Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Gordon W. Allport

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Naomi Hasegawa

Bond prices got a boost from the fairly good outcome of today's two-year debt auction, while index-trackers actively purchased government debt paper, which supported the market.

Shelley Duvall

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

Toni Simonetti

We are still actively engaged in discussions about Hughes with multiple interested parties. Those discussions are progressing.

Gary Loveman

We are very actively pursuing that. We think we have a very good chance to win.

Daniel Okrent

We think it's crucially important for us to understand and be actively involved in the digital distribution of content.

Jhumpa Lahiri

There's obviously a message, or a moral, or something. I think that's good - but it's not something I actively think about, to be honest with you.

Steve Ellis

The traditional bait and switch approach to credit card marketing doesn't work online. On the web, consumers are in the driver's seat. They are actively shopping for a card that meets their needs. Sites that make that process easy outperform those that don't.

Richard Warren

Our agencies are independent contractors. They're expected to run a highly successful business that represents our brands well and ensures outstanding customer service.

Steve Loucks

Our agencies are booking away whenever possible. In instances when they don't have a choice, they're booking on the airline through US Airways Vacations, which is a tour brand not owned by US Air.

Kathleen Tierney

The state of California is among the best prepared for disasters in the country. This is a very capable state with a gross state product bigger than some countries and with many capable agencies and institutions.

Jeff Conroy

This is one of the toughest decisions I have ever had to make, and it was never taken lightly. I love this United Way and the team we have built. Working with the agencies has been a pleasure and I am in awe every day of their work.

Jack Ellis

We're putting governmental (agencies) in there now because that's where the money is -- we're putting in agencies that pay rent, and those are agencies that we didn't have any place to put,

Claudia Corbin

We have a very exciting and entertaining day planned for all our guests. We have invited several other agencies to be on site with free helpful information and services for families and youth. There will be free refreshments, music and free Healthy Teens backpacks for youth who register for services at the Healthy Teens Community Care Center.

Bob Sullivan

Like everybody else, we have heightened concern about who we release information to. We will provide information on hazardous shipments to emergency responders and bona fide public agencies that have a need to know, and we are cooperating and coordinating with emergency response, safety and security agencies more closely than ever now.

Tom Shaheen

There are many different pieces of this giant puzzle that need to come together. The pieces that must come together include installation of ticket terminals, training retailers, testing software applications and so much more. There are many people working very hard behind the scenes in such areas as administration, finance, sales and computers to help raise money for education and make this historical event happen. In addition, numerous state agencies are providing assistance to us, as necessary.

Kevin Mitnick

Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.

Peter Cardillo

The selling in financials is an anticipation of lower earnings due to a slower economy, ... From the point of view of interest rates not going up, it's positive.

Charles Corp

The significant increase in 1999 planned expenditures is primarily due to the company's plans to enhance its systems capacity.

Mark Smith

It was the technology, and NASA was the attraction. The reason NASA the technology were here, if you want to go one step further, it was due to Wernher von Braun.

Mark Shields

Due to the vast quantity of material, it will take some time to review them all, but so far we have observed no celebrities, no politicians, no senior police officers, members of the clergy, or sporting figures on any of the images.

Kathleen Farrell

Due to the success of the yard sale we held on Sept. 10 at which $1,600 was raised, ... we are having another sale this weekend, Sept. 24 and 25, rain or shine.

Linda Lewis

Due to the shear number of students, we need the position to be able to provide a quality program for our students,

Carlos Hokama

Due to these two factors, the market is in waiting mode.

Ed Hatch

Due to them, the Warner Bros. studio has been one of the most consistent, steady and stable studios of in the last decade.

Paul Bradley

Due to the combination of lower severity and the lower anticipated individual losses, we do not expect substantial losses to the industry, in aggregate.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Bob Macey

This is the culmination of everything we said we would be doing. The foundation and the supporters of the foundation made this happen.

Ira Kurzban

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Vandana Shiva

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

J. J. Johnson

This season our goal was to get better, and we did that. I hope we laid the foundation for the future.

Phil Gramm

Tonight we have laid the foundation to make history,

Jim Boeheim

Those two helped us to get off to such a great start, ... They laid the foundation for the success we've had.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

DeShawn Stevenson

So we've got to go out there and play every game like it's a playoff game and play together like we're doing. We're doing a good job.

Charlie Kemppainen

Ryan has had a very good season. He could always shoot, but he's improved his overall game a lot.

Andy Robinson

Rugby is a physical game and sometimes it erupts but we are not condoning it and it's disappointing,

Dean McAmmond

Sanford was phenomenal. He kept us in the game and he's been doing that of late. We should have come away with two points.

Richard Segal

There will be two new products next year. In the first half there will be a person-to-person skill game and in the second half there will be another more akin to casino.

Angela Ruggiero

I've never played in a consolation game in my life.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Peter Mueller

The short end was pricing in too many rate hikes from the ECB. Yields are high enough, and I see more potential for recovery in the short end than the long end.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Tom Regan

It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

William Golding

Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

John Roth

The hunting land really is at a premium right now.

Laura Campbell

This hunting preserve would jeopardize our family's and our employees' security.

Clint Walker

Also, I think more and more people are yearning to get out of the big cities, have a garden, and maybe go hunting or fishing.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Daniel Radcliffe

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Alfred Korzybski

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

Albert Einstein

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

Alexander Lowen

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

Anna Lee

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

David Chipperfield

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

Charles Spurgeon

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

Ingrid Bergman

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

Ethiopian Proverb

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion

L. Frank Baum

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

Charles Spurgeon

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

Darrell Waltrip

If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.

John Steinbeck

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

Michel de Montaigne

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Jack Kerouac

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...

Greg Mortenson

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Rick Danko

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Zig Ziglar

You can't climb a smooth mountain

Friedrich Schiller

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Karl Philipp Moritz

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Fabiola Gianotti

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

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.