Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Gail Kelly

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

Ellen G. White

Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.

Veton Surroi

The political negotiations ... should be within a framework in which there is active international facilitation and participation.

John Winters

The overnight rain will be absorbed by the dry ground and lessen the intensity of the active fire, but is not enough to extinguish the fires.

Tim Curley

The Penn State family wants to be actively involved in helping the people of the Gulf Coast. Many people have contacted us and we expect a good response from our loyal fans.

Bob O'Donnell

The outlook in the United States remains fairly strong despite the impact of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma and rising fuel costs on consumer confidence. Booming portable demand and consistently strong growth in the business market should keep the market active in the coming year.

Ben Macintyre

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

David Walton

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

Patricia Polacco

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

Troy Thygerson

With the expectations of our community for small classroom sizes, we must prepare new classroom space before we qualify for new construction.

Jim Crawford

Midyear adjustments are less about moving teachers to new classrooms and more about how within a building, what options there are for assigning kids in. As a last resort, we might get a situation where we actually move a student to a neighboring school.

Michael Pockl

We involved the public throughout phase one, including making the decision on whether we had one middle school or two. At the individual schools, the teachers had input on where the classrooms were located and what they would look like.

John Briggs

It is different seeing it on stage than reading it in the classroom or seeing one of the film versions.

Marsha Blackburn

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

Mary Coleman

We educate a well-prepared, diverse workforce. The students who learn in diverse classrooms know how to take that cross-cultural understanding into America's industries.

Frank Moretti

We really see this as a way to liberate classrooms from the necessity of providing one-to-many communication.

Stephen Hughes

Ninety-nine to 138 students is not an insignificant number. You're looking at three or four classrooms in schools that are already pushing 100 percent capacity.

Tom Segev

Most Israelis are tired of the big decision. It is as if they're saying to the politicians do your thing and leave me alone. This used to be a very deeply divided society. For 40 years, we have been debating about the future of the territories, and people now feel that question has been decided.

Scott Nolte

We hope that when families leave, they will spend the rest of the night debating the play. It raises a lot of disquieting questions.

Jeff Wagner

I don't have any negative opinions about him. I think he's a gentleman, and I look forward to debating the issues with him.

Jen Bluestein

Freddy is going to speak from the heart to all New Yorkers, and he is especially looking forward to debating Mike Bloomberg himself instead of Bloomberg's $50 million smear machine,

Randy Daniels

We're not going to spend the next ten years debating what should happen here.

Pope Shenouda III

Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.

Tuppence Middleton

I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don't know whether he would end up looking like himself. I'd be really sad if he looked strange.

Jim Amoss

Our group stood in the parking lot, debating the right thing to do. They had three options, take the items, take them and pay for them later, or put them back.

Dana Johnson

What we're spending our time debating is whether the Fed goes a quarter point or a half point.

Joseph Biden

The American public must become engaged on this issue,

Scott Rudin

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

Patricia Schroeder

The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.

Mads Mikkelsen

The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.

Dana Tofig

We hope that all students are keeping up with his or her work, getting targeted help ... and are engaged in their classes. If that's the case, then for most students the CRCT should not be something to be nervous about.

John Cahill

He remains fully engaged in the issues facing the state right now.

Michael Deaver

When we were engaged in the intensive parts of the investigation or trial preparation, I did not have time for anything else.

Richard Peddie

What we're missing out on is the single game sales and when you start the season 1-15, that doesn't get the heart racing. People aren't engaged yet.

John Barton

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

Scott Sandelin

You always talk about a team forming an identity. You know, I don't know if we have yet. It's kind of a mystery.

Phil Hardberger

Nobody is tied to a special interest, none that I can discern, which means they are all independent, and that is so important to forming a team, because if you have somebody who is sold out to a special interest they're never going to get along.

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

Matthias Platzeck

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

Elizabeth Thornton

Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.

Rob Reiner

We are more than willing to get involved in forming a new system.

Brent Trout

This would be another step for Boone in biotech and value-added agriculture to push that marketing niche we're forming in our community.

John Newton

I think a lot of it is a forming of attitudes. I think, primarily, they know our name but they don't know much about us.

Steve Kolenda

We're just forming this on our own. We're just going to give people another voice.

Mark Smith

That would be the ultimate ideal of utilizing Louisiana music.

Joe Eberhardt

We have more inventory than we'd ideally like.

Pontus Hulten

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

Tom Sears

Justin is one of several possibilities that we are looking at. I met Justin several times last summer and he was obviously an ideal candidate.

Laura Halldorson

I think ideally we would like to stick with a lineup here down the stretch. That would be the goal, but I'm not going to rule out the possibility of tweaking it if we think we need to at some point.

Jonathan Stroud

When I think about my ideal free day, it usually involves going into London and sitting in a nice coffeehouse with cake and coffee, but I would probably still have my notebook in my pocket.

John Rash

NBC and advertisers would ideally like to have maximum momentum moving into the Olympics in order to promote them.

Donny Robinson

I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make.

Jan Egeland

I'd like to say that the United States has been ideal in the way they have responded.

Sidney Poitier

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

Eric Hoffer

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

Shannon Elizabeth

I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.

Seymour Papert

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

Zig Ziglar

Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.

David Byrne

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Jim Adams

We're already working on getting prices on materials for the building.

Brian Reed

We have so much material that it is actually crippling.

Peter Diamandis

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Francis Bacon

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Danny Walker

Until there's a research question, the material is preserved better in the cave.

Kenneth Fisher

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

Maria Semple

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

Philip Rivers

When it's all over -- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, mid-January -- then I can just play out every scenario in my head.

Ulysses Yannas

I suspect the scenario is they'll get themselves an extension.

Dan Scott

Worst-case scenario would be a strike starting Monday.

Christian Prudhomme

It's important to have a new freshness. To have scenarios that no one is anticipating and no one can control.

Jamie Kritzer

It was just a scenario of where the winds changed. We would not have proceeded if we thought the wind was going to change.

Lucrecia Tam

This is a worse scenario than we had anticipated.

James Blake

Every different scenario was going through my head,

Rich Glas

We didn't make enough plays. That's been the scenario of our season.

William Mezger

Most of them are students and don't work at other times of the year.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Brian O'Reilly

We don't want to penalize students for something that was not their fault.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Steve Ferguson

What we want to do is make sure that students who come to Bloomington are already prepared.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Jim Henderson

Until now students take the tests and nothing is done with the information.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.