All Quotes

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.
‐‐ Lois Tilton

About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.
‐‐ Tom Heinsohn

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
‐‐ John Woolman

About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
‐‐ Takeru Kobayashi

About tidying up a toy box, you should let your kids experience the selection process by touching all of their toys. It's also important how they throw away their toys. They can earn a stronger sense of valuing things when they throw things away with respect and appreciation.
‐‐ Marie Kondo

About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

About two months ago I finished a gospel tour.
‐‐ Cliff Richard

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.
‐‐ Johnny Rivers

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
‐‐ Arne Duncan

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
‐‐ Nicholas Sparks

Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
‐‐ Che Guevara

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
‐‐ James Allen

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.
‐‐ Kris Carr

Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai - that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success - is his brush.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
‐‐ Rita Levi-Montalcini

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.
‐‐ Maureen O'Hara

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
‐‐ Kofi Annan

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
‐‐ Luciano Pavarotti

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
‐‐ Henri Cartier-Bresson

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.
‐‐ Diane Kruger

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
‐‐ Hal David

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
‐‐ Barney Oliver

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
‐‐ J. Edgar Hoover

Above all, ignore the audience.
‐‐ Minnie Maddern Fiske

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
‐‐ Paul Watzlawick

Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
‐‐ Meir Kahane

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
‐‐ John Galliano

Above all nations is humanity.
‐‐ Goldwin Smith

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
‐‐ Francis of Assisi

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.
‐‐ Tom Chatfield

Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.
‐‐ Joe Greene

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.
‐‐ Franz Schubert

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
‐‐ Albert Pike

Above all things, reverence yourself.
‐‐ Pythagoras

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
‐‐ Golda Meir

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
‐‐ Philip Larkin

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature.
‐‐ David Brin

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
‐‐ Haile Selassie

Above all, we must be conscious of the primary pedagogical task, namely that we must first make something of ourselves so that a living inner spiritual relationship exists between the teacher and the children.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI