Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Abrams

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

Lance Palmer

It helps the bear out to not have to keep his mouth closed the whole time. It's kind of unfair to the bear to keep him muzzled. We want it to be fun. We don't want it to be a sport. That's why the animal activists don't know what they are taking about when they come out here and try and go against what we do.

Jonathan Tisch

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

Cindy Sheehan

If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.

Chris Gabrieli

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

Michael Phillips

The issue activists march. The electoral activists are talking to other students, they are working at campaign headquarters, and they are making trips to New Hampshire and Iowa and beyond.

Whitney Tilson

The key swing vote is the passive investors who decide whether to piggyback on what the activists are doing. For every dollar of activist money involved in a campaign, there is usually at least $10 of non-activist money involved.

Doug Freeman

The county convention gives the Democratic Party activists an opportunity to come together for a common effort. Politics is not a spectator nor an individual sport but, rather, a team effort to build the kind of communities, states and nation that all can be proud to call American. The Democratic Party of Henderson County is dedicated to citizen involvement in the political process.

Quentin Kidd

Allen has a position within the ideological spectrum of the Republican Party that serves him well in a primary. He's really appealing to the party activists within the Party. And that's good for candidates who are running in primaries.

Tom Schrader

We're primarily up because we're oversold and oil is down. The breadth is decent, but the volume is low. There's just not much of a catalyst to move us.

Kathleen Ligocki

Renee brings tremendous breadth of experience to Tower. Her energy, insight, and international depth will be crucial as Tower Automotive emerges from reorganization and continues to grow as a successful global automotive supplier.

Wayne Worner

Part of the price of maintaining community schools is that you don't have the richness or breadth of curriculum that other places may have.

Chris Jackson

PC-Duo v4.0 is the most extensive and comprehensive update to our flagship product suite in years. New and existing customers will notice a dramatic improvement in the breadth of depth of enhanced product capabilities, all in the same high-performance, scalable and flexible desktop management offering we've had for years.

Kevin Caron

You've got a decent summer rally under way with good breadth in the marketplace and, mostly, that's attributable to the fact that fear over what the Fed could do to the economy is abating and that helps all sectors.

David Palmer

This is a great representation of the breadth and diversity of investment opportunities here in the Greater Pittsburgh area.

Mel Karmazin

This is a huge win for WWF as they continue to build their powerhouse brand, and a huge win for Viacom as we look to capitalize on the incredible breadth of our media holdings to drive our growth and financial performance.

Debbie Ford

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it.

Howard Sherman

Still, it's going to be an extremely diverse fall. It's hard to characterize because of the breadth of what's out there.

Angelos Anastasiou

I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.

Lincoln Kennedy

He was a big kid like me that had a big heart. He couldn't say no to anybody. ... He couldn't let his friends go, from San Diego. He couldn't let his past go. He always wanted to try to take care and do for other people. It ended up bringing him down.

Audrey Moore

He can take a lot of credit for bringing in a lot of good businesses.

Mike Trgovac

He keeps growing every year. There are certain times when Pep is going to have growing processes. It seems like early in the year he seems to get frustrated because everybody is bringing people to him.

Alex Kandabarow

He is really into football and has an intense intellectual passion for the game. I am really excited about playing for him. I think he is bringing great ideas to the table that can help turn this program around.

Amatzia Baram

He jumped the gun too early. He demanded to be prime minister. They turned him down because he's not bringing enough dowry to the wedding.

Chris Ault

For me personally, there's nothing more gratifying than bringing that cannon home.

Drew Stanton

He's gonna come up and hit you every time. You can never relax. It's good because he's bringing that tough mentality that we need over there on the defensive side of the ball. We've just got to be ready for it on offense.

Michael Defensor

I think the mayor meant well and wanted to do a symbolic gesture in bringing down a physical structure. But in so doing, he may have destroyed evidence that may be crucial in the ongoing investigation of the police.

Mr Howard

John Brogden leaves the Liberal Party as he found it: leaderless, directionless, divided and without a vision for the people of NSW,

Utu Langi

I think it holds a lot of potential for the future, however they are able to divide the money.

