Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liu Mingkang

International experience shows that improvement in banks' internal mechanism is vital for improving their vitality, but it's still an arduous and long task.

Jon Klein

It's such arduous duty physically and mentally that you can't ask people to spend too long there.

Louis Cataldie

This is going to be a long, arduous process. It's not going away.

L. Sprague de Camp

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

Jim Carroll

We've had an arduous three months. It's been very, very difficult on the family and all of the friends, and obviously all the people around the world.

Clive Beddoe

I don't think it's coming to any resolution. It's continuing down this very slow and arduous path.

Paul Di Filippo

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.

Evan Osnos

For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Roger Ebert

The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

Winston Churchill

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

William Walker

The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.

Will Rogers

There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.

Will Rogers

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Randy Sharp

He's just there for everything I need. He never forces himself on me, which is very sweet. He waits for me to come to him.

Claude Bolton

We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, involved in what we're doing.

Pranab Mukherjee

It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Jonathan Turley

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

Jalal Talabani

In my opinion, Iraqi forces, the popular forces and government forces, are now ready to end the insurgency and this terrorism.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

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

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

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

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Robin Wright

I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is.

Ty Zabel

Jake stepped it up this weekend. He had a good day.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood

Richard Louv

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing...

Richard Louv

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

Richard Louv

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

Richard Hofstadter

There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

Richard Dawkins

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.

Richelle Mead

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

Ronda Rousey

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

Romeo Dallaire

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Tupac Shakur

No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.

Tupac Shakur

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

Tupac Shakur

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before.