Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Lee

Ron is a great, great advocate for the elderly. He's a leader who is committed to the cause and bends over backward to get things done.

David Rehr

Doug has spent more than 20 years in Washington as an outstanding advocate for the communications industry. His experience working with Congress and administrations from both parties will be invaluable to our public-policy work promoting radio and television broadcasting.

Nita Lowey

Essentially what that means is that groups that talk about family planning, that advocate family planning, cannot have dollars -- U.S. dollars,

Deborah Drucker

With restricted reporting, the victim would contact myself, a victim advocate, chaplain or health care provider. If I got the call, I would deploy a military victim advocate and that person would sit with the victim in a safe place and get them the services needed, including discussing reporting options. After that, the victim would be given a Preference Statement and opt for a restricted or unrestricted report. With a restricted report, there would be no identifying information.

Terry Clark

We will always advocate CPR in its entirety. That includes mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in its entirety.

Courtney Boone

Sen. Stevens continues to advocate for the promise that was made to Alaskans by Congress 25 years ago.

Russ Newman

Senator Figueroa has been a champion of quality health care and the inclusion of psychological services. We are delighted to present this award to someone who has not only spearheaded efforts to expand mental health services in the state of California, but has also been a friend and an advocate of the psychology profession.

Peter Mitchell

She's such an advocate of (literacy) in a manner that's down to earth at one level, and yet there's a profundity in her grasp of the importance of literacy.

Terry McElroy

Obviously this department is a big advocate of prescribed burning or controlled burning.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Louise Arbour

Rules that block persons with disabilities from obtaining personal documentation or from voting in elections can be modified, often at little expense.

Paul Steinhardt

The search for a structure that blocks the passage of light in all directions has fascinated physicists and engineers for the past two decades.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

Ban Ki-moon

The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.

Bridgit Mendler

The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over and cast our ballots, and it was really cool. I love the civic pride of being a part of this national activity.

Rasheed Wallace

Body (Wallace) was blocking shots left and right, grabbing rebounds. The kid's a monster. I am just glad he's on my side.

Kirk Lewis

Between classes, eight students walked the halls cheering, blocking the hallways, chanting. They were protesting.

Michael Robinson

Blocking downfield overall was great from the receivers.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Michael Otto

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Ken McBride

We ran a first market test in 2004, and we estimated that a third of the total images -- a third of the total sheets we printed -- were in fact corporate logos.

Roger Read

Generally where you find the top guys, you find the corporate offices relocating.

John Hall

Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.

Donald Selkin

Markets are going to drift in this range ... until corporate profits and GDP (gross domestic product) start to improve.

George Carlo

If I was a CIO or corporate IT manager, I would make sure my employees used them safely; they should all have a headset,

Ken Georgetti

How much more evidence does the government need that across-the-board corporate tax-cuts are a drag on the economy?

Debora Spar

If corporate profits do go down, it's highly likely that we could see the U.S. tumble into a recession.

Shukla Bose

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.

Gregg Downer

Sometimes you have to go toe-to-toe with them, they force you to play fast. It was just kind of like a heavyweight fight and we couldn't really slow them down, whoever gets that 15th-round punch is going to win.

Kurt Russell

Sometimes they did end up in fights, ... At one point there were four fights going on, and Ryan Walter just threw his hands up and said 'I can't stop them.'

Eric Esch

I've never had a fixed fight that I know of.

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

John Barrymore

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Brandon Lee

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Boris Spassky

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Jarrod Kerr

A rate hike is now 50-50 in May and fully priced by June.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Mark Murray

Technically, this is simply what's called the 'answer' to the complaint. So it is not Microsoft's full response and all the company's legal arguments.

Jennifer Granholm

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Rowan D. Williams

I shall want to know more about how you will come to have a full share in the good things of this country.

Peter Coleman

This is still a significant injury, but one that with rehabilitation Troy will be able to fully recover from.

