Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Francois Fenelon

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

Marilyn Smith

She knows this is her life. She accepts it. It's almost her mission in life to touch others.

Carl Hiaasen

These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind of world they want to live in, ... I like to think sanity will prevail.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Dick Cheney

I understand how tough it is. You make it abundantly clear how tough it is. I hear it from our troops. I read the reports every night.

Sharon Stoll

Young people today are at a disadvantage. In our society, it's not too clear what is right and wrong.

Dan Bloom

Young people in Taiwan do not have a clear idea of what the event was about and lessons have to be taught to the young people because it's in the past. Once they learn more about it, they will love the place they live in even more.

Brian Tracy

If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

Lixion Avila

There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of Epsilon.

Terry J. Lundgren

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

Dennis Prager

If you're morally clear you are not on the Left

Renaldo Wynn

It's a new era. Guys have that taste in their mouths. Guys are starting to believe. It's an electricity, from top to bottom.

John Thune

The Obama experiment has failed

Jerry Hollendorfer

That was just an experiment that worked out. We sure weren't thinking about any million-dollar race for him.

George Santayana

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

Louis Pasteur

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.

Meher Baba

You must make bold experiments in life!

Adam Smith

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Alcee Hastings

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

Joe Sinsheimer

We shouldn't have to wait for state or federal indictments to get rid of Jim Black.

Brian McDonald

We think that federal law trumps what's in state law. You would not have to put this to a vote.

Randall Park

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

Christopher Brown

I think the judge followed the law. I know it hurt Mr. Parker, but the judge did what was fair.

Tony Stott

The nature of a nuclear reactor is such that a very rigorous process must be followed in returning an unit to service.

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Ryan Gosling

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Karin Brower

We had the 8-4 lead with 13:42 left in the game. We were trying to take time off the clock.

Drew Gilpin Faust

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

Brian Durocher

Maine is a team that has some talented and strong kids. They play a real solid game.

Ricky Ford

He's still got a lot of Maine characteristics,

John Lyly

Lette me stande to the maine chance.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Andy Stanley

Environments are the messages before the message.

Johnny Depp

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

Christopher Klaus

If we in the U.S. can't protect ourselves, what message does that send to the rest of the world?

Brett Favre

I called back probably 30 minutes after I got that message and got Scott's voice mail.

William Thomas Stead

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

H. Hunt

The messages can be tailored to how the parameters are defined.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your life is your message.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Charles R. Swindoll

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Jimmy Williams

We got started yesterday with a power cleaner. You can see we blasted out three previous coats.

Tim Taylor

You get a power play and you think, 'We get one here, the door's shut. But the way things are going for us, we will take the two points.

Jeff Bower

There's not going to be power here for another week or so. We've got to get them out of here.

Ed Begley, Jr.

When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Carolyn Sime

It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close.