Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Shelby Seyrafi

Who wants to be No.1 in a market which is saturated and has slow growth prospects near term.

George Will

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

George Will

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Jean Renoir

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

Jean Pigozzi

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

George Bernard Shaw

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

George Bernard Shaw

Money is a most important thing in the world.

Gale Anne Hurd

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

Fredrik Bajer

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

David Watters

Its becoming an extraordinarily diverse and multicultural area,

Carine Roitfeld

Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.

Kenneth Oppel

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

Rick Carlisle

We probably played 30 possessions of zone, which is more than we played all year. It gave us a chance to hang in the game because fouls were becoming a factor early. With zone, a little bit of it is luck and you have to hope they miss some shots. We were fortunate that they did with a lot of those possessions.

Sergei Lavrov

NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO.

Trent Reznor

I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.

Thalia

There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.

Tommy Caldwell

I have been to Switzerland a handful of times, and it is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to climb.

Tuppence Middleton

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.