I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

Failure has gone to his head.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Translation is the art of failure.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Failure is a part of success.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Failure is impossible.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

The only failure is not to try.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

Failure too is a form of death.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Success is 99 percent failure.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

With failure, you just try again.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I believe only in art and failure.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

War is failure of diplomacy.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Don't come home a failure.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Success is always less funny than failure.

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

The hippy movement was a failure.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn't even in the running for failure!

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

There is always time for failure.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,'out of there.'

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

Nothing fails like failure.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Failure is not fatal victory is not success.

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

God always takes the simplest way.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Pray, and let God worry.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Have faith in God God has faith in you.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

God continues to work miracles in my life.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

To me faith means not worrying.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Only faith is sufficient.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Faith never makes a confession.

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Fear clogs faith liberates.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

A library implies an act of faith.

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

I've lost my faith in science.

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

You just have to have a simple faith.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

The principle part of faith is patience.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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.

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.;Aiden Wilson Tozer;faith 19450;In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.;Mike McCurry;faith 19451;Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.;Francis Quarles;faith 19452;But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.;Miley Cyrus;faith 19453;What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.;Peter Singer;faith 19454;Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.;Lord Acton;faith 19455;My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.;Anne Lamott;faith 19456;Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.;Edwin Hubbel Chapin;faith 19457;When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.;A. N. Wilson;faith 19458;The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.;Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.;faith 19459;The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.;Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.;faith 19460;Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.;Edna St. Vincent Millay;faith 19461;A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.;Tony Benn;faith 19462;The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.;Bruce Barton;faith 19463;By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are abused the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.;Sextus Propertius;faith 19464;I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.;Vivienne Westwood;faith 19465;Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.;Lester B. Pearson;faith 19466;Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.;Irving Babbitt;faith 19467;The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.;Irving Babbitt;faith 19468;The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.;Alexander Smith;faith 19469;With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.;Ron Fournier;faith 19470;You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.;Ron Fournier;faith 19471;I don't need faith.;Maurice Sendak;faith 19472;To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.;Walter Kaufmann;faith 19473;Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.;Tony Campolo;faith 19474;It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.;Tony Campolo;faith 19475;Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.;Tony Campolo;faith 19476;But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.;Mikhail Bakunin;faith 19477;From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.;William Ames;faith 19478;Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.;Michael Shermer;faith 19479;He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.;Abu Bakr;faith 19480;That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.;Dee Dee Myers;faith 19481;Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.;William Law;faith 19482;I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.;Ryan Gosling;faith 19483;Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.;T. D. Jakes;faith 19484;Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.;J. C. Watts;faith 19485;I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.;J. C. Watts;faith 19486;If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.;E. W. Howe;faith 19487;One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.;Mortimer Adler;faith 19488;Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.;Benjamin Carson;faith 19489;Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.;Benjamin Carson;faith 19490;The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.;Benjamin Carson;faith 19491;My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.;Vin Diesel;faith 19492;Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.;Heinrich Heine;faith 19493;Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.;Robert Collier;faith 19494;The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.;Jim Wallis;faith 19495;Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.;Jon Meacham;faith 19496;It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.;Jon Meacham;faith 19497;While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.;Jon Meacham;faith 19498;I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.;Jon Meacham;faith 19499;As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.;Jon Meacham;faith 19500;Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.;Jon Meacham;faith 19501;My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.;Tony Blair;faith 19502;You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.;Damian Lewis;faith 19503;Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.;Jonathan Safran Foer;faith 19504;It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.;Tim Tebow;faith 19505;Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.;Jean Rostand;faith 19506;Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.;Thomas a Kempis;faith 19507;Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.;James Wolcott;faith 19508;After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.;James Wolcott;faith 19509;I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.;Henry Adams;faith 19510;No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.;Henry Adams;faith 19511;Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.;Grover Norquist;faith 19512;Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.;Karl Barth;faith 19513;For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.;Giacomo Casanova;faith 19514;You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?;Lech Walesa;faith 19515;I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.;James Lovelock;faith 19516;Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.;Sean Connery;faith 19517;There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.;Lenny Kravitz;faith 19518;All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.;Meryl Streep;faith 19519;From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.;Eliot Spitzer;faith 19520;As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.;Eliot Spitzer;faith 19521;Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.;J. C. Watts;faith 