Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Ehrenreich

... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.

Lawrence Summers

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

Joan Leslie

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

Catherine Bertini

Food availability is not really the issue. The quality of the food is what we recognize is the problem.

Bill Gates

Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.

Sufjan Stevens

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

Tom Peters

The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.

Ravi Zacharias

In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

Ludwig von Mises

No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

William Wordsworth

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

William Sharp

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

William Shenstone

Written on a Window of an Inn,

William J. Clinton

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water.

William J. Clinton

We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.

Rebecca Pidgeon

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Robert Plant

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Samuel Rutherford

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

Malin Akerman

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

Noam Chomsky

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

Kevin Martin

Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.

Bruce Schneier

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

Lilli Palmer

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

John Kitzhaber

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

Charles Stanley

Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

Bill Toomey

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

Theodor Herzl

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.