Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matteo Renzi

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

Paul Swangard

There are still categories that are probably not going to want to attach their name to Kobe. Family-consumer brands like McDonald's and Sprite are probably still a little reticent to come back into the fold.

Philip Treacy

Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.

Glen Hanlon

Here we are, we're out of the playoffs, and as coaches, we're all quite sad we didn't get the extra point. It's just another example of a team that's fairly resilient. For a team with 61 points, I think there's likely not a lot of teams like that you could attach that word to.

John Boles

He's attached to the strike zone. His stuff stays in the zone. It's fun to watch, because he gets the defense involved. With him, he has deception to his delivery.

Atharva Veda

HOLD all your property and wealth in trust for the Lord who gave them to you; even your family you must treat as a sacred trust, as persons given to you by the Lord to love, foster and guide. Thus, you must elevate your attachment into worship and make it an instrument for spiritual progress.

Philip Agee

It is so ironic that the White House itself might be the first violator of this law, which, my name is attached to,

Gary Johnson

I think any time you can have an objective expert do your returns, you've got go with that. They can find things that perhaps you haven't seen, they give you good clean records, they keep track of your documentation. But there is always a price tag attached to doing it that way so it's not something that everyone can afford.

Jim Calhoun

I think it's the very charm of exactly what this tournament is about and I truly believe that. We played Gonzaga in 1999 and everybody in Phoenix was attached to them. That's a very natural thing.

George P. Shultz

Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.

David Fyfe

Historically, spare capacity of 1 to 2 million b/d is still very low considering all the uncertainties on supply in Nigeria, Iraq, Iran and the Gulf of Mexico and it means there's not a huge margin of flexibility if anything should happen to those producers.

John Parry

What might have been lost in terms of production and refining capacity was more than made up for by the hurricanes driving oil prices up a couple dollars a barrel.

Leendert Staal

There is nobody who can, with any certainty, forecast demand. But there is definitely not a need for increased capacity for custom manufacturing. Speculative investment of several hundred million dollars is not the wisest move.

William Rochelle

We just have one catastrophe after another in the industry. I'm not sure any of them have the capacity to respond on their own.

Norm Coleman

to get a better feel for her intellectual capacity and judicial philosophy, core competence issues.

Newt Gingrich

To David Sarnoff, the creator of NBC, the word 'visionary' meant a capacity to see into tomorrow and make it work.

Dennis Kucinich

Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.

Paul Leming

There are no signs it's a demand problem, ... It's a capacity problem, and one that's been visible for three years. It's been clear for three years. That's how long it takes to get these plants built. This has just been a ticking bomb.

Joe Jordan

He shouldn't just say this or infer that. If he has any information as he says he has, he should talk to you and very carefully explain it to you.

Marshall Curry

I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

Asa Hutchinson

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

Jack Reed

Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.

Enrique Manzanilla

Restricted use pesticides must be handled carefully in order to protect the users and the environment. Companies selling these chemicals must make sure that they do not fall into inexperienced hands.

Arthur Caplan

Research in the past has wound up abusing, harming or hurting people. You want to stick to these regulations as carefully as possible, because they really make sure the welfare and interests of human subjects are protected.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Abheek Barua

Investors are looking at India carefully and avian flu is a risk.

Kent Engelke

Investors are going to be looking carefully at ... retail sales for any sign that consumer spending may be slowing.

Lanny Breuer

I think it's extraordinarily unfair that in the last minute the government has chosen to intervene.

Hani Durzy

We are extremely gratified that the Supreme Court has chosen to review this case.

John O'Hurley

I am excited that I have been chosen as the host of such a television institution.

Richard Sands

He felt that Canandaigua, you know, 'The Chosen Spot,' that's what it means in Algonquin Indian, should have more cultural arts.

Greg Omoto

I like the makeup and direction these girls have chosen to take. We laid the groundwork last year. We're raising the bar.

Don Rickles

I'm pleased to have been chosen by Coach G. and the team. I know they'll do me proud, ... If not, I'm going to invite them to leave Tucson and come to one of my Las Vegas shows, and then make them sit outside in the desert and let them watch their skates melt.

Rita Ora

I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.

Brittany Murphy

I'm a creative person. I've always chosen people who are entertaining themselves.

John Yap

The IPO stock couldn't have chosen a better day to debut.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Tony Couture

Jake?s a great story. He?s played through an injury this year, had some rocky roads but he played outstanding tonight and made some great saves.

Brent DeRuyter

Jake had a great year last season as a sophomore. He should be even better this season.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Helen Clark

It is important that the Commonwealth does back the principles which it repeatedly says that it stands for; those principles being constitutional law, human rights and democracy,

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

Jose Saramago

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

Ronald Coase

What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.

Gail Parsons

I really want to stress the importance of membership. Last year membership about doubled the membership of the previous year.

Kevin Johnson

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

Richard Boucher

that they are indeed raising these issues of the importance of getting back to the six-party talks.

Andrew Chesley

That's No. 1. It's probably impossible to overstate the importance of getting the Measure K renewal program.

Arthur Machen

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Catherine McAuley

A good beginning is of great importance.

Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Herbie Hancock

Tradition can be negative though, if the importance of having roots outweighs the importance of searching for what's valuable in new things being presented.

Yoko Ono

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

William Petersen

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

Khaled Hosseini

She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

John C. Maxwell

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Kyle Maynard

We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

Conrad Lautenbacher

All coastal communities in the United States are at risk of a tsunami. We can talk about the odds of that risk, but all are at risk.

Eric Ries

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

M. Wolfe

The odds are you aren't going to get caught.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that.

Gore Vidal

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

Steve Hockensmith

Without Leonard Nimoy, there would have been no 'Star Trek' phenomenon. And without 'Star Trek'... well, that's a parallel universe most of us probably wouldn't want to visit.

Nancy Kress

The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'

Elizabeth Blackburn

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

William Penn

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Stephen Manes

What's been revealed of Windows Vista is particularly sad.

John Taylor

What's truly fascinating about these 201 hours...is what they really do reveal about Watergate,

Madeleine M. Kunin

When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

Zahi Hawass

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

Robert Henri

Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging.

Foxy Brown

I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

Lily Chatterjee

One strange thing about the rain? It reveals all of the leaks.

Patti Smith

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Richard Smalley

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

Thomas R. Cech

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Taylor Wilson

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Alan Alda

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

Fabiola Gianotti

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Dick Jauron

I haven't even thought about it, and we haven't spoken about it.

Charley Casserly

I haven't spoken with him yet, but I will.

Mike Vogel

They're very quiet. You can tell that there's something that they're about to do. They have the track walks before the race. They go and do their thing, and not a word is spoken between any of them. They're just staring at the track.

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Sachin Tendulkar

I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play.

Horace

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Nadine Gordimer

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Richard D. James

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Richard D. James

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Rob Brown

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manchester. And it might be a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape and there's all these weird nuances and distortions that have affected what I know as the truth, if you like, of that track.

Reid Hoffman

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

William J. Clinton

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

Tori Amos

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Valentino Rossi

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Richard Dawkins

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.