Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

Larry Freed

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

Ismail Haniyeh

We've handled challenges in the past and we will be able to stand up to future challenges as well.

Peter Yesawich

This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . . . and the premium they place on the increasingly limited leisure time they spend together.

Mark Lawrence

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

Zell Miller

I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.

Herb Harris

Riley is the kind of kid who likes challenges like that. He's always willing to step in and give it a shot.

Joe Battipaglia

Investors are looking past those challenges and seeing an economy that's still got a good growth rate and are preferring to take a risk with their portfolio than not.

Tony McNulty

I get asked, how many more people will come to this country? I say, as many as we need to face up to the future challenges of the UK economy,

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

Norman Peacock

We should be looking at situations long-term. We should plan for five years from now, 10 years from now, instead of all of a sudden worrying about how to fix something.

Josh Fodor

We are a solid team of a group of guys who get the job done. We know once we get off the ice there is another five guys who will pick it up.

Gord Ash

We are going to have players who can pinch-run late in a game and then stay in, because they can play five different positions. That's a big move for a manager to be able to make.

Willie Randolph

We went in with the notion of not having him pitch more than five or seven and 80-something pitches or whatever. He went 120 last time out. He's been really banged up.

Troy Hudson

We wanted him to see five white jerseys every time he touched the ball. We have trust in each other.

Anne Robinson

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Stephenie Meyer

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Stephen Chbosky

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Mike Sherman

He said he was fine. I said, 'I can tell something is wrong here. What's wrong?' He wouldn't tell me, ... It took me about 10 minutes to get it out of him. Finally, he told me.

D. James

I don't feel fatigued at all. I can go out and play 48 minutes if they want me to.

Richelle Mead

I'm always at least ten minutes early.

Robert Gottlieb

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Nat Friedman

We've really taken the product a long way in the past year,

Joe Gibbs

We wish the past two years could have been smoother.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Claude Levi-Strauss

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Jason Mraz

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

Sun Microsystems

If the U.S. side is willing to send an envoy here, we are willing to have consultations,

Elie Wiesel

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

Paul Tournier

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

Lord Acton

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Lucian

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

Demi Lovato

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

Daniel Handler

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

E. P. Thompson

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

Sue Grafton

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

Ridley Pearson

So planning something big." "If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything like it." "It is," a voice said behind them. Maybeck slipped in alongside of them. "You about scared the pee out of me!" Charlene complained.

Theodore Roosevelt

Every special interest is entitled to justice full, fair and complete....but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench or to representation in any public office.

Theodore Roosevelt

It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.

Theodore L. Cuyler

It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.

Marco Polo

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.