Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

Chen Shui-bian

I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma has done. But I have been charged for misuse and misappropriation. People need to learn at the most basic level that valid charges have not been brought against me.

Chen Shui-bian

It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.

Don Miguel Ruiz

When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.

Donatella Versace

Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful - that was the '80s, and that didn't help women.

James Harris

The only question you have to ask is do you want to play against him?

Jorunn Christoffersen

The politicians would have laughed if we would have requested money for protection against armed robbers before 'The Scream' and 'Madonna' theft.

Paul Bloom

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.

Jon Wooten

We wanted to make it patriotic, yet also grasp the speed at which these guys move.

Edward Kennedy

He did indicate that he's an older person, that he's learned more, that he thinks he's a wiser person and he has a better grasp and understanding about constitutional rights and liberties.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term.

Sullivan Sykes

People always say that hard work pays off. I never grasped that until now. I worked the hardest I've ever worked -- period.

Susan Yolen

It is hard to get a grasp on how U.S. policy is working in another country. We and he were interested in learning more so we could be better advocates.

Fisher DeBerry

We had it in our grasp and we let it slip away.

Marty Hurney

It's just one piece of the puzzle. It's a guideline, but obviously you're looking for players that can come in and grasp the system you're teaching and what you want to do.

Peter Fader

It's not like Sony is going out of business, but there are so many stories to tell about the company's inability to grasp opportunities.

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Frank Armstrong

Why would you pay more for a big name? It comes out of your hide each and every year.

John Whiting

We have no ulterior motive here, ... There's no reason for us hide this information. We want to get it out.

Tom Petty

When you shoot well, you can hide a lot of deficiencies. I like the (3-pointer) as well as anyone, but we wanted to be a little more patient on offense in the second half.

Karen Brown

I always hide under the characters. Maybe I went to that place, but I wasn't that character.

Jay Garner

He had 12 years to hide it. He was very skillful at doing that,

Kristin Runger

If they can look at somebody else's report, they could hide things better.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Farid Abdulkadir

There is no need to hide the reality from the world.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

Bill Bryson

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

Alexander Skarsgard

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

David Nicholls

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

Eva Gabrielsson

Marriage is not common in Sweden.

Milton Friedman

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

Marcus Samuelsson

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

Izabella Scorupco

You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

Daniel Ek

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Matthew Dowd

We can never have enough strategy. We have enough tactics but not enough strategy,

Drew Barrymore

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

Bob Corker

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,

Carlos Ghosn

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

George S. Patton

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

Iain Banks

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

Michael Bergdahl

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.