Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Derek Smith

We're going to get it right. We're going to fix it. We have to fix it.

Sumner Redstone

Our job was to fix (Blockbuster). We've done that. Our job is to grow it now.

Steve Tanner

Our scoring punch. We don't have a go-to guy right now. It's not going to be a matter of a little tweak that's going to fix it. Teamwork is going to score our goals.

Mary Shelley

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Warren Ellis

The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.

Noe Cerezo

We're not the same team we were from the first game. I really think it's going to be a different story than the first time. It seems like these kids realize what they did wrong, and they're going to come out and try to fix what they did last time.

John Finn

We were going to fix those things in our planning, ... We just ran out of time.

Kevin Granberg

Yeah, this is going to fix helmet head for at least a month.

Mike Tice

You know the old adage. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Edward Kennedy

We don't intend to give up or give in.

Alexander Lukashenko

The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.

Albert Speer

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

E. Stanley Jones

The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.

Doug Flutie

There’s nothing better than excelling at a game you love. There’s nothing worse than thinking your accomplishments as a player outweigh your responsibilities as a person.

Don Lemon

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Douglas Booth

Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility.