Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelos Anastasiou

I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.

Mike Trgovac

He keeps growing every year. There are certain times when Pep is going to have growing processes. It seems like early in the year he seems to get frustrated because everybody is bringing people to him.

Drew Stanton

He's gonna come up and hit you every time. You can never relax. It's good because he's bringing that tough mentality that we need over there on the defensive side of the ball. We've just got to be ready for it on offense.

David Thomas

We think (acquiring Whistle) is a very important acceleration of our focus of bringing e-business to small businesses around the world.

Justin Gatlin

It is possible. I have the competitive spirit. I am working on my starts and bringing sound races.

Timothy Ghriskey

I think we've had a pretty significant correction in the stock market since the highs in early March, and we've reached a level that seems to be bringing in buyers.

Pat Wilson

I think those things are seriously the result of discussions with the coaching staff, those in the technical side of the elite pathway, and then to identify need for a particular style of player. Whether that's someone coming through the ranks or is that someone we need to fast-track by bringing someone external into the system.

Stone Gossard

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched.

John Cornyn

It isn't a crime to make a profit. What can the government do that would be constructive to bringing prices down?

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Sam Altman

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Rob Willmann

It was a wonderful, wonderful time to live in Rome. The educational opportunity was multiplied tenfold due to the variety of cultures and languages.

Virada Nirapathpongporn

That trip was kind of different because I'm not used to being out west. Then I come back to the East Coast, and the Midwest trip was different from the Northeast. It's good to travel and see the different cultures around the country.

Edward Sapir

During the more than four hundred years that have elapsed since the discovery of America, the native cultures have naturally not been static.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Eden Sher

I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

Gloria Steinem

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

Kyle Rase

I talked to the kids about giving free passes, free runners, those are very costly. There was a perfect example of that with all the free runners they had tonight.

Roberto Luongo

Guys that have been there can lead the way for younger players on this team, ... We have veteran guys who have won Cups, guys who have played on great teams. They know what it takes and know what it takes to put pucks in the net. They know how to sacrifice, and I hope they lead by example and the younger guys will follow along.

Patrick Robinson

He's a good example of what can be done wrestling outside of the scholastic program. The vast majority of our kids don't. But they also play other sports. Wrestling is Dan's only thing.

David Poile

Hockey is the ultimate team sport. You have to have all of the pieces working together. My example is I always use is Wayne Gretzky. He would often be in front of the net and get the puck from two guys who were getting the heck pounded out of them in the corner. They were making a lot less than him. They get bloody. Gretzky puts the puck in the net and he gets the glory.

Chris Browne

I think, yes. I think they were trying to make an example out of Mr. Phillips. I think they picked the wrong guy to make an example out of, that's all.

Heber J. Grant

There is no better example of an older brother's love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Jill Paton Walsh

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

Janet Reno

I think what these mothers are doing is an example of what we must do when we see something wrong,

June Jones

He's done a nice job. He's the perfect example of someone who knows his assignments and knows what to do. He gets the most out of his abilities, and he's helped us.

Alan Cole

This was a goal of mine for a long time. To come over here and win a Fair race. My owner gives us what we need and this is how we should be running all the time.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

Christopher Hill

I think it's fair to say we have a rather major disagreement on this point.

Tim Finchem

I think it's fair to say that the purse level increases year-to-year will not be as steep in the next six years.

Connie Mack

It is a fair plan. It shares the benefits.

Gray Davis

Whatever is done has to be done in a fair and objective manner,

Bill Shine

We try to make sure that everything is fair and is balanced. It's our slogan, but it's also what we live by.

Yahoo Serious

I think we have an optimistic view of the world. I think we're a very positive race, and I think we're very egalitarian - we give everyone a fair go.

Sean Sutton

I think when it first happened, I thought it's an opportunity to grow as a person. This is not fair for (the players), but life is not fair sometimes. It's unfortunate, but I thought they handled it as well as they possibly could.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

William J. Clinton

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

Sarah Caldwell

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Rob Bell

The first word about you is that you received this life...

Rob Bell

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

William Faulkner

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

Wes Welker

Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.

Zora Neale Hurston

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

Voltaire

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

Voltaire

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

Richard Bush

Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

Richard M. Nixon

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

Richard M. Nixon

Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly — gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

William Wordsworth

A power is passing from the earth.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Wendell Berry

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Ellen G. White

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

Katharine Anthony

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Henry Clay

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

John Maynard Keynes

The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

William Law

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

Vinny Testaverde

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

William Wilberforce

Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William James

Effort is a measure of a Man.

William Finnegan

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

William Gilmore Simms

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Wynton Marsalis

Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is an inheritance, and when we squander that inheritance we act outside. We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.

Wolfgang Puck

A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

William O. Douglas

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

Jose Manuel Barroso

By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.

Jose Marti

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Kevin Spacey

I love producing, I love bringing things together.

Kelley Armstrong

If you say ‘we’re in this together,’ I’m going to hurl.

Kurt Cobain

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Colleen Hanabusa

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Samuel Johnson

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Warren Beatty

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Virginia Woolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Virginia Woolf

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.