Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Mahmoud Zahar

I think that during the current tour, we will be able to raise the needed funds.

Phil Goff

It is important in the current situation for steps to be taken to resolve the long-running public sector strike, which has contributed to this tension,

Roger Ashby

I will be talking to the current squad individually over the next few weeks about their futures and once they know, I will make it public.

Joel Naroff

There is an ever-growing number of homes on the market, and while the overhang is not great at the current selling pace, it could become a problem if we trend back toward more sustainable levels,

Douglas Hattaway

I don't know what planet he's been on for the past eight years, but this administration helped lay the foundation for our current prosperity.

Igor Ivanov

I am going to discuss the situation in the region, questions of our bilateral relations and the current situation at the Kosovo stretch of the Yugoslav-Macedonian border,

Herb Sendek

He was like a hockey goal-tender. We had difficulty getting things over, around or through him.

Zane Grey

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Ted Hellard

In the past, the CFL has had great difficulty of where to place these players in terms of how do you give them legitimate tryouts.

Ron Glass

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Daniel Bonn

If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to pull your foot out.

Michael Davies

The enactment of all kinds of laws is an advancement, but the difficulty is how to make sure it all works,

Brian Doyle

The difficulty of the job is you have a split second to make a decision.

Tom Hayes

The difficulty is that we have to figure out what happened in the past and how to fix it going forward.

Mike Delahanty

The difficulty comes in getting into the meters themselves.

Terry Thompson

I think it makes a big difference, ... Especially going a distance and on fillies, it helps fillies out a lot.

B. R. Hayden

Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.

Harry Shearer

I think it's the distance between what we're supposed to think their job entails and what their job really entails.

Steve Rice

It has been a long time since a shot putter has thrown that kind of distance for Lead-Deadwood.

Graham Motion

I think this is more this filly's deal. The distance is what she's going to appreciate. We got away with it last time because she was very fresh.

Mark Hagen

He has done some good things for us. We would like to see some more distance with his punting.

Mark Hagen

He has done some good things for us, ... We would like to see some more distance with his punting.

Rick Barnes

He did well going the distance because he did not even practice yesterday.

Jon Davidson

He is a tough kid, but he has a lot to learn about distance running. When he learns it, look out.

John Ruskin

It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

Leo Nesmith

In this position, if you can't multi-task, you would struggle. Your time is divided in so many arenas.

Najib Mikati

I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

Thelma Underberg

At one time the Legislature was pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. But through redistricting, they managed to get rid of a number of women ... (who) were progressive.

Hayes Harbour

We furnished the farm house and the land. They furnished the labor and the equipment and then we divided the profits. It was a perfect arrangement.

Keith Boykin

We are part of this family, and we will not be divided by any person.

Mike McCue

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Carlos Delgado

I take a lot of pride in getting big hits and driving in big runs.

Brian Jenkins

He said he was driving on U.S. 250 and said someone ran in front of him.

Jonathan Pritchard

There is ample evidence that selection has been a major driving point in our evolution during the last 10,000 years, and there is no reason to suppose that it has stopped.

Linda Doyle

We may not go as frequently as we do now. But the food is extremely worth driving for.

Bill Proffitt

He was driving up and down 34th Street trying to find his hotel.

Suzan Spadaro

He was driving his motorcycle. It was a warm evening.

Carl Zimmer

I have been waiting to fly out of here (Jackson), but the flight times never worked until now. When the connections work out, it's a shorter time than driving to Memphis.

Linda Powell

I don't know about you, but I really don't want to be out there driving 35 miles per hour on an interstate or expressway.

Frank Martin

We are focusing on maximizing our revenue streams through product innovation,

Hanna Salonen

I went (back) to Finland, and stayed there and the only thing I was focusing on was how I wanted to come back.

Zina Garrison

I am focusing on the team I have, in my mind they are the top team.

Al Goldman

Investors will be focusing on Iran and any developments there, as it might have implications on the price of oil, and of course, the future of the world.

Steve Greene

The international game is highly skilled, focusing on shooting and passing. Our game is more one-on-one, with more flash.

Tom Julian

It's really about the simplicity of the approach, focusing more on the quality of what you give Mom.

Mo Cheeks

It's something we talked about where we could start over and kind of forget about the things that happened the first half, and just start new. That's what we've been focusing on, trying to look at this as a new season and just move past the old one.

Mike Matheny

It will be nice when he returns. Any team would like him in the lineup. But we've been focusing on winning games, and other guys are playing. It would be an insult to them to be thinking of him.

Brad LaBruyere

It's not so much how good my stuff has been. My location, that's kind of what I've been focusing on.

Len Wein

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Len Wein

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

Len Wein

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

Len Wein

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

Len Wein

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Terry Tempest Williams

I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

Jonathan Lethem

You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

Chris Abani

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

David Douglas

I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.

Kim Weston

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Venus Williams

I will always be the older sister. That's never going to change.

David Montgomery

I like older people, ... How can't I?

John Croft

Dan, Bee's older brother, is still very sensitive about it, and angry, I guess, about the whole thing. He didn't want any mention, in fact, of the tsunami or Thailand.

Jeremiah Jeremiah

a pervasive problem in our society of how people look at older workers.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Robert Lorenz

Every actor's different. It seems to me the older veterans, they don't need to hear as much. But younger actors need a little more feedback, a little more assurance, and that's fine.

Trey Aby

We'll still play some of the older teams. But with what we did this year, some things are going to change.

Corey Clark

Older women have always been attracted to me.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Sadaharu Oh

I'm 100 percent sure. I spoke to him recently and told him we really want him to be a part of our team.

John Tortorella

I'm getting tired of the 25 percent rule. It's deflating.

Gennady Onishchenko

And 92 percent of them are drug addicts.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Annalee Newitz

Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Plutarch

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Terence McKenna

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

Lewis Mumford

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

Linda M. Godwin

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

Julie Garwood

courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task.

Otto Weininger

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Will Smith

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

Will Smith

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.

Virginia Woolf

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

Virginia Woolf

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf

I have had my vision.

Samuel Goldwyn

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

Wayne Dyer

I am worthy of attracting unlimited abundance and prosperity into my life, regardless of what life experiences have gone before me. I only reinforce and contemplate images that are in harmony with this vision.

Van Morrison

Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.