Famous Quotes & Sayings

Megan Smith

The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

Ernest Mandel

After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.

Ron Redmond

After more than a quarter of a century of misrule, much still remains to be done to rebuild the country. Overall, the conditions are in place for refugees to return to their country in safety and dignity.

Robert Pinsky

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think.

Lori Smith

We've seen a dramatic shift in the '80s and '90s and into this century with more political involvement by women, and I think that's a good thing.

Twyla Tharp

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

Steve Forbes

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

David Dreier

We want the Y2K problem to be the last crisis of the 20th century and not the first crisis of the 21st century.

Condoleezza Rice

For this institution to become an engine of change in the 21st century it must now change itself,

Chet Culver

As a lifelong Iowan who has been a farmer, a registered nurse, a small businesswoman, a state senator and secretary of agriculture, Patty has spent her life devoted to her community and her state.

Jen Schlegel

Our theme is, ?Every walker counts in a community that cares,? because a walk like this shows the number of people who do care. I think the numbers speak loudly and are overwhelming that this is a great place to live.

Jeff Corey

are the types of tragedies that impact entire communities.

Danny Saenz

A positive response has occurred and we hope to continue to work together with the community to have a nicer place to live.

Mariana Boneo

The site is not perfect. There are a lot of community members that feel uncomfortable about that.

Alan Goldberg

The scientific community would like to go to in vitro approaches. They're quicker, offer better information, and are more humane.

Linda Williams

is honored for her dedication and generosity of resources and time given to projects enriching lives and enhancing the community through the arts.

John McNeil

I've been very happy serving in a smaller school. It's a way of life for me. The interests of mine and the community have been the same. Rural schools have been my life. Montana is one of the most rural states. There's a need to educate every kid in the state.

Kurt Woerner

I've been doing this job (in different cities) for 25 years. This is only the third time in any community that I've seen anything this bad.

Bruce Lee

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

Bruce Arena

What defines where you can rate yourself is the World Cup. You have to show what you are about at the World Cup. Hopefully we will get to show what we can do.

Mark Stevenson

We have to stop being defined by what we own, and start being defined by what we create.

Richard Holbrooke

In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.

LeBron James

I don't think so. I got the first two years out of the way, and that's when you usually do it. I don't want to be defined as being in the slam dunk contest, it's just not me.

Sebastian Coe

Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

Ginni Rometty

Don't let others define you. Define yourself.

Andrew Pyper

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Orson Card

Most people I know are trying very hard to be good people ... that's how we define virtue,

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.

Joe Browne

Some people, you can tell if they want it bad. He always was a kid who wanted to be a good player. He had that will and desire to play. Everyone around the pool room saw that.

Baha'u'llah

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Janet Guthrie

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

Dan Ariely

individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

Farida Karoney

It was about midnight when hooded men raided our offices and ordered the night duty staff to switch off the transmission.

Woodrow Wilson

I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you

Jane Austen

She was determined, as she felt it to be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive.

Henry Silverman

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Ken Bacon

It's something that's on their mind every minute of the day when they're on duty and frequently when they're off duty as well.

John Selden

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice asonerous a duty

Alexander Hamilton

I think the first duty of society is justice

Anthony Bailey

There are going to be at least three security guards on duty at all times,

Bono

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Kim Fields

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Britney Spears

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.

Alison Lewis

You can never predict ratings. It's more about the association with these marquee entertainment events.

Mike Goodman

A statute like this is much more likely to come out of Europe, where the entertainment industry is not as powerful of a force.

Rita Mae Brown

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Jim Morrison

TV on handsets is rubbish. People won't pay to get TV on their mobile phones. Imagine watching it on a train. You'd lose signal as soon as you entered a tunnel.

Bible Bible

With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

Harold E. Varmus

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

Jodi Olson

He was at a point in his life where he was retired. And he had expressed this was the happiest point in his life.

Larry Garza

He never expressed anything to me about pain.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Simon Le Bon

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Tinie Tempah

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

Andrej Pejic

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Sylvia Plath

And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.

Jean-Francois Cope

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Khaled Hosseini

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Jeff Goldblum

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Nikki Giovanni

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Oprah Winfrey

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

Terry Brooks

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Cesar Chavez

It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.

Al Gore

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.

bell hooks

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

Brian Weiss

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

Brene Brown

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

Deepak Chopra

Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.

Drew Barrymore

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

Douglas Sirk

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Shane Carruth

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

George Henderson

I am very appreciative the members thought enough of me to make me their president.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Alexander Pope

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

Alice Cary

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Ronald Reagan

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

John Dryden

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.