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.

Miloon Kothari

We know that there has been some excellent work by governments and nongovernmental organizations in the wake of the tsunami -- the speed and scale of the response meant that lives were saved and many predicted outbreaks of epidemics were contained -- but it is not enough.

Massoud Barzani

We have the names of the officials who gave the orders and those who executed them. Everything is contained in these documents,

Rick Rainey

Most of it was contained in our containment system, but some entered into the channel.

Peter Davis

It is difficult to imagine more extreme race hatred than was contained in the material which was seized during this meticulous inquiry.

Dick Bennett

We have not contained point guards at all.

Frank Robinson

We haven't completely shut him down, ... But we contained him.

Tim Thompson

When it is just Brant Quick back in the backfield, I think we could have contained him, ... but trying to contain everything they have... they have a lot of weapons.

Nick Greenwell

We finally stepped it up in overtime and contained them pretty well.

Alan Greenspan

Thus our baseline outlook for the U.S. economy is one of sustained economic growth and contained inflation pressures. In our view, realizing this outcome will require the Federal Reserve to continue to remove monetary accommodation.

Virginia Postrel

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Bonnie Tyler

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

Hugh Jackman

I think I was 5 and singing 'Camelot' on stage. It was always a good way to meet girls. I did musicals, plays. My school encouraged it. We'd do our own productions. It wasn't until I was about 23 that I thought, 'I could give this a shot. I might as well do it.'

Robert Bennett

Judy did nothing that the New York Times did not want her to do. They encouraged her to stay in jail.

W. S. Gilbert

We are obviously encouraged that a market like this could be opening up for us.

John Whisenant

We encouraged them to come back instead of getting them down and holding them down like you would like. I'd like to have the last 3 or 4 minutes over. We got a little tight with the ball, and I was encouraging them to attack.

Ted Young

We encouraged our kids to get off to a good start. That really helped us last year and we thought it was important to do that.

Kunal Kapoor

We're also encouraged that Lyon and his team invest heavily in the shop's funds.

Cecilia Munoz

We do think it's workable. We're encouraged by it.

Hani Durzy

We're working with law enforcement to provide them information that they say would be helpful in helping them pursue a case.

Dr. Klauer

Most of the people I see are very goal-directed, super achievers. That goal-driven mindset is very helpful if one uses it to lose weight and maintain weight.

Charles Simmons

We do want to be helpful if we can,

Arnold Palmer

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

Bill Gates

Being maniacal about something is very helpful.

Ashley Wagner

Covergirl is my sponsor, and they have been so helpful in supplying me with their wonderful products. I love their blush, mascara and lip gloss.

Bootsy Collins

We had no idea how well-connected he was in the industry. And he has a terrific relationship with Snoop, so that was very helpful as well.

Jim Volk

People like the plan. It doesn't mean that the Dow's going straight to 9,000, but this could be relatively helpful for the market.

Ronnie Brown

I think it was still helpful having someone else in the backfield.

Betsey Johnson

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

Phil Schiller

Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone.

David Greenwood

I can't put labels ? on these materials,

Alan Light

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Charles Stross

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Betty Wright

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

Denzel Washington

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

K'naan

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

Jamie Redknapp

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

Ivern Ball

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Bertrand Russell

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

Tom Ridge

We could go back over the past two years and pick out threat reports of pretty much the same substance,

William Shakespeare

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

William Shakespeare

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

William Shakespeare

Remembrance of things past.

Avery Johnson

We'll get past this. But it's just the beginning.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Hannes Smarason

What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.

Scott Mills

We can't go out and be everywhere, ... With the public's help, we are taking these 'grows' down one by one.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Jack Evans

There are not even any discussions about it taking place around here.

Geno Auriemma

I think she's taking it pretty seriously. You know, it's that time of the year.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

David Bailey

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

Kevin Kruger

We've had enough things go wrong this season.

Anthony Schlegel

We've done it for a while. We're just going to keep it rolling. There's nothing wrong with that -- just have a little fun.

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Warren Littlefield

I think if you're not comfortable with change, you're in the wrong business, ... It's all about change.

Tim Woods

Unfortunately sometimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Phyllis Oakley

We are on the wrong track, and we need a fundamental change,

Marc Crawford

Only if it's the wrong message. I know it wasn't wrong.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.