Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vito Fossella

Goodbye and good riddance, ... The IFC will not stand on the hallowed grounds of the World Trade Centre site.

Jeremy Bates

He's gone from no stage to centre stage in a very short period of time,

John Bercow

There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.

Steve Bruce

When he was leaving Celtic, Gordon Strachan said to me: 'You'll not work with a better centre forward'.

Michael Brown

Paula, the federal Government did not even know about the convention centre people until today.

Robert Barany

Close investigations, however, proved something more namely that within such a centre there was also localization with regard to joints.

Maria Valverde

In Madrid, there's a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one of the big film posters and saying, 'I want to be up there.' That was my dream, and I got it.

Philippe Petit

I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.

Javier Solana

the centre of gravity should be the United Nations.

Jack Straw

What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.

Karl Rove

The world is full of people who are discerning, and we need to recognize that concrete information told with honesty and specificity and integrity is important to the ultimate success in this conflict.

Lee Wooten

The construction of a concrete dam can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to in excess of a million dollars to get the dam completely fixed up.

Mark Proctor

The manager hopes to have something concrete by Monday or Tuesday. We're looking at several players and we'll have something lined up soon but we're still looking.

Nong Duc Manh

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

Scott Siegel

We're going to get a much longer life span out of them. We're doing them with stucco and concrete foundations.

Callan McAuliffe

I don't like concrete jungles.

Rick Heinrich

We're still looking at the tire and trying to find a concrete determination as to why the tire went down. We don't know if it was a puncture or wear-related at this point.

Eric Takamura

We're going to continue the patching of the pipes where there are cracks. Where we can, we're going to put a sleeve around it. Then, we're going to pour the concrete jacket.

Hu Jintao

I hope my visit will strengthen dialogue, deepen cooperation.

Richard Boucher

Their transparency and cooperation in resolving this matter is a strong example of how states should respond in complying with their obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Johannes P. Muller

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

Jim Dyke

The law says in order to be an independent expenditure, it can not be made in cooperation, consultation or coordination at the request or even at the suggestion of the candidate. Is someone suggesting she has no knowledge of her husband's campaign?

Bela Anda

The main point of the talks will be economic relations, especially cooperation in the energy sector.

Wen Jiabao

The developing countries themselves should also strengthen cooperation and help each other,

James Sung

And he can help communicate with these institutions for cooperation in relation to financial matters.

Phil Anderson

There were a number of difficult issues we had to work through. Providing meaningful fishing opportunities wouldn't be possible without strong cooperation between the state, the tribes and our constituents.

John Bolton

This is 'true confessions' time now for the government of Syria . No more obstruction, no more half measures, we want substantive cooperation and we want it immediately.

Michael Jasny

It's yet another layer of environmental impact that offshore oil exploration involves. From cradle to grave, oil and gas hits the environment.

Jerry A. Webman

A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time.

Gwen Moore

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.

Kyle Rase

I talked to the kids about giving free passes, free runners, those are very costly. There was a perfect example of that with all the free runners they had tonight.

Roberto Luongo

Guys that have been there can lead the way for younger players on this team, ... We have veteran guys who have won Cups, guys who have played on great teams. They know what it takes and know what it takes to put pucks in the net. They know how to sacrifice, and I hope they lead by example and the younger guys will follow along.

Patrick Robinson

He's a good example of what can be done wrestling outside of the scholastic program. The vast majority of our kids don't. But they also play other sports. Wrestling is Dan's only thing.

David Poile

Hockey is the ultimate team sport. You have to have all of the pieces working together. My example is I always use is Wayne Gretzky. He would often be in front of the net and get the puck from two guys who were getting the heck pounded out of them in the corner. They were making a lot less than him. They get bloody. Gretzky puts the puck in the net and he gets the glory.

Chris Browne

I think, yes. I think they were trying to make an example out of Mr. Phillips. I think they picked the wrong guy to make an example out of, that's all.

Heber J. Grant

There is no better example of an older brother's love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Jill Paton Walsh

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

Janet Reno

I think what these mothers are doing is an example of what we must do when we see something wrong,

June Jones

He's done a nice job. He's the perfect example of someone who knows his assignments and knows what to do. He gets the most out of his abilities, and he's helped us.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

Meister Eckhart

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Helen Thomas

You're only as good as your last story.

Patrick Kane

When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them.

Bill Johnson

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Marjorie Kelly

Those that perform to a higher standard in serving a variety of stakeholders with excellence and integrity.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

Richard M. Nixon

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

Richard M. Nixon

Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly — gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.

Paul Hatch

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Bill Freeman

I think it's just pride in the United States, period,

William Wordsworth

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Robert Mugabe

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Samuel Johnson

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

Salman Rushdie

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

Salman Rushdie

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.

Wesley Snipes

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

W. S. Gilbert

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Amy Fisher

It was really interesting, ... It was scientific illustration.

Sigmund Freud

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

William Blake

Celebrate your existence!

Whoopi Goldberg

What we're doing is not just about becoming a model. It's bigger than that. It's shining a spotlight on folks who know who they are. They know what they want to do. And in terms of modeling, they're already working. They know what they're doing! They're fantastic!

Voltaire

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

William Hazlitt

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Lily Collins

Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.

Eckhart Tolle

In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

John Dryden

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Kim Edwards

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Henri Nouwen

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Honore de Balzac

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Richard Powers

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Samuel Wilson

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Robert M. Pirsig

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

Zhang Ziyi

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

Marc Benioff

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Narendra Modi

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.