Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Squyres

Spirit has given us a wonderful window into the very ancient past of Mars. It was a violent place, a place where meteorite impacts, volcanic explosions happened frequently, where hot stuff was raining from the sky.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out a slowly dying cause,/ And ancient forms of party strife;/ Ring in the nobler modes of life,/ With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Matthew Binns

We now have the tools in terms of genetic markers and genetic maps, ... Now there are collections of bones of many of these ancient thoroughbreds that will enable us to get handles on some of these key animals.

Margaret O'Brien

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Kevin Martin

It is an ancient practice that many of us don't think has a place in the modern world.

Adlai E. Stevenson

It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting ""go right"" and ""go left"" at the same time.

Samuel Coleridge

It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.

John Ortberg

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

Katherine Anderton

The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the redwood range where there is relatively little old growth left.

Tommy Haas

Pavel is a very good player, ... We have had some close battles in the past.

Al Groh

Our last message at halftime was something that we had said early in training camp. We just reminded the players that battles are not won by digging in. If you dig in, you just become a target. Battles are won by attacking. The players did a very good job of that, and they can be proud of themselves.

Kenny Watkins

I will bring diversity, a viewpoint, experience, common sense, a passion for agriculture and a desire for reasonable solutions, to the issues facing all of agriculture. I am confident the new team of officers will fight the old and new battles with energy and integrity. With the support of our membership, we can overcome the obstacles we face.

Dave McDermott

Jess plays the whole game inside and battles hard. She?s just a warrior.

Sheila Smith

Koizumi has made the party his after four years of often fierce and difficult battles with his opponents within.

Max Evans

The Apache and others who fought the great cavalry battles took the cavalry's horses and methods and improved on them. These great horse warrior tribes are now cowboys and they naturally raise their young to be cowboy kids.

Kevin Fry

That was Taylor's biggest hit this season. I like how he battles and puts in the extra time to improve.

John Mabry

Last year, it was like a machine. It just kept rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling. This year, it's like whoever steps in comes up and does the job. It's a different guy every night. It's not the usual suspects, because most of them are hurt. Somebody goes out there and battles and gets a key hit or makes a big play for us.

Chris Widger

I think he battles out of tough spots now and it's not a matter of him throwing a pitch and hoping he gets the guy out. I think now you're seeing the real Jose Contreras coming out.

John Negroponte

Such chaos in Nigeria could lead to disruption of oil supply, secessionist moves by regional governments, major refugee flow and instability elsewhere in West Africa.

Mahmoud Abbas

I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza.

Whitney McNally

Jessica told me you can let chaos consume you and be overwhelmed or just walk with it. But she's not going to complain about being famous. She'll take it and handle it professionally.

Rand Paul

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

Maxwell Gaylard

I am confident that they (the government) are moving forward but we shouldn't expect too much too soon. There's been chaos and fighting for much more than 15 years and you can't fix that in a short time.

Kim Morgan

from picture-perfect rituals to those chaos-ridden family affairs.

Phil Goff

because they know what sort of chaos would ensue if that happened.

Carolee Cannata

I have a knack for putting order to chaos and for looking at the big picture. It is wonderful when you find something you are good at and like to do.

Stephen Perkins

It could go from a swing feel to a real primitive tribal thing and into some kind of chaos, all in one moment.

Jonathan Coe

Someone emailed me and said The Closed Circle reminded them of reading Trollope.

Stacey Phillips

Pitching is going to be a huge key for us. We have a lot of experience in the pitching circle which is a good thing to have with a young team, because at least we are going to have the pitchers to keep us in the game.

C. S. Lewis

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

Cecelia Ahern

I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

David Rittenhouse

I will have no circles except the zodiac, on which I will have the true latitude and longitude of each planet pointed out by its proper index.

Aaron Lazar

I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'

Jon Evans

It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil.

Bill Riley

I think there will be more collaboration. The phrase circle the wagons comes to mind. People get a sense about how big the risk is. It's tough to do it on your own.

