Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Greve

Any industry that confronts cases under consumer protection statutes ? and that is every industry in America ? will breathe a huge sigh of relief after this ruling.

Jen Rizzotti

Any road game in the America East that you can win, no matter how you do it, is a positive. There are a lot of teams that play well at home and Vermont is one of them.

Diane Johnson

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

Cynthia Ozick

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.

Kyan Douglas

As far as the grooming goes, if I'm introducing someone to skin care, I really hope they'll take what I've given them and use that for a long time.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

David Gross

As far as I can tell, these discussions about Internet governance won't put one more computer or one more cell phone or one more anything into the hands of somebody who doesn't have it in Africa, Asia, South America or elsewhere,

Professor Jafar

As far as I can see there is no prospect of America providing nuclear reactors to Pakistan or giving this country the status of a nuclear power - the chances of any such thing is zero.

Jhumpa Lahiri

As he watched, he had an immovable expression on his face, composed but alert, as if someone were giving him directions to an unknown destination.

Mark Calcavecchia

A short hitter has got no chance unless he has a career week with his putter. Only a few guys can win here now ? we all know who they are.

Paul Gimigliano

As as rule we do not comment on the personal career decisions of individual employees.

Shona Thorburn

As a senior it's crazy how fast the games and your career go by. We're playing every game like it's our last, so this one will be a dog fight. We're not going to give up.

Jamie Clark

As a former director of the Fish and Wildlife Service and a career biologist, I know the personal and professional commitment government scientists have to our nation's irreplaceable wildlife. I also know how frustrating it is to not have all of the resources that you need to be able to get the job done.

Philip Virgo

The big raids will be for project management staff so you need to ensure these staff are content and that means providing clear career paths and training opportunities. Many firms haven't been doing this because over the past few years they haven't felt the need to, but that is going to change with all these public sector projects.

David Stern

A two-year suspension for a first offense would, as a practical matter, end the player's career in the vast majority of circumstances.

Jim Sharp

A young kid coming out of college can go into this field and be sure his job is not going to be shipped overseas. He can make a career of it.

Barry Bonds

As long as I'm healthy, I want to give it a try. It might not be here. But I'd hope the Giants would still want me. I'd like to finish my career in this shirt.

Ken Williams

As I've told him twice before, he needs to find another hobby. This one puts his career and his team's chances in jeopardy.

Mike Ditka

A neutral site, that would have been fair. But everything happened so quickly, the league had no choice.

Nicholas Sparks

As for getting the right publisher, many times, you don't end up with much choice in the matter.

Bill Bixby

As a viewer, I want to make the choice as to when to laugh. I don't want to be told. I want to get credit for some kind of intelligence.

Raheem Askia

As a man grows older he has one choice to make, be either a gangster, hustler, playboy, or nerd; I chose all of thee above.

Eugene Dial

The big thing is that the pet population is something that people can do something about. Humans have a choice to do the decent and humane thing. We can walk away from it and ignore it, but I have decided to not walk away from it.

Craig Venter

People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society.

Bob Fuller

Our customers are telling us that they want to be able to download music tracks directly to their phones and our focus now is on extending the choice that we provide.

Jacob Sullum

People should have a choice whether they want to engage in risky activities.

Michael Posner

People think I'm crazy, but for this first festival I wanted to give them a choice and show them what's out there. Fortunately, we have a lot of snowbirds here that can come by and see a matinee. Let's hope they do.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Cliff Floyd

Ramon's just been doing a tremendous job for us. Like I said early in the season, it's going to take all of us.

John Olver

Primitive peoples used biomass, wood, and charcoal for their energy source for heat, running pottery kilns, and early metal processing.

John Rogers

Probably 80 percent of that is folks who were impacted by the storm. We're hoping it's a short-term bump, but it's just too early to say.

Brian Ciemnecki

People should really just kind of stay in and wait out the storm, if at all possible. The roads will be snow-covered and treacherous. Visibility could be down to a quarter-mile for three hours or more during the heaviest snow late Saturday night and in the early morning hours Sunday.

