Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kami Roeder

It would be a great momentum factor, especially if it was in the last game going into the tournament. If we have that confidence going into that, it would be very beneficial for us.

John Stuart Mill

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

Angela Merkel

This is not about ritual, it about a deep conviction that a strong relationship between Germany and France is both necessary and beneficial to Europe,

Robert Warren

This could be especially beneficial for the rural communities who find themselves at a disadvantage in transportation and communication capabilities.

Jim Ryun

We're looking into it, ... to see what it might mean in the long term, but so far, we've received some assurances it doesn't have anything negative in it. It's beneficial that we'll still be in the prison system.

Kerri Strug

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

M. J. Rose

Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.

Courtney Cox

Criminal investigations is very important to Rickey. He has worked in it for many years, and he has taken pride in solving numerous homicides and serious crimes. And now, he's being denied the opportunity to use his training and experience in a way that is most beneficial to the department.

Viktor Yanukovych

Europe will support Ukraine, and Ukraine will build mutually beneficial relations with all nations, including the European Union.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Neal Katyal

authoritative decision to stop people from rioting in the streets.

Chris Anderson

At some point, I made the decision to live and go on. I'm grateful for where I am today, but the price I paid was too great.

Troy Glaus

A year ago, it would have been a lot different. But I saw all their moves go by on the ticker. That made the decision pretty easy.

Joseph Shatz

As long as the Fed keeps raising rates, yields are going to move higher. The Fed decision definitely left the door open for more rate hikes.

Trent Yawney

A smart decision on his part. We're talking about a professional in a field where shoulders are important.

Steve Carter

As individuals, they can make the decision to self-insure, but as an advisor, it is unthinkable. They should purchase health insurance before they do anything else.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Rihanna

I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.

J. K. Rowling

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

Michael Ignatieff

A society is not a market. It is a political community.

Pius Ncube

President Mugabe is deliberately starving his people. They are doing this for political motivation,

Evo Morales

This is a political and social triumph as well as a union triumph and shows that our struggle has not been in vain.

Howell Raines

All Alabamians benefited from the vigorous political reporting in which the Post-Herald specialized for many years,

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Barbara Mertz

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

George Somerwill

The situation has been resolved and everyone has been released,

Jeffrey White

Is it going to resolve the sectarian killings? No. Is it going to end the insurgency? No.

Michael Davies

I really thought this would have been resolved a while ago.

Alan Greenspan

It is risky, ... It's risky doing nothing. It's risky doing any other solution. ... I know no way to resolve this without risk.

Benjamin Franklin

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Robert Johnson

I sent somebody to take it down, which I think is the wrong thing to do. But I have to do it,

Catherine Holland

I sent out 502 e-mails and got one response.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

William Shakespeare

Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Mia Wasikowska

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

Rick Clausen

The most important thing is understanding your role,

Terry Turner

There's always been the understanding that a (tax break) could come into play.

Rita Ora

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.