Gerald Cox

Real quick, what had been a close game turned into a huge blowout. When you have a kid that can shoot it like Brent can, you're going to let him keep shooting it.

Dave Taylor

Our reports on him as far back as juniors were always positive and favorable. He's definitely someone we've kept a close eye on over the years.

Alex Johnson

Our poll tells us that we should take a close look at the potential impact of some popular technology on hearing health.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

Rob Sumner

Part of it is that we don't score a lot, so we had better be good in one-goal games. We're confident and comfortable playing in close games.

Jason Stevenson

Our lightweights did a good job tonight. They all went out with fire in their eyes. The matches were all close and Tait was fighting hard down to the very end.

Brian Hukel

Our legs seemed to leave us. Our effort, our legs -- I'm not sure -- but we failed to close out on some guys. They've got a lot of guys that can knock it down. If you don't close out, they're going to make shots and he made some big ones.

Judy Pardonnet

Our legal staff looked into it very closely and carefully, and the train platforms are definitely covered.

Judy Pardonnet

Our lawyers took a really close look at this. It was ruled LaSalle Street is covered, and smoking is prohibited.

Daniel Solove

Sure, the more intrusive the government becomes, the more potential crime it can solve.

John Pomfret

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

Carol Palmer

Restorative Justice puts a human face on the handling of crime and violence. Rather than being purely punitive in approach, restorative justice involves the entire community.

Sir Vanbrugh

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Bianca Jagger

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

Jacques Rogge

It is a question of sporting ethics rather than a question of crime and criminality.

Judy Shepard

Last week you said in the debate that you opposed the Kennedy hate crime bill,

Mike Forest

Law enforcement is a glaring example. We have separate booking, separate road patrols. We have two crime labs.

Catherine Campbell

Lisa Madigan can do this, ... domestic violence is a crime in any court.

Oscar Wilde

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die

Alan Winter

Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious.

Joel Hirschhorn

Sprawl is killing people, some 300,000 premature deaths annually because of the sprawl sedentary lifestyle, and it is killing our natural environment, scenic vistas, biodiversity, rural towns and much more.

Bill Gates

Some global health problems, like AIDS, have no easy solution -- but this isn't one of them. The world has an opportunity to stop millions of newborn deaths each year.

Slobodan Milosevic

Our priority is the nation which will starve and freeze to death if there is no aid,

Sue Miller

Our whole home, our lives, got turned inside out. We just felt fortunate ours was still here, fortunate there were no deaths or anything like that.

William Butler Yeats

Others because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the face,When I clamber to the heights of sleep,Or when I grow excited with wine,Suddenly I meet your face.

Pam McCoy

I'm here to support the May family. It has nothing to do with the death penalty." ()

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

Michelle Harutunian

Regardless of if you're grandfathered in for an event or not, everyone has the same opportunity.

Eamon

Recent events on the national level show that response times are critical,

Michael Eisner

Recent events make this a particularly challenging and somewhat anomalous time for our company,

Mina Tadros

Recession is like Failure, it is an Event not a Person, so Just Move on

Brian Woods

Our research shows that for events like the Super Bowl, (groups) are often gathering in the home of an HDTV owner.

Roger Carter

Our position is irrespective of the event as long as they meet all the licensing and health and safety issues, they have a right to do what they want in the community.

Julie Martineau

Our organization was founded in 1955 so it stood to reason that we would do a '50s theme. This event is meant to take us back to honor the founding families of our United Way.

Peter Scarlet

People have a tendency to stereotype shorts as being a means to an end (for filmmakers to) eventually produce a full-length feature. On the contrary, these short films stand on their own.

Grant Woods

Sporting events will no longer feature anything to do with tobacco,

Ding Lan

Our understanding is you should wear something red for the whole year to keep off the evil spirits. It can be red underwear, a red belt, or even red socks.

