Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Rodgers

As far as standards and academics I couldn't have made a better choice. I had high expectations for her and she's exceeded those. As a representative for IVC, she's been wonderful. I think she (represents) our best foot forward.

Robert Edmunds

North Central wants to make sure graduated students will have the highest academic achievement they can at Marshall. We're excited about the possibility of what it (Assessment Day) will mean to the university.

Mitzi Hancuff

Normally when kids go to academic meets, there are never any questions on arts or literature. So this meet brings something new and interesting to the kids, and they all just get so excited.

Charles Murigande

Action, not words, would be the measure of our success or failure. Will there be lengthy academic or legal debates on what constitutes genocide or crimes against humanity while people die?

Mary Lyons

Dr. Anvari is a seasoned professional dean who emerged as our leading candidate from a national search, ... He comes to the university with many years of experience as a professor and dean. He just brings a lot of strength to our academic and administrative bench.

Craig Littlepage

Coach Groh has provided strong leadership for the university's football program, and we want to ensure continuity in its future academic and athletic successes.

Janet Hansen

An important one that comes to mind is the California Scholarship Federation, which requires a lot of bookkeeping and also supervising, as the advisor calculates and administers academic honors and rewards for graduation. I know the work of this club was begun well before it was clear there would be no stipend.

Ray Kralis

A nice feather in their cap to go out. In this strong academic conference, it is a great honor to be accomplished in the classroom and on the golf course. These two players set the bar high and are certainly very deserving of this honor.

Derek Bok

Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.

Brad Buckman

Any given day any player on this team can shoot the ball. Daniel did it (Saturday) against Baylor and then did it again tonight.

Slobodan Milosevic

an outrage against a whole nation and a whole people.

Stewart Gary

As far as we are concerned from our side of the ball their pressure wore us down we didn't turn the gall over a lot in the backcourt against the press but nevertheless it had an effect on us.

S. Walker

As far as the standings go, this game didn't mean much. But it meant a lot to us, just to prove to ourselves and to everyone else that we could beat them. They beat us this year, last year and ended our season in the playoffs last year. So we were starting to wonder when we were going to catch a break against those guys. That's why this game is so big for us.

Jennifer Berry

A seat belt is your best defense against a drunk driver.

Mike Fleming

As far as I know, we've never recovered a car that has been missing almost four decades. The odds against finding it so many years afterward were phenomenal.

Eric Rabe

As far as I know, that's a suit against her, and we have nothing to do with that.

Randall Edens

Ashley does so much for us, points from her are a bonus. That's not a knock against her; she's very versatile. She had some big baskets early that helped settle us down.

Dennis Taylor

Ashley and Tiny have competed against college divers and just missed qualifying for the U.S. Senior team, ... They are already close to being at a high level.

Steve Camp

The crimes which I'm guilty of were several years ago and nothing since.

Mark Potok

I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes. Anti-Christian crimes are exceedingly rare in the South. It's more likely to be teenagers or a mentally ill person.

Howard Safir

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,

S. J. Rozan

The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

Luo Gan

We need to launch a crackdown on organized crimes and evil forces, and enhance anti-corruption measures to prevent them from undermining China's stability.

Mark Godsey

The database is very important on solving old crimes and new crimes. It's also important for protecting innocence.

Jeff Kline

To say there's no more of a heinous crime, you must not be reading the newspapers or watching television because there are all kinds of stories out there of little girls getting taken and killed. I can think of thousands of crimes that are more heinous.

Virginia Davis

Details of those debates are to be determined.

Gerhard Schroeder

The importance of these debates will not be the same as in America.

Pat Buchanan

You don't get up in the polls unless you get on the debates, and you don't get on the debates unless you go up in the polls,

Bill Bradley

We're going to have two debates in Iowa in January, ... You can't have a debate in Iowa without agriculture being a major part of it. So we're going to debate agriculture in Iowa.

William Daley

There are three debates and I think the American people are going to make a decision after they see all three formats,

Jenny Lewis

What motivates me to go to Washington is that, during World War II, so much of the world stood idly by as the genocide happened.

Tim Walz

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

Dick Cheney

Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Brian Eno

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Elie Wiesel

Humanity would never tolerate it

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Adolf Hitler

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

George Brown

So we're going to be looking into our legal options.

Philip Kerr

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

O. J. Simpson

There have been a lot of unique and novel legal questions that require more research than normal,

Joseph Sobran

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections

John Schaeffer

Obviously, we need to look into what our legal rights and responsibilities to our ratepayers are, so we'll be studying that.

Laura Nichols

I think if the vice president thought he had other legal options open to him, we'd defer to his judgment.

Bryan Whitman

You can do something perfectly legal, but that is inconsistent with the policy or procedures of the department. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

I do think that it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent. Precedent plays an important role in promoting stability and evenhandedness,

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Tom Peters

What gets measured gets done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

James Hayes

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Zig Ziglar

You measure success by how much good you do for others.

Iqbal Sacranie

This is a long overdue measure but nevertheless is a welcome first step.

James Morris

This is a measure we should simply never have to take.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

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

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.