Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Rath

When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.

John Lynch

We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.

Greg Aiello

The arbitrator's decision is consistent with our collective bargaining agreement, and it simply enforced the terms of the player's contract.

Grant Wilson

Whilst I agree that dialogue and discussion between members is important, and that members have a vested interest in what's going on in the various teams, I would have thought that it was patently obvious that carrying out this dialogue on such an open forum is naive in the extreme, potentially harmful and reflects badly on the whole club.

Terry Gough

I don't agree with the cookie-cutter mentality. It's maddening. It's sad and very frustrating.

Fred Janicke

They offered us a package that mirrored what we already had and a three-year contract agreement. It saved a lot of heartache.

Alexander Rumyantsev

We have to work out how we are going to do this first. Diplomats need to agree first, then we'll get a corresponding order, and we are ready to act, and we are interested.

Wayne Ayers

We'll probably have a moderate-paced recovery. I couldn't agree more with the Greenspan's forecasts that it would be a sub-par recovery.

Howard Coble

I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Albert Schweitzer

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Ray Bradbury

"Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept in school, ran errands slowly, did not pray from his heart, ignored his mother, and did not hold his family in great esteem. For all this I know I must suffer. But here in the midst of silence, at the desert's heart, where even the wind knows not my name? Must I die so young? Am I to be forgotten without having been?"

Ralph Bunche

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness.

Rajneesh

Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness, that we are traveling on holy earth, that whomever you are meeting, you are meeting God - there is no other way; only faces are different, but the inner reality is the same - all your tensions will disappear. And the energy that is involved in tensions will start becoming your grace, your beauty.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Julia Roberts

To have her come over to me and say, 'I thought you were great in that movie,' I want to say, 'Well, I just want to drool all over you. Can I?',

Dick Advocaat

You have to let it show you are a great player,

Ryan Seacrest

You have been such a great spirit on this show.

Dwyane Wade

You have a quick first step, guys can't put their hands on you. I know we like it. But on the opposite end, the same thing. When you are guarding a great player, you can't touch.

Jim Calhoun

You have a great team. You did a great job.

Andy Burnham

You have a great staff that worked very hard.

Hennie Otto

You can hit some great shots into the green and end up 12-foot from the pin, just off the green in the rough and, instead of looking for birdie, you are struggling to save par.

David Rockwell

You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

Andy Reid

You hate to see anything like this happen. Nobody likes to see that. Tony's a great person with a great family.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Alexander Dubcek

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

Khloe Kardashian

I love hard; I love who I love, and I don't make any qualms about it.

Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

E. M. Forster

Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

E. M. Forster

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

E. M. Forster

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

E. M. Forster

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Orla Brady

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.