Yvette Girouard

This was one of those teams that we said we needed to sweep and we're getting it done. We divided the programs up as to what was realistic and who we thought on paper we should sweep and we are on track so far except for Georgia.

John Ruskin

It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

Susan Lim

I divide my time equally between teaching and research.

Dan Hess

Retailers have worked tirelessly to translate the lessons of years past into improved merchandising systems and strategies, and the work is paying dividends this season.

Leo Nesmith

In this position, if you can't multi-task, you would struggle. Your time is divided in so many arenas.

Tom Day

In this divided system, there will not be an entity to hold accountable for the performance of the Postal Service.

David Banks

The effort is really divided into three phases, ... First, you have the emergency phase, which is how you respond in the first few days. Then there is a clean-up phase and finally long-term recovery.

James Cox

I think it's a good idea. The Bangor School System is the gold standard as far as education goes, at least in this part of the state.

Kathy Ireland

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Damien Chazelle

Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

Fred Wilson

He's a wonderful person if for no other reason than the education piece.

Martin O'Malley

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

Ernest Hollings

There is no education in the second kick of a mule

Will McDonough

I was a student at Northeastern University in Boston. They have a co-operative form of education where you go to school for five years.

Ann Thompson

It is snobbery, basically, ... People think you would have to have a university education at least to write as he does.

Elaine Taylor

I think we're getting away from the real education issues.

Woody Allen

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

Oprah Winfrey

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

Kenny Marchant

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

Bruce Schneier

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Meister Eckhart

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Quincy Jones

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

Mike Krzyzewski

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Rahm Emanuel

Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.

Richard Preston

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Marshall Strickland

I think the key at this point of the season is to keep improving. Keep expanding your game.

Zac Wright

In its first six months, it has already grown from five schools to 11. The program was started six months ago with the intention of expanding it, and that's already been happening.

Monica Crowley

Nothing for the Left, nothing the government does is ever about its superficial reason; it's only and always about expanding government power and control over you.

Kate DiCamillo

You are the ever-expanding universe to me

Bruce Howard

Expanding our footprint in Oklahoma is part of overall strategic plan. The Tulsa launch went extremely well. We plan on winning this market by offering competitive rates and investing in our popular user-friendly features.

L. Ron Hubbard

Through our hardest times we have endured. Into our brightest times we are expanding.

J. J. Johnson

The market is shrinking and they're fighting for the market share. Going after young people and women is expanding the market. For years, the thing to do was to go after men. ... That real targeting of women is a relatively new thing.

Gerald Shields

Here's the deal. I want people reading. We are professionals, and we need to be reading and studying. We need to have a life-long learning mentality.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Amanda Voorhis

We have to become more proficient ball-handlers. They're learning from their mistakes.

Jamie Russell

He was learning a lot from his dad.

William Ellery Channing

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

Virgil

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

William Cobbett

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

William Golding

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

Tomoko Fujii

He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.

Richard Baxter

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

Robert Reich

We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.

Narendra Modi

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

Noah Webster

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.

Mo Udall

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Julia Gillard

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Paul Ryan

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

Justin Amash

There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

Jennette McCurdy

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Tommy Lee Jones

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Niranjan Shah

We are struggling to give three suitable venues to the ICC for the tournament.

Gerard Houllier

We are struggling to get tickets, even for the technical study group.

Patrick Halsted

We're struggling with what we do with these things.

Sharon Alexander

We're struggling to survive, ... We can't go down after 59 years.

Steve Holloway

We've been struggling all year, but this win was really amazing.

Scott Skiles

Well, the team he went to is struggling mightily, I would say.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Tony Jaa

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

Mary Lyons

This unites all the children's names, ... This unites all the victims.

Robert Crais

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Ryan O'Marra

I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.

Umberto Eco

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief

Reid Hoffman

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Viola Spolin

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

William James

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

Robert Nozick

It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest.

Will Smith

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.