Famous Quotes & Sayings

David A. Bednar

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

Ganesh Subbarayan

The overall philosophy behind the design approach can be extended to enable one to understand the impact of changes in suppliers' components on the performance of a complex system without revealing details of the components or the system. This will enable suppliers to retain their proprietary design knowledge without revealing each other's intellectual property. Such strategies are critical as products are increasingly designed and produced in a globally distributed manner.

Bob Maxwell

The past will be forgotten quickly. The new director has the sound approach to take the zoo to new levels and keep it fresh.

Barbara Kopple

I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.

Chris Ware

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.'

Chris Crutcher

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

Niklaus Wirth

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

Tom Beekman

The $2.0 million less the cost of the studies might leave $1.5, $1.3 million. You might get the ramps for that, but if you get into reconstruction of that bridge and the approaches to bring them to standards for the next 30 to 40 years, that would could easily double the cost of construction.

Nikolai Patrushev

The accomplishment of this objective demands a high degree of responsibility and a balanced approach in order to maintain the effectiveness of measures aimed at establishing constitutional order in the Chechen Republic and normalizing the regional situation.

Vivek Wadhwa

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

Ken Ford

The overriding consideration on everyone's mind was to get the Certificate of Occupancy. It was issued on the first inspection by the fire inspector, which was an extremely important goal because you can have all the businesses open, but if you can't park anywhere, it's not going to do you any good.

Barack Obama

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

Barack Obama

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

Marsha Blackburn

We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.

Karen Burk

We have very good relationships with our suppliers, working side-by-side to grow our businesses together and provide quality and value to our customers,

Robin S. Sharma

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

Marco Rubio

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

Karen Mills

We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.

John Dawson

The people are very nice. They're friendly. It's like you don't meet a stranger at these events because you've got Elvis as your common ground.

Bruce Braley

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

Dennis Ross

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

Noah Feldman

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on.

Gore Vidal

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.

Carrie Brownstein

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

Bertrand Russell

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

Bertrand Russell

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Ian Anderson

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.

Nelson Wolff

The policy is confusing to the public, ... I think the policies ought to be the same for all precincts.

Ze Frank

Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

Jeffery Smith

I wrote simple poems with deep meaning instead of confusing poems that no one understands.

Richard Stanley

With 'Moreau,' it's been particularly confusing because I started out being the writer of the screenplay and then trying to be the director, then being moved from being the director and having to become the dog extra, it makes some kind of sense to suddenly become a character in the story.

Lorde

I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.

Natsuo Kirino

It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.

Bill Gates

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

Chaz Bono

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Heather Dougherty

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

Paul Taylor

The affordability issue from rising interest rates takes some consumers out of the market. These are big-ticket items for consumers. They are going to be sensitive to interest rates.

M. Wolfe

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Brian Fabbri

Typically, consumers are waiting for all kinds of deals before they go out and purchase an automobile. They didn't get them in July, so perhaps they're going to wait until maybe August.

Michael Copps

Tollbooths and gatekeepers are the exact opposite of what the Internet is all about. Down that route, consumers can count on paying more and getting less - less content, fewer services and reduced innovation.

Carl Neill

You are getting back toward levels where industrial consumers can make money. So I do think you're seeing some more industrial demand come back in.

Lisa Carlson

We have been willing victims. Funeral costs in the United States are 2 to 3 times that of other countries Consumers make the mistake of not shopping around and the industry counts on this.

Kevin Corbett

With the explosion of digital entertainment choices, consumers will need simple, easy ways to locate the content they want and easily play it when they want.

Xavier Becerra

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Timothy Noah

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Tim Cook

Our whole role in life is to give you something you didn't know you wanted. And then once you get it, you can't imagine your life without it. And you can count on Apple doing that.

Ice Cube

Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.

Ismail Kadare

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

Giovanni Agnelli

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Gerrit Smith

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Giles Foden

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.

Gilbert White

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Yakov Smirnoff

I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

Young Jeezy

I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.

Thomas Dekker

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Todd Rundgren

In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.

Warren Bennis

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Willa Fitzgerald

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

William Daniels

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Evel Knievel

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

Ellen Key

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

Tim Pawlenty

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

Doug Elmendorf

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Ethan Harris

Usually the federal government takes a much more limited role in natural disasters.

William Millar

It is fitting that the TTI study on traffic congestion is being released the same day that the federal surface transportation program known as TEA 21 expires.

Bob Johannessen

We are obligated under federal law to return that money. That is what we did.

Andrei Kostin

We are now working with the Federal Property Ministry, Finance Ministry, and the government apparatus. I think our proposals will be ready in April.

Grover Norquist

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

Ric Williamson

We followed the rules and regulations of the federal government. The process that has been followed in the last year was as open and as transparent as the law and the regulations permit.

Bill Rogers

We have a very good shield law in South Carolina, but we don't have a federal one.

Noelle Quinn

We're used to warm weather, leaves on trees and being able to walk outside without a jacket. But we're not here for the weather, we're here to play basketball.

Tracy Kidder

I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out.

Steve Clarke

He leaves a strong legacy for the country.

Jessalyn Gilsig

It's much more fun to be the person who comes into the room and lights the match. I get to be the force, the girl who always says or does something completely outrageous, and leaves everyone thinking, 'What was that?'

Lynsey Addario

Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me.

Tom Tancredo

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

Terence Winter

Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of really, really messed up at lot of times. It leaves you feeling very disconcerted. That was kind of the point of it.

Coco Chanel

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Josh Blaisdell

We are not pleased with the outcome, it leaves a real sour taste in our mouths. But it puts things in perspective.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

George Taylor

We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that our software doesn't catch.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

Tom Lewis

I think it will be a lot like our first match, where Nos. 2-3 singles will be critical,

Chris Rix

We anticipated a lot more single coverage, but we didn't get it as often as we wanted to,

Kenny Williams

We'll never let A.J. get on top of the world. Never. Not one single day.

Robbie Williams

My self-doubts are disappearing day by day... However, my first single was a cover.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Daniela Hantuchova

I feel fantastic. It's something really special. Now I can concentrate on my singles career.

Diane Setterfield

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Sophie Lowe

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Barack Obama

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Riquena Farmer

Why would someone do this to him? I don't understand why.

Karen Clay

Why would she take off? ... I don't understand that.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.