Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Steve Littlejohn

We ordered them to stop. But, today it was still on fire, and they were still bringing trucks in.

Guus Hiddink

We have several players that have been out injured and are in the process of their rehabilitation. We are bringing them in as well so we can check on their progress,

Joseph Biden

Why aren't we able to outsmart the French, in terms of the world stage and get the control of this issue, by bringing the responsibility back to the world, so we don't pay the whole freight?

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Kevin Burke

Those are state permits, ... They do not need city permits to abate asbestos.

Eddie Compass

We'll do everything it takes to make this city safe. These people don't understand they're putting themselves in harm's way,

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas has always gotten an F (in those areas). Someday I hope the city will quit criminalizing homelessness and they'll get off the list.

Peter Ueberroth

Leaders who aren't on the radar will emerge. If the city is going to recover, they must emerge.

Jim Brandt

Many of the previous powers the City Council enjoyed are now largely irrelevant under the current conditions.

Robert Wilson

On local issues, it is extremely important to run as an independent so that you can do what is right for the city rather than following a political agenda,

Carol Rebello

My daughter said something is not right. She went next door to City Hall and they told her they never heard of Setter Financial. It was a front.

Anna Eshoo

My district office continues to stay in touch with county and city officials so that they know full well my urgency in dealing with the situation. My experience with Devil's Slide goes way back now.

Wendy Kopp

If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

Maria Sharapova

She's very young and has a great future.

Curtis Joseph

Signing one-year deals, you look at the future and you know what's going to happen. My preference is to stay here for sure . . . . If (a trade) is going to help the hockey club, that's what they have to do.

Gary Williams

Shane is a great young man, and we wish him well in the future as a student-athlete.

Ben Agosto

Since we've gotten back, a lot of kids have come to the rink. It's really special to feel that we may be helping to inspire future skaters and future champions.

Elon Musk

I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Stephen Chow

but I hope we'll do better in the future.

Guy Kawasaki

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Frederic Coudert

It was young, idealistic and wonderful. But idealists have a hard time in this world.

Gena Rowlands

It was when A Woman Under the Influence played at the New York Film Festival. It would be hard to top that. It was one of the most extraordinary nights of my life.

Aaron Ross

It was a long year, but when you see these rings, you know all that hard work paid off. I think this is why people come to The University of Texas, but I sure didn't think the prize was going to look like this.

David Howell

It was a little hard work to be honest.

S. Hughes

It was a little hard not to jump up and down.

Mike Seward

The second and third quarters we played hard and played well but we got tired.

Duane Witter

These seniors have been working hard the whole year in practice. That hard work paid off for them tonight. You do all this preparation and when your opportunity comes, you want to make the most of it. These seniors made the most of their opportunity. We don?t get that effort, we don?t knock off that team.

John Beilein

The stats tell the story of the game. Pitt played a tremendous game. We'll learn a lot from this game. It was very hard to get open looks in this game.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Davy Jones

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse, it doesn’t matter to me.

Anne Michaels

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

Amy Vanderbilt

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

Andy Samberg

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.

Andy Rooney

I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

Andy Stanley

It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

Ang Lee

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Elizabeth Bishop

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

Elinor Glyn

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.

Dizzy Dean

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

John Faucher

Anheuser-Busch fourth-quarter sales-to-retailers were better than trend but not strong enough versus expectations.

Anna Jameson

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.

Bernie Sanders

I think our message,the Clinton campaign was very strong. Remember, this is their fourth campaign in South Carolina. Two for Bill Clinton. Two for Hillary Clinton. They had it well organized. They did well. And Icongratulate them. We came into that state at something like 7 or 8 percent in the polls. It was a tough road for us to hoe. But I want to thank all of our supporters, the members of the South Carolina state legislature.

Bernie Sanders

I will tell you is the antidote to [Donald] Trump is a very strong progressive agenda that says, yes, I know you`re angry. And you know what? You should be angry because you`re working longer hours for low wages. You have a right to be bitter and you have a right to be that.

Bernie Sanders

Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

Jeff Pentland

Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of constructing a portfolio of high-potential venture capital funds with the scale and resources to execute their plans, support successful high-growth companies and deliver world-class returns.

Guy Laliberte

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Greg Fitzsimmons

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

Ilham Aliyev

As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections,

Carla Gugino

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

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.

Robert Bork

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Thomas Otway

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Moore

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.