Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Braley

The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because the founding members felt like there wasn't enough focus on middle class issues in Washington, and we're going to keep it focused on middle class issues.

Martin O'Malley

We have to wrap this imperative of addressing climate change in a prosperity framework, and secondly we have to do a much better job of putting forward an American jobs agenda that's a match for the climate challenge.

Richard Powers

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Paul Tonko

Many climate change deniers would have you believe that addressing climate change is all pain and no gain. This is simply not true. We can tackle this challenge while improving our personal health and the health of our economy. These are not competing interests; they go hand in hand.

Oscar Arias

Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.

Peter Bicks

Merck faces a challenge in future trials of addressing the company's behavior.

Stephen Cooper

While the company still faces serious challenges, we believe we are addressing the critical issues.

Mike Blouin

You can have the most state?of?the?art facility, but if you don't have the staff there to deal with it, you're not addressing the real safety issues.

Greg Sullivan

Windows makes it really easy to pick whatever software you want to use and whatever service you want to use, ... We're really focused on addressing the needs of our customers and developing a platform that all of our partners can build on, and add value to, to provide the greatest customer choice.

Constance Marie

I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.

Chet Faker

Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

Travis Strack

The American Red Cross is a nonprofit organization, and we greatly appreciate all of the financial assistance we can get from the community. But it must continue so that we can maintain the level of assistance that we are able to provide.

Carlos Slim

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

Conrad Brooks

That was too goddamn long. They just gabbed and gabbed. There are so many bad movies out there. They're trash. They're garbage. When you see a good B movie, you appreciate it!

Marcellus Sommerville

That was the coaches' idea for us to go up and thank them. It was a great feeling to let them know we appreciate their coming all this way, staying with us during the season.

Norm Stamper

That won a standing ovation from the police. It made me appreciate that I'm going into a number of venues where I'll be talking to police officers.

Dexter Scott King

We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened.

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Timothy Noah

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Glenn Tipton

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

Matt Groening

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Wyclef Jean

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Randy Carlyle

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.

Abraham Lincoln

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Gerhard Schroeder

The pictures we've seen on TV are difficult to bear.

Susan Burke

The pictures are just the tip of the iceberg. I don't think we'll have difficulty because there's a heck of a lot of evidence.

Brian Cox

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.

Nash Grier

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Alan Johnston

That was the most difficult game we played this season.

Rob Andrew

That was rubbish. Two teams having a real off-day. It's difficult to explain performances like that.

Manny Fernandez

We have all been humbled by Hurricane Katrina,

Nomaindia Mfeketo

I'm humbled that it comes from our country's and our continent's youth.

Cathy Schulman

We are humbled by the other nominees in this category. You have made this year one of the most breathtaking and stunning maverick years in American cinema.

M. Thompson

We're just humbled by the miracle of the whole thing.

Norm Coleman

I am so humbled by the love and outpouring of support.

Rudi Giuliani

I want to say that I was very humbled and very moved by the selection by Time magazine,

Charles Davis

It was tough, ... It teaches you a lot -- a lot of humility. You're humbled real quick.

John Jay

We got humbled (today). We need to scratch and claw to get our way back into a competitive mindset.

A. R. Rahman

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

C. S. Lewis

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

C. S. Lewis

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C. S. Lewis

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

C. S. Lewis

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Cecelia Ahern

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

Carrie Fisher

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

Carl Sagan

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Gary Apodaca

We just didn't come ready to play; I could see it when we were warming up. We were there physically but not mentally, and we had a long talk after the game.

Miguel Angel Silvestre

I studied physical therapy, and I started to study theater because my aunt is a theater director.

Bob Gansler

Just his physical presence (6-foot-5, 210) scares the you-know-what out of you.

Hannah Simone

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

Domhnall Gleeson

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

Ricardo Patton

I think I'm playing too many guys. I need to find a rotation that will play physical in a physical league.

Tina Martin

We'll get those results, brace her, get her into physical therapy and see if she'll be able to play in the tournament.

Dave Duncan

To be a vert guy, you have to train and put on your gear. It's physically demanding.

Jon Gruden

You'd have to take a big yellow excavator to get me out of here. I'm here for the long haul, unless someone comes and physically removes me.

Gloria Gaither

I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

C. S. Lewis

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

C. S. Lewis

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

C. S. Lewis

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Yolanda King

We have all prayed in our own ways ... There's been a lot going on.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.

Bill Burton

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

H. Hart

We just didn't finish. That's been our problem all year.

Lydia Parnes

We're really not here saying that the spam problem is solved. What we're saying is that we're making progress.

Mark Harmsen

We have had so many problems in our district.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Hilary Clinton

Why would you put all your C-130s in a place with weather problems?

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Beck

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

Kris Janowski

Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated.

Sen. Nass

I think it will receive an even more overwhelming reception in the Senate.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

James Rubin

We received assurances at a variety of levels.

Chris Beard

We received a lot of user requests for this.

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.

Harold Williams

I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it turns out one of our dealers say someone like Symes turns out to be a fence?

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Erik Crawford

We had opportunities to step up and make plays, and we didn't.

Rajon Rondo

We've got so many talented guys. As long as someone's stepping up, we don't need a (consistent threat), but in the long run, we'll need someone consistent.

Sidney Govou

We've made a big step towards the title.

David McClure

I thought he stepped up real big." ()

Johnny Whitaker

We are not stepping back to a time when we are going to have anything even approaching hazing.

Mike Canales

We'll find a guy. We'll wait and see who steps up.

Ken Sprague

We were intimidated before we stepped on the court.

Helio Castroneves

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

Dick Pound

I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying,

Carl Sagan

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Art Alexakis

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Austin Corson

We have a lot of support from our families.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it will have the support of the American people, and it will be sustained and we will be successful.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Hank Aaron

I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

Jack Bass

I won't support it, ... I don't want anything to do with (Shirley).

Jeff Moore

I was there for (Gwen) but I couldn't do anything for her. You can't do anything. They're all on their own, and you got to support them.

Sally Pacheco

To go this long and have all that stress, we have to have support from somewhere.

Brian Anderson

It took a surgery to get me here.

John Walke

Streamlining is one thing. Amputation surgery is another -- and that's what we're talking about here.

Vonetta Flowers

Without that, the surgery would not have been possible.

Terry Greene

The surgery went pretty well. There was nothing unexpected.

Sandra Bernhard

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

Shizuka Arakawa

I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it.

Irina Slutskaya

I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it.

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Bruce Bennett

He was a wordsmith. A blacksmith works with metal, he worked with words.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.