Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack King

We have approved giving them this money, but if they can't get the improvement district together the project won't go forward.

Kofi Annan

Blix until now has been guided by approved Security Council resolutions. If the council were to pass a new resolution giving him fresh guidelines, he will have to factor that in before he continues with his work, which will be up to the council ... to determine what the next stage will be.

Jane Walsh

Council approved a whole slough of information around green roofs, one of which is that there be an incentive program, on a pilot basis that would provide incentives up to $10 a foot for green roofs.

Anne Heche

This Nonsense about my mother praying for me is really making me angry. My mother never approved of my relationship with Ellen. Her hatred for our relationship is one of the many things that ultimately led to my breaking off all communication with her. (My mother, that is, not Ellen.)

Petroleum Minister

We have 90-days to get necessary official approvals to join the project. Once approved by the Cabinet, the project will be renamed TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline).

Ricardo Diaz

We want to open their eyes (employers) to see the negative impact that would be done if this proposal is approved in Congress.

Mark Cunningham

To implement this plan 20 years after it was first approved is just obscene. I just don't get it -- they make you renew your car registration annually -- but they'll approve this.

Paul Leary

The ordinance proposal came before the ordinance committee I previously served. The mayor felt it should be approved as an ordinance. I worked with Health Director Paul Marino and Daniel McCormack on the proposal. We feel it would be a good deal for this town.

Robert Fink

There is nothing hidden, fraudulent or criminal about the BLIPS transaction. It was fully and openly reviewed and approved by many KPMG professionals and independent law firms who believed that BLIPS complied with the tax law. No court has ever held that the BLIPS transaction does not work.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Jim Leljedal

As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.

Danny Glover

The breaking point was to stand outside on 116th Street and have five cabs pass me up.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Paul Stevenson

Rationally, people understand what is happening, but the team and job they love is breaking up. Their grief is about loss - losing a team, an environment, a secure income.

Ira Mehlman

People should feel uncomfortable about breaking the law. If we have a policy that is demonstrated to be consistent, many people will get the message and decide that remaining here in the United States illegally isn't worth the price that they have to pay.

Chris McKay

Operating in one community doesn't lend itself to a big TV buy. You get a broad reach, but it's cluttered. The challenge is breaking through...intercepting consumers where they shop or are entertained communicates that we are a local company investing to give them more TV and broadband choice.

Aaron Peirsol

Coming off the Olympics and breaking the world record, it's been pretty spectacular. I'm happy with my season.

Curtis Staples

I've always said, like the old saying goes, records are meant to be broken. J.J. has been a hard worker and deserves everything that he gets. I'm glad to see somebody like J.J. breaking it. He's a very significant player that we will never forget.

Rebecca Merblum

The one thing that is most difficult to communicate about what we do is what our lives are like. What does it mean to be an artist?

Edgar Renteria

The most important thing is communication. If we have the communication, I think we could be good.

Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Publilius Syrus

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

John MacPhee

terminating all correspondence and communication regarding all applications.

Paul Woolpert

Ronny has lifted attendance. This is uncharted waters having a young man in here who just had open-heart surgery, so I told him we had to keep our lines of communication open. ... I'd be lying if I said I didn't have some concern.

Norma Stiglet

Running up and down the street on a four-wheeler, that's communication.

Source Unknown

Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

Charles Pyle

School divisions know that memos are the primary means we communicate with them.

Cesar Chavez

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

Dean Koontz

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

Donald Trump

We have to be sure that Muslims come in and report when they see something going on. When they see hatred going on, they have to report it.

Amy Ray

Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.

Dalai Lama

Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.

Dalai Lama

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

Dalai Lama

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

Andrew Sullivan

Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

Tony Blair

Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Joker Phillips

I've never seen Tony Dixon work like he has this past off-season. He led all the drills. He was in the weight room. He was even there when he wasn't scheduled to be.

Alan Stern

This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.

Kenny Mayne

I don't regret it at all. It's led to other things.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

R. Robinson

Thirteen and three. He's a 13-3 quarterback. You're going to just sit him down? That man led us to 13-3, so why would you sit him down?

Jeff Jodon

It was a solid team effort, led by the throwers. They were just steadfast.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Archie Panjabi

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Ayelet Waldman

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Ayelet Waldman

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

Orson Scott Card

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

Angela Merkel

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

Victor Hugo

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

Michel de Montaigne

If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.

Horace

Nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

Walter Lippmann

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

Jim Wallis

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Oscar Wilde

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Josh Billings

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Brennan Manning

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

E. Stanley Jones

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

E. Stanley Jones

If we know how to pray, we know how to live.

Andre Benjamin

Nothing's more attractive than a heavy praying woman,

St. Jerome

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

Stephen King

You should never trust a person who prays in public.

Sylvia Plath

I used to pray to recover you.

Michelle Shocked

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

Nora Roberts

You all right?" Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying.

Jim Yong Kim

The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

Arthur C. Clarke

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Brian Weiss

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Wang Jianlin

I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Eckhart Tolle

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Britney Spears

I think it's a positive for girls not to depend on guys.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.