Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deng Xiaoping

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile, ... Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Adam Schiff

It aims for a critical mass of diversity so that under-represented minority students do not feel isolated or like spokespersons for their race.

Matic Kralj

I was aiming high, but my stick cracked and I went short side.

Jordan Tata

I was aiming for the corner, and it would end up off the corner. I figured I'd just start it down the middle and let it work to the corner.

Joy Bacon

There is enough business for everybody and we aim at training and producing some 25,000 new animators over a four-year period through 2010.

F. Schumacher

I think that compared to other teams we are looking competitive, but in order to see whether we are really quick enough to aim for the top we need to wait till everybody is running on low fuel with new tires.

Andy Miller

It has been a very constructive test given how little time we had to prepare for it following the team's entry into the A1 Grand Prix series, and we leave Paul Ricard with a pretty good idea of how the car works and reacts to set-up changes. Ralph drove well and with strong consistency, which is essential at this, level, and it's clear we are in the mix towards the front of the field, which is where we aim to be. Michael Devaney did a very solid job given that this was his first outing in the car and he had very limited running. The series is going to be very competitive and when you look at the quality of the driving talent you can see that in terms of competition to win races this is going to be quite a battle.

Dave Wilson

He was just a raw-boned kid that loved the game and never took a play off. Coming from a small town, he had not learned a whole lot about football. So he would always want to know, 'Coach, should I take a 6-inch step, should I take a 12-inch step, what's my aiming point?' It was like coaching a kid in youth league that wants to ask you a million questions.

Michael Levine

I aim for 99-percent. I want 99-percent of the people to walk out of the hall elated.

Steve Brown

Having a place to live is great. I get to have my dog. I feel like a productive citizen again. It's a new lease on life.

Bob Baldwin

He's a great corporate citizen and does tremendous work in our community,

Mayor Cartmell

He's just the kind of model citizen we like to have ... He's just the nicest kid that you would ever want to know.

Eric Hoffman

He should be forever locked up to ensure the safety and security of the citizens of Delaware County.

E. Helm

I think the citizens of this city are nervous about overdevelopment, ... We want development, yes, but we don't want it all in downtown in one area.

Craig Johnson

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Rick Scott

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Scott Turow

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

Carl Forti

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

Friedrich Muller

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

John Oates

We've done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that's why we're still together. That freedom doesn't keep us too restricted.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William J. Brennan

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

Viola Spolin

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

William James

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Rod Schwarz

He just works hard and never says much. I'm just very proud and happy for him.

Junko Abe

He's always happy, so that makes me really happy, too.

Algis Shalna

I think we would be happy to (see her) get into the top 20. We have to at some point be realistic.

Shay Carl

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

Jim Rayfield

I think this play is, in a sense, the father's story. We see him go from a state of happiness - he's content; he has his son; he's okay - to the end, where he is totally lost.

Carl Jung

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

Virginia Woolf

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth

But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

Rodney Mullen

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

Sasha Alexander

I don't know that you can compare it to another show because each show has its own individuality.

Sarah Vowell

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Rudolf Steiner

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Walt Disney

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

Walt Whitman

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

William Butler Yeats

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

Johannes Stark

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Blanche Lincoln

It is about our personal responsibility to strengthen our community. This is about making us strong enough and leaving a legacy.

Michelle Langsford

I have been with him from day one, and I was not leaving his side when he needed me most.

Lauren Emerson

I didn't want my teammates to feel like I was leaving them because I was injured.

Richard Wright

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

Richelle Mead

We?" I asked. Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you.

Wayne Huizenga

I'm not leaving until you say yes.

Sarah Dessen

He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.

Gabriel Pendas

The only reason that we're leaving is to respect the wishes of the family.

Jonathan Papelbon

Then, come to find out, he's going to be leaving -- that's kind of tough, man.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Matthew Glotzbach

We're in the first inning of an extra-innings game. By no means are we at the point where search is perfect.

Ed Howat

I think that number is staggering. It means a lot to have a rate that high.

Jonathan Turley

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Edwin Whipple

Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Plaxico Burress

We've got to get things in order off the field, too.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Umberto Eco

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Sarah Palin

I can see November from my house.

Michael Chang

In the 1980s and 1990s, no one wanted to touch a narrow-focused antibiotic, something that treated one or two things. Everyone wanted to pursue broad, across-the-board antibiotics. That's all changed.

Bill Simon

I really just want to pursue other avenues, ... I got a lot accomplished in my tenure here and I wanted to try new things.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Viggo Mortensen

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Roald Dahl

Two rights don't equal a left.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.

Harriet Ziefert

It's nothing huge, nothing truly terrible. They're more like little aggravations,

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Al Thornton

I truly feel like we have done enough to get in the tournament.

Todd Miller

This is truly a localized show down to the jokes.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.