very promising initiative not only for the poorest as such but for the whole development community.

Gray Davis

If that initiative were to pass, investment would be withheld, and it would take years and years longer before we had a surplus of power.

Jan Murphy

No other teacher has ever taken that kind of initiative with Kevin.

John Carlson

The plain legal meaning of (the) ruling is that Kirby Wilbur and I can no longer talk about Initiative 912,

Dean Boyer

We want this initiative to be seen as reasonable and fair. Our initiative treats all property owners the same, and we wanted to pick a reasonable period of time.

Alan Greenspan

I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective,

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Marina and the Diamonds

Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

Dan Anderson

It got a terrific response here at Wesley,

Mark Cuban

Johnson's response then: ??I don't know, I don't know.

Greg Stone

I'm shocked. I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Barbara Smith

I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns.

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Jim Angell

I think their response has been very measured.

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Paul Goldblatt

This was not a response to any one incident.

Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Dion Harris

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

Peter Agre

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

Don Morrow

Variety selection is most important of all factors.

David Blunkett

Read my lips. No selection by examination or interview.

Joe Torre

Spring Training is probably going to make up our mind,

Eric Chavez

Spring training doesn't matter. Stats don't matter. You take that time, especially the veteran guys, to get ready.

C. S. Lewis

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Carl Safina

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bernard Berenson

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Bill Vaughan

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Kapil Sibal

If the tsunami was coming, it would have come by now,

Eugene Tempel

The tsunami was on a completely different scale,

Bob Scott

It was like a tsunami for which you had warning.