Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

David George

U.S. Bank is taking action to be on the offensive as well as defensive. St. Louis has become a very competitive market. It makes sense to spend money to build brand awareness.

Chuck Palahniuk

This is passive-aggression in action.

Vernon Howard

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Mo Mowlam

Many people could have been killed or seriously injured by this terrorist attack, and it is only through the speedy and efficient action by the security forces that a tragedy has been averted,

Dick Cheney

Senator Kerry denounces American action when other countries don't approve -- as if the whole object of our foreign policy were to please a few persistent critics,

Alan Williamson

Sentiment towards the precious metals complex remains overwhelmingly bullish, which is hardly surprising given the strength of the price action.

Gert Mesure

Sentiment seems to be more upbeat at the moment but bear in mind much of the improvement in earnings has come from restructuring, as companies take action to deal with lower sales and weaker pricing power.

Mark Twain

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy

Billy Corgan

You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off.

Bob Fosse

you can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but mess around with ike and that's good, isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it swell? in fifty years or so, it's gonna change you know, but oh it's heaven now a days.

Kevin Quinn

We wanted to change the match-up in the third period.

Stuart Cohen

we wanted the vendor to own the whole issue. At this very late date, we didn't want to risk that the patch would create some profound change to the operating system.

Willie Randolph

We wanted to sweep once we took the first two. I get greedy. But it's a long season. We've played for a month, but I don't think we done anything yet. And one more victory wasn't going to change that.

Tom Schrader

We've had a really nice run. I think we need to see a little pullback before we go higher. There's not going to be much in the next two days to change that. Jobless claims tomorrow won't be a market mover. I think we'll probably see a little profit taking the rest of the week.

Jim Buckmaster

We've had requests for a long time to make a change like this. New York, and particularly Manhattan, is, in our experience, completely unique.

Tom Schrader

We've got a big rally in tech going and it's a nice change of pace.

Mike Hidde

We'll have to have a lot of confidence that he will be fine to risk him playing. Whether he plays or not, our game plan doesn't change a lot.

Lou Holtz

We decided we couldn't (cover punts) with two sprinters, ... So we said, 'Let's get seven sprinters going off the line so we can cover them.'

Mike Singletary

Playing coverage isn't about speed. It's about technique and studying film. Jeff Ulbrich understands that. He's the ears and eyes of the defense.

Toby Miller

It's primarily to cover the debt service on the bonds. The debt service is $1.4 million a year, and this increase would provide about $1.28 million.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

John Shelby Spong

It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world. The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.

Lawrence Hargrave

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

Lewis Carroll

Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.

Lewis Carroll

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

Karl Pilkington

We came from the sea originally, now we're going back in it. Don't go in it, unless you're in a boat.

Joshua Slocum

As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

Oskar Kokoschka

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

Junipero Serra

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Elie Cohen

If you get burned, you will take time before you try again.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Stephen Graham

I like time ticking the way it is.

Maurissa Tancharoen

I like to do all things. I've been fortunate enough to be able to do a bunch of them at the same time.

Robert Emms

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.