Jerry Miller

People don't realize how susceptible these fields are in the early spring. One cleat mark can rip out the roots and that's it. The grass is gone.

Bill Richardson

North Korea will return to the talks in early November unconditionally,

Brian Grun

Again, we didn't execute very well early and that frustrates me. It was just a matter of having more talent, being taller. Marvin's kids played real hard. It wasn't lack of effort on their part.

Brian Gionta

Once we got up early on them with those three goals, we just stuck with what we were doing.

Marc Short

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

R. Robinson

I would say that it (the visit) is not guaranteed yet,

James Balsillie

These patents are ... guaranteed to go in the garbage. At the end of the day, our position is real simple: Let the system work.

Shay Doron

Nothing is guaranteed in basketball. You never know in sports. We could lose in the first round next year, so we can't take this for granted. We have to do everything in our power to win this national championship now.

Nigel Dawes

We had trouble, myself included, getting pucks through from up top on the 5-on-3s. Every time we have a 5-on-3 should be a guaranteed goal, but at times it seems it's even harder for us. It's something we have to work on.

Allen Sinai

He didn't go to one of the top schools - Harvard or MIT or Stanford or Northwestern. I think that was an advantage. He didn't get brainwashed into one of the doctrines.

Oscar Arias

When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Joker Phillips

I've never seen Tony Dixon work like he has this past off-season. He led all the drills. He was in the weight room. He was even there when he wasn't scheduled to be.

Alan Stern

This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.

Kenny Mayne

I don't regret it at all. It's led to other things.

Kevin Anderson

Mr. Benitez has led a law-abiding life not even a traffic ticket. Nothing.

Hunter S. Thompson

McComb is big and strong up front. They made some mistakes and led us 14-0 at halftime.

Ryan Malone

Mario led the way for us. It was awesome.

Steve Bartos

We had a lot of turnovers on the perimeter, which led to odd-man advantages.

Susanna Clarke

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

Stephen Covey

We don't invent our missions, we detect them.

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

John Belushi

We are on a mission for God.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

Ted Cruz

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Kevin McCarthy

The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossible to take it away. Meaning, making it impossible to repeal Obamacare.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

Rush Limbaugh

The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.

Rush Limbaugh

Obamacare can't work, folks. It just cannot.

Tim Pawlenty

President Obama said that he designed ObamaCare after RomneyCare, and basically made it ObamneyCare.

Rafael Cruz

I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Bill Carr

And we'll be sensitive to that as we look at the potential changes.

Cody Wright

If we have a week of temperatures in the 50s when it's rainy and overcast that turns right around and it's 75 and sunny for a week - that's a situation when the potential can be pretty great.

James Armstrong

I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

David Cronenberg

I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential,

Jerry Jones

It has the potential to have that kind of impact.

Hines Ward

It's tough to go undefeated, but they have the potential.

Craig Fugate

This storm has some potential to it. The time to go is now.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Keith Richard

If he can go in the first round, I want him to go. If he can't, he should pursue some of this other stuff. Honestly, it's unbelievable when you see it every day.

Henry A. Kissinger

a review of withdrawal strategy ... seems in order.

Dave Dombrowski

I'm going to sit down with Trams and review what's going on. It's an important day.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Elbert Hubbard

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

Earl Nightingale

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.

Ted Nugent

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

John Ruskin

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

Euripides

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

George Steiner

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

Christoph Waltz

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

Jeff Bridges

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

Carl Sandburg

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Calvin Coolidge

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.

Charles Darwin

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

Janet Yellen

In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.

Jane Smiley

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

Diane Cilento

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Haven Herrin

We were turned away yesterday, and we heeded that, but today, we will not be deterred.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

Neil Diamond

As he said to all the rich, middle-aged white people, 'We are all God's children.'

Rosa Durando

Addie did nothing different than her white counterparts have been doing for years.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive