Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Tom DeLay

If somebody else doesn't file an ethics charge, I will.

Ingrid Reed

It's exactly what we want the ethics rules to prevent.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

There was nothing in the file. What was in her file said that, 'Her services were no longer required.'There was nothing in there about ethics violations.

John Gibson

Really all I can say is whenever there have been problems with contributions they have been sent back. There's nothing in the ethics ordinance that prohibits contributions.

David Williams

You might think, 'How can I get it all right?' ... You have to put it into day-to-day practice. Ethics to me is when you internalize it.

Aleksandar Hemon

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Lance Armstrong

The question is not about me but about the process and the ethics,

Corliss Lamont

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Paul Johnston

It is a lot of money. We've never had that kind of funding for this kind of work.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Angus MacMillan

There are no signs that funds have lost appetite. As long as you have a list of problems, funds will keep piling in.

Christopher Sullivan

I didn't give a legal opinion on any of the funds in question,

Terry McAuliffe

He was the greatest fund raiser of all time. And guess what? We actually got more votes than he did in the 2000 presidential election. They're going to have a lot more money than we're going to have...They're for money. We're for votes.

W. P. Kinsella

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

Rocco DiSpirito

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

John Gunn

Past performance doesn't have anything to do with future performance. It's a massive delusion. It's the most insane thing in the world. You want a pick a fund with low turnover where the management has been around for a long time.

Christopher Hill

I must say it was a meeting in which we did not make a lot of progress. Neither the United States or any other participant is prepared to fund a light-water reactor.

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.

William Wordsworth

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

William Saroyan

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Neale Donald Walsch

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

Nate Berkus

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

Joseph Addison

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

Joseph Addison

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Jose Saramago

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

Jonathan Rosen

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Jacque Fresco

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

Henry David Thoreau

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Simon Clark

We're obviously disappointed in that this is a massive shift in terms of restrictions on smoking in public places. However, it could have been a whole lot worse.

Marketing Manager

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.

Richard P. Feynman

All mass is interaction.

Salman Rushdie

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

Will Rogers

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

Walter Jon Williams

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Robert Goulet

And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.

Galileo Galilei

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Nancy Pelosi

I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein. ... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Zig Ziglar

You measure success by how much good you do for others.

Iqbal Sacranie

This is a long overdue measure but nevertheless is a welcome first step.

James Morris

This is a measure we should simply never have to take.

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Juliana Hatfield

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

Tom Peters

What gets measured gets done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

James Hayes

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Carlos Parreira

We want to preserve his health. He's not being dropped.

Derek Jarman

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.