Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Bob Dole

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

Diane Sawyer

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Bruce Jenner

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

Ed Markey

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Randy White

Dealing with something like that is tough on anybody. I knew she really wanted to perform well. That was one of her incentives.

Robert Hill

dealing with illegal people movement, fishing breaches, transnational crime.

Tony Ridder

Dealing with a drummer isn't that much different from dealing with someone from IT.

Joanne Dobson

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract,

John Evans

The size of the property and the magnitude of what we're dealing with is amazing. But we're planning a community, not dealing with a plot of land.

W. S. Gilbert

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

John Riggins

The story really is, in a way, Joel -- doing what he did while dealing with this illness,

Jack Keane

Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq.

Bob Howry

As a visiting player, it's motivating because you hear their fans get all excited and you want to quiet them down. And that's what we did tonight.

Hilery Walker

People get excited when we tell them that we're going to send the money down to New Orleans.

Sean Coste

The seniors are excited about it. Our players are excited about it. We can finish with a win. It would be four in a row.

Mark Slough

Sammy is excited to be back and I think they're excited to have him back.

Pat Green

I've probably played there about six times, over the last two years. It's one of my favorites -- I think it's incredible, ... I think that good music does well in New York City, and that's what I'm excited about.

Torey Lovullo

I've opened up in this stadium and it's been a tough go. We're excited to be going South and we're going as far South as we possibly can.

Acie Law

The way they have been playing, they are a hot team, and we'll have our hands full. But we are excited to be here and look forward to playing well.

Skip Prosser

That's for you guys to talk about. We're excited about who we have back.

Cynthia Rowley

You see guys on the street, and they're obviously kind of experimenting and excited about new things,

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Brenda Jackson

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

Bonnie McKee

I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.

Ben Kingsley

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

E. M. Forster

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

Anna Kendrick

This isnt the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love, a lot. Major in philosophy, because theres no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again, because nothings permanent.

David Lynch

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

Thomas More

Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.

Sufjan Stevens

All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.

Jarrod Kerr

A rate hike is now 50-50 in May and fully priced by June.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Mark Murray

Technically, this is simply what's called the 'answer' to the complaint. So it is not Microsoft's full response and all the company's legal arguments.

Jennifer Granholm

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Rowan D. Williams

I shall want to know more about how you will come to have a full share in the good things of this country.

Peter Coleman

This is still a significant injury, but one that with rehabilitation Troy will be able to fully recover from.

Carl Cornwell

We're guilty judge, and we take full responsibility for these (four) offenses.

Candace Cameron Bure

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Rodney Vigil

We had a strong second half offensively and defensively.

Joel Brown

We've had trouble playing two halves all year long. We put one half together and we can't put the next one together. Tonight we got those two halves right.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

Sherry Phelps

Now, I get to have a weekend every day, and I love that.

Mariah Carey

Thank you so much for the warmth and the love,

Eddie Money

Thank you for your wonderful Pueblo hospitality, ... I don't care. I love the '80s!

Brian Tracy

If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.

Jane Hamilton

Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old love because it's so-intricate. Perhaps there is another name for it, one we don't yet know. I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you'd look at your skin and say Water, you would also wake in the morning and say Love. But it has been underneath, this new and old thing I feel, subterranean, silent and steady, like blood, rushing along and along without often making itself known.

Caprice Bourret

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

Burt Ward

I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.

Celia Rivenbark

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

Carol Bellamy

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

Alanis Morissette

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

Jane Austen

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

Arthur C. Clarke

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Kurt Woerner

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

Bernie Ecclestone

I understand now that there may be some problems with that.

David Freeman

You're trying to put all of this in to solve problems you caused.

Richard Langford

Conceptually, I don't have any problems with this idea. It's just a question of where do we start and how do we get there.

Valentino Castellani

We are very satisfied and committed. We don't have any structural problems. Everything is working. ... We will have always some small problems to solve. What is important is to solve them quickly.

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Bob Bowlsby

I never would have taken the first step if I thought I was going to risk problems at Iowa. That was an important part of this process.

Russell Crowe

If there are any problems and you do get up here and go on too long, ... Then 'hello' to my little friend.

Shaun White

I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.

Richard Garnett

He was a follower. He got tricked easily.

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Thomas Nagel

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Simon Sinek

Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.

Shirley Jones

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

Ridley Pearson

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

Michelle Rodriguez

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.

Patricia Cornwell

You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.

Ernest Hemingway

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

National Center

It does, in fact, become a wake up call,

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.