Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Bob Dole

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

Diane Sawyer

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Bruce Jenner

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

Ed Markey

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

George Hunter

Everybody knew Eddie and everyone called him that -- not mayor,

Stone Gossard

For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it.

Eddie Guerrero

I know Eddie would want the show to go on,

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Warren Sapp

Once you've sat at the king's table, you know what it's like. That's a feast that everybody is going to be trying, ... It's a matter of us just repeating our success. It sounds crazy. But we do it one day at a time.

John Senden

You've got to think about winning, because everybody thinks about winning playing on this tour. If you're within two or three at the turn, maybe you have a chance.

Roy Young

You never plan that. You always plan everybody to come home at the same time. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. Jeremy was a good guy.

Jim McAlpin

We're looking forward to the next week or two. We'll get everybody healthy and move some people around. It should be a fun last two weeks of the season.

James Salter

There are writers for whom names mean nothing; everybody could be called John and Elizabeth, and the writing would be just as good. A name, of course, is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Thuy Trang

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

Daniel Barcelo

While the refining outlook is expected to remain highly profitable through 2007, the equities have for the most part priced this in.

Hector Ruiz

We had a fourth quarter that was better than most people expected and, frankly, a little healthier than we expected.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Jay Haas

No. 4 really turned things around. I never expected to make four there.

Rosemary Mahoney

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.

David Vitter

The situation has gotten a lot better. The water is not rising right now in New Orleans.

Rich Aurilia

The one thing I wish would have happened was we would have scored one more run for Milton. I wish he could have gotten a win out of that instead of a no-decision.

Timothy Ghriskey

So the message here, spread your investments around, ... If you've gotten hurt this year in technology, learn from that and diversify your investments.

David Hunt

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.

Alan Thicke

The Seavers would have properly registered all firearms. They would have obeyed all the rules about firearms. And they would also have gotten training. ... Growing Pains

Ron Artest

I should have gotten myself more involved in the first nine minutes. I had to have gotten myself more involved in the first quarter.

Bucky Dent

The rivalry's gotten back to where it used to be.

Keith Bulluck

This is a team that, yes, is young, but we're trying to get better every week. Obviously, we haven't gotten over that hump.

William Kristol

The White House has now gotten itself in the worst of all possible worlds. She's a stealth candidate, but now she's not a stealth candidate, and she's not a distinguished candidate,

Ed Perlmutter

This is a personal issue because it holds out hope for a lot of people.

Mary McCarty

The way this thing is playing out, Commissioner Addie Greene holds this thing in her hands.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Estella Olguin

We think his name is David, but we don't know. He doesn't talk. He is very clingy. He will not let go of whoever is holding him.

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

Ron Sisler

When you can hold a team to under a 10-spot every quarter, you're doing the job. I think they understand the concept.

John Williams

The plans have been put on hold for the time being.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Tracey Baker

I'm always trying to hold her back from running, because she trips a lot.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Ayatollah Ali

Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

John Talbot

The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Katarina Witt

She took a day of rest, which is fine. She is physically prepared, and maybe she doesn't need that day of pressure with everyone watching her.

Ken Woods

People wouldn't stop talking to us. I don't know why that was. Maybe it's the way we approached them.

Edward Snyder

People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.

Jonah Raskin

Poets now read all over the place, but at that time they didn't - if they were famous, they maybe read at the Museum of Modern Art.

Joanna Lumley

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

Sonya Davis

My grandfather told me not to give up yet because maybe they're still out there,

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Rick Forney

There's none of that just-down-to-the-foundation devastation that we saw out of Mississippi after Katrina.

Reuven Paz

None of these terrorists shows any remorse. They are proud of what they do.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Brian Eno

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Bram Fischer

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Mark Koenig

It was not something our competitors did. It was different, so we got questions about it.

Pat Hanlon

There's a lot of questions that need to be answered.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Benjamin Disraeli

To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

George H. W. Bush

even better and stronger than before the storm.

Roy Colsey

You have to give it to Yorktown they were too deep, they had a stronger team and it showed.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Richard Butler

After I said that to him, Aziz replied: 'then we can't talk any further.'

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Brian Chesky

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.