19522;It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.;Julie Bowen;faith 19523;I had lost faith in biography.;A. N. Wilson;faith 19524;The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.;Randy Neugebauer;faith 19525;If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.;Elizabeth Barrett Browning;faith 19526;I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.;Bruce Springsteen;faith 19527;For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.;Hesiod;faith 19528;I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.;Al Gore;faith 19529;If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.;Amy Grant;faith 19530;Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.;Jonathan Sacks;faith 19531;The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.;Jonathan Sacks;faith 19532;The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.;Jonathan Sacks;faith 19533;In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.;Jonathan Sacks;faith 19534;An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.;Donald Cram;faith 19535;Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.;Jim Garrison;faith 19536;Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.;Karen Armstrong;faith 19537;I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.;Marcia Wallace;faith 19538;The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.;Iain Duncan Smith;faith 19539;Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.;William Graham Sumner;faith 19540;Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.;John Sununu;faith 19541;Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.;Mortimer Zuckerman;faith 19542;There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.;Wentworth Miller;faith 19543;What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.;Brad Henry;faith 19544;Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.;Katey Sagal;faith 19545;I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.;Edward Norton;faith 19546;Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.;Paul Simon;faith 19547;It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.;Bede Griffiths;faith 19548;I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.;Christopher Meloni;faith 19549;When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.;John Greenleaf Whittier;faith 19550;I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.;Madonna Ciccone;faith 19551;The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.;Jeffrey Kluger;faith 19552;I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.;Vera Farmiga;faith 19553;Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.;Vera Farmiga;faith 19554;Faith is important to me.;Vera Farmiga;faith 19555;I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.;Vera Farmiga;faith 19556;It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.;Vera Farmiga;faith 19557;Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.;Vera Farmiga;faith 19558;We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.;Alice Cooper;faith 19559;If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?;Graham Greene;faith 19560;I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.;A. N. Wilson;faith 19561;I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.;Sloane Crosley;faith 19562;Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.;Franz Liszt;faith 19563;I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.;Harriet Beecher Stowe;faith 19564;People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.;James Dyson;faith 19565;I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.;Francois Hollande;faith 19566;The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.;Joseph Ratzinger;faith 19567;I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.;Kyle Chandler;faith 19568;Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.;Mary McLeod Bethune;faith 19569;What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.;Paul Wellstone;faith 19570;It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.;Jean Ingelow;faith 19571;Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.;David E. Price;faith 19572;The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.;Kenneth Scott Latourette;faith 19573;There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.;Lucy Powell;faith 19574;In properly organized groups no faith is required what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.;G. I. Gurdjieff;faith 19575;Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.;Aphra Behn;faith 19576;Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.;John Boehner;faith 19577;I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.;Jarvis Cocker;faith 19578;Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.;Karen Armstrong;faith 19579;The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.;Karen Armstrong;faith 19580;Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.;Billy Ray Cyrus;faith 19581;It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.;J. J. Abrams;faith 19582;I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.;J. J. Abrams;faith 19583;Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.;Christopher Fry;faith 19584;We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.;Jeb Bush;faith 19585;People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.;Jeb Bush;faith 19586;My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.;Olivier Messiaen;faith 19587;It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.;James Bovard;faith 19588;Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.;Faith Evans;faith 19589;That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.;Chester W. Nimitz;faith 19590;I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.;Ted Cruz;faith 19591;Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.;Donny Osmond;faith 19592;Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.;Mikhail Bakunin;faith 19593;Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.;Pat Summitt;faith 19594;I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.;Michael Chang;faith 19595;My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.;Ann Romney;faith 19596;That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.;Dan Brown;faith 19597;Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.;David Wilkerson;faith 19598;Faith is never identical with piety.;Karl Barth;faith 19599;Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.;Thomas Becket;faith 19600;In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.;Wentworth Miller;faith 19601;Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.;Joe Nichols;faith 19602;I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.;Bear Grylls;faith 19603;Faith is personal if it's to be real.;Bear Grylls;faith 19604;My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.;Bear Grylls;faith 19605;Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.;Bear Grylls;faith 19606;And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.;Bear Grylls;faith 19607;My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.;Bear Grylls;faith 19608;True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.;Eric Liu;faith 19609;'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.;Eric Liu;faith 19610;If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.;Hannah More;faith 19611;Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.;Austin Farrer;faith 19612;I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.;Willie Stargell;faith 19613;Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.;John Clayton;faith 19614;I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.;Rainn Wilson;faith 19615;There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.;Fergie;faith 19616;The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.;Mike Huckabee;faith 19617;All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.;Mike Huckabee;faith 19618;I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.;Selma Blair;faith 19619;In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.;Emanuel Swedenborg;faith 19620;Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.;George Edward Moore;faith 19621;The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.;Claude Bernard;faith 19622;I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.;Barney Frank;faith 19623;Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.;Georges Bernanos;faith 19624;My faith means everything to me. God and I talk constantly.;Sherri Shepherd;faith 19625;As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.;Mark Hatfield;faith 19626;As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.;Francis Parker Yockey;faith 19627;Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.;Emilio Estevez;faith 19628;We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize

