Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chester Nez

It is, I think, one of the greatest honors that you can bestow on the code talkers. I'm really happy about it.

Johan Huizinga

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Francis Bradley

I am glad to think my work has been of use to anyone. But that it deserves the time & trouble involved in an elaborate study I find difficult to believe. In other words the same pains bestowed on one of the well-known masters in the subject would in my opinion be better rewarded.

Granth Sahib

I am a sacrifice to the True Guru, who has bestowed the True Name. Night and day, I praise the True One; I sing the Glorious Praises of the True One. True is the food, and true are the clothes, of those who chant the True Name of the True One.

Mark Donahue

I think the honor should be bestowed on those who are deserving of the honor. I don't think that it the case in this situation.

John Updike

Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity.

Granth Sahib

God Himself acts, and causes others to act; everything is in His Hands. He Himself bestows life and death; He is with us, within and beyond. Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of God, the Master of all hearts.

quran quran

He was naught but a servant on whom We bestowed favor, and We made him an example for the children of Israel.

Tina Brown

The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.

Trip Hawkins

Steve never knew his parents. He makes so much noise in life, he cries so loud about everything, that I keep thinking he feels that if he just cries loud enough, his real parents will hear and know that they made a mistake giving him up.

Donna Norris

He never met Amber, but it's still hard for him. He cries and he has to stop. But he likes to help me, and her.

Nazrul Islam

We can hear noises of cries for help.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair!

Douglas Carter Beane

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't just do the jokes. I also do the cries.' Jokes and cries, jokes and cries. That's all I'm here for, people.

Sathya Baba

No one will go to the rescue of a drowning man if his cries are feeble. 

Paul Bloom

One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.

Gerald Galloway

Local land decisions later result in cries for federal help. Does that make sense? No.

Eddie White

We've finally listened to the cries of women who wanted NFL product.

Maureen Johnson

Our leak detection system was tested in 2002, and we physically demonstrated that it could find a one percent leak. That system was working and we followed our procedure.

The Foundation

We now know that early detection and treatment, including diet and medication, can slow down the progression of kidney disease and its complications and prevent further damage, in some cases,

Penelope Boston

I want to try and get into those kinds of places. It's very important to make devices for life detection on Mars, for example. ... Any planet or moon with a solid surface will do.

Bertrand Russell

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

Ralph Fiennes

Justin's journey traces not only what Tessa was investigating, he's also playing detective about their relationship,

Gary Erbeck

It is early in the season to detect West Nile virus.

Ruth Rendell

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

F. Stone

I was always concerned. The detectives and prosecutors were also, when I was talking with their informants,

John Walsh

Just yesterday, detectives filled in 20 minutes. They talked with someone, and they are still talking with witnesses.

Michael Molligan

Our normal watering restrictions were put in place during the severe water shortage of the early 1990s. But over time we have discovered that to water more than twice a week is wasteful and does no more good for the vegetation. So what once were water-shortage restrictions are now regular and in-place year round.

Brian Baker

Some of our test families didn't think they had a problem and just used the reporting feature, but they discovered they had a real problem.

Steve Squyres

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

Jeff Bezos

Our role is to help people discover music,

Steve Forbert

Rodgers was incredibly heroic, ... I wanted people to discover his music and also to know more about him.

Sathya Baba

Man today is trying to master every kind of knowledge but is unable to discover his own true nature.

Kurt Adams

I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Bill Cosby

That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.

Ricky Phillips

It didn't meet all our ears that well because we were writing a new record and had great material and we knew it would take time away from that, but it's been so many positives that we are glad we did it.

Bible Bible

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Frank Tyger

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Frank Tyger

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you into trouble.

Juicy J

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

Jill McCorkle

I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'

Michael Williams

He has big ears and he's real skinny. People like to pick on him. It was like that as long as I could remember.

Merv Adams

He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and they'll start that all over again.

Kari Williams

Starting out, they had puffy eyes. I didn't know if they could see the basket.

Dan Gorbett

Over 25 years I've never gotten over seeing the tears and heartbreak in kids' eyes when you lose. Unless you win a state championship, you will have kids that have been crushed. You never get over it.

John Donne

Pictures in our eyes to get / Was all our propagation.

Christina Rossetti

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.

Jillian Robbins

I was just watching their eyes, and they were looking at who they were about to pass to. So I said, 'I've got to get this. I've got to leave it all on the floor.' My teammates had my back, so I went for it, and it worked out.

