Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

William Standish Knowles

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

Vivek Wadhwa

Student loan debt is the reason I don't advise students who want to become entrepreneurs to apply to elite, expensive colleges. They can be as successful if they go to a relatively inexpensive public college.

Ellen Key

The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

Bee Wilson

The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.

Bryan Samuels

The archdiocesan review board advised the archdiocese to remove Father McCormack from his parish, and the archdiocese refused to follow the advice.

Rahim Safavi

The Americans know better than anyone that their troops in the region and in Iraq are vulnerable. I would advise them not to commit such a strategic error.

Steve Douglas

That way we can advise them of fire risks, and we also know where fires are planned when other citizens call to report a fire.

Nazmul Hoque

We have been urging the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources over the last few years to meet our demands. After a long discussion the adviser of the ministry agreed to fulfil our three-point demands recently, but the commitment has not yet been fulfilled.

Will Rothhaar

What's the fun in approaching something closed-minded? I'm very specific; if dialogue is too on-the-nose, or there's a lot of telling and not showing, I'll talk to my manager and let them know the problems I have with it. But, I always go in with fresh eyes. The first pass just needs to be about figuring out little things here and there.

Bruce Feiler

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

Bill Hader

If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.

Sue Berkowitz

We hadn't gotten the momentum we hoped for until now. If something gets introduced and we at least get a dialogue going, that's a very positive move.

George Robertson

Today was a good day for resuming the dialogue and discussion that forms part of the NATO-Russia relationship, ... We've moved from permafrost into slightly softer ground.

Ismail Haniyeh

We will resolve these matters through dialogue when we are in government. All I can say is no police officer will lose his job and no police salary will be cut.

Jon Daniels

We've had enough dialogue that something could happen.

Richard Boucher

We've looked over time for a number of things, practical steps by the parties to defuse tension. We've looked for a dialogue between them, if possible, to resolve the issues.

James Foley

We have been urging such a dialogue, but in our view, an escalating military confrontation makes such a dialogue far more difficult.

Irving Ravetch

You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

Imani Hakim

I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

Zayn Malik

It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

Nancy Gibbs

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Adam Scott

That would finish off the year, and I'd be pretty happy.

Joe Godinho

That was the third time he had to wrestle his kid in the last three weeks. It was a tighter match, but Kevin finished strong.

Chris Johnson

That was the first thing that hit me. I knew I had to find a place to try and finish my senior year, so I'd have a chance.

Jeong Jang

That was the first long putt today. Good finish going into tomorrow.

Lauren Bechtold

That was something that's exceptional to be able to hear. To finish with all of these girls, it was incredible.

Brian Curran

That was a huge goal. Samy had a great all-around game and that was a nice way for him to finish it off.

John Ellinger

We have two games left, we need to win an away game. We want to win, we don't want to finish the season with 12 straight losses.

David Ireland

I welcome any kind of investigation (but) I didn't initiate it,

Paul Johnston

If we start seeing a lot of egg-laying, we'll initiate the pulse whether or not we have the right temperature.

Geoff Peters

You've got to stay level-headed and let everything develop. But at the same time you've kind of got to go after it. You've got to be the ones to initiate it.

Gary Sheffield

What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.

Gwen Moore

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Danny Glover

The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Carl Sagan

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Bergen Evans

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.