Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

As China's citizens experience economic gains, so will the American firms that trade in their expanding markets,

I. Stone

As citizens of the state we should settle for nothing less than protections of an individual's liberty and equality.

Bob Morrison

As citizen(s) of the country and as a human being(s), we want to help out.

Tim Coulon

As a whole, I think he did exactly what the citizens of the parish expected: to take control and take a leadership position in getting us through the disaster,

Gale Norton

a very reasonable compromise between those who support further development ... to meet our growing energy demands and the citizens of Florida who oppose drilling in the waters off their coastline.

John Fahey

A sound knowledge of geography is essential for understanding global events and their impact on the rest of the world. National Geographic has always recognized the need for geographic literacy and will vigorously continue its efforts to educate our young people and empower them to be informed citizens and responsible stewards of our planet.

Bob Dole

private citizens say all kinds of things all the time. Next question.

Donald Rumsfeld

private citizens say all kinds of things all the time.

Norman Cousins

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time

Ryan Hall

Any project under construction will continue to stay on track.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Marsha Blackburn

As far as the political landscape in our state, I think that what we continue to see is that Tennessean voters are more independent and more conservative, and they are watching issues very closely; they are watching votes very closely.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Hootie Johnson

As far as the golf course is concerned, we'll have to continue to evaluate that.

Stephen Mandel

As Edmonton continues to position itself as a major film location, it is important that the industry feels welcome and views Edmonton as a film-friendly, professional destination,

Sheridan Murphy

As Florida continues to develop rapidly, this issue will continue to come up.

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Kym McKay

As a team, our defense continued to shine and was even more exciting than it was last fall. Our new serve-receive system went very well and we are looking for it to continue to improve. We had a handful of moments that we looked extremely impressive and were firing on all cylinders. It was very exciting.

Roger Hammer

I send a lot of my horses out to the fairs for seasoning, to educate them. Some of them come around, and some of them don't.

Annie Schmidt

The vieuw that women are surpressed I have never believed. They have a lot of power, not on a social level, but a power of life. Power to educate her childeren and to lead her husband.

Maria Brown

We had no idea so many people would actually go out on a reef. People need to be educated that they're stepping on living creatures.

Christina Moore

This year our family has saved $750 in tuition; it was $373 the first year and $577 last year. But you would be surprised at how few families are in the program, a lot of people just don't understand it, so we keep trying to educate them.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

This whole controversy about global warming or even evolution - politicians just don't want to take the time to educate themselves.

Nicholas Kristof

You educate a boy, and he'll have fewer children, but it's a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have a significantly smaller family.

Marvin Imel

We tried to educate the orphans in some sort of trade.

Les Owen

We just want to educate the public that they are showing up around here, and teach people to stay away from them. And if they did attack, kind of give them idea of what to expect and what to do to keep from getting hurt.

Michael Kinard

We have to do more on the front end to educate people, versus the back end of incarcerating people.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Rob Stutzman

that they're supporting efforts that have a long-standing positive influence on the state.

Troy Ellerman

We're a rodeo association, not a bull-riding association. Our efforts should be focused on making our rodeos better.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

Rig Veda

During emergencies learned ones make efforts using their intelligence.

Elliott Abrams

Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.

David Makovsky

US efforts between now and March may have to be low profile, but Washington need not be dormant.

Hilary Clinton

The controversy surrounding the IFC has impeded progress on the memorial and essential rebuilding efforts in Lower Manhattan.

Kelly Kisio

Right from the goalie out, there was a lot of selfish play tonight. There were some iffy efforts on a lot of guys' parts.

Eckhart Tolle

Facing facts is always empowering.

Glenn Schifano

To put the shaker in his hand and then to get him to shake on his own, I think it was empowering for him and also empowering for parent.

Alexander McQueen

I want to empower women.

Alton Brown

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

Michelle Bachelet

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

Ron Oden

I enjoy this arena, ... There is nothing more empowering than knowing who you are, that you are where you are supposed to be, and that you're doing what you're supposed to do. Right now, this is what I'm supposed to do, but I know ultimately there's more for me to do than this and I look forward to doing it.

Jaime Contreras

If we all participate, we will empower respect and real immigration reform.

Hillary Clinton

I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.

Hillary Clinton

Let's protect and empower workers who actually drive our economy.

Steve Frady

Public safety is essential for a community's quality of life, and it's one of the first things people look at in judging a city.

Theophilus London

Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

Romesh Gunesekera

To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

S. Truett Cathy

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

Nouriel Roubini

Global imbalances are growing, cross-border financing needs are increasing and a smooth-functioning financial system is now essential for this.

