Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Gail Kelly

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

Tim Curley

The Penn State family wants to be actively involved in helping the people of the Gulf Coast. Many people have contacted us and we expect a good response from our loyal fans.

David Walton

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

Deborah Eisenberg

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.

Valentina Tereshkova

More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

Barack Obama

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.

Noreena Hertz

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

David Horsey

Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.

O. Henry

We realize that almost in all circumstances others will be able to do the job less expensively than we can because we tend to have a very cost-intensive force. But many times they'll be able to do it more effectively too because they'll understand the local language, the local customs. They'll be culturally adept and be able to get things accomplished that we can't do. So building a partnership capability is a critical lesson learned.

Stephen Rodrick

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.

Mike Scioscia

He keeps getting finer and finer with his stuff. Although he's not throwing as hard as he once did, he's still adept at hitting spots, changing speeds and keeping hitters off-balance. He just knows how to pitch, knows what he wants to do, and he's very good at it.

Jeff Dellis

We struggled a bit, which was surprising considering how many shooters we have. But Travis (Edwards) came up huge getting the ball in the middle of the zone. Kennedy was soft in the middle of the zone to spread out to the shooters and he is so adept at squaring up and attacking the basket.

Kim Cattrall

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.

Howard Wheeldon

I think Swedish shareholders are very adept at seeing somebody who can build. Once they've stopped building, and they are seen to being paid too much then they spare no lives at all.

Dave Walker

I think we'll definitely bring down more schools, just because of the new track and I think they'll be more adept to come down to compete.

E. B. White

I think we've become adept at it. It has become our signature play.

Gina Bellman

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

Wendelin Van Draanen

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Virginia Postrel

Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?

Billy Graham

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

Constance Wu

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Jack Anderson

The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a direct line between city council goals for public safety and the law enforcement and safety professionals who carry out those goals,

Jiao Yang

The police are now carrying an all-out investigation into the case. And this is only a single case.

Jorge Belevan

The pilot's skill made it possible to carry out an emergency landing and save lives.

Art Hogan

The overall passion for Internet stocks is carrying over to the index itself,

Jim Murphy

Most recruiters, I know are probably trying to do the right thing. The problem is that recruiters today are under incredible pressure to make their goals. This is what we try to counteract in high schools.

S.K.R. Amarasekara

We are now sensitizing the government and international organizations on the need to provide more resources to us to counter any possible outbreak.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

Frank Gaffney

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

Tom Cruise

I take no pleasure in having to be here today, but it is the last recourse to counter the vicious lies that have been printed about me and my family,

Gary Peterson

I think it's counter to the mission of the public schools to run the (home-school) programs.

Eric Heft

He was highly underrated as an offensive coach. We had an offense to counter any defense.

Jeff Hill

Hartley always has a strong zone defense. They are one of the few high-school teams that plays zone defense well. The key is to figure out how to counter their zone.

Maajid Nawaz

I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

Lisa Holden

Police departments should have a zero-tolerance policy toward domestic violence. Officers and other violators should be treated as criminals just as they would in any other situation.

Efraim Zuroff

His passing will hopefully remind people there are Nazi war criminals who can and should be prosecuted.

David Shuster

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Ralph Brown

We have some criminals out there. That's why we have lights and security people at Wal-Mart.

Bernhard Goetz

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Bernhard Schlink

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

Billy Sunday

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

Andy Yu

Working together, we will show the criminals that there will be no safe haven for their crimes.

Alan Dershowitz

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

Ian Mckellen

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

William R. Keating

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

Ellen Key

The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

Bob Stimson

The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

Louis Font

The Pentagon has instituted this policy to say to the current troops that if you go AWOL you will be hunted down to the grave.

Dennis Ross

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

J. C. Watts

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

John Harmer

We have a major problem with the current engine.

Phil Smith

We could get pulled over for speeding and pay more than that. The problem with the current laws is enforcement.

Dixie Scheiderer

We're very small yet and we're just emerging into Ohio. We're trying to get this market up.

Kevin Pietersen

I thought I had a pretty good go at the emerging player of the year but the one-day international player of the year really got (surprised me),

Arthur Levine

I think people come here not just because of the building, ... They come here because of the institution's rapidly emerging prominence and stature.

Jim Peterson

We have sorely neglected our trade relationships over the years with the new and emerging markets - the Chinas and Indias,

Jerry Robinson

We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.

John Herrmann

Globally, the U.S. and some emerging markets are the leading growth engines.

William Egan

I would say that the figures for 2003 are an improvement over the previous years, the first steps in an emerging growth cycle.

Piero Fassino

What is emerging is that there is something rotten on the right.

Tiesto

I can honestly say that the fans inspire. There's an unexplainable rush that comes when I'm in the middle of a set and the energy from the fans hit me. I also get really inspired through collaborations. I've learned so much from the emerging producers I've worked with just as they've learned from me.

David Selby

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Matt Ridley

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

Krish Krishnan

It enables the seller of the stock -- that is, management -- to price the issue right. It also enables management to pick the right investor.

