All Quotes

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
‐‐ Alfred de Vigny

On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.
‐‐ Alfred Nobel

On the days I don't run, I do yoga and cross-training.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.
‐‐ Cory Lidle

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.
‐‐ Michael Foreman

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
‐‐ Thomas Bulfinch

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
‐‐ Daniel Webster

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
‐‐ Robert Browning

On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.
‐‐ Al Seckel

On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.
‐‐ James Stockdale

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
‐‐ Clive Anderson

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.
‐‐ Eliot Engel

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.
‐‐ Mercy Otis Warren

On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
‐‐ Ma Jian

On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person.
‐‐ Krysten Ritter

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yourself quickly.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
‐‐ Hank Aaron

On the field, everyone is equal.
‐‐ Roger Milla

On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.
‐‐ Tim Tebow

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.
‐‐ Luis Suarez

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.
‐‐ Yuvraj Singh

On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.
‐‐ Nostradamus

On the film sets of 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' I feel safe. It's like you're in the center of the hurricane, but outside is where it starts to get chaotic.
‐‐ Chaske Spencer

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.
‐‐ Norah Jones

On the First Coast, there's a team of individuals working extremely hard for the future of JAXPORT. On the road ahead, I look forward to working with them to see that the Port is afforded every opportunity to grow and expand. The challenge is large, but we are all up for it.
‐‐ Ander Crenshaw

On the first day I got my wheelchair, I was also given all my clothes for the next day, a little pile on the chair. I was so proud of myself for getting it all on - the socks and everything. Dressing is a struggle, and it can take up to an hour and a half.
‐‐ Michael Graves

On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
‐‐ Avi Arad

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing.
‐‐ Joe Lando

On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.
‐‐ Anthony Shadid

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
‐‐ Jackson Pollock

On the football field, you're still going out to there to win. And if you're not going out there to win, what are you going out there for?
‐‐ Richard Sherman

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.
‐‐ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
‐‐ Daniel Boone

On the fragrance side, I think it's important that it's not overpowering, a fragrance on a man or a woman. I think it's important to see the person before you smell them. Less is more.
‐‐ David Beckham

On the gay issue, hey, you know what, if people love each other, Jesus, I mean come on.
‐‐ Michael T. Flynn

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

On the ground, our operations are in India. We believe we are in a country where the growth is still to be captured, so we will remain reasonably focused in this country.
‐‐ Sunil Mittal

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
‐‐ Ted Rall

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
‐‐ Jeffrey Tate

On 'The Guiding Light' I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there's some great fun people that I've really enjoyed.
‐‐ Kassie DePaiva

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams