Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Thomas J. Watson

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Virginia Postrel

People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Yehuda Berg

The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.

Chris Bohjalian

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

Robert Rubin

The overarching point of the president's economic strategy going forward in the 1999 budget is clear: under no circumstances should we take any steps that will undo the fiscal discipline that we have worked so hard to achieve and has been so central to our strong economy of the last five years.

Yuri Milner

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

Nelson Mandela

The policy of the People's Republic of China is that there is only one China, which we accept,

Choi Hoon

The outlook on the steel industry is not that positive with increased production from China and price declines.

Roy Wadia

That was something that made China very upset indeed.

Rajiv Dutta

The $100 million investment is aimed at generating eBay's long-term revenue growth. We're not interested in just being No. 1 in China but the No. 1 player in ecommerce,

Xiao Yaqing

We have a market share of about 50 percent now in China and would like to keep it at between 45 and 50 percent in the next five years.

Mark Fischer

We have up to 38 million viewers who watch at least one NBA game in China per week (on free television).

George Wu

We've had enough of China telling us how to behave. We want the world to know about China's threats. But we are small, so we have to speak loudly to be heard.

Alan Johnston

We're well established as a company that services the UK parts market but to find success with international shipments to a country like China is especially pleasing given the current import climate. It proves that the UK has a lot to offer - if it looks for opportunities in the right places.

Gloria Trevi

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Gladys Knight

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

William Kirby

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

Ian Mckellen

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

William R. Keating

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

Ellen Key

The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

Bob Stimson

The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

Louis Font

The Pentagon has instituted this policy to say to the current troops that if you go AWOL you will be hunted down to the grave.

Dennis Ross

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

J. C. Watts

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

John Harmer

We have a major problem with the current engine.

Phil Smith

We could get pulled over for speeding and pay more than that. The problem with the current laws is enforcement.

Grace Speare

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Jeff Buckley

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Keith Hennig

Leader No. 1 is Courtney. In second, you have Lindsey. She gets fired up in games. She expresses herself and her teammates respond.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Ariel Sharon

shares in the grief of the U.S. administration and expresses its condolences to the American people.

Philip Hilder

Mr. Baxter had the utmost integrity and she respected him immensely. Mrs. Watkins expresses her heartfelt sympathy and prayers to her family.

Oscar Wilde

The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it

George Pataki

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

Councilman Banks

We have worked together. We've held up our end.

Connie Clark

We have team rules and every member of our program is held accountable for them.

Chauncey Billups

We've done nothing. We've held serve with home-court advantage.

LaMont Jordan

We've done enough talking. What we have to do now is step up, be held accountable, realize we're professional athletes, that we have a job to do, and we have to go out there and do it,

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Peter Gallagher

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

Ron Zonen

Michael Jackson should be held responsible for what he did,

Denise Marshall

You can give away memberships to gyms, but unless the person is held accountable, they are not likely to keep up with it.

Clint Hurdle

I thought he took a very positive first step. He didn't get outside of himself. In the first inning he was mid-20s in pitches, but he battled. He didn't give up a big inning after that. Any time there was traffic, he held runners well. He made pitches when he had to. He mixed his pitches. He held the left-handers very effectively. A big outing for him and a big win for us.

Brian Morris

When something like this happens, you get your hopes up and they just get dashed.

Stephen Hawking

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Samuel E. Morison

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Haley Jowle

I didn't want to get my hopes up. He might have said that I wasn't his daughter.

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Paul Nelson

We are going about this in hopes in will identify system problems.

Joe Haldeman

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Melissa Wilson

My hopes right now are to be able to walk again, because you realize how important walking really is to you.

Yosef Lapid

will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Mehrangiz Kar

It doesn't mean that the majority of the Iranian people think like that. They are staying in their homes. They are not on the streets.

Javier Solana

We have to see what is the response that the Iranians give us.

Mark Gwozdecky

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

Nicholas Burns

We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.

Chris Christie

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

Ian Macdonald

We have nuclear power plants so we have to stay in compliance.

Haley Barbour

like there'd been a nuclear weapon set off.

Haley Barbour

I don't think you've seen anything like this, ... We're talking nuclear devastation.

Mohammad Khatami

From the outset we have said that peaceful nuclear technology is our right. And we have said that under no circumstances will we go towards making nuclear weapons.

James Davis

He is a sophomore at N.C. State studying nuclear engineering.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bill Bradley

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Charles R. Swindoll

I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

Michael Lynch

We have worked with Bode for several years now and know the type of person he is. Yes, he has been provocative, but we also recognize that he's revolutionized his sport and has energized the Turin Games, which is a positive for all of us who are vested in their success.

Rutina Wesley

When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.

Lance Bass

We're working on that. We should know this week. I'm a positive person so I always think positively.

Richard Mitchell

We're working on a positive leaflet to give to adults, but nothing grim.

William Shakespeare

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Bertrand Russell

it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

David Longmuir

The American day traders have popped up in Russia for the first time.

Mikhail Bakunin

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

Soundarya

I'd like to be known for my character.

Dmitry Medvedev

Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

Dmitry Medvedev

Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions

Dianne Feinstein

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

Agnes Smedley

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

John Challenger

You'll see more tuition reimbursement programs, more schedule flexibility.

Brad Harman

I feel we're about where we should be. This year's non-district schedule is about as tough as we've ever played.

Danny Wuerffel

If anybody's willing to schedule us, we're willing to play.

Ted Sundquist

We're on schedule and will be under the cap.

Kirk Lewis

We're on a totally different schedule on testing day.

G. H. Hardy

We're not willing to schedule more negotiating sessions.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Aaron Sorkin

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Ato Boldon

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

Roman Harper

He talks more out there than he does all week.

Steve Alford

We've already kind of had all the talks that we were going to have.

M.I.A.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.

Michael Huff

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

Billy Bush

She talks about two people. From your experience, is that right?

Rich Cohen

When a movie star sits and talks to you, it's almost always, and only, because she's promoting something.

Lindsey Williams

Talks have been constructive, but there is still work to do.