Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shakira

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Jim Ronecker

What I said I'd do is bring a common-sense approach to government, I'd have no hidden agendas and I'd use my business leadership skills.

Don Johnson

I was just suggesting some times to discuss things at future meetings in order to set up agendas ahead of time so that we know what's coming down the line. I don't think we need to discuss that in the meeting.

Rick Warren

To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life.

William P. Young

You are free to love without an agenda

H. Hart

Clearly it seems there are too many agendas and that politics has entered the fray here. The banner of the mid-majors is clearly being carried.

Porcher Taylor

I had no preconceived notions or agendas when I began this in 1993 as to what I was looking for.

Pat McGovern

The collective insight from myriad IDG business brands combined with the seasoned experience of major security solutions providers guarantees a can't-miss event. Unlike other events that promote narrow technology agendas or dwell on low-level 'bits-and-bytes' concerns, The Security Standard will discuss the most effective strategies being employed today to transform security into a true business enabler for leading companies.

John C. Maxwell

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

Tyler Colvin

I was just a mental case, to tell you the truth. I worked on my approach and learned what pitch to swing at and it's paid off. I was just swinging at bad pitches.

B.J. Upton

I was always brought up to be patient at the plate. That's the approach I've always taken to hitting. That may be why he said that -- I take a lot of pitches. I might strike out 100 or however many times a year, but my walks to strikeouts about evens out.

Rick Forney

Kenton's been around. He's matured. He'll tell you his approach has changed. He's always had an excellent basketball IQ. It's just that everything else has come together for him.

Brad Buckman

Kenton and I went to a Final Four as freshmen, and now we have a Big 12 championship. We have to approach every remaining game like we did tonight and see if we can get back to the Final Four.

Lou Holtz

Knowing Bill Snyder and the disciplinarian he is and the approach he has, yeah, I think he will bounce back, ... And he doesn't have to be real good to be pretty good in that North.

Klaus Toepfer

I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,

Paul Gallico

Jack Dempsey was a picture book fighter. By all the sons of Mars, he looked the part. He had dark eyes, blue-black hair, and the most beautifully proportioned body ever seen in any ring. He had the wide but sharply sloping shoulders of the puncher, a slim waist, and fine, symmetrical legs. His weaving, shuffling style of approach was drama in itself and suggested the stalking of a jungle animal. He had a smoldering truculence on his face and hatred in his eyes.

David Rowland

Just like the spa is a pampering of your body, spa food and the approach that I make is ... from a similar angle. A burger and fries would not be appropriate. It's something we all crave, but after you've done it, you feel sort of weighted down.

Eric Munson

Just watching him and how he approaches the game and how he handles the pitchers, it really helps me out just to watch him and see how he goes about it.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Jim Leyland

Kenny Rogers made the All-Star team this year. He's 50-some games over .500 lifetime. He brings a lot to this party. I think we got a tremendous deal here.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

Apolo Ohno

I wouldn't say that I always wear this particular shirt, but I do ALWAYS bring it with me to trips and competitions.

Angela Mejia

I would say that if the kids could bring out a thousand students, then there's no reason for us not to bring out 20, 30 or 40,000 people.

Gabrielle Aplin

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

Al Sharpton

I wrestled with this, even over the last few days, as I sat and stood and walked in Louisiana, where I saw people ravaged, lives torn. I thought about the fact that we need a man that's strong enough to bring us through 9/11 but compassionate enough that if Katrina hits, will make sure that poor people are not the scapegoats of a natural disaster.

Pat Robertson

I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, ... It'll bring about terrorist bombs. It'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor.

J. Nicholson

Ken Holland brings a wealth of experience in preparing a team and he has had great success in selecting championship teams.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Larry Brown

Jamal played great, even without the (go-ahead) shot. He played hurt, he had no business being out there. He was great.

David Jacobs

Jake Jacobs has been thoroughly involved in executing Spyder's business strategy, and has been integral to the company's success. He's a leading expert on fabric technology, and has incredible industry knowledge and experience. His soul is the brand. It just so happens that he's also my son.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Sophia Amoruso

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.

Jeff Fager

Katie is a world-class reporter. There aren't many people in this business who can conduct an interview as well as she can. It's no wonder Don Hewitt was chasing her for years to be on this broadcast, and it's exciting that it's finally going to happen.

Tyler Perry

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

Roseanne Barr

I simply care nothing for any of your religions, as all three are fundamentally flawed, unlike the Church of Common Sense, right from the start! They call God he instead of she and all three would like to burn me at the stake for saying that!

Ronald Reagan

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

William Carey

...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Wendell Berry

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

W. Somerset Maugham

Have common sense and stick to the point.

Tim Carter

There are so many things that can go wrong and so many hidden costs.

Simonides Simonides

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Don Hewitt

He had a knack for getting things out of people that others never got out of them niches and hidden moments that they never shared with anyone. But they did with Mike.

Granth Sahib

In the hidden and in the obvious, He is pervading all places. Our light merges into the Light.

Bill Dougherty

These are not marquee-name stars. These are hidden stars.

Tim Hutchinson

The freight train has stowaways hidden all the way through.

Jeff Gaulton

Taboo has a lot of hidden meanings. We're going to leave that up to your imagination.

Mo Ibrahim

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is not the experience, it is leadership that counts,

Bob Henriquez

I think term limits are detrimental to the policy making process because they get in the way of the leadership process.

Kate Warne

I think we're going to see a lot of volatility as the market tries to sort out where the new leadership will come from.