Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Christopher

It is a grave concern that an employer would stoop so low as to illegally eavesdrop on their staff during negotiations for collective agreements.

Barry Gebhart

I didn't order awards, because I didn't want tonight to be about awards. I wanted it to be about a collective group of guys that may be together for the last time.

Elijah Wood

In some ways that's more gratifying, it requires more of your own energy and your own input, and everyone's kind of collective energy, and that's...in a way that's more gratifying.

Carl Guardino

If there was a giant sucking sound a few years ago, the sound is now a collective sigh of relief.

James Levine

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

Wendy Kopp

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

Mikhail Bakunin

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.

Jeremy Corbyn

I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.

John Pistole

I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.

E. Hurley

This was on par with a space launch today. This was on par with someone going to the moon. It was the cutting edge of technology. The fact that it was done here, in the backwaters of (what was then) Virginia, is really interesting.

Thomas Miller

Here we had someone who had blatantly failed to follow the plan for the sake of cutting costs.

Mark Nore

I thought we played hard, but I thought we had too many mental breakdowns. We weren't making very many reads, we weren't cutting hard to the ball.

Richelle Mead

Lucky Charms?” I asked. “Magically delicious,” he explained. “Requisite for any sort of building project.” I shook my head, still amazed at how he had managed to weasel his way over here. “This isn’t a date.” He cut me a scandalized look. "Obviously. I’d bring Count Chocula for that.

Russell Crowe

If I'm creating the composition, it's easier for me as an actor because I've just cut out the middle man. Because I've created the composition and now I'm in it, I already know exactly what I want to get out of it. So, bang!

Travis Pastrana

Some of my best friends are tattooed from head to toe. Some would never think of it. Some are rocking a mullet and a moustache and others are clean cut. It's funny that you don't need to speak the same language or look like someone to fit in.

Rick Riordan

He could still see the dragon just fine. It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking bronze plates. Its claws were the size of butcher knives, and its mouth was lined with hundreds of dagger-sharp metal teeth. Steam came out of its nostrils. It snarled like a chain saw cutting through a tree.

Rhonda Britten

Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room to have different feelings than you. No more assigning hidden motives, prejudging and cutting people off before separating fact from fiction.

Virchand Gandhi

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Jim Melcher

What we have is a very small marginal edge of a positive view on this. Wall Street is cynical.

John Meyers

Gold is in a consolidation phase. The fundamentals of gold remain relatively firm, so prices will edge higher.

Hannah Smith

God stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if your wings are being developed.

Tom Burns

There is an enormous market for feature-rich, value-priced Fast Ethernet switches at the edge of today's next-generation networks,

Kim Stanley Robinson

That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.

Troy Smith

He is a smash-mouth kind of player who will hit you when he gets a chance. You gotta be on the edge every time you see him.

William Irwin Thompson

When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.

Harry Carson

Players don't need rest. If someone is injured and needs time to recuperate, that's one thing. But players need to go out and play. One of the things that can happen if you take a player off the field is that he loses his edge by standing on the sidelines.

Jeff Bridges

I guess it's out on the edge but it's a wonderful edge to play out on. And, with a playmate like Terry, it makes it all the more enticing.

Amber Bowman

I would say this is a turning-point in our season we want to come in this weekend and show them we're a different team and that we've improved a lot since the last time we played them.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Mark Donahoe

There are signs out there that the market is discounting this (economic improvement) six-to-nine months out.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

James Leal

What would BBVA do with Lloyds? Will it improve the cost/income ratio, which is already very low? There are lots of unanswered questions there.

William Butler Yeats

For men improve with the years;And yet, and yet,Is this my dream, or the truth?

David Ganey

He showed improvement all season long and that paid off with a trip to the state tournament.

Kevin Johnson

I think it shows in our free-throw shooting. We were 12 out of 26 from the free-throw line. It took us too long to get into our offensive sets. We will improve on that by next season.

Kevin Williams

I think their new offense is pretty good. It's an improvement, but it will take some time to get running.

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

Walter Benjamin

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

William Feather

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Daniel Ortega

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

Bill Frist

the intelligence committee's progress of the Phase II review of the prewar intelligence and its schedule for completion.

Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Emile M. Cioran

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

James Moore

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

Vance Havner

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Roland Allen

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

William Carey

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Alan Hevesi

Part of our mission in this project is to restore some of that confidence, ... But, that's going to take some pain.

Milan Kundera

I have no mission. No one has.

Luis Palau

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Ellen G. White

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

Robert Mueller

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

Sarah Kay

One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.

Harvey Mackay

Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your action expresses your priorities.

Dennis Hastert

The two priorities have to find a commonality. That's what this negotiation is about,

Oswald Chambers

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God ...

Lily Cole

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

Olivia Wilde

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

Arlen Specter

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

Katrina Kaif

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

Malaika Arora Khan

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

John Livengood

An independent (owner) who has established relationships with (his) clientele is a very important part of the industry.

Patricia Fripp

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do

Christine Martino

This is a real enhancement to the relationship.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Andie MacDowell

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

Henry Winkler

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. I wrote that.

Alan Mills

Ultimately you have to really stay on top of these relationships if you want to be strong yourself,

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Richard Power

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Richard Dawkins

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

Richelle Mead

Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

Ronnie Dunn

In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

Richard Foreman

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

Richard Powers

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Samuel Wilson

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Britney Spears

Traveling around the world is really strenuous for me, being in a different bed every night, flying and everything.

Robert Hathaway

It's traveling very, very fast. It can penetrate you pretty good.

David Young

they are not traveling out of Arizona. Period.

Christy Romano

I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.

Sara Rue

Traveling Wilburys was always played in my house growing up.

Peter Uihlein

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

Donn Walker

We have to do what is right for the traveling public.

Harrison Ford

Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy.

Roberto Unger

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

Dick Vitale

Oh, it's a vital part of the game,

Paul Tillich

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

John French Sloan

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Justin Tuck

This camp, being my first, it's a vital one.

Greg Gorbatenko

This is vital for the Bells. DSL is very important for their long-term success,

Al Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

David Hilbert

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.