Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

Irene Dunne

The picture postcard people printed a card of our house and the address years ago for the tourists but they made a mistake and took the next house.

Walter Jamieson

The overall work-force development strategy must address all of these concerns and more if the industry is going to be in a position to provide the kind of quality service and attention that our visitors will demand.

Bruce Braley

The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because the founding members felt like there wasn't enough focus on middle class issues in Washington, and we're going to keep it focused on middle class issues.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.

Kenichiro Sasae

The abduction issue is one of the priorities we have to address through bilateral talks or taking the case to the six-party talks.

Ellen Perry

The are definitely issues with staff morale. I think there have been a great deal of emotions regarding discouragement on the part of the staff, like uncertainty about positions and the direction that we are going. We do have hope in her, I think she will address these issues and take them seriously.

Jose Serrano

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.

Dan Seligson

The American voting public has really gone full circle on this issue. After 2000, where people wanted to eliminate the need for paper and punch cards and older systems they felt weren't reliable. Then in the past few years there is growing concern with electronic systems. Federal and state officials are caught in the middle trying to address all these concerns.

Bill Hicks

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious...

Rebecca Solnit

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

Suzy Merchant

I thought it was a collective effort, but we did a nice job of getting to that kid.

Carlos Queiroz

Manchester will not take part in speculation to promote individual or collective interests.

Scott Hatteberg

Those are shoes that one guy can't fill, and I know it's not me. I'm thrilled to be over where he played. You can't replace him - it'll be a collective effort.

Sydney Pollack

On the one hand, the businessman in me understands it. But the lover of movies in me wants desperately to hang on to the movie house as a collective experience with the audience.

Craig Venter

If anything, we've learned that we don't think this data's going to be as deterministic as was previously thought, ... There is even more need for this legislation until science catches up with our collective ignorance.

Jalal Talabani

He -- with two vice presidents and with the prime minister and his deputies and with the speaker of the house -- they are forming a collective leadership,

Barry Gebhart

I didn't order awards, because I didn't want tonight to be about awards. I wanted it to be about a collective group of guys that may be together for the last time.

Zach Johnson

The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.

Monique Bond

The police needs the community and the community needs the police.

Steven Englander

The police force isn't big enough to enforce that sort of thing. This is where community expectation and standard will have to hold sway.

Tony Smith

The PBSO is eager to ensure the level of service your community expects, at a more cost effective savings than you currently have,

Christine Pelosi

Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.

Alice Walker

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Eugene Kaspersky

The 3 February 2006 could turn out to be a very difficult day with unprotected users losing data and the Internet community at large suffering from heavy traffic.

Krishna Sitaula

The announcement of the municipal poll was a ploy to fool the international community, which is pressurizing the King to restore democracy.

Jack Berry

The American Hospital Association has declared 2006 as a year of connecting to communities so they can do a better job of community service.

Vera Farmiga

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

Greg Nossaman

That will give us another tough presence. We're a little deeper with him.

Cliff Beebe

We can?t go much deeper because there?s mineral contamination.

Richard Avedon

Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.

Steve Schnur

We wanted to make sure that the soundtrack is as powerful as the boxers' punches. Each song gets your heart pounding and makes you want to move faster, dig deeper and punch harder.

Pat McNamara

I was hoping we'd have enough energy to sustain. But in a rivalry like this, sometimes guys dig a little deeper than they normally do. They had more energy than I thought they would. This is a great win for the Cadets.

John Osbourne

We hope that people are able to discover a deeper kind of harmony than they ever had before through our work.

Tim Ehresman

We're deeper now. We're able to do some different things.

David Stroh

We're deeper in the relays. We have just so much more depth to get some good people in every event. With depth, you tend to find more people who can perform at a higher level.

C. S. Lewis

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Bertrand Russell

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

Ryan Stasik

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

Patti Smith

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

Carlos Samano

Today there was a lot more diversity in the buying.

Bob Marcusse

We have a large, diverse and well-educated work force that is highly productive, and that helps.

John Largay

We have a great lineup of music. We tried to keep the theme of diverse music, universal appeal.

Ryan Hall

We have more diversity. You can't expect (English-learners) to do as well as others. Like if I went to Mexico, I would fail all their tests.

Rich Campbell

With the support of our loyal guests, we've been able to grow our offerings from a single resort in Mexico to nine diverse destinations throughout the world in 2006.

