Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meg Garlinghouse

The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how individual actions can make any impact. We are hopeful that Yahoo!'s Earth Day campaign will illustrate that if we act as a global community, together we can make a difference. We encourage citizens everywhere to embrace our collective responsibility to protect the earth for future generations.

Vladimir Litvin

The people will not benefit from this. The people's homes will not get warmer. It is nakedly clear that actions by those who are responsible for this sector are neither professional nor competent. Those people have triggered the gas crisis in relations with Russia.

William Dempkowski

The pledge says 'I won't smoke in the high school and I won't smoke on school grounds. The last part says I will try by my actions to be a positive influence and help my friends so they don't smoke.

Raul Gonzalez

We are prepared to defend the EO. We have anticipated these actions by various sectors,

Michael Capellas

We are aggressively taking the appropriate actions to restore the company's growth and financial performance. The realignment of the company is fully underway, our management team is basically in place and we already offer the powerful solutions and range of products customers need to maximize Internet benefits.

Dan Stein

We believe that the actions and rhetoric of the Mexican government constitute an attempt to infringe on the sovereignty of the United States, and we urge an immediate and strong response from the Bush administration.

Alan Lacy

We believe that Sears Canada shareholders should consider the actions of the senior management and the largest independent shareholder when making a decision with respect to whether to tender their Sears Canada common shares.

Chuck D.

We appreciate the length of service and time that Carla had provided to the Art Center, and we also support the actions that were taken (to fire Kelly).

Stefan Pryor

We want people to observe how we protect the old as we build the new. It's critical that people have the opportunity to observe the smaller actions that make a big difference.

The Dhammapada

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule

John Bryant

This merger represents an exciting opportunity. It gives us much larger critical mass, but growth doesn't cease with this merger.

Jeffrey Hunter

It's a great way to give back. Without volunteers, trails would cease to exist.

James Allen

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.

Mike Adams

Actually, there are really only two questions that run through all these cases; 1) does the United States Constitution cease to exist once one crosses the Georgia State line and, 2) if so, what is a governor to do about it?

Piet Mondrian

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.

Samantha Power

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

Thomas Fuller

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

K. Chesterton

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Daniel Merideth

We always have concerns about him coming to work but he loved his work so much, he was going to do it until he retired.

Pete Hertler

We always have a good time coming to this tournament. We played well and fought hard in our games. The wind made it tough on the hitters, so pitching and defense took over.

Jerry Green

We always enjoyed the picnic, especially when it was in Bushkill Park and had the rides for the kids. This year we had to hold off because of the disaffiliation situation. With the new officers coming in, we didn't have time. But we'll go back to it next year.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Mark Potok

The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Louis Malle

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Bakhtiar Amin

About 150 families were killed, and hundreds of families were deported from there, and they destroyed the village, they destroyed the orchards,

Richard Lobb

Any flock ... with avian influenza will be destroyed on the farm.

Avery Johnson

A very disappointing loss, a disappointing way to end our road trip. Their point guards destroyed us. It's that simple. They destroyed us.

Dale Brown

Destroyed it. Wiped it out. It's not there.

John Elliot

A plane is totally destroyed and more than 50 percent of the passengers have survived, ... a miracle.

Dan Grossman

The Senate took the fine work Rep. May did in the House of Representatives and destroyed it.

Jim Boyd

I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career.

Gerry Adams

It's not just a matter of meeting. It's a matter of engagement, of dialogue, of discussion, of discourse, of listening, and Sinn Fein is in a proactive listening mode.

Brian Higgins

This matter is not closed. I will persist until Sinn Fein staff, those who have become instrumental in the movement towards peace and the implementation of the Good Friday Accords, are removed as well.

Gerry Kelly

Sinn Fein is totally opposed to intimidation of any type no matter where it comes from or who it is aimed at.

Martin McGuinness

Sinn Fein is not going to the negotiating table to strengthen the union -- we are going to the negotiating table to smash the union.

