Famous Quotes & Sayings

Auguste Comte

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

Alfred Stieglitz

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

Gustav Heinemann

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.

Berkeley Breathed

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

D. H. Lawrence

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

Suzanne Fields

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Arthur Rimbaud

. . . be absolute moderne.

Mary Schapiro

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

Mario Testino

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

Jack Greene

Over 70 percent of those that we serve are Catholic. We really need to partner with the Catholic Church more than we do.

Billy Corgan

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

Bill Condon

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

Bernadette Devlin

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...

Meghan Markle

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

Bill Vaughan

It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

Bertrand Russell

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

Marco Rubio

My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.

Woody Allen

I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics

Don Swarthout

Our message is about Revival in our Churches and the Restoration of Godly principles in our daily lives.

David Wallace

People have the misconception that churches have deep pockets. What they don't realize is that we are a nonprofit and we rely on the items to conduct our services. It's not just robbing an institution; it's robbing people.

Jeff Gray

Some have been put in contact with local church groups from contacts back home, some have family members in Arizona; it runs the gamut.

Gerry Cruz

Some GPSS employees were not clear on the policies regarding church and state issues so (the memo) was just a matter of guidance. This is the same policy that all state and federally funded school districts throughout the nation follow.

Robert Ingersoll

That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;

Peter Peterson

Our five churches have paired together to help support (Louisiana Memorial), sending money,

Dave Parker

Out of 500 deals I've done, this is how I've done all of them, ... Ours is a straight deal. I just finished a similar deal with a national church organization. I'm really surprised.

Lars Trier

Reproduction is a little stupid. You have to put a little something in. It's like in the church you pay a little money to the tithe.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two.

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.

Greg Romano

Our goal is to serve God, and it's harder to do that when you're in debt.

Jeff Green

Our goal is to keep our debt level from rising. But as revenue rises, the debt will be less of a burden.

Howard Dean

Rising interest rates, rising debt and fewer good-paying jobs are making it harder for America's families to make ends meet, ... The president should use his Texas vacation to spend time overhauling his economic policies, not staging photo-ops.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

John Tysoe

I think the worry for investors is that they can't see an end to this process. They see that the level of debt has risen and risen yet BT seems not to be doing anything about it.

Alan Greenspan

Large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt service to GDP (gross domestic product),

Bill Vaughan

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Ellen Miller

I'm so glad I'm not paying off loans to the bank, ... If you get into debt, you can get creamed real fast.

Sam Brownback

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

Sathya Baba

Respect the differences between the faiths and recognize them as valid so far as they do not extinguish the flame of unity.  

Sathya Baba

Let the different faiths exist; let them flourish and the glory of God be sung in all the languages and in a variety of tunes.

Cory Simons

We have a good relationship with people of other faiths ... they're very nice to us.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Sathya Baba

All faiths are inter-related and mutually indebted to each other for the principles they teach, and the disciplines they recommended. 

Mark Oaten

Real opposition and principled opposition is about making a stand on this key issue of holding suspects without charge.

Dallas Green

Im Holding onto What i Hope Will Keep You by My side

Suzy Buchholtz

That's the key -- we keep holding on to them.

Jerry Graybeal

I was holding out hope that we could still sneak into the tournament. But it didn't work out that way.

Tommy Haas

I'm slowly getting back into things and the shoulder is holding up. If I play to this level I know I can do well here,

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Shinzo Abe

I'd like to keep holding this sentiment as I have done so far,

Al Groh

He did a real nice job today, he's proud of his touchdown and I'm sure he wishes he had that holding penalty back. Right, John.

Susan Fredericks

I feel great. I'm the one holding the trophy.

John Peterson

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Bobby Cox

Roger should have won in the low 20s this year and John should have won 18, 19 or 20.

Kellen Easley

Maybe I'll get to work for John Q. (Hammons) someday.

Steve Grossman

I will reach out to John Kerry unless he reaches out to me first.

