Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Rath

When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.

John Lynch

We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.

Greg Aiello

The arbitrator's decision is consistent with our collective bargaining agreement, and it simply enforced the terms of the player's contract.

Grant Wilson

Whilst I agree that dialogue and discussion between members is important, and that members have a vested interest in what's going on in the various teams, I would have thought that it was patently obvious that carrying out this dialogue on such an open forum is naive in the extreme, potentially harmful and reflects badly on the whole club.

Terry Gough

I don't agree with the cookie-cutter mentality. It's maddening. It's sad and very frustrating.

Fred Janicke

They offered us a package that mirrored what we already had and a three-year contract agreement. It saved a lot of heartache.

Steve Largent

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

Jason Richardson

It was definitely a block. The two refs didn't agree on the call and that was the best they could do. How much I scored doesn't matter because we lost the game.

David Howe

Would I be out of line if I said amen to that? I agree with them wholeheartedly.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

William Odom

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.

Bayard Rustin

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

Jefferson Powell

The department has a lively and strong sense of tradition and even if one was disposed to ignore that, it would be awfully hard to do that in the teeth of all these very smart civil servants who say 'No, this is not what we do, or this is the position the department has always taken,'

Brian Sullivan

To make it all work was a challenge. It was one of the most intensive civil engineering projects, in terms of residential housing, that I've ever been involved with. ... But it was intentional on our part, to create a human scale and to be environmentally sensitive. At the end of the day, it will be a great neighborhood where people really want to live.

Paul O'Grady

I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched idea that it had something to do with the Avengers, but I ended up in Social Security.

Peter Riegert

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

Cindy Sheehan

We've identified the problem and it's not going away. What I think it's going to take now is non-violent, peaceful civil disobedience all over the country,

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Debby Ryan

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Chuck Hagel

My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

Chuck Hagel

This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them.

Chuck D.

They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into the military. The Army says it will give out Hummers, platinum teeth, or whatever to those that actually join.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Richard Branson

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.

Ross Kemp

Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.

Rand Paul

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

Nick Lowe

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.