Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Thomas J. Watson

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Virginia Postrel

People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Yehuda Berg

The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.

Chris Bohjalian

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

Robert Rubin

The overarching point of the president's economic strategy going forward in the 1999 budget is clear: under no circumstances should we take any steps that will undo the fiscal discipline that we have worked so hard to achieve and has been so central to our strong economy of the last five years.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.

Bill Bryson

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Thomas Ford

The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall

Charles Prince

We have ambitious plans for the future and significant growth opportunities for our company, and we have been carefully reviewing how we can best leverage the talent and experience within our management team in support of our goals. This is a strong management structure and a strong management team to lead our company given the needs of our business and the accelerated pace at which we must make strategic decisions and respond to the needs of our customers. I am proud of the caliber of our next-generation of leaders and their dedication to our future.

Michael Ryder

We have ambitious goals for the future and a strategy to enhance Buena Vista Games' position as a major force in interactive entertainment. BVG's intellectual properties, combined with Epic's leadership in underlying technology, ensures the best game content for consumers.

Eduardo Carvalho

We have very ambitious expansion plans. We are planting more sugar cane fields. We are building new factories. The prospects are just fantastic.

Robert Reich

Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs.

Andres Nocioni

We have to keep fighting. We have to be ambitious every time.

Michael Saltzman

We've done a lot of public meetings. It's a very involved plan; it's a very ambitious plan for the mayor and council. It's hard to understand what's involved.

Thor Heyerdahl

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

Ice T

I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

Ivana Milicevic

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.

Gina Bellman

There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.

Donald Trump

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.

Zadie Smith

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

Zac Efron

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

Willie Aames

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

William Shatner

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

Xavier Becerra

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Timothy Noah

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Giles Foden

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.

Gilbert White

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Donald Trump

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune.

William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

William Whitelaw

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William John Wills

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Valerie June

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

Colin Angle

When my daughter was 3, she was eating Cheerios and spilled some on the table. So she swiped them onto the floor. I said, 'Darcy, what are you doing?' She said: 'Don't worry, Daddy, the robot will get it.' I didn't know whether to be horrified or proud. It was this idea that homes take care of themselves and robots are part of that.

Paul Bello

We have people eating things they never heard of before.

John Mulaney

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

Tom Robbins

Whining's unattractive, even when your whine sounds like Kenneth Branagh eating frozen strawberries with a silver fork.

Craig Smith

I think more of us are interested in eating better.

Richard Gough

I think the stretching before training and the match, has helped me. As well as being sensible with my eating and drinking.

Gretchen Rubin

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time, and eating exactly the same food every day. I'd remember my friends' birthdays, I'd learn Photoshop, I wouldn't let my daughter watch TV during breakfast. I'd read Shakespeare.

David Gay

We have not stopped eating fish in my family.

Rich Harden

I was throwing up all day Tuesday and Wednesday. I've been eating normally the past three days. Now I can finally get into my regular routine of long toss, side work and lifting.

David Horowitz

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

Dick Armey

I guess I'm a little disappointed in the president who says unless you're willing to do everything my way I will characterize you as being unwilling to do anything. Those are not the fair terms for debate. And quite frankly, Mr. President, you know better than that. You know how much our heart is in educating these children,

Mark Kennedy

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

Erik Hassle

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

Ken Starr

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

Robert Reich

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.

Jeffrey Runge

This study is indeed good news. But we must never let our guard down, especially in educating new parents.

Rand Paul

The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

Lee Terry

I think we need to do a better job of educating the adults in our society that it shouldn't be a right of passage.

Gail Carson Levine

I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

Scott Harris

That was their first varsity win. They were really excited about it. It was a good match.

Josh Green

That would be great. We didn't expect our season to be over (today) but we'll be excited about it.

Duane Zauner

That was the whole goal, to get ready for Colfax and get ready for league. This was the first time we've played in two weeks, so we were real excited to get field time in today.

Pam Dean

That was the first home run we've had in our park. So, all of the girls were excited and were proud of Emily.

Mark Evans

That was a great lift from Megan. She got two big rebounds and made two big offensive plays. She got us excited again.

Craig Stansberry

We have a new big-league manager and I want as many looks as I can get. I'll have an opportunity to play in front of the major-league staff. You have to be excited about an opportunity like that. I'll just go out and play and see what happens.

Mike Babcock

We have an eight-game playoff series. We're excited about it. They have a real good team. Let's get there and get going.

Patricia McBride

I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.

Parker Young

In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.

John Mackey

Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Sara Schmitz

We substitute foods that are on the menu with a doctor's excuse. With 20,000 kids, it's impossible to be short-order cooks.