Adam Pine

I think there's a lot of similarities, but John manages his temper a lot better.

Robert McClure

The American people are always well-served in having a person like John Palmer as their public trustee." ()

Mike Johns

That was something that John had seen the play before. It's actually a play we've run on the JVs and had some success with it and it was right there.

Damarius Bilbo

That's a typical Calvin Johnson day. I just had to give him an outlet.

Orrin Hatch

I think that we need to proceed with John Roberts and move right ahead,

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Shelden Williams

People have different paths in life. Quincy's led him to a different place. What matters is how you play.

Terry Stotts

Our turnovers led to their transition and we didn't do much to stop them.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

O. Singh

I am a sacrifice to my True Guru, who has led me to see my unseen Lord.

Mike Conley

He comes to play in big games, and today was two big games. I think he stepped up and led us to victory.

Larry Klukas

He led us in scoring on Thursday and in rebounding Friday.

Steven Reinprecht

He led the way, that's for sure. I think he showed what a special player is.

Jim Edwards

He led our schools through the integration process.

Yuri Andropov

peace for ourselves and for all the people of the planet.

Rick Daniels

We've tended to be passive and reactive when it comes to recruiting companies. We've got to start being active and make ourselves stand out.

John Brady

We never really got ourselves into a rhythm on offense. It seemed like to me we were always struggling offensively to get something accomplished.

Martin Parr

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

Dennis Golden

That was frustrating, but there's nothing we can do about that. We just had to pick ourselves up and go right back at them.

Stephen Colbert

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.

Kate Beckinsale

There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.

Charles Pierce

I would say we have probably transformed ourselves from a small to a medium-sized institution.

Justin Doellman

Basically, it's our defense. In the past two games, we weren't ourselves out there.

Scott Skiles

Paul pretty much had his way with us the whole night.

Jim Johnson

Paul didn't play that much (Sunday), but we'll get him ready and he's going to have to play more this week.

Helio Castroneves

Paul Dana, you're in our hearts. You're family.

Margaret O'Brien

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

Nancy Lopez

I think Paula Creamer has pretty much overshadowed everyone with what she has done,

Dario Franchitti

I'm still in shock about the whole thing. I didn't know Paul very well, but I've been through this before. I just feel for his family. It's such a tragedy.

Greg Cipes

I got to work with Paul Walker. He's an angel. He was so sweet.

Peter Travers

If it were Paul Walker in Snakes on a Plane , no one is going. You know Sam will have his usual spark and sense of humor.

Lee Majors

I also had a wonderful relationship with Paul Newman, and with Steve McQueen. He was one of my all-time favorites, but I never got to work with him.

Frances Kissling

He will go down as a fifth-century pope in terms of who women are.

Dino De Laurentiis

The pope dies, you get another pope.

Bob Odenkirk

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Charlotte Bronte

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility ...

Pat Schaumann

Every pope has had his own chef, so there are volumes of recipes in the Vatican's records.

Gilbert Levine

There's a tremendous statement there about the universality of man. It's who the pope is.

Martin Luther

Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

Terry McAuliffe

I would like to be Pope if I could.

Pope John XXIII

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Sathya Baba

Stay by me and keep quiet. I will do the rest.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

David Bell

The Astros aren't going to win the rest of the way. We have a chance.

Ed Nemec

I think we are a much better restaurant today than we were one year ago.

Jay Hakkinen

I think this will live with me for the rest of my life.

Dwayne Hickman

Little did I know then that I would be tied to that role the rest of my life!

Robert Lang

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I need romance, that's what Netflix is for.

Bill Cosby

Romance is a different word than sexual contact.

C. S. Lewis

If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.

Cecelia Ahern

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

Bette Davis

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Antoine Fuqua

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Danielle Harris

I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.

Alex Turner

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

Marco Beltrami

I think the only thing that I really haven't done much in, and I haven't felt too attracted to, is romantic comedies.