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I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

We're reclaiming America and restoring honor. I believe we do that with faith, with hope, with charity, and honoring our brothers and our sisters as we honor each other.

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

I have never lost my faith in God.

I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.

I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.

It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

The faith I was born into formed me.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

Have faith in your own thoughts.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.

We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

Seeds of faith are always within us sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear."

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

I try to act out of faith.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

I have faith in the jury system.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.

How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.

The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

I have a lot of faith in people.

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.

There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.

Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.

But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own I had just grown up with it.

I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.

It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

I've always had great faith in people.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

My kids give me the balance to live right.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

My family is more important than my party.

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

I love my family.

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

My family was my guide to my reality.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

Family, nature and health all go together.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

My family background was deeply Christian.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

With all my fans I got a family again.

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

All in the Family was intellectual it was art.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church materials that were created on our own personal time.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

My work and my family are very important to me.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one's family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates.

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

I want to make sure my family's straight.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself - for instance, eating right to feel great and energetic.

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there we're a band of brothers.

Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

With a family of six, there is always something to make, create and do together.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of &pound10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

My family, my parents are hippies.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.

I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

I'd like to have a family.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

My family is awesome.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

I grew up in a Navy family.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.

I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

Everybody sung in my family.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don't seem to be particularly keen on them.

I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.

My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.;Rob Sheffield;family 20693;I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.;Steven Patrick Morrissey;family 20694;My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.;Tony Blair;family 20695;If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.;Gregory Nunn;family 20696;I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.;Whitney Houston;family 20697;I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.;Gene Tierney;family 20698;None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.;Lena Dunham;family 20699;A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.;Chaz Bono;family 20700;The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.;Jonathan Safran Foer;family 20701;We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.;Jonathan Safran Foer;family 20702;I'm happiest with my family around me.;Amy Winehouse;family 20703;All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.;Amy Winehouse;family 20704;We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.;John Sculley;family 20705;I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.;Giada De Laurentiis;family 20706;When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?

I'm the git in the family.

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

My family and friends treat me as they always have.

My health and my family are the core of my being.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

I do come from a strong family.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

My family were from Jamaica.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

