Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Rodgers

As far as standards and academics I couldn't have made a better choice. I had high expectations for her and she's exceeded those. As a representative for IVC, she's been wonderful. I think she (represents) our best foot forward.

Robert Morse

This isn't being published for the academic community, albeit the academic community is keenly interested in it. From a student and parents' perspective, to know the relative peer standings of a school is important.

Mike Bohn

The University of Colorado is a gold mine ... and we're going to work our tail off to bring a great coach to this program to match the academic standing of this institution. That will be my sole focus.

Jennifer James

Black mothers are deciding to stay home because they want to be there when their children come home after school. They want to take a hands-on approach to their children's upbringing. Some black stay-at-home mothers are also home-schooling because they are tired of low academic achievement and racism of all sorts in the schools.

Judith Cone

Though most university-level entrepreneurship programs have some basic features in common, there is so much variation it's hard to identify a typical curriculum, let alone an exemplary one. While diversity is good, this field needs more of the consistency in core concepts found in other academic fields.

Dan Berman

You have to make sure the students are highly motivated to pursue their academic interests.

Arne Duncan

With innovative programs like Nourish for Knowledge and partnerships with organizations like the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the Chicago Public Schools is working to provide our children with the solid foundation they need for a successful academic career.

Juan Garcia

You have to be an effective communicator, have a deep understanding of the complexity of a university this size, you should believe in shared governance, understand the academic mission of the university and have strong ethics.

Debbie Anderson

There is a lot of pressure for test scores and academic performance, but being a part of creating something brings about an energy. My students work together in a better way because of the opera.

Yuriko Koike

People are worried that in order to achieve structural reform and postal privatization, LDP politicians will be less engaged in pork barrel politics.

Zach Schade

The thing that got me interested was helping the people who need help -- the athletic achievement is kind of secondary to the actual fundraising.

Troy Aikman

I've made no bones about it, that if this would happen, it would be the greatest individual athletic achievement of my life. When I think of all the great players who have played, to be considered one of the players that helped define the game itself, it is a humbling experience.

Dave Barrett

I wanted to do something, along with some other guys, because it is the 20th anniversary. It is a great accomplishment and we were proud to be a part of it.

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Chris Phillips

It would be a good achievement for us. If we won (the trophy), it would just be something else that we could take into the playoffs with us, but the more important thing for us is to be playing well.

Sandra Cisneros

These stories celebrate what's at the heart of so many Latino success stories -- a desire to achieve and make a difference, ... Visitors to this Smithsonian exhibit will have the opportunity to learn about Latinos who have made varying but very important contributions to the American fabric.

Kathryn Jett

It would be ill-advised for any state to adopt something that is so high for anybody to achieve that they can't sustain a business in California.

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Jennifer Jackson

The students are forced to be accountable for their actions and their grades every week and that forces them to show improvement.

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Sara Teasdale

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes

Michelle Rodriguez

I've been doing lots of hard-core chick, kick-ass things. The action is appealing because I haven't found the mental challenge in the dramatic roles that I've been shown. I don't want to be the girl who just falls in love.

Paul Aronsohn

I've been planning to declare my candidacy for a few weeks, and her action did not affect my decision. I hope and expect we can come together as a party and community.

Clyde Powless

I've been in direct contact with the (Ontario Provincial Police) and we're pretty well assured. . .that there will be no action taken by them.

Ayn Rand

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Carey Pinkowski

The creation of this series will generate collective interest and excitement at a level that has not existed between our great events in the past. The result of these marathons partnering together is increased visibility, exposure, and growth for the sport of marathon running on a national and international scale.

Stanislav Grof

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Elijah Wood

In some ways that's more gratifying, it requires more of your own energy and your own input, and everyone's kind of collective energy, and that's...in a way that's more gratifying.

George H. W. Bush

supported by the collective will of the world.

Lisa Mandeville

They cut it to nine, she banged that shot in the corner, and it was the exhalation. It was a collective sigh and then we picked up.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.

Tadashi Yanai

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

Rebecca Solnit

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

Esther Dyson

We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn't negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a permanent board.

Jack Straw

What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.

Karl Rove

The world is full of people who are discerning, and we need to recognize that concrete information told with honesty and specificity and integrity is important to the ultimate success in this conflict.

Lee Wooten

The construction of a concrete dam can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to in excess of a million dollars to get the dam completely fixed up.

Scott Siegel

We're going to get a much longer life span out of them. We're doing them with stucco and concrete foundations.

Callan McAuliffe

I don't like concrete jungles.

Eric Takamura

We're going to continue the patching of the pipes where there are cracks. Where we can, we're going to put a sleeve around it. Then, we're going to pour the concrete jacket.

Deborah Scott

I wanted to do something to enhance the park that the kids would be able to use and enjoy. I meet a lot of mothers that go to other parks because there's not much to do at Orchard Park.

Joan Chen

The factory that I work with, all the products are on the shelf, they are existing products. I can go and enhance it. The perfume is 60% mine.

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.

Deniz Anders

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

Elizabeth Spelke

Knowing this, we may be able to enhance math training.

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.

Ray Stevens

They do a lot of things to help us enhance the visitor's experience,

Bill DeWitt

We felt it was an investment in the franchise, and it would enhance not only 1997 but also future years.

Michael Eisner

We are keeping our eyes open, ... We are happy with what we got with the Fox Family acquisition. We will keep looking but we are not going to do it to get a good headline in the media. If we are going to do anything at all it will be to enhance the company.

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.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Aravind Adiga

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Auguste Rodin

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History is full of surprises.

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Calvin Coolidge

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.

Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

Arthur Balfour

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

John Twelve Hawks

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Brendon Urie

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Thomas Sowell

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Simon Cowell

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Jay Leno

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.