Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doreen Marchione

I like the fundraising and the advocacy and meeting with people in the community or the county and City Council people I think I'm a good connector of people.

Susan Etheridge

The child protective supervisor tried to prevent him from leaving, but he was much larger than she was and she was unsuccessful. But, I want to say is that because we have the team approach at the Collin County Children's Advocacy Center, we contacted Plano police and we were able to respond immediately. The really wonderful part is that we have a happy ending we have a safe child.

Melinda Schwartz

The funds raised enable us to continue our investment in the fight against cancer through research, education, advocacy and patient services. Thanks to the generosity of corporate sponsors like Wells' Dairy, Inc., Farmer's Co-op, Floyd Valley Hospital and Liz Foreman, the money raised by participants goes directly to the American Cancer Society's lifesaving programs.

Chuck Price

It's helped us to do a couple of different things. It's helped us initiate talks about developing a child advocacy center in Wood County.

Richard Lazarus

Supreme Court advocacy is like major league baseball. I can tell you the pitch is going to come in at 95 miles per hour. I can tell you to stand this way. I can tell you how to swing. It doesn't mean you're going to hit it.

Alisa Gravitz

It's clear that the combination of competitive performance, screening, and advocacy on behalf of their investors offered by SRI mutual funds are making them an increasingly attractive option for a wide range of investors. SRI mutual funds have grown from $12 billion in 1995 to $178.7 billion in 2005, far outpacing the overall growth of mutual funds in the US.

Carolyn Maloney

They literally have mobilized themselves into an advocacy organization that, I would say, has growing clout in Washington.

Sarah Harrison

For future Snowdens, we want to show there is an organization that will do what we did for Snowden - as much as possible - in raising money for legal defense and public advocacy for whistleblowers so they know if they come forward there is a support group for them.

Lisa Goehle

For advocacy and guardianship help, there is not a place. I don't know what to tell them.

Kathleen Hanna

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Bill Gibbons

I was looking forward to competing against her for years to come. She really was a rising star.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Flip Saunders

Kind of how we've been for 37 games. Different guys lead us over different parts of the game, play unselfish. Thirty assists, eight turnovers, that's kind of where we've been when we win games. I think how we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played through the first half of this season.

Brian Vereb

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

Jerry Ryan

Kill the Pope; that's obviously anti-Catholic, but that's against the message of the other writings where they say 'no more war,'

Matt Hasselbeck

Knowing Chike -- he's a guy with a great pass rush and he's got a motor -- I don't think any quarterback gets excited about going up against him. I think our guys, hopefully, will be up to the task.

Mandi Lyon

Kidney cancer is one of the cancers that they don't have many treatment options for and everything is pretty much experimental.

John Kailukiak

There is a fault that comes through the face and I used that as a representation of her cancer.

Anthony Fauci

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

Darrell Fox

He did speak globally when he talked about cancer and the effect it had on so many people. So I think he wouldn't be surprised that there are runs around the world now.

William S. Burroughs

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

William J. Clinton

After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

Robin Roberts

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

Robin Roberts

I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.

Robin Roberts

Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before cancer - I would eat red meat probably three or four times a week, easily. I am convinced that the amount of red meat I contributed to it.

John Bunting

I was looking at the scoreboard all night, ... You can really get mesmerized by that thing. It goes on and the fireworks continue to go off (after each score). I thought at one point they might run out of fireworks. That's a big number and, basically, I'm numb at this point.

J. Hoover

Kids have a tendency to rest on what they do well and it's human nature to continue to work on the things that you do well. But this summer, I saw him working on the things that he needs to work on to be effective at the next level. I have no doubt that he'll contribute as a freshman. He's highly competitive and he knows what he'll have to do to compete.

Patterson Hood

I write a lot of songs (about the South) and will continue to, but we wanted to do a record that wasn't so specific in the geography. We're from the South, but that's not all we can do.

Tom Davis

Keeping our staff intact enables us to continue to recruit as well as teach.

