Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Widmer

The broader picture here is that this will strengthen the health care system in Massachusetts in a number of ways. You will have a much more rational structure for financing the system.

Derek Halpenny

The broader picture for the yen's decline is down to the continued deterioration in Japan's trade surplus.

Hiroichi Nishi

The broader market will probably struggle to make any headway today.

Charles Haynes

The broader issue is there are many U.S. conservative Christians who feel that public schools have become hostile to their faith.

Marc Morial

Back in the 1960s, the 10 or 12 (black) members were all national figures. Now, people will look more to people that are much closer to them and more local. The African-American leadership is much broader and more diverse than it's ever been.

Mark Zandi

Productivity growth is slowing and it is not strong enough to forestall rising labor costs and broader inflation.

Dick Cheney

Our concerns are broader than that, in a sense that we really need to sit down and look at our total energy situation nationwide -- maybe even look at it in a hemispheric basis, ... Look at Canada and Mexico. Look not only at electricity, but also natural gas and oil, coal and other forms of generating power as well.

Lawrence Vale

People say the city will recover, and the question is, whose city? Is it the city that the tourists see or is it the broader city that really only came to the nation's consciousness after the hurricane?

Jon Oringer

Offset is helping to expand our relationship with large enterprises and serve a broader set of imaging.

Raymond Moody

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

Dave Telep

The system was the most important thing to him when making his decision. I think he is the one guy who is watching this maybe closer than the others.

Ernie Grunfeld

The special ones, you keep a closer eye on. He was a very highly rated player and very unselfish. I used to tell him that one of the negatives people say about you is that you're too unselfish. That's a negative you'd like to have. He's very tough, very competitive.

Bobby Jenks

The thing I've learned quickly as a closer is to have a short memory and keep looking forward.

Michael Bird

I've never felt such exhilarating highs and dispiriting lows than those experienced when we first detected the signal from the GBT, indicating 'all's well' and then discovering that we had no signal at the operations center, indicating 'all's lost, ... The truth, as we have now determined, lies somewhat closer to the former than the latter.

Joe Girardi

The one-run losses are getting closer in a sense. We got over the big hump tonight by tying it in the ninth, but the we couldn't get over the smaller hump to win it.

John Paul

Some people have less disposable income and want to stay closer to home.

Carolyn Porco

So, water closer to the surface and more time spent conducting scientific investigations....sounds like a winner to me.

Mark Graham

Spanish Fork is a solid team. They're good, they're fast and they play hard. I think we were very fortunate to win 4-0 and I expect it to be much closer the next time we play.

Tracy Hickman

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series.

Timothy Noah

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

Martin O'Malley

We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.

Li Keqiang

It is fair to say that Africa has become a major force in moving the world towards multi-polarity, an important emerging market that helps promote global economic recovery and integration, and an outstanding representative of diverse civilizations in the world.

Steve Mason

We need a diverse economy. It isn't going to keep the school open, or the hospital open, or the grocery store open all by itself. But it isn't going to hurt them.

Ryan Stasik

That was so long ago, we don't think about it. We like the scene, but it's not diverse enough.

Josh Parker

I hope they don't get sold for exorbitant amounts of money, so it can be a fairly diverse group of people.

Ed Meierkort

True to form, we got great kids out of the area. It's a very diverse group. We got some big linemen and some great skill kids, too.

Claire McCaskill

We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Rick Ross

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Calvin Hill

We didn't have to be on national TV every night talking about Duane. If we had been, then it would have been a distraction.

Jim Delgado

We're supporting the national position for a day of rest. Not purchasing anything from stores, not purchasing gasoline.

Brentson Buckner

We don't want national cameras. We just want to play football. Let the people write what they write, let them report what they want to report.

Caryn Kaufman

We're going to be in the national limelight.

Michael Unzueta

We're very concerned. When we find these tunnels, we see that as a vulnerability to our national security.

Ryan Hollins

You have to respect Zidek. He won a national title, too.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.