Kirk Hoza

I think the time away let him see the big picture. The technical part which way do the hips face, where do your eyes go that's where there is a little rust. But the spring is where you can shake the rust off.

Joe DiMaggio

It is an interesting coincidence. I guess I am following in his footsteps, ... 'Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you?' I'll tell people my name and they don't get it.

Matt Stout

Jay and Joe are my eyes out on the course. They help me see everything.

Chris Duffy

That's what he should do -- open some eyes and show that he can play. We're real good friends and competitive, too, at the same time.

Richard Jefferson

Our offense failed us. A lot of the decision-making.

Jeff Carty

People here know that I don't get intimidated easily. I think the only thing I was worried about was failing because so many things have happened the last three to four years of my life.

Tom Gavin

People make errors. The problem here was not the error. It was the failure of us to look at it end-to-end and find it. It's unfair to rely on any one person.

Michael Riedel

People involved in 'Mamma Mia!' think Wynn is trashing their show because he tried -- and failed -- to get it himself.

William Feather

Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Jeffrey Bryant

Success is a prize given to those who try and fail willingly.

English 20th Century Proverbs

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Henry King

Stay for me there; I will not fail / To meet thee in that hollow vale. / And think not much of my delay; / I am already on the way.

Rocky Nichols

State policy and state law failed the victims of the Kaufman House.

Alan Foreman

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

Kyle Deines

Stay back, stay tall, throw your hands at it and try to take it to right field.

Michael Brown

Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.

Sergio Ramos

Our season is on the line. It's in our hands and we'll only win if we leave it all on the field. We all know that a loss would be a disaster.

Swami Ramdas

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Jonathan Bass

Pilate's Bowl. He said they had washed their hands of responsibility for racial justice in Birmingham.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

Becca Fitzpatrick

First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.

David Spade

I think it's sweet that everyone still has a real nice place in their hearts for him, they still remember him.

Bobby Clark

I think if our hearts are still there we're going to do it again. Just not in seven days,

Greg Yates

I'm speechless. I don't know how the kids do it. The kids played their hearts out tonight. This is awesome. It's unreal.

Bill Bradley

I think that the people of Maine aren't going to listen to pollsters and pundits, ... I think they're going to vote their hearts and their convictions.

Leonard Little

It is pretty bizarre, but this team has to get back on the right track. It's tough not having him around but we know in our hearts we've got to go out and try to win the game.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

Mark Dayton

He was extraordinary, and he'll never be replaced. In the hearts and minds of Minnesotans, he will never be forgotten.

Mark Dayton

He was extraordinary, and he'll never be replaced, ... In the hearts and minds of Minnesotans, he will never be forgotten.

Lisa Cox

He got so much more from them than they did from him. Joe's Place will live on in our hearts forever.

Sophia Drossos

Reinforcement of imbalances and lack of saving in the United States is not dollar-friendly.

Calvin Coolidge

Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.

Rob Portman

Overall, our U.S.-China trade relationship today lacks equity, durability and balance.

Tony Pinto

Our beef, for lack of a better word, is with FEMA, not with the victims.

Rosanne Cahn

Manufacturers are still selling a lot in the United States but their lack of pricing power in the top-line really puts a lot of pressure on them to become more efficient.

Frank Gannon

I think there's a kind of 'buyers' strike,' for lack of a better term,

Bruce Arena

I think there is a lack of respect for our soccer.

Brian Billick

Just a lack of focus, ... We'll work at it, and the next time they won't try to do those things.

Brian Billick

Just a lack of focus. I don't know what to tell you. We'll work at it.

Bill Vaughan

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

Queen Elizabeth II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Nisha Singhania

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Tracy Brown

ODORS ARE ALWAYS OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE AND NEVER OF NOBLE BIRTH.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Baha'u'llah

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Andre Bazin

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Philip Johnson

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

Roland Barthes

The Text is not a definitive object.

Rumi

No better love than love with no object

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Mark Aaron

Our New York flagship store is staffed and open for business.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway. We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway, ... We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Heath Miller

I was able to get open and Tommy got me the ball,

Marscilla Packer

I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.

Mark Edwards

We're doing what we can. We think it's a worthy cause.

Angelo Sorce

We're really working to make this a show worthy of the audience's time.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Alice Hoffman

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Horace

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

Mary Balogh

Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.

John Green

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

Bible Bible

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.