Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Barnett

A veteran of portal and search wars, Rob has seen and touched all aspects of Yahoo's business from startup to hyper-growth.

David Farmer

Athletes that can generate the most watts of energy over time will win the race. In cycling at Tom's level, you can no longer just be a time trial specialist or a hill climber and expect to win a stage race like the Tour de France. You've got to be able to perform well in all aspects of the race.

Gu Yuan

The strikes and good economic indicators from China are supporting this round of the rally. The positive aspects of fundamentals are attracting more hedge funds, pension funds into metals and other commodities.

Krista Tippett

If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

Chad Colby

Everything we've done has been to defer to the states and monitor them, like we do for Title I compliance. The state has a huge responsibility in all aspects of NCLB, and this is one of them. But we're partners with them in that we expect them to do the right things for their students.

Susan DeVore

We're looking at every point in the process, from scheduling to post-discharge care, because our data shows that hospitals who manage their key service lines in this manner are successful in collaborating with their medical staff. That performance-based collaboration is the key to improving all aspects of performance, including reducing implant costs.

Bennett King

One of the pleasing aspects for me now is that the players come up to us now and say they want to go down to the ground and do some work. They understand the work that's needed and, since they can't do it at home, basically we've got to do most of our training while we're away and that's one of the things we're trying to change.

Jerrold Post

One of the intriguing aspects here, and it could be a first, is the connection to the computer world,

Dick Bryant

If we can introduce basketball to these young people and show them that there's a lot to offer in this field, then we can give them confidence. And confidence carries through to all aspects of life. That's what makes you successful. If they can look in the mirror and think that they are proud of themselves and confident, then that will carry them a long way.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Mike Redmond

I've played through it, but it just got to the point where that was it. I couldn't basically run. I feel good about doing everything I could. I battled through a majority of the season, especially the last two weeks.

Eric Schwartz

These basic rights are spelled out in the UN's Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

Kit Williams

The state law has basically no effect on city ordinances, which remain in effect as long as they are more strict than the state law. A city ordinance doesn't overrule state law. A city ordinance can't make things less strict than state law.

Carl Zimmer

I started fact checking and copy-editing, basic stuff. Then I started writing books and articles, and left in 1999. I've been working freelance ever since and moved here three years ago.

Charlie Hunter

I started doing this style late summer of 2005, after deciding that I loved to paint outside, and that by the time I'd figured out a good composition and color world, the light would have changed completely. The solution? Paint in monochrome. The basic palate tends to be a warm white, a cool white, unbleached titanium, Naples yellow, cobalt or ultramarine blue, transparent red oxide and viridian.

Walt Smith

Defensively, we did a good job with adjustments in the second half. Offensively, we have enough speed to hurt people. We are also pretty big up front, but they never contained Marco tonight.

Pearl Buck

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Donald Brownlee

Scientifically, that's great, because there's been lots of discussion of whether comets contain minerals or glass.

Keyon Dooling

It was tough. Defensively, we didn't contain Wade or Shaq.

Loyd Lamb

Zach Majors is hard to contain and our goal was to stop everyone else and I think we did a great job of doing that.

Mick Jagger

As I got to him he showed me the paper and I saw it contained some white powder.

Manson Hill

(East Hall) is so strong it's hard to contain them. But I thought we did a much better job in the second half.

Bernie Sanders

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

Darwin Walker

We wanted to contain Vick and I felt that for the most part we did that. He got us a couple of times, but we stayed after him.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Brad Pitt

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Jane Goodall

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother

James Weldon Johnson

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

Jared Diamond

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Kurt Vonnegut

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Jan Egeland

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Ann Brashares

Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

Alfred Jarry

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Don DeLillo

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

Chuck Palahniuk

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

David Cronenberg

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

Thomas Browne

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

Susan Griffin

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Brandon Sanderson

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Ben Okri

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Barbara Jordan

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Baruch Spinoza

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Melinda Shiraki

We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.

Richard Carmona

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Ron Gardenhire

It's very tough. They didn't put a timetable on it, so that tells me it's going to be a while.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Ani Difranco

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right