Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clayton Christensen

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

Jason Chaffetz

Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

Nic Pizzolatto

When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.

Anne Donovan

It's one of the few times in my life ... when you try to articulate what's going on inside and I don't think it's possible. This is up there for me.

Ed Black

They're better able to articulate their strategy than in the past, and the new management talent has contributed to that capability. But there are still some real competitive issues, especially in the computer systems division, where they're facing declining market share. Sun has always been competitive, but we're also seeing a revitalized IBM in the server space. But as long as HP can get its strategy right, then we should see a recovery as things progress.

Richard Phillips

I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

Nathan Fielder

I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

Margaret Mead

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t

Judy Davis

I've avoided a lot of publicity over the years because I find it very hard to be articulate about either myself or work that I've done.

Mohsin Hamid

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.

Jolanda Schreurs

We are at a point where the major issues are moot. Those formerly unhappy now, from what we understand in conversations, support our current efforts. The politics is such where we feel it's an important conversation with the full board.

Terry Pendleton

We struck up a conversation right then like we'd known each other for years. Since then, it'd been that way.

Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Steve Chapman

We're making light of the subject itself. And they look pretty funny. They're good conversation pieces.

Eliot Spitzer

We were hoping to initiate a conversation with them that would lead to an agreed-upon schedule,

Paul Dergarabedian

This is a movie that's a conversation piece. People are going to be telling other people, quoting different lines and scenes. That's what's going to sustain it in the marketplace.

Trot Nixon

It's not my place to judge him. I'm sure it's difficult enough. This is a conversation that I'm not going to say much about.

Aaron Brooks

It started as a conversation, a couple of guys over at the house. It started as a conversation, but then it got kind of heated, and we called everybody over and we had a meeting about it.

John Brady

We want to see the figures, refinery runs and all the others. There will be a decent draw in products, especially gasoline.

Andrew Flintoff

We are pleased with the total and the fashion we got it. I think we've had a decent day.

Robert Long

There are some genuinely problematic reports out today, like Merck, but there's a lot of good stuff, too, and people are taking some pretty decent earnings and focusing on the negative.

Mike McGowan

We're in pretty decent shape as it relates to fuel supply, but who knows what's going to happen here in the next few days.

Ron Fellows

We started our session a little late and when we finally got out there, we got 'black-flagged' just before I was going to start my quick lap, ... Our guys have been working hard and that's a decent result for my first time out. I just want to thank Paul.

Jean Nidetch

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

Charles Barron

We're going to stay here until every one of them has a decent place to go.

Buzz Hargrove

Workers everywhere are just starting to say, 'Look, we're fed up with this. We're going to start demanding that we have respect and we have job security and we have decent wages and benefits,'

Mariella Frostrup

Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

James Blake

Wow ... that would be something. I?d think we?d need to hold a big party at Fairfield High. It would be huge.

Mark Rodgers

We're still sitting tight to see how this is going to break. We're kind of in a holding pattern.

David Briggs

We're still in that pattern. Everyone is on hold and waiting for the next (quarterly results) pre-announcement season in September.

Anne Bacon

We're still holding out hope and praying for their release.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Richard Genthe

This is the sixth consecutive year we've raised over $6 million.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Dinaw Mengestu

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Howard Wolfson

No wonder Ms. Pirro raised so little money,

Victor Herrera

The rumors that Mexico's rating is going to be raised imminently are groundless.

Derrick Williams

I used to live here. It's because they raised their rents I had to leave.

Bridget Fonda

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Brenda Strong

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Denis Waitley

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Benjamin Spock

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Bill Wyman

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Peter Davis

We respect that Scott has work to do with Wales yet, but we need to know soon because we need to make a decision.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Mike Kramer

It's been so long since we've won. We've got to get back on the winning track.

Rudy Rodriguez

A lot of firefighters had been there since Day One.

Donna Young

They have just killed us since about noon. It's been crazy.

Kyle Orton

They do a lot of stuff and I'm sure they're going to do more stuff since it's going to be my first start,