Charlotte Ronson

Just watching the people on the streets of N.Y. is inspiring; there are so many styles and unique points of view. Fashion is very much inspired by the streets, has always been, and I'm sure it will continue to do so.

Lofa Tatupu

Just that success only comes one way -- that's through hard work. Just continue to try to improve on getting better and it'll happen.

Dave Wannstedt

Joe's a good player for us and Joe will continue to be a good player for us, but we need to threaten people,

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Daniel Chan

Job prospects will continue to improve. Job security has increased and this will lead people to spend more.

Bill Thompson

Harrah's is a good corporate citizen, but they have priorities,

John Battelle

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.

Kevin Brown

There is a kind of revolution going on, on the corporate desktop.

Ethan Harris

I think we know corporate profit growth can't stay at the rate we've seen in recent quarters. They (employers) have been squeezing the work force pretty aggressively, squeezing productivity out of workers and holding the line on wages. It's a matter of how much corporate profits slow down.

Jody Kielbasa

I think they want to become good corporate citizens.

Dave Grannan

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino represent a significant part of the corporate email landscape.

Andy Schultheiss

Representative Cuellar has voted repeatedly to let corporate polluters off the hook.

Millard Fuller

In my opinion, this is the nose under the tent, and eventually they will move the whole thing to Atlanta. It demonstrates a shift from being a ministry to a corporate bureaucracy.

Rajeev Dhawan

If you are looking at the health of the corporate sector, this report is very positive. That sector is not going to slow down even if interest rates keep going up.

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Cameron Johnson

He sees investment in education as being directly linked to the future of Oregon's economy.

John McCarthy

We're not working with American on this issue. We have proffered the offer directly to the shipping company.

Charles Polk

It is potentially an interesting alternative to Gallup polls or to specialists reporting from the region. It's a way of going directly to individuals in the region or outside who have knowledge or interest in the political and economic events in the area.

Stanlyn Placencia

I think we're progressing. I don't think we're directly on target, but there is progression.

Jenny Lehman

In addition, there has been a lot of donations made online and through the 800 number, but that figure is the money that has come directly through our door.

Hunter Tylo

I like to give the fans advice, so what I have been doing is working with the fans directly through e-mail, which is really unheard of.

Jerry Graybeal

I haven't heard directly from anyone. But I have heard from some of their representatives that they're interested.

Gary Ross

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.

Donald Rumsfeld

have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas.

Jack Crumbliss

Our new offense gives us a triple option that enables us to better utilize our personnel and hopefully keep our opponents off balance.

Antonin Scalia

In the public forum out in the street, can we have a law that enables people to turn off unwelcome speech?

J. M. G. Le Clezio

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

Max Heindel

The hand is man's most valuable servant; its dexterity enables it to respond to his slightest bidding.

Montae Reagor

The key for any young guy is to come in and learn the system, learn it well and learn the ins and outs of their position. Once they do that, they can enable themselves to play.

Asa Gray

The natural history of protoplasm enables me to proceed to other evidences of the substantial oneness of the two kingdoms of organic nature.

Stephen Hartnett

I want to enable prisoners to express themselves and get it out in public.

Deborah Drucker

The restricted reporting process enables the victim to get themselves together, understand the process, learn what will happen if they go unrestricted and learn what initiating the investigation will mean for them. In the meantime, they are getting all the support they need.

Linda Wallace

Kevin was a fighter up to the end, to live, but she wants everyone to know he fought real hard.

P. James

Kevin Payne was my friend. His wife and children, we shared quality time together. I will always honor him as my friend, first, and a fighter second.

George Baker

I wouldn't say it's futile -- the opportunity is there. It's worthwhile to keep fighting to save the resources we have there.

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Frank Warren

Joe Will be ready to fight in 2006 and hopefully Lacy will be in the opposite corner.

Doug Lipscomb

I take my hat off to Pope. They competed and went down fighting. We did some good things, but there's plenty of room for improvement. We're not quite where I want to be yet.

Jens Orback

I think it is very problematic and unfortunate that people who have been in Sweden for so long make proposals such as this that are so opposed to our intentions, when we are fighting for women's rights and the right to divorce.