David Chang

Yes, natural is good and healthy, and whole foods are important. However, experimentation is important, too.

Joel Fuhrman

Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

Joel Fuhrman

Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.

Marcia Stefanick

You may be able to get enough calcium and Vitamin D through the foods you eat.

Yahya Jammeh

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

Carl Rogers

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Ashley Tisdale

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Pavel Kubina

That would be nice. That's a big milestone. You never know. You have to stay healthy and play well enough.

David Seiders

We can't hold at the pace we had last year. It's not going to be the end of the world -- it's going to be a simmering down to a very healthy pace.

Michael Brennan

We were simply outmanned tonight. We have not played with a completely healthy squad all year.

A. N. Wilson

Most intelligence reports are naturally regarded with healthy skepticism until they're vetted and looked into.

Milton Stokes

Most important, maintain a healthy weight; being too thin or too heavy can lessen your odds of conceiving.

Tom Rossley

Whoever we've got, we'll line 'em up. We'll go to whoever is healthy and ready to play.

George Scalise

The outlook for the semiconductor industry remains robust.

Michael Walden

We have all the ingredients for a strong biotech industry here with the agriculture, pharmaceuticals and educational base.

Leah Rush

Time is money, and you can tell how much an industry is interested in getting their legislation through by how much they pay.

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Rex Wilmouth

We're all trying to come together to make it work for the industry and for the consumer.

Gerald Brown

With all the industry we've lost, this will be a shot in the arm.

Jake Brace

We don't see the industry has reached equilibrium yet.

Molly O'Donnell

We are on track to support a worldwide launch for the first time in industry history.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Carrie Snow

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Robert Kiyosaki

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

Robert Kiyosaki

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

Bela Bartok

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

B. R. Ambedkar

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

B. F. Skinner

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Octavia E. Butler

The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

Oscar Isaac

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

Zhang Jie

I think many, many things are different here from China, so I'd want to see all kinds of things. I would like to introduce myself to real American people, real American life.

Greg Hand

From the very beginning, we always said that when you introduce a new mark, sales will increase.

Charlie Brotman

For me, to have this opportunity to introduce presidents of the United States -- I'm overwhelmed,

Jim Williams

If we could push a button, we'd like to reduce the number of documents. We'd like to introduce technology that facilitates the processing. We need to take this into the 21st century.

Doug Harris

We want to try and get more people out to introduce our crossbows, this is the second year for us with the crossbows, to come out and shoot them.

Erich Leinsdorf

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Katherine Parkinson

People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you're so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on set with people you don't know, having to introduce yourself and make friends.

Jim Adams

We have a mission to accomplish. Their first obligation is to their employer.

Deb Henderson

It didn't stop what our mission is for the season.

Steve Squyres

Today is day 591 of our 90-day mission to Mars.

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

David Brainerd

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

David Brainerd

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Amy Adams

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Tony Lentini

Most of our oil production is shut in, and about 80 percent of our natural gas.

Brad Zeigel

Whitney is pretty natural back there, but she'd rather be on the field.

Bebe Neuwirth

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Mike Greene

Well, if you have a goalie like Colin, it's a natural choice. We don't plan on high-scoring games. It's just not what we plan to do.

Alex Alben

I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal outcome.

Andrew Natsios

even in a best-case scenario, under optimal conditions, we could see as many as 320,000 people die.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

Robert Runcie

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.

Jason Alexander

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

Ron Cowen

I don't share your optimism. We can talk about this for 19 hours, because I get pretty passionate about it.

Kris Benson

He was very passionate about anything that he did.

David Nail

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

Mark Cuban

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

Jane Goodall

I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then there's the violent, brutal side that has evolved with us. The question for each individual is: which side is going to come out on top?

Bridgit Mendler

I'm really passionate about music.

Bruce Hornsby

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Sean Kaldor

One of the most interesting things is to watch how these sites pioneer new technologies.

Daymond John

Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper.

Amy Winehouse

I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied with just one level of musicianship ... as someone who was a pioneer.

Ameen Rihani

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

Emanuel Steward

He was a pioneer in a lot of ways. His punching power for his size was phenomenal.

Elizabeth Blackwell

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

Jane Clark

To say she was a pioneer I think is an understatement.

Jane Forbes

To say she is a pioneer would be an understatement.

Meryl Streep

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics,

Kirk Triplett

That won the tournament for me, for sure.

Randy Burditt

Without all of the help, the tournament would be nothing. It was another success.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.

Gary McCord

Whatever the Tour fines me, it'll be worth it." ()

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Louis C. K.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Mike Conners

Were in the tournament now, and in the tournament anything can happen.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.