Eric Roberts

I'm hoping to get out of playing evil incarnate people, and hopefully play more people like myself. I hope people see me as likeable.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

C. S. Lewis

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

C. S. Lewis

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

C. S. Lewis

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

C. S. Lewis

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Carl Rogers

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".

Bette Davis

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

Chris Lehane

Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

Justin Phinisee

Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond.

Henry Spencer

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Jim Anderson

Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important,

Joel Edgerton

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Ilian Evtimov

Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Mark French

People leave this whole experience really knowing more about their community.

Mario Hernandez

People here were frightened. By experience, they know that if they see the water receding, it's just concentrating, to come rushing back in furiously.

Mickie DeMoss

Some of our post players shied away. We've got to get tougher. They fought harder inside.

Bob Hill

Our big guys couldn't handle Kaman and Brand. I thought we fought and got ourselves back in position to win the game. But we let them back in the game when we could have put them away. Not for the game, but for the spread at halftime.

Dan Bennett

(Rodriguez) said that he fought two guys with a stun gun and a knife and he jumps out of the car. In the report, he said he saw a stun gun before he got in. This is ridiculous.

David Pickard

I want to thank my players. They fought hard and worked hard and things just didn't work out for us.

Rob Judson

James wasn't able to go. He had been doing a good job, and him not being there was a big loss for us, but we fought hard and competed really hard all game.

Paul Day

Kyle fought all the heavyweights in the WLA this summer and he can play, too.

Brodie Croyle

That was a tough Texas Tech team. They fought and fought and fought.

Donald Rumsfeld

that will redefine how war is fought and won, and how the peace is kept.

Steve Koehler

That was a hurtful loss. We started with zero energy, very lethargic. But the girls fought back in the second half.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Josh Homme

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

Frank Gore

Patience, patience, patience. I was telling my mom, I'm tired of hearing that, ... But I understand it.

Brandon Gray

I'm hearing that 'Shark Tale' is unoriginal and uninspired,

Pat Robertson

I'm hearing from the Lord that it's going to be like a blow-out election.

Steve Forbes

I think the White House knows once those hearings start, he's doomed.

Bill Bruford

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Rick Moore

That's very, very disappointing. My frustration is we can't get a hearing and can't get the subject matter on the floor.

Harry Reid

I think it's very unlikely that we'll be able to do hearings by the end of December. We're not going to be rushed into anything,

Cindy Shaw

I was hearing of some of these problems, but I hoped things were more under control.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Bill Sienkiewicz

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

C. S. Lewis

As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.

C. S. Lewis

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

C. S. Lewis

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

C. S. Lewis

We read to know we are not alone.

C. S. Lewis

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Cathy Moriarty

Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.

Carrie Underwood

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

Bill Blass

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

Joe Glenn

Steamboat, the bucking horse, is the symbol for our state,

Arthur Hardy

I think Mardi Gras is a symbol that we're down but not out.

Lisa Mendler

Helen is a symbol of the tenacity of our people.

Paul Tagliabue

He was mythic. He symbolizes football, and, more importantly, he symbolizes leadership.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

A. E. Waite

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Winston Scott

This symbolizes a whole new way of doing business.

David Mamet

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves.

Haley Barbour

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

Mike Delahanty

You have to see how much (it costs) to prevent, versus how much you actually lose.

Dennis Friestad

There were too many mismatches. There were too many 12th graders versus freshmen.

Bob Gainey

Jose was a victim of an unfortunate accident, and we all feel for him.

Frank Haas

Basically, we've become a victim of our own success.

Piet Hein

Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and now he has eternity.

Charles Fisher

I don't think I was a victim, I don't think I was a victim at all.

Ralph Sczygelski

He essentially has been victimized by Mr. Avery as well.

Cameron van der Burgh

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Deepak Chopra

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

A. J. Langer

You can't be a victim and heal.

Susann Griffin

We don't want to do anything that would impede the investigation for the victim or the suspect.