Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Jefferson

As Hurricane Wilma quickly approaches American soil, I fear that our federal response to emergencies is still lacking, ... could not gather that much has changed about where FEMA stands today as it stood at the time Katrina struck.

Ramani Ayer

As boomers approach retirement age, they want all kinds of flexibility.

Tommy Tuberville

As coaches, we approach any game the same, whether it's a bowl game here or in Atlanta or New Orleans. But the thing we want to do is to make sure the guys enjoy it and have fun. It's supposed to be fun.

Lee Brown

As an industry, maybe we can approach the governor to force CARB to back off and wait for the National Clean Diesel Standards to go into effect, and we can use diesel from more sources (refineries) until then.

Eric Keller

Automating and streamlining Sarbanes-Oxley processes and financial controls with Movaris Certainty delivers increased accuracy, cost-savings and a more comprehensive approach to financial control management.

Rob Wittman

As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

John Cohen

Rankings are great for recruiting, it's great for our fan base, and it's great for these kids to reward, but at the same time, it really doesn't change our approach. As a coach, if it starts to change your approach a little bit, you have to step in and say, hey look, we need to get right back to where we were. Hopefully, we continue on the same path, not worry about those things, and keep battling every single pitch.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

Tom Gavin

Our customer-centric approach does not stop with our development process. To call yourself a partner and not just a vendor, you need more than just great products. Our commitment to a high-touch, client-service model is truly unique. We do not simply install software and hand off a business card with a 1-800 support number. Instead, we focus on providing our clients with highly trained teams of frontline consultants backed up by a host of experts in everything from electronic trading to data transfer services. It is our unique installation, service, and support model that helped us to successfully complete over 70 product implementations in 2005.

Elliott Abrams

The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

Dar Williams

And we looked out to see your enemies and we see that you're looking at us instead.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Enemies think that by ... threatening us, launching psychological warfare or ... imposing embargoes can dissuade our nation to obtain nuclear technology.

Alvin Franco

Everyone you've ever met is actually a part of who you are today. Even your own enemies, the ones who have held you back and, like, disgraced in the past, without them you probably wouldn't have learned the hardships of life.

Joseph Taluto

We expect that the enemies will increase their attacks, particularly as we run up to the referendum,

David Ploss

I don't sense he's made any enemies. By and large, he's well-liked. People are glad that the problems are getting fixed.

William Cowper

Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else, / Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.

Wolfgang Nowak

Merkel is permanently underestimated. All her enemies underestimated her, but where are these enemies now? If she was the weak leader that everybody describes, then she never would have gotten to where she is today.

John Linder

While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.

English 14th Century Proverbs

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.