Graham Walker

It enables the replication to keep going and tolerate the damage, even though it doesn't get rid of it.

John Robertson

We'd prefer to provide the tools rather than the research. We don't want to limit our options. We want to enable others to use the tools for whatever they want.

Tim Fox

We have to tweak it. We just do not have the technology that can enable that, but we're working on it.

Mike Dunn

We hope that enables the market to become less-fragmented as quickly as possible.

Donald Rumsfeld

have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas.

Kip Winger

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

Charles Scott

The acquisition of Stanley Leisure's retail operations substantially enhances our market position,

Tim Schuldt

We've listened to the fans. They want more seating, food additions. All of it is meant to enhance the fans' experience.

Branford Marsalis

We have more faith in the music than the people at major labels have. I'm always thinking of ways to enhance the music and the way we think about it.

Eric Schmitt

Microsoft has to figure out a way to use the network to enhance their software. They can link to dictionary.com or thesaurus.com instead of bundling those features into Microsoft Word.

Dave Checketts

It enhances the whole game experience to have a soccer-specific stadium. That's what we'll do.

Deniz Anders

We're always looking for a way to enhance service.

Alan Miller

We have strengthened and enhanced our traditional relationships and presence at Huey P. Long Medical Center, and the Alexandria VA hospital.

Robert Wright

We don't have any plans to make acquisitions at this scale, but we will look at smaller acquisitions of tools or other things that enhance the site.

Jamie McLennan

I think it's good. It puts us on a stage with every other sport that's major. People who know hockey know there really is not a place in hockey for steroids. I'm sure there are things you want to enhance your performance, but I think at the end of the day you'll see we are clean.

Patrick Kavanagh

Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

Peter Martin

Wherever they can find an opportunity, they are exploiting that opportunity to the fullest.

Robert Reich

Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.

Kevin Mitnick

Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees.

John Yost

Everybody's got the same goal. There are a lot of different ways of exploiting that,

Alan Johnson

The spurt in world oil prices is totally unjustified as the oil producing nations are exploiting high growth rates in India and China.

John Harrington

I felt some guilt taking from Ruth. I'm exploiting the opportunity being a thief. I was disappointed when I was put on the floor.

Mike Minter

They were exploiting us in the running game. The middle was wide open, so it was tough. But the running game takes all 11 guys.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

Vincent Schiraldi

The American public is not going to want the FBI profiling their kids.

Slade Gorton

I don't know where those 70 field investigations were. The FBI didn't put them anywhere. Nobody in Washington knew about them.

Bob Wise

We've also had our anti-terrorism task force for several years. It has worked with the FBI and the ATF as well as our law enforcement.

Emily Lyons

We are thankful that he has been caught, thankful to the police and the FBI and the ATF and the media that has kept his picture and his name out there,

Alvin Sykes

Our whole objective was to have the FBI come in and lead an investigation. We will know the truth.

Jim Kleissler

I thought we had a great rally and a peaceful march. We really just wanted to come out and say peace is something that's part of America, and we're not going to let the FBI intimidate us.

Louis Freeh

I am the leadership, and if I am not doing a good job in that regard, then you ought to get a new FBI director,

Ronald Kessler

When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

C. S. Lewis

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

C. S. Lewis

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have to obey the laws with respect to security classifications,

Rick Hind

Usually the laws are relatively weak and have been written by lobbyists for the industry.

William Shakespeare

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

Robert Wagner

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

Kelly Ioane

We have a lot of people sick right now and others getting sick. Keri is playing with a mask and getting sick on top of that.

Mark Dixon

We don't have a pile of masks sitting off to one side in anticipation of a pandemic.

Alexander Herzen

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Dr. Prettyman

Where else can you get a steel sword, put on a mask and then try and kill somebody. And it's all perfectly sanctioned.

Kelly Stinnett

I was always scared by not having a mask on. I feel more comfortable that way.

Dennis Potter

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Benjamin Franklin

Men take more pains to mask than to mend.

Joanna Scott

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Shane McFadyen

Sometimes you take things for granted. Winning masks some of the mistakes we're still making.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Maurice Ager

Winning a national championship. You really can't top that. ... I feel like I'll be kind of underachieving within myself if I don't win a championship before I leave.

Rod Wright

We made a pact that we were going to win a national championship. Now, we need to get it done.

Zell Miller

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Peter McTeague

We're pretty much spinning wheels in a pretty tight range from Friday.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

John Burnside

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

Scott Graham

Overall, I think the (Federal Reserve) is on the sidelines and we're probably back to a range trade.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Michael Hayden

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Allen Ward

We know the cabin, we know the people, we know the training and we know the job.

Corey Brewer

We told him to get some training wheels.

Mike Thibault

From that standpoint, it kind of makes for a very competitive training camp.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernie Mac

I've been in training for stardom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Randeep Hooda

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Willie Parker

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

Larry Krantz

When it's all said and done, it's probably going to be more than $10,000 because it's pretty wide spread.

Quentin Moses

With me, with my decision, I'm wide open.

Anthony Brown

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.

Eskinder Nega

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

John McCarthy

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Jamie Redknapp

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas