Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Anthony Principi

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

James Rankins

Jon helped a lot. We told the guys in the locker room that they had to pick up some of the weight (Shepherd usually carries). Fortunately, we played good enough defense to take care of it.

Lenny Harris

Joe pretty much doesn't care what you've done in the past. He's worried about what you do now. That's an impact remark that he made. Hopefully, guys can go out there and do what they can to win a job.

John Canavan

(Jobless) claims nobody is going to care about, housing completions nobody is going to care about, chain store sales people might eye a little bit,

Chuck D.

I think it's a great accomplishment for these guys. To match what last year's team did is a hard thing to do. I don't care what league you are in.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are so many high school students who are not interested in going to a four-year college to be a doctor or lawyer but who want to learn a trade,

Mitch Ashmore

God loves baseball. It's not a real big deal. The colleges and pros they all play on Sundays.

Elizabeth Davis

When I am finished college, I am moving to another state where tax dollars are well spent, ... In the meantime, I will be sure to vote for ..people who will recognize true problems in our state such as our poor education system and high property taxes, not how many more thousands of dollars they can pocket for nothing.

F. Stone

I thought the whole world was like Midland College in those 10 years, and when I left I found out the rest of the world wasn't like that at all.

Thad Schultz

I thought she could go in and be a fine college swimmer. Her future is right in front of her.

Tony Skinn

I think we've done something tremendous for college basketball. We showed that all you need is opportunity, a chance. Then you just go out there and play great basketball. I'm definitely happy I was a part of something special.

Ed O'Brien

It gives him a taste of the college level. I expect him to be a beast.

Kim Butler

I went down there last summer and hung out with her. We have a great relationship, we knew each other a little before college and we did all the freshmen fun stuff together and had a lot of good times.

Robin Lord

I was just lazy. I saw college just as a necessary step toward law school, which I couldn't wait for.

Matt Raymond

Roads are not only crucial in fighting forest fires but also in promoting forest health.

Jeremy Reichert

Our main focus for the next two weeks will be preparing for the division (matches). This will determine the seeding for zone and is crucial to our success.

Erik Solheim

In order to get the parties to the table it is crucial that the ceasefire is respected. If we can make some progress during my visit, I will be satisfied.

David Graveney

His figures may not always look as good as some of the other spinners around the world but he fulfils a crucial role in our attack.

Leo Mazzone

He wouldn't lay it out there. But he'd let them put something in play that he wouldn't let them put in play in a crucial situation.

Chandrika Kumaratunga

In this crucial hour, we must transcend all differences and work for an undivided Sri Lanka as a unified Sri Lankan nation ... We must guarantee the rights of the minorities,

Hugh Johnson

The election is another element of ambiguity, ... and oil remains the crucial variable.

Barack Obama

These funding cuts will be particularly devastating to communities in Southern Illinois where Byrne grants pay for a large percentage of crucial staff and infrastructure, ... I hope that today the Senate will do the right thing and make sure our law enforcement officials have the resources that they need to keep us safe.

Erik Olson

The House is trampling crucial health safeguards in every state without so much as a single public hearing. This just proves the old adage, 'Money talks.' The food industry spared no expense to ensure passage.

Joe Gibbs

Keeping a team healthy is a huge deal,

Francis Gannon

I think it was a very healthy thing that we saw this week, ... It was a valuation correction, not a fundamental correction.

William Dietz

I'd like to think this shows women are leading the way in recognizing obesity as a health threat.

William Shenstone

Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

Richard Dawkins

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Saint Francis de Sales

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

Saint Francis de Sales

Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.

Wassily Kandinsky

The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

Voltaire

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

Doug Mitchell

He did everything he could to help this team succeed.

Stephen Jones

He can really help solidify our offensive line. We needed some flexibility there as well.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Toussaint Tyler

He talks to you like a normal human being and tells you what he wants you to do.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Sun Yuxi

In some Western countries, including in the United States, some people have ignored the overall development of China's human rights.

Adrian Molina

Immigrants are not felons. They are human beings.

Stephen Evans

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

John Grahame

I don't know Robert at all. Actually, this will be the first time I meet him. He called me a month ago and said some type of quote appeared. I never read it. He said whatever it was, it was taken out of context.

Dan Ross

If you told me a week before the meet that we were going to be 16th, we wouldn't have even went.

Greg Marsden

I never would have predicted at this point in the season we would go 197. I try not to worry about (the judging) this year, because I know from meet to meet there are going to be some real differences.

Condoleezza Rice

The northwest is very different from what I could have imagined.

John Stephens

It took us seven years to saturate Northern California.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

Jeff Perreault

They're undefeated and the #1 ranked team in North Dakota. Their program is very strong.

Rick Moody

They tell them to just keep walking north and don't look back. We've tried to apprehend some of these bandits.

Tom Greene

It's all Northern Telecom. It was U.S. selling; they just started selling it and it took a lot of the other tech stocks with it.

Todd Devereaux

North is very strong. We played with them for about 25 minutes.

Michael Griffith

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

Tahar Rahim

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

John Dos Passos

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Howard Schnellenberger

It's no secret that this state produces high-quality players, ... And there is no reason why every team in the state can't become a winning one.

Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Nick Nicholson

The sales produce virtually all of our net,

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Rick McCallum

Producers don't really publicize movies.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Robert Mueller

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Wayne Dyer

Everything in the universe has a purpose

Rick Warren

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Rick Warren

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

Rick Warren

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days...

Rick Warren

You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Agin Muhammad

I understand the reactions, but it's not for me to reduce myself to that level.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Grant McCasland

Once you win that, you concentrate on winning the regional championship.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Will Oldham

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

John Maynard Keynes

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.

George Orwell

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Laurie Colwin

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Paul Krugman

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Emily Post

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Malcolm Gladwell

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

John Maynard Keynes

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

George Pataki

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Dave McCoy

I'm real ecstatic. This the first time we've won in the state team tournament. We did very well. I was kind of surprised." ()

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Nancy Frazier

I want to make a statement to other businesses,

Khadijah Rushdan

They have what we want -- the state championship.

Trisha Meili

They wondered was I going to survive? Was I going to come out of the coma? In what state was I going to come out of the coma?

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Robert Fripp

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Tim Allen

I'm a very bad student, but a great learner.

Martin Scorsese

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Louis Garrel

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.