Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Icahn

a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

Tatyana Paramonova

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

Christopher Bond

Protectionism is the use of scare tactics, the use of unsound scientific information in an attempt to protect our market. In this case I believe that sound science dictates that it is time to open the border.

Kara Swisher

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

Ted Cruz

If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.

Walt Sanchez

We did a good job coming out of the gate, and held them to four field goal attempts in the first quarter.

Donald Anderson

We felt we had been badly let down by Historic Scotland. They were concerned about catering for visitors to the castle and some health-and-safety issues, but suggestions were made to resolve these and with a bit of goodwill and better joint working it could have happened. At the time, I don't think there was a meaningful attempt to do so but we need to ensure that these concerts happen next year.

Teresa Tomlinson

We do see this as an attempt to hang him and put the screws to him.

Romesh Gunesekera

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Elaine Vogel

This is a place where I can escape to fantasyland.

Elizabeth Hand

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

Alex Hernandez

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

George H. W. Bush

Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops, so we can escape the violence,

Nancy Stewart

Homeowners who live here nine months of the year and go home to escape the heat of our summers are not tourists.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Jun Ishii

Koizumi's victory triggered a rally in stocks and fueled optimism about an escape from deflation.

Joey Estrella

That was big time. In that situation, I would have been happy to escape with two runs scored. That play held them to one and more importantly, it kept the momentum on our side.

Scott Krugman

From what we've been hearing Saturday was a huge day for sales and a huge day for traffic,

Chrissy Teigen

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll​ start hearing things or meeting other people.

Brandon Gray

I'm hearing that 'Shark Tale' is unoriginal and uninspired,

Vonetta Flowers

He's much more vocal. Everything is so new to him. He was operated on just two months ago, so he's hearing and responding like a 2-month-old baby.

Jim Kaat

He (Rodriguez) has been hearing it from the crowd.

Anne Mills

I can feel your sympathy. But seeing is what will impact you, even more than hearing the stories.

Charles Schumer

If there ever was a time when the hearings are going to make a huge difference, it's now,

Brad Richards

It shouldn't be like this. We know what to do and what to do to make it happen. We are all sick of hearing about it and talking about it. We have to do it. We have to win the battles. We are talented enough to win the puck and hold the puck.

Andrew Patel

It's a matter of how paranoid you are. What it could mean is that the president conceivably could sign a piece of paper when he has hearsay information that somebody has done something he doesn't like and send them to jail - without a hearing (or) a trial.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

Ayn Rand

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Benito Mussolini

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

Jane Goodall

Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

Jane Goodall

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place

Charles Clarke

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

bell hooks

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Willie Parker

I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.

Miranda Lambert

I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Larry Vanderhoef

I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.

Katy Perry

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems,

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.