Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

He leaves a legacy of inspiration and courage to his many friends and colleagues around the world,

Kathryn Minshew

There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn't know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn't find it. There was nothing.

Joanne Harris

I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact.

Bill Shuster

There is no greater responsibility placed upon myself and my colleagues than providing for a safe and secure homeland for America's citizens.

Michael Sullivan

Our members and our overseas colleagues now have an opportunity to proceed to trial on our claims.

Christopher Poole

I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.

Carlisle Floyd

If you are surrounded by colleagues you trust, and if you can use their comments and responses creatively, I think it's tremendous.

John Warner

I must say, as a lawyer myself, reading this on the face, my colleagues raise a legitimate question.

John Peterson

I'm happy to report that my colleagues are finally starting to come around on this issue,

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Peter Andersen

Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.

Proverb Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Vincent Bugliosi

Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Sandra Day O'Connor

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Dan Peitz

If Lawyer Ron runs his race, then we're all probably running for second. He's been very impressive.

Ghassan Khatib

He is pursuing a unilateral approach, which is not constructive, and he wants peace that is incompatible with our legitimate rights and with international legality,

M. Powell

I think it's a very legitimate issue, but I think it's way down on the priority list.

Scott Fetzer

I think all three have legitimate shots to be wrestling Saturday night (in the finals).

Ernesto Zedillo

It is not legitimate to use something that pains and angers us all for political benefit,

Tommy Jones

He has tremendous makeup. When he was in the minors, I thought he'd be a No. 3-4 starter. I didn't think he'd be a No. 1, but he's a legitimate No. 1.

Don Porter

Our national federations are legitimate members, some are stronger, some are weaker.

Tim LaVigne

I had a legitimate strikeout pitch. It's a pitch I can throw and get a lot of swings and misses. I had never even tried throwing a splitter.

Glenn Williams

All indications are this is a legitimate missing person,

John Moores

They (county commissioners) have raised a legitimate issue. It should be studied, and we should do the right thing.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Trace Adkins

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Roger Ebert

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Larry Harris

If you can raise up and shoot from 15 to 18 feet, you can play in this league,

David Scott

It's really a pretty simple model. Raise the pay.

Jessye Norman

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

Donna Parsons

The volunteers work year round to raise money, but this is our big event.

Rick Greenspan

It's a possibility to make a budget, and now it's a possibility to raise the money. That's my mission. That's my charge.

Harold Bloom

I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Whately

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Richard Avedon

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Russell Crowe

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

Russell Crowe

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

Roy Wood

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.