Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Any religion or philosophy, which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Michael Moran

As far as the village is concerned, we'll preserve the status quo based on official county records.

Robert Edgar

A senator or a congressman's faith should never be called into question based on their support or opposition to a particular nominee.

David Spooner

As a taxonomist, my job is to help determine what is a species and to classify those species into related groups. Other scientists use these results as a kind of roadmap to guide them in the use of these species based on prior knowledge of traits in other species.

Steve Erickson

As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.

Dwight Yoakam

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

Larry Wachtel

The bull market only ends on a fundamental reason. It ends if inflation rises and rates rise. It ends if profits dive. It doesn't end because the Dow goes down on a random day based on program trading.

Sebastian Seung

The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are encoded in connectomes, your personality might be in your connectome. If that's the case, that's the basis of your uniqueness as a person.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

Richard Durbin

As it turns out, the seniors are going to be the victims -- at least for the next few months while they struggle through this terrible transition trying to figure out how many plans to choose from,

Marin Cilic

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

Chris Dutton

Our customers have expressed interest in being able to choose renewable resources and I'm pleased that we will now be able to offer them that choice. Green Mountain Power's overall power mix is already low in fossil fuels, but under our new program, customers can choose 100 percent renewable resources. We've called the program 'Greener Mountain Power' to reflect that greener choice.

Dick Porter

People can come and they may not have 500 varieties to choose from but they may have 300.

Kwek Beng

Once the rules are set, I would know which one would give me a better deal, ... But you also run the danger the partner you want to choose would not be a successful partner. So preferably, if you can, partner with three, four or five of them, or the whole lot. One of them will get it!

Robert Wilson

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Arlen Specter

And there is a lot more to the issue of a woman's right to choose than how you may feel about it personally. We have a long tradition in the court.

John Boehner

aren't forced to choose between relinquishing their identities or being shut out of the program altogether.

Jon Corzine

I've always said I'd choose nominees with impeccable credentials and distinguished experience.

Natwar Singh

As a senior leader and member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), I do not have the freedom to go to the town or for verbal overkill,

John Sullivan

As a result, Town Meeting and the Finance Committee have been voting in the blind. My goal is to make sure that doesn't happen again.

David Larson

promote better communication and make committee work more streamlined.

Jeff Sessions

Are we going to demand that they come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and renounce their faith before they become a federal judge?

Jim Herring

(The selection committee is) designed to be a filtration process, to, in effect, kick the tires. In my judgment, it's a systemic (problem). This is simply the tip of the iceberg.

Colen Garrow

The stance the committee has taken probably provides a useful reminder that the easier interest-rate cycle has bottomed.

Bernard Franklin

The staff review committee noted the unique relationship between the university and the Seminole Tribe of Florida as a significant factor. The decision of a namesake sovereign tribe, regarding when and how its name and imagery can be used, must be respected even when others may not agree.

Howard Archer

The testimonies to the Treasury Select Committee reinforce the impression that interest rates are set to remain on hold for several months to come.

Joni Comstock

South Florida was a very interesting team for the committee to review. They had some good wins that were important to us.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

Frank Anderson

Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.

James McKenzie

People have a lot of misconceptions about the district. I just want to get the information out there so they know what is going on.

Fadela Chaib

After SARS they know they should really provide timely information about what is going on.

Shawn Henderson

Once we get through the process, more information will be available.

Norman Siegel

The more information that they issue would shed more light on what actually happened.

Sam Miller

The more information that's out there, the better.

Denise Sposato

The size of our mailing is competitive information and we do not reveal our figures.

Nancy Howe

The study is really about listening to women and getting information from them about themselves.

Mark Nation

The SWAT team members needed as much information as possible. I don't think that happened.

Gil Ferran

Sometimes, I find all that talk slightly insulting. Especially questions like that after I've won a race. I read all that stuff and I know where it all comes from but I don't have any privileged information to share with you.

Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Isaiah Stanback

Louis was going to surprise a lot of people, but he wasn't going to surprise us. What he did in that game, he can do more.

Matt Gifford

If St. Louis is 1A (as a sports town in Missouri), Springfield is 1B.

John Davidson

People I know purchased the St. Louis Blues. It's a purchase in principle. They don't own the team yet. The sale has to be ratified by the league. For me to speculate what I might do with the St. Louis Blues, well, they don't even own the team yet. I don't have anything to tell anybody.

Lorenzo Booker

I'm like from St. Louis on that one - the 'Show Me State'.

Michael Clayton

You can't picture something natural doing something like that. It's devastating. People in Louisiana haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time. This was one of the most powerful hurricanes Louisiana has ever had to take on.

David Stern

It was important to the Hornets and the NBA that we maintain a presence in Louisiana in anticipation of a return to New Orleans next season.

Wes Brown

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Tom Cail

A very nice guy, very nice. Oswaldo had a lot of friends in here after he started meeting all of us.

Samuel Johnson

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. ... Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Tim Morgan

People tell stories that they meet and end up getting married.

Ben Wilcox

People are still going to meet in restaurants. They may just have to pay their own way.

Curtis Crews

Originally we started with only meeting once a month but we realized that it was taking too long, so we went to meeting twice a month. Once we get the new members on the committee, we should be able to get moving on it.

Mike McCarley

Once we have all revenue, we will meet our projections and be profitable.

Ruben Escudero

These mines can't operate unless they meet minimum standards.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Jin Yan

Safety and quality of all the Olympic venue projects are under control.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Andy Murray

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Shaun White

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Shaun White

I didn't understand how big a thing the Olympics are until I showed up here.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

W. S. Gilbert

I saw rowing in the Olympics and I said, 'I want to do that. That's my sport,' ... I had always been a swimmer, but when I saw rowing, I said, 'That's it.'

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Hillary Clinton

There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Jim Colborn

He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and respected.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

John Spiak

This year we received more entries than we ever had.

Tyler Barnes

To say that we haven't received any (complaints) would not be true, but it has only been a handful.

Derek Waugh

As a team we don't have it. Whatever it is, we don't have it. If we had it, we could be pretty good. But until we get it, we're not.

Josh McCown

As a team we went out and got a win when we were 0-3 and that's what it's all about," ()

Gerald Henderson

As a team we understand we can get so many buckets at the rim. We've been working on that, trying to get better at it in games.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Casey Todd

Our team trusts Erin with their lives. She?s our general.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Jay Thomas

Northwestern has always been a tough team to play, and we have to play them on the road, which will make it tougher.

Ryan Harden

Northeast, I think is the team to beat.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alfred North Whitehead

I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.