Ron Zook

It all was going their way, ... But you have to keep fighting.

Ray Rivera

He just got too comfortable in there. Any fighter knows, you see a right hand down, you throw that left hook.

Roger Waters

It is with the utmost respect to Pink Floyd that we took the challenge.

David Gilmour

I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

Shane Mosley

Floyd Mayweather is a talent. Pound-for-pound, we're two guys with great skills. It should be a great fight.

Joe Moore

Floyd has received widely varied opinions on this issue and they're all being taken into account.

Jessica Hart

My little yorkie Floyd is the ultimate buddy, and his passport has as many stamps as mine.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Jim Leach

I think we have the funds now for all of it.

Angus MacMillan

There are no signs that funds have lost appetite. As long as you have a list of problems, funds will keep piling in.

Christopher Sullivan

I didn't give a legal opinion on any of the funds in question,

George Gero

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

Kunal Kapoor

In the past, these were growth funds in name only.

Christopher Sullivan

I remember telling him if you're going to move funds around you better see if it was done in the past to see if (former treasurer Ron Graves) had done it, ... But it's just not something I would do for Ron or Bill, to authorize the use of funds.

Paul Gada

The machine moves slowly, but the IRS has more funds and is increasing its enforcement activity.

James E. Rogers

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.

Randy Levine

There is great strength and generosity from so many willing to help those in need.

Samuel Smiles

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

Ze Frank

Let me extend that generosity to myself.

Winston Churchill

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

Jack Welch

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

Elia Kazan

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Jimmy Cliff

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

David Rakoff

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

Audrey Hepburn

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Kimberly Fisher

I was in the hospital writing my book.

Bobby Cox

He's been inside a hospital room the whole time. He's going to need to do a lot of exercising.

Peter Berger

He went into the hospital to seek treatment.

Zubin Mehta

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

Zhong Nanshan

The hospital should treat those patients without pre-payment.

John Glenn

taking part in some research in a hospital someplace.

Jim Barrett

They can go to their offices and go back to the hospital for their rounds,

Michael Jacobson

It looks to us as though hospitals hadn't been thinking about how they've been preparing foods.

Maria Edgeworth

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Viviane Reding

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

Warren Buffett

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

Warren Buffett

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Van Jones

America's government has to get the public investments right.

John Sims

The investment will take place in three stages - $155 million, 185 million and $180 million.

Shamkhi Faraj

The investment law could take some time and we are not prepared to wait for that long.

Joe Gibbs

It's smart. If you are going to make an investment of millions and millions of dollars, you would research them.

Mike Winer

It went from a terrific value investment to a terrific arbitrage.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. He's not being patient enough.

Bob Cimmino

I was a little more patient with him after that.

Gail Dudack

We have to be patient with this recovery. It's not going to be a youthful one; it will be a slow, lumbering one.

Garry McPeek

We have to be patient and take what they give us.

Rocky Peterson

I could see we started off intense, but tight. We were patient offensively, but not aggressive.

Warren Buffett

The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

William Kamkwamba

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

Tony Snow

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

Edward Miller

Patients who are receiving therapies, come here for hope, are not going to be able to receive that because of this issue.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Scott Porter

I was raised around music.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Richard Genthe

This is the sixth consecutive year we've raised over $6 million.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Dinaw Mengestu

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Howard Wolfson

No wonder Ms. Pirro raised so little money,

Victor Herrera

The rumors that Mexico's rating is going to be raised imminently are groundless.

Derrick Williams

I used to live here. It's because they raised their rents I had to leave.

Robin Williams

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

Zakk Wylde

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot

William Arthur Ward

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

William Tecumseh Sherman

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Tony Snow

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Willie Nelson

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Joseph Auslander

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Kathy Reichs

You all right now?" "I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

Reid Hoffman

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

James Altucher

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

Lloyd Bridges

Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Thomas Friedman

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Spencer Johnson

Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.

Spencer Johnson

It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.