Idina Menzel

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

Brian Urig

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Anthony D'Angelo

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Bruce Braley

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

Bethany Hamilton

Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.

Mike Maroth

The 21-loss thing is probably always going to be mentioned next to my name, but I'm glad the focus is off of that.

Marvin Cohen

That was the general focus of what we did. I think we were right.

Chad Kison

That was the week of spring break, and we hadn't practiced in a week. The girls are more focused right now than they were that day.

C. S. Lewis

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C. S. Lewis

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Michael Greco

The ABA position is that some of these provisions are so invasive of individual liberties that there has to be a sunset provision. They're offensive, I think, to democracy,

Skip Holtz

Today was a teaching day. We were able to spend the majority of our time on individual work with a corrective mindset. We had the opportunity to throw it around a little more and key on execution.

Robert Waterston

We're really looking at an individual evolutionary event, and this is spectacular.

Pierre Omidyar

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

Larry Jackson

Most of them have an individual drive, knowing they have to come in at a state level.

Tom Taulli

I think this will be a volatile stock. Individual investors should be wary.

Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

J. C. Watts

We need to keep these issues on the table.

Bill Holmes

We could have issues with the scoreboard, ... The scoreboard is a $1 million piece of equipment.

Pat Call

We know that we have significant water issues here.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

Frank Jordan

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

C. S. Lewis

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

C. S. Lewis

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Carrie Mae Weems

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship with music, sometimes it needs all three and become a video projection.

Carrie Brownstein

I need a template of a template

Carrie Underwood

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

Carl Rogers

The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.

Carl Sagan

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

John Boyega

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

Thomas Kilroy

I look at my writing as the primary activity,

Bel Powley

I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Ben Lawson

The purpose is to get the idea of throwing boomerangs in the university sphere.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Carrie Chapman Catt

the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.

Bergen Evans

Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

Bill Budge

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

Josh Beekman

You are a reflection of the school. You're not just representing BC, but also yourself.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

Martin Sheen

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

P. Herbert

I don't smoke, and I'm trying to get home. Everything I do is going to reflect that.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think it's any reflection on that hospital. They did all the right things. They ultimately got their own helicopters to come in.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

Chris Drury

Those were some tough losses. Responding to them was a pretty big step for our team confidence-wise.

Champ Bailey

I think we're tough when we do things like that. We were responding to some things they like to do. We're active.

Mark Vitner

I think they would be responding to all the talk of outsourcing and all the talk in the headlines.

Stanley Brand

I'm not going to get into responding to these things.

Mike Holmgren

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of year for us.

Victor Borge

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?

Carrie Coon

I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help her learn English. I wanted her to play with all my toys. I was actually, I think, really scary to her, because I had so much energy.

Carrie Underwood

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

Carl Rogers

When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

Carl Sagan

A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

Carl Sagan

There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.

Arpad Busson

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

Anton Seidl

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Anthony Swofford

I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Gerald Temples

I was sick of that. Our secondary didn't play very well.

Nicholas DiNubile

I would say a brace should be a secondary consideration,

Tom Zbikowski

We are a little uneasy but the secondary will make plays. After we get settled in you will see that we make plays.

Nancy Keller

We now have a new tool we can use to find secondary metabolites that are of pharmaceutical interest.

Francis Gaskins

This is just a warm-up for a big secondary (offering). If they were serious about selling, they'd sell more than 6 percent.

Mick Jagger

I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.

Don Miguel Ruiz

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

Jacques Rossouw

These are secondary analyses and are exploratory to some extent.

Gaston Gaudio

He was serving unbelievably and I couldn't do too much.

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

Caroline Norton

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

Oswald Chambers

God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Mary Thomason

This is a strong serving team and we have height. But not just height, there's talent there. We should be strong.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Stephen East

They're serving a need much more than a want than say a Toll or a higher-end builder.

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Cliff Hite

I always tell the quarterback, we don't want you to make a big tackle, just get in his way, trip him, do whatever you have to do to get in his way.

John Bryan

I don't know many trips you can do for a whole week for $150.

Vic Tayback

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

Lauren German

I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.

Caron Butler

Yeah, it was ugly, but we won. We'll take it, especially after the trip we just had.

Tim Adams

Our findings on this trip will be an important input,

Paddy Ashdown

It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,

Ron Vanover

Every trip is unique; every trip has a story.

Colleen Nave

That's the first triple play I've ever seen. It was very exciting.