Chris Mooney

Shooting is a pretty essential thing in basketball, and when you make shots, it's so much easier. There's so much less tension and less pressure on you.

Jeff Jarvis

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

Hillary Clinton

American leadership is essential.

George III

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Scott Brown

We did real well. Having three girls in five events and we got 10th, I'll take that.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Kevin Mawae

What Pop Warner does for kids on and off the field is great. It's nice to take part in events like this. It is all about youth football and it is the future of our sport.

Chris Bucknam

You have to have the right surface, the right field events venues and the right track width in order to win those bids.

Stephen Jay Gould

If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range ...

John Smith

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

Richard M. Nixon

It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history - and on the south by friends'.* We hope that will always be the case and we hope it will be the case not only with respect to the United States, your immediate neighbor to the south, but with respect to all your southern neighbors - and ours - who are bound by the great forces of geography and history which are distinctive to the New World.

Edward Gibbon

Religion is a mere question of geography.

Tom Freston

As a global media platform company, we are looking at various projects in many parts of the world.

Zhang Yansheng

The soaring Sino-US trade should be viewed in the global context.

Carlos Ghosn

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.

Lorenzo Codogno

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

Dave Edwards

The world has become global on everything else. Why not this? ... NASCAR used to be a Southern sport. Now it's coast-to-coast.

Ian Stewart

This is symptomatic of a stronger global economy.

Matthew Davis

This isn't something we're going to solve overnight. The problems of global warming have just begun.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Harvey Pitt

any restrictions that we think have an impact on public investors.

Mark Fratrik

Radio has been incredibly disappointing. Satellite radio has had an impact on the traditional industry, but the big reason is the drop-off in younger people listening to radio.

Gernot Nerb

Normally, it doesn't influence immediately the assessment. For industrial companies, the impact normally is rather delayed. They don't look so much at the interest rate.

Dave Kolpak

Are they doing what he wanted? Not nearly, to the letter. But is he having a positive impact on shareholder value and wealth? Yes.

David Fassler

The study we requested would look at increased expenditures related to direct-to-consumer advertising, as well as the impact on patient safety and the overall quality of care,

Nick Rose

The terrible hurricanes in the US have had an impact on our performance in the south-eastern states,

Jose Lagos

Now is not the time, because all the considerations have not been made. The impact would be catastrophic.

John Sicher

The sale of sugar-carbonated sodas in schools is a tiny, tiny part of their overall volume. The impact is more in terms of responsibility and accountability to the consumer.

Bob Riley

These sites can have a large impact really quickly,

William Wordsworth

Oh, be wiser thou!Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

Jonathan Dimbleby

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Charles Kingsley

[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Desiderius Erasmus

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Blaise Pascal

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Charles Bukowski

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

Jesse Ventura

The national Reform Party did nothing -- zero -- to get me elected,

Al Ferris

The national picture is not the picture in the state of Florida.

Troy Smith

The national championship is here next year. We like that.

James Cole

The National Audubon Society is going state by state. The program is in 46 of the 50 states now.

Edward Sapir

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Marcus Williams

This is a team I thought that could get to the national championship game.

Khaled Suleiman

This is not the right national position to take.

Richard Shelby

This is perhaps just the tip of an iceberg. We need security at our national labs. ... It has been too loose, too long, and it's too important,

Dakota Blue Richards

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Rick Riordan

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

Rocco Calo

As a stockholder myself, I want to see the stock do well but I also want to see them treat people well.

Shawn Amos

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

John Eales

As a captain, it's important to have the right people around you,

Peter Ueberroth

As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.

Ray Santiago

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

W. H. Murray

The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Liam Clancy

articulated what the rest of us wanted to say but couldn't.

Jody Conradt

The scoring hasn't been what we thought it would be. But if you look at the rest of her line, it's incredible.

Chris Cooper

It would be like getting off at a rest stop.

Ronald Hill

The stock tends to run and then rest, run and then rest,

Michel Therrien

This is not only for a weekend. It's probably for the rest of the season, because we want to make sure of that when we make decisions.

Stacey Peters

This is the big picture. The rest of the year they will see how (the calculus) works.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Gene Vincent

It was the sound that got to me,

Michelle Martin

You really feel like you are a part of 'The Sound of Music' when you are here.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

I take sounds and change them into words.

Aesop

One story sounds good until another is told

Andy Summers

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Aneurin Bevan

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Simon Pegg

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

Mia Wasikowska

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

Rick Clausen

The most important thing is understanding your role,

Terry Turner

There's always been the understanding that a (tax break) could come into play.

Rita Ora

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.