Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Schneider

Activity is the mother's milk of the securities industry and activities of all sorts was very strong for these reporting periods.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.

Sergei Ivanov

Many terrorists who have committed terrible crimes in the past and who operated in Chechnya are staying in Georgia now and of course they are full of new plans for terrorist operations. All that is taking place just 10 to 20 kilometers from the Russia state border, so we can't sit and watch those activities indifferently.

Jonathan Eunice

Many companies will not feel safe from privacy, service availability, or regulatory-compliance perspectives having all of their activities hosted outside their organizations' firewalls. Even so, they might want the benefits of not having to install software on every system they have.

Stephen Peach

Sharman has thumbed its nose at the court. They were given a chance to do the right thing and they've ruined it. They cannot be trusted to even take the simplest steps towards complying with the court's orders and again have shown they intend to do nothing about the illegal activities occurring on a massive scale on their system.

Robert Butler

Seniors' bodies aren't as resilient as they once were. It's far more important for a 70-year-old woman to stay hydrated than a 30-year-old woman. Fortunately, common-sense measures such as drinking enough water and minimizing strenuous activities can help keep seniors safe in cold winter months.

Kim Edmonds

Seniors and individuals with special needs are the two most under represented groups in the country. That is one of the reasons I enjoy working with both groups. That and the fact that they are so receptive to new activities and they are just so much fun to be with.

Jia Qingguo

So from the Chinese perspective, those people who want to be foreigners should not be given an equal chance to make money here, just to conduct subversive activities in Taiwan.

Helen Keller

So long as I confine my activities to social services and the blind, the newspapers compliment me extravagantly, calling me an 'arch-priest of the sightless' and 'wonder woman'. But when I discuss poverty and the industrial system under which we live that is a different matter.

Bill Muir

As European markets move farther east, Ukraine becomes cost-competitive with our most competitive places.

Rig Veda

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

Roger Launius

As a person excited by the prospect of returning to the Moon, I am thrilled that the United States is finally intent on moving beyond Earth orbit, ... Like everyone, I am curious to see how this plays out over the next few months as project definition becomes more solid. The devil will be in the details.

Alan Black

This is great, this is a step in the right direction, but as we all know in every other sport, district is when the second season starts. So next week is where it really becomes important that we carry on. This is a good sign in that direction.

Harry Edwards

The 'white race' thus becomes the chief victim of its own myth.

Fyodor Dostoevski

There are moments, you reach moments, when all of a sudden time stops and becomes eternal.

Andy Reid

We have had success getting guys through here with this injury, ... I know it's magnified when it's your quarterback or a player of his magnitude. I understand how it becomes magnified, but we have a track record of being able to manage that injury, and we will see if we can't do the same. If he can't function at some point, we'll shut him down.

Meg Whitman

We are very pleased with our second-quarter results. Everyday the eBay marketplace becomes indispensable to more people and small businesses around the world.

Lee H. Hamilton

We don't really have an ethics process any more in the Congress, so that these things are not exposed or considered until this becomes a criminal law case.

Baruch Spinoza

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

Benjamin Banneker

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Brenda Ueland

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

Kenny G

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Deborah Tannen

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Deborah Tannen

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

Karen Johnson

We have a shortage of communication with the district.

Edward Abbey

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Romesh Gunesekera

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Elaine Vogel

This is a place where I can escape to fantasyland.

Elizabeth Hand

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

Alex Hernandez

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

George H. W. Bush

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

Nancy Stewart

Homeowners who live here nine months of the year and go home to escape the heat of our summers are not tourists.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Jun Ishii

Koizumi's victory triggered a rally in stocks and fueled optimism about an escape from deflation.

Joey Estrella

That was big time. In that situation, I would have been happy to escape with two runs scored. That play held them to one and more importantly, it kept the momentum on our side.

Luke Young

Saturday was a big day for myself and my family - it was a qualifier which made it more pressure on myself,

LaDainian Tomlinson

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Jerry Oppenheimer

There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family.

Richard G. Scott

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Jon Radick

We're a strong-knit family. We do everything together.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Mircea Monroe

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Michael Cunningham

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Irving Stone

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

Pam Collins

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Jon Harmon

Steady progress is being made on the issues, but there is still some left to go through. We're looking at several hours left, certainly, if not longer.

Andrea Cook

My sons picked up trash for 21/2 hours one day. The next day, there was so much trash, it looked like we didn't do anything.

Demetri Martin

When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

Charles Moore

In the same way that it's multiple sources, it's multiple solutions.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Brian Bosworth

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Jamie Drummond

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Arthur C. Clarke

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

Brian Cox

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

Bret Easton Ellis

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

Bret Easton Ellis

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

Bob Dylan

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

Jane Jacobs

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.