Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Covey

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

M. H. Abrams

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

Edmund Burke

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success

Karl Menninger

Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

Barack Obama

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Sebastian Faulks

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.

Greg Graffin

There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power.

Dick Cheney

The governor has given me some criterion in terms of the kind of individual we're looking for, ... We've put together a very detailed questionnaire to gather info on each and every candidate, including public records, financial records, health records -- all of those kinds of things that you look at.

Tom Clark

I think it helped me keep a sense of humor about things. It was a really good job. I really loved it. I was helping people. I worked with disabled people. I helped them find jobs and that sort of thing.

James Gray

We've gained something for disabled people in the province that they've never had before. Now they have rights.

Jody Gerut

I have been putting in my work here. I don't want to end the season on the disabled list.

John Hutton

If you are seriously disabled then we should be looking to do more for you. We are here to help.

Jim Moore

It's being able to enjoy Holliston...and being accessible. I think more disabled people are getting out there and being part of the community.

Clint Hurdle

We have a starting pitcher on the disabled list right now and he will come off sometime this season. So competition, there's always competition.

John Wells

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

Paul Herrera

Realizing that about 80 percent of developmentally disabled people live at home, it shouldn't be surprising that pressures are mounting on these families.

Carolyn Sczepanski

People who haven't experienced Special Olympics before don't know what kids who are disabled can do. They just get out there and they have such a great time. It's so great to see the smiles on their faces. Being out there makes them feel so free.

Robert Goldstein

I am hopeful we shall learn from one another and about one another, as a gay man and a gay pastor.

Rob James-Collier

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

Russell Brand

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

Troy Perry

If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.

Troy Perry

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

Troye Sivan

I think that there is a lot of power in a gay guy having a really (hopefully) successful music career while just being completely openly gay and honest and happy.

Reince Priebus

The Republican path to victory is compromised when gay Americans are perceived as being attacked for just being how God created them.

Regina Spektor

I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

Vinnie Jones

To get on in Hollywood, you've gotta be a bit gay and a bit Jewish, and I'm saving up to be Jewish.

Mitchell Baker

What we have is 95 percent there and what we are doing at the moment is actually polishing.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Alan Pardew

We're playing with a real exuberance. We were very strong individually at the back and at the moment I am very pleased.

Christopher Armstrong

What I see at this moment are the signs of a normal market. Previously, there was a frenzy.

Michael Widmer

What you're seeing at the moment is a correction. It's the end of the week and people are taking some profit.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Joshua Lederberg

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Carl Jung

But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay. "I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze.

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Mike Hohensee

I thought he did some tremendous things. I thought he did some poor things. He has a lot of room to grow.

Woody Allen

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Vita Sackville-West

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Sandra Cisneros

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Jerramy Stevens

If you start out poorly like that, the tension only mounts every game.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.

S. Hughes

It is so important in this time of dispossession taking place that we recognize we have one another, and we have the Lord,

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Jan Dawson

It's unusual, to be honest, to have a vendor recognize that there are things being done well.

Tanya Kach

It was her idea. She said it was so they didn't recognize me.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand. It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand, ... It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Robert Barnes

They recognize that without the traveler, there is nothing to reorganize.

Chris Priester

They recognized that we need this new hospital.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Lofa Tatupu

He is somebody you really have to worry about and you have to know where he is at all times.

Bob Parker

He's always had illnesses. You will never get him here because somebody is always sick.

Char Quinn

I think we had somebody to walk every dog.

Gary Gilmore

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

Kelly Price

A lot of times you'll have somebody who could be the most talented person in the world, but because they are plus-sized, they're not even considered for a call back.

Don Robinson

I did talk to somebody one time who said he was Doug Wood.

Jim McMahon

I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Raymone Bain

He was very angry, because here was somebody who he embraced.

Sara Gilbert

Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

Saoirse Ronan

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

Umberto Eco

My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

Robert Plant

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

Sara Paxton

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

Sarah Polley

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

Vivienne Westwood

I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.

Wendy Wasserstein

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Jason Simpson

He went with them to Murray, but that's OK. We understand that.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.