Carl Cornwell

We're guilty judge, and we take full responsibility for these (four) offenses.

Candace Cameron Bure

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

Russ Williams

We had no money, no funding from the university. We were literally starting from scratch. We had no office. We had no vehicle.

Dena Erwin

There is no indication that sheriff's funding was affected.

Pat Dunn

With funding for restoration already lined up, we're ready to move quickly. Our goal is to restore the property to high-quality, native prairie as quickly as possible.

Tim Butler

We're looking at several different sources. We haven't secured a particular funding stream yet.

John McIlwain

Right now, many people are in limbo and don't know whether to rebuild or what to do next. There needs to be a plan, and there needs to be funding for that plan, but right now there is neither.

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Holly Armstrong

Because the governor hasn't seen a funding ordinance, there's no way for her to weigh in.

Joe Hunter

We never pass the plate, ... But 80 percent of our funding comes from individual truck drivers.

Tom Freston

As a global media platform company, we are looking at various projects in many parts of the world.

Carlos Ghosn

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.

Lorenzo Codogno

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

Dave Edwards

The world has become global on everything else. Why not this? ... NASCAR used to be a Southern sport. Now it's coast-to-coast.

Matthew Davis

This isn't something we're going to solve overnight. The problems of global warming have just begun.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Dan Latendre

You can't be global without leveraging technology and the Internet.

Richard Grasso

to make them more competitive in the global arena.

Tommy Franks

We're taking part in a global war on terrorism,

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Ron Wilson

We're 3-0 and scored 15 goals since we picked up Thornton. It's kind of nice, the things you were hoping would happen with the trade have.

Chris Carter

Even though he let in six goals, Jacob measured up to the task. He did a great job spotting shots.

Tim Rooney

(East Central) has a lot of talent. They are really offensive-minded and they can score a lot of goals.

Jason Tapp

At the half, we were in it. They just ran away with it after making some goals over penalties. It just wasn't there.

Cristy McKinney

We did a little better in the second half than we did in the first. We had to set new goals at halftime. At least we didn't give up 60 points in the second half.

Jennifer Grubb

Two goals was great. I don't want us to let down after we score. Sometimes we do, I think.

W. Hull

You get 50 or 40 goals now, you've had a wonderful season, I think.

Mack Strong

There's no question, we've got to win the game. We'll be throwing everything we have, all of our weapons, all of our energy, all of our focus, all of our concentration. It's not just because it's been so long since we've won a playoff game. But it's more that if we lose, we're done, and we have higher goals than that.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Jamie Dimon

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

Cesar Chavez

It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.

Al Gore

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.

bell hooks

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

Brian Weiss

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

Brene Brown

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

Deepak Chopra

Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.

Drew Barrymore

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Geoff Hoon

to do so would risk the operational security of the mission and potentially the safety of our forces.

Jeffrey Hammond

We're going to be in the outer cordon-type mission of controlling traffic, posturing ourselves in a position where if we have to respond, we can react immediately,

Paul Theroux

I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.

Pat Scales

There's not a public school out there that doesn't have a mission statement that says it serves all students,

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Don Brownlee

Much of the science of this mission hasn't been done yet.

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Tom Daschle

All along, the administration vowed their policies would be painless,

Wesley Clark

I think his disadvantage is that he doesn't seem to know who he is and he doesn't know what his policies are.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Sharon Reid

We are now in the process of reviewing our policies and procedures.

Elizabeth A. Sherman

It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

Robert Hale

We've been doing this for a long time, ... We look at our policies on a regular basis.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

May Sarton

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

J. C. Ryle

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Honore de Balzac

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

W. S. Merwin

I offer you what I have my Poverty

Walter Savage Landor

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

George Gissing

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Daniel H. Pink

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

Thomas E. Mann

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Thomas Reed

If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.

Robert James Graves

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Swami Vivekananda

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

and City

Don't you want to stand still with me?

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.