Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Ed Ratledge

People use it for everything from trying to build a road, deciding on a prison almost any kind of public purpose like that.

Ken Whisenhunt

(Our) thinking was since they (Colts) had all of their time outs, taking knees would give the ball back to them. Besides, how often does Jerome fumble the ball? Almost never. It was just a crazy thing.

Greg Wilkinson

Our estimation is that he's under about 30 feet of snow right now which is going to make it almost impossible to find him with poles or regular things that you would use in an avalanche type of situation.

Chris Cooper

Our decline rate is almost double that of the national rate. We've got 150 construction projects per year, mostly for capacity and safety.

Brian Hoffman

Our eyes almost popped out of our head.

Alan Greenspan

Our analysis of economic developments almost surely will need to deal in greater detail with balance sheet considerations than was the case in the earlier decades of the postwar period,

G. H. Hardy

People seem to want to hug New Orleans right now, and this is one way they can do it. It's almost like a patriotism toward the city.

Don Lindburg

Between the arrival of the first Su Lin in our country in 1936 and the birth of the second one in 2005, history has not been kind to pandas, with only about 1,600 individuals left in the world today.

Marion Oettinger

We need something as mundane as a loading dock. We need to prepare, for example, for the arrival of the river, which is going to be transformative.

Norman Baker

The arrival of this spy center means that Big Brother is finally here. The balance between the state and individual privacy has swung too far in favor of the state.

Howard Moscoe

The arrival of these new buses would not be possible without the financial support from all three levels of government.

Paul Swangard

They've realized that the next generation of fans wants sports delivered any time, anywhere. They're astute in remembering that in every arrival of new media, sports has always been second to porn as the most compelling content.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When all else fails...be a rockstar

Bonnie Hunt

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Randy Pausch

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

Henry Miller

Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.

Hudson Taylor

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Horace Mann

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

Thomas A. Edison

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Hans Zimmer

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Juan Avila

Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Cheech Marin

It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace.

Pat Riley

I should have played him in New Jersey. I regret that. He could have helped on (Vince) Carter.

Karen Brown

I should have helped in some way. I should have put my life on the line.

Peter Diepenbrock

They all helped out on (Gordon). From top to bottom, this was truly a team effort.

Tricia Gaither

This is the first time we've had him for a whole year, and his program is one of the best. I think the sport specific things he does have helped me a lot and our team a lot.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

J. M. Roberts

That's like saying you shouldn't nominate Roberts because he helped with Roemer v. Evans,

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

David Nabarro

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

Andrea Gaston

The team has been doing everything right mentally and physically, so now we just have to hope that we peak at the right time.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

John Snow

It would be our hope they can do that quickly within a week,

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

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.

John Conyers

This is not a new and improved Patriot Act.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Tim Brown

Currituck is much improved from when we saw a little over a month ago.

Kristi Clemens

We have drastically improved port and cargo security since 9/11.

Gary Green

With Jacques, you know they'll be well-coached. As long as Roberto plays well, they should be a significantly improved team.

Lance Manning

We improved as the scrimmage went on. In the later part, we played a lot better.

Dorothy Lakner

The quality of the merchandise has improved and...the service levels are very high.

Lisa Randall

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Jeff Bridges

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

Wade Wimmer

We have offered a 30 percent over plant for the 2006 crop. For every share that a grower owns, they can plant 30 percent.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

O. J. Simpson

You know he didn't have a caddie, so I offered to caddie.

Brian Tracy

Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

Cesar Chavez

...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.

Carroll Quigley

...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

Al Capone

I have built my organization upon fear.

Arthur Blank

You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.

Dennis Hastert

The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.

Colin Powell

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

Clint Eastwood

There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness.

Douglas Engelbart

Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.

David Adamson

There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.

Billy Carter

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

Carl Griffith

We had patients throwing up. It was very ugly.

Ian Young

All the most vulnerable patients are those that are going to be deprived,

J. J. Johnson

We've always been told that there's nothing we can do. We're told that the patients are the ones who need to complain.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Dieter Zetsche

It has performed well in the world's toughest market.

Tony Thomas

He performed it easily, because he was playing himself.

Tom Roberts

They got out and performed really well today. I'm really pleased with them.

Andy Williams

They took him upstairs to the nurse, who performed C.P.R..

Rick Miller

It's not much worth just reading the play in a classroom, but it's a whole other thing seeing it performed live in a way that makes it relevant to their lives.

Ravi Shankar

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

Robert Poole

There's actually now a well-established procedure for every project.

Phil Roe

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

Alan Perlis

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Mike Wilson

The routine has pretty much stayed the same.

Dominique McElligott

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Alastair Campbell

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

Jan Yager

But too much routine -- if you're not getting from that routine what you need and want -- that's when it can become a rut.

Cindy Clough

Before the routines were not as aerobic. Now we need to train more.

Carly Rae Jepsen

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

Ovid

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only the suffering God can help.

Bob Dylan

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Elie Wiesel

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Elie Wiesel

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Elie Wiesel

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

Neil Abercrombie

We are talking about the survival of this country.

Carl Zimmer

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

Dan Aykroyd

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

Edward Norton

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

Deepak Chopra

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Peter Benchley

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Jill McCorkle

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

Jason Momoa

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

Jeff Bezos

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.