I have a family.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.;Ellie Goulding;family 20786;Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.;Monica Lewinsky;family 20787;I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.;Andre Rieu;family 20788;Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.;Paula Deen;family 20789;What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.;David Plouffe;family 20790;Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.;Hans-Georg Gadamer;family 20791;Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.;Rosa DeLauro;family 20792;When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.;Vin Diesel;family 20793;I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.;Vin Diesel;family 20794;And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.;Brett Favre;family 20795;Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.;Brett Favre;family 20796;In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.;Brett Favre;family 20797;I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.;Betty White;family 20798;It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.;Betty White;family 20799;I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.;Nicki Minaj;family 20800;When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.;Leighton Meester;family 20801;My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.;Nicki Minaj;family 20802;What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.;Harlan Coben;family 20803;A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.;Saul Alinsky;family 20804;Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.;Harlan Coben;family 20805;If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.;Harlan Coben;family 20806;I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.;Bjork;family 20807;The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.;Steven Patrick Morrissey;family 20808;My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.;Steven Patrick Morrissey;family 20809;Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.;Heath Ledger;family 20810;I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.;Tyler Perry;family 20811;Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.;Jonathan Sacks;family 20812;Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.;Jonathan Sacks;family 20813;Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.;Jonathan Sacks;family 20814;We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.;Jonathan Sacks;family 20815;I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.;Bradley Whitford;family 20816;No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.;Tom Hanks;family 20817;I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.;Emma Roberts;family 20818;We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.;Star Jones;family 20819;I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.;will.i.am;family 20820;I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.;Tom Hardy;family 20821;If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.;will.i.am;family 20822;If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.;will.i.am;family 20823;Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.;Thomas Mann;family 20824;The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.;Howard Gardner;family 20825;The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.;Talcott Parsons;family 20826;My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.;Gus Van Sant;family 20827;There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.;Gus Van Sant;family 20828;If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.;Gus Van Sant;family 20829;My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.;Gus Van Sant;family 20830;Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family.;Gus Van Sant;family 20831;According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.;Kit Bond;family 20832;I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.;Giada De Laurentiis;family 20833;The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.;Giada De Laurentiis;family 20834;My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.;Giada De Laurentiis;family 20835;I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.;Harvey Weinstein;family 20836;A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.;Igor Stravinsky;family 20837;I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.;Rupert Murdoch;family 20838;I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.;Rupert Murdoch;family 20839;I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.;Edward Furlong;family 20840;I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.;Robin Gibb;family 20841;In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.;Monica Bellucci;family 20842;The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.;Iain Duncan Smith;family 20843;When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.;Jenson Button;family 20844;I do a lot of writing about my family.;Katey Sagal;family 20845;By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.;Iain Duncan Smith;family 20846;I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.;Iain Duncan Smith;family 20847;Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.;Iain Duncan Smith;family 20848;Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.;Juliette Binoche;family 20849;The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.;Danny Boyle;family 20850;God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.;Jerry Falwell;family 20851;I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.;Sophia Bush;family 20852;Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.;Sophia Bush;family 20853;Family is becoming more and more important to me.;Diane Kruger;family 20854;You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.;Eddie Van Halen;family 20855;I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I'm a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.;Lea Michele;family 20856;The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.;Eddie Van Halen;family 20857;I'm overjoyed and beyond honored to be a part of the L'Oreal Paris family. I'm such a fan of L'Oreal Paris not just for all of their amazing products, but for what they stand for.;Lea Michele;family 20858;The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.;Elton John;family 20859;I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.;Susan Sarandon;family 20860;It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.;Lewis Thomas;family 20861;Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.;Anthony Horowitz;family 20862;I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.;Lewis Thomas;family 20863;Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.;Ilka Chase;family 20864;You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.;Tori Spelling;family 20865;It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.;Nicolas Cage;family 20866;The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.;John Sununu;family 20867;But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.;Mark Ruffalo;family 20868;The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.;Theresa May;family 20869;The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.;Sergio Aragones;family 20870;I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.;Shahrukh Khan;family 20871;I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.;Hope Solo;family 20872;I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.;Haile Gebrselassie;family 20873;A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.

Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

For me, family always comes first I would do anything to protect them.

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.

There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.

For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

We are a very crafty family.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

I have a very strong family.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

I need to work to support my family.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles from textiles I went to fashion.

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

I love seeing my family.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

I think 'Tattoo''s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.

Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.

I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.

To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

I've always known I wanted a family.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

I want to be famous everywhere.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

I will either be famous or infamous.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

My hair was famous before I was.

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

I'm as famous as I want to be.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

I got the famous Oprah hug!

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.

There's the famous thing that the A&ampR man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.