Mitchell Reiss

And it's time for Sinn Fein to be able to say that explicitly, without ambiguity, without ambivalence, that criminality will not be tolerated.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Lisa Stanford

It's one of the worst forms you can have. There's not always a good outlook of this.

Cyrus Broacha

As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.

Dave Morris

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

Andrew Williamson

Banqueting forms an integral part of doing business.

Alan Greenspan

of interest-only loans and the introduction of more-exotic forms of adjustable-rate mortgages are developments of particular concern.

Ameen Rihani

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

Michael Orchin

Sometimes being a friend to wildlife means you can't always be friendly to all forms of wildlife.

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Denis Leary

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

Bernard Laporte

If we win, I don't see how Ireland could better our points difference.

George Bernard Shaw

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

John Cooney

Middle-class Ireland has effectively become a la carte Catholics.

Gregory Peck

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Lady Gregory

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

Mo Mowlam

The last thing the people of Northern Ireland need now is an outbreak of recriminations,

James Joyce

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

John McGahern

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

Alan Jay Lerner

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Dean Acheson

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Byron Katie

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

Kathleen Marvelli

They kind of want to run away from it. They think, 'this (gift) proves to her how much I love her.' They feel they will be judged by what they give.

Joe Mesi

It's not supposed to prejudice a judge, but judges are only human,

Mark Moller

It's the question of independence. Is she as a judge going to be the person who will stand up and tell the president no when he's doing something he shouldn't be doing?

Robert Gottlieb

This is the right decision, and the judge should be commended.

Toby Dawson

It's a little frustrating. But you take what you get. That's what you get for having a judged sport.

Lena Wosik

They really nailed her on the interview. The judges were ruthless.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Brian Eno

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Jennifer Rodriguez

Wow! I'm really touched. This means a lot to me.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

Jimmy Smith

We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

David Cook

There's a lot of flatland in Texas and in the northern part of the state.

Tom Greene

It's all Northern Telecom. It was U.S. selling; they just started selling it and it took a lot of the other tech stocks with it.

Bruce LaRoque

Rapids and Roseau have had a long-standing rivalry. Sometimes you like to see the two northern schools not playing (each other in the first round), but I suppose the southern schools could say that, too.

Ryan Cartwright

Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.

Scott Pfister

Southern Vermont is worse than northern Vermont. At least in northern Vermont we did get a little precipitation over the weekend. We didn't get a whole lot, but there was a little bit.

James Nesbitt

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

John Tucker

You get those from the Northern perspective and those from the Southern perspective and I don't think we get more of one than the other.

Judi Larkin

One player is in Australia. And another is out with a shoulder injury. Also, being in the northern part of the country, we struggle with our weather.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Alberto Fujimori

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

Dan Brown

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Tim Kaine

To beat terrorism, there's only one candidate who can do it and it's Hillary Clinton.

Shahrukh Khan

There is no religion of terrorism.

Shashi Tharoor

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

George W. Bush

Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.

George W. Bush

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

Gijs de Vries

We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

Edward James Olmos

Education is a vacine for violence

Aasif Mandvi

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Carl Jung

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

Bo Derek

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Betty Williams

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

Masipula Sithole

The violence has not worked. If anything at all, it has backfired.

Benito Mussolini

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Jane Campion

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Jane Goodall

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Alan Watts

We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

Alan Moore

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

Alan Moore

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

Alan Moore

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

Alan Greenspan

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

Alan Colmes

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Brian Dawkins

They have some weapons over there, ... We're going to have to come and play. And I think we know that.

Iain Banks

Tell me, what is happiness? - Use of Weapons

Douglas Coupland

NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON

Adolf Hitler

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Abu Bakar Bashir

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Aldrich Ames

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

Alexander Ovechkin

My weapon isn't my shot. It's me.

E. P. Thompson

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.