Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry A. Kissinger

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.

George Orwell

This is a kind of Orwellian scenario of attempting to deprive a people of a sense of past and a sense of community on which it depends and to rewrite history,

Hanan Ashrawi

It seems to me as usual they are looking at the wrong address. They should look closer at home. I don't think the Sharon policy of attempting to besiege a whole people ... is a policy of utmost responsibility.

Susan Cole

For many kids, the only thing they know about money is how to spend it. By making classroom presentations on budgeting, savings and the value of compound interest, bank employees are attempting to turn the tide and create a generation of savers.

Rob Gould

We're extremely troubled by the prospect that the legislature is attempting to hold our proposed merger hostage, and to that end we will be considering all options, including the legal route.

S. Hughes

We're attempting to help people move through the pilgrimage from being victims to being victors for the Lord,

Walter Baumy

We're attempting to contract for materials, such as rock, super sand bags, cranes, and also for modes of transportation like barges and helicopters, to close the gap and stop the flow of water.

Nicholas Lemann

This year's winners showed extraordinary initiative and creativity while attempting to tell stories of how wars and internal conflicts impact the lives of everyday people. Journalism as a public service was the Kurt Schork tradition, and this year's winners exemplify his legacy.

Bruce Barbour

The Stewards Program is an immersion experience designed to give an overview and excite an interest in future study.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

Mike Goodman

Internet2 was designed to make large file transfers happen quickly.

Jeffrey Lubell

The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is despite low interest rates and new mortgage products designed to make homes more affordable.

Rob Meyer

It's designed to make it more fun to do the right thing.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

James Krouse

The introduction of several programs designed to review systems and program performance has resulted in efficiencies and cost-saving efforts.

John Hamilton

A lot of the signs that you see today would have been designed or put up in the '70s, early '80s, when the gap between the price of the day and a dollar would have been so significant that nobody would have thought about it.

John Hamilton

A lot of the signs that you see of today would have been designed or put up in the '70s, early '80s, when the gap between the price of the day and a dollar would have been so significant that nobody would have thought about it.

Dominique Sopo

The state of emergency was simply a political gesture which showed the government prefers a law-and-order response to the problem.

Becky Ault

There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live out there.

William Rochelle

Is there a price that is too expensive for open heart surgery, because that is what we've got here? We've got a terminally ill patient presented in the emergency room with life-threatening injuries.

David Ramsay

It is a medical emergency so these people really need to be removed.

Salvation Army

We'll be providing emergency needs for the first 72 hours,

Jane Farmer

We can do emergency shelter, we have to put them up in hotels, and then we have to take them out of county. We put her in a hotel, and she goes home the next day.

James Hartsfield

All the systems on the space station are operating fine. This is a fairly simple emergency plan.

Kevin Bryant

All the emergency patching was done in December. Now is the time to work on big jobs -- to completely re-roof -- if only the skies would clear.

Eric Fehrnstrom

We have the money, we have the housing and we have the emergency personnel. We stand by and are ready to assist.

Donald Kettl

As catastrophic an event as 9/11 was, it was at least geographically bounded,

Steve Roukis

a one-time event but part of doing business, so if you split the difference, (profit per share) is 99 cents.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

James Thurber

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time.

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Scott Brown

We did real well. Having three girls in five events and we got 10th, I'll take that.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

June Daugherty

These AAU teams are amazing. They practice all year. They're well coached. They play a lot of games.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Bobby Robson

Practice makes permanent.

Brene Brown

One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice - which is really hard - is in those moments where we're being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.

Elihu Root

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Aristotle

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Jason Dufner

I don't like stress because stress stresses me out.

Janet Street-Porter

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

Janine Benyus

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

Bill James

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

Eckhart Tolle

Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

Deepak Chopra

Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.

Deepak Chopra

Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you're making a choice, ask yourself if it's going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left, and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Stephen Jay Gould

Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.

Carnie Wilson

I can be a lady - surprise!

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Mae West

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Jerramy Stevens

So it's not a surprise that he's got something to say about it and that he's getting upset. Because that's his style, and I know that.

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Maria Sharapova

I surprised myself in the first round, that's for sure.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.