Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Pringle

What we would like to see first is a complete impact assessment by the Commission before anything is done.

Lawrence Rita

I think it's likely he (Casey) will give some kind of an assessment on where we stand post-election and what his thinking is. I can't say that it will include a recommendation. I just don't know that.

Kent Barrett

I think it's an unfair assessment to say we're contradicting ourselves. We're not the ones making the ads.

Alex Beuzelin

It confirms the Fed's optimistic assessment of the U.S. economy, and essentially signals that the Fed's measured (monetary policy) tightening campaign will persist,

Romulo Macalintal

I think the commissioner only made a general assessment of what allegedly happened in the elections.

John Drew

I think the assessment of not completing projects on time has some validity to it.

Terry Tamminen

It gives you a sobering assessment of why this is one of the defining issues of our time.

Merrill Stabile

It is our current assessment that the gaming commission, as well as public opinion, will more than likely favor those gaming applicants possessing the greater magnitude of scope in their proposal.

Fernando Martin

I will set up an independent commission to evaluate the effort of each of the players, and their sporting and personal conduct. The commission won't be there to harass or to oblige. It will make an assessment and recommend what we need to do.

Jimmy Carter

I have been reluctant to publicly castigate an administration, but I think this particular administration has departed from all previous presidents, ... Our Endangered Values.

Washington Irving

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

Kelley Armstrong

Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented...

Leonard Cohen

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.

Lord Byron

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

Haruki Murakami

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

Bible Bible

And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

Bible Bible

Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: / For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

Bible Bible

And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Eziongaber.

William Butler Yeats

I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He's had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youthOr an old man upon a winter's night.

Keith Greene

This was a gift from the ex-president Teddy Roosevelt.

Tambra Flint

He's a gift from God. He's spared for a reason, and I'm really grateful.

Laurie Fisher

He's a tremendously gifted player with a phenomenal understanding of the game.

Dan Rohn

He's a very, very talented young man. He has a lot of gifts others don't have.

Donald DeMayo

He's been giving gifts to students for 40 years.

Francis Donald

Humility is the river through which all other gifts of grace flow.

Shere Nagarwalla

I'd always had a strong urge to set up my own gift business, but I didn't want to open a retail operation until I'd experimented with it.

David Jones

He has a gift that he can't help but share.

Kathleen Hanna

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Robert Bennett

I would say so. It's part of my life.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Stanley Hauerwas

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Mark Fuhrman

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

Brian Jones

He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.

Vivek Wadhwa

What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.

Samuel Beckett

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

Yo-Yo Ma

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

Peggy Robbins

It's been a perfect mentoring system and support back and forth.

Myles Munroe

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Nicole Richie

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

Laurence Fishburne

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

Terrence J

I look at a mentor of mine like Ryan Seacrest and the incredible amount of equity he's been able to bring to the broadcasting arena, and the branding and the world that he's been able to build around himself.

Hal Sparks

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.

Reza Aslan

Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

Sandra Bullock

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

William Makepeace Thackeray

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Mike Woods

Inspectors are going underground not only for enforcement but in an accident-prevention role. I think you can't rely on luck. You have to think smart.

Carole Taylor

I like the idea of being self-sufficient. You didn't have to rely on the store, you had to do it all yourself.

Noah Baumbach

I rely on her. She's the first person I show any script to.

Michael Young

I just want to be a little more consistent. I've been relying a lot on instincts.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

John F. Kennedy

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.