Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brooke Burke

I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.

Barry Marshall

In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

Dana Quigley

You hit one shot and it might be two or three holes before you hit another one. Raymond really didn't have a putt on that back nine until he had the putt to win all the money on 17. It's a little different thing. It's a very tough format to hold your patience and the patience to keep going. And Raymond aspired to that.

Victor LaValle

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

Max Stirner

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

Bret Ellis

Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction his range is so wide. That's the sort of boldness I aspire to.

Asif Ali Zardari

On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.

Geoff Pemble

My dream is to play Wolf Trap someday. We're Northern Virginia guys, so we aspire to that.

John Mackey

Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.

Pat Doyle

The movie was outstanding, very compelling and very well done.

David Treadwell

The most important thing for Windows is being compelling to developers. Developers are the linchpin for the success of Windows.

Marjory LeBreton

There would have to be a compelling reason.

Andrew Neff

While the stock could remain under pressure near term, we maintain our 'buy' rating on IBM owing to a compelling second-half story.

Adam Rayner

Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Towson Fraser

Obviously, they've got an incredibly compelling story to tell.

John Roberts

On the other hand, simple disagreement about whether it's an appropriate issue for the public to see would not strike me as a very compelling governmental interest,

Hu Jintao

I hope my visit will strengthen dialogue, deepen cooperation.

Jim Dyke

The law says in order to be an independent expenditure, it can not be made in cooperation, consultation or coordination at the request or even at the suggestion of the candidate. Is someone suggesting she has no knowledge of her husband's campaign?

James Sung

And he can help communicate with these institutions for cooperation in relation to financial matters.

Dean Acheson

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Strobe Talbott

would be an obstacle to cooperation on other issues.

Steve Buscemi

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

Manmohan Singh

This summit should evolve regional mechanisms for effective and timely cooperation in disaster relief and management,

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.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Andie MacDowell

The truth is that humans have the potential to be horrific. And I think being conscious of that is important.

Dalai Lama

I am just one human being.

Stephen Hawking

We explore because we are human.

Steven Morrissey

I am attracted to humans. But, of course...not many.

Ricky Williams

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

Martin Luther

Your thoughts of God are too human

Markus Zusak

I am hunted by humans

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Baha'u'llah

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Jane Campion

I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.

Jane Fonda

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

Carl von Clausewitz

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Bryant H. McGill

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Bryant H. McGill

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Denise Monteiro

The social worker told her there was hope.

Connie Smith

This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

John Schneider

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Chuck Hagel

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Anita Roddick

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

Rob Portman

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Lowe

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,