Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoshihiko Noda

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

Yolanda Adams

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

Ian Watson

Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.

Colin Angle

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

Colin Morgan

For me, it's all I've wanted to do. I did local plays and productions, local theater groups and anything that involved it. And then, I went and studied it, attended drama school and got my first lucky break in the theater in London, and just went from there.

Paul Johnson

Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves.

Geoff Hoon

The political connection between India and the UK runs deep and stands stronger than it has ever been. I attend this event for the second consecutive year and reinforce my belief that we have a lot to learn from the world's largest democracy.

Des Browne

The process of establishing the identity of passport applicants needs to be strengthened by introducing a requirement for some applicants to attend a passport office in person.

Nathan Grube

We have a new policy. We're going to report a weekly number instead of a daily number. There are other tour events that don't report attendance figures, such as the Buick Open.

Patricia Polacco

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

Troy Thygerson

With the expectations of our community for small classroom sizes, we must prepare new classroom space before we qualify for new construction.

Jim Crawford

Midyear adjustments are less about moving teachers to new classrooms and more about how within a building, what options there are for assigning kids in. As a last resort, we might get a situation where we actually move a student to a neighboring school.

Michael Pockl

We involved the public throughout phase one, including making the decision on whether we had one middle school or two. At the individual schools, the teachers had input on where the classrooms were located and what they would look like.

John Briggs

It is different seeing it on stage than reading it in the classroom or seeing one of the film versions.

Marsha Blackburn

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

Mary Coleman

We educate a well-prepared, diverse workforce. The students who learn in diverse classrooms know how to take that cross-cultural understanding into America's industries.

Frank Moretti

We really see this as a way to liberate classrooms from the necessity of providing one-to-many communication.

Stephen Hughes

Ninety-nine to 138 students is not an insignificant number. You're looking at three or four classrooms in schools that are already pushing 100 percent capacity.

Chris Witty

For me, the great thing about having excelled in a sport was that it was a way to feel happy. People would congratulate me on things I accomplished. I was able to be free on the ice. If I didn't have that I don't know what my life would have been.

Meta Golding

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

John Harder

She was forced into a role that she not only accepted, but excelled at. I can't say enough good things.

Marc Walters

She's having a great season for us. Not only has she come in as a freshman and taken over the No. 1 spot at singles, but she has also excelled at that spot.

Rita Peters

She's excelled at every position she's done. At every position she's been in, in the district, she's been the best.

Pat Metheny

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

Dave Tippett

There were a lot of guys that we put into roles where we knew they had to jump in and do a good job. They've excelled in all of them.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Bertrand Russell

Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?

Rodney Stark

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

David Phelps

Members are very much scrambling to see what's going to happen,

Patrick McHenry

I thought it would take years for a new member to become a player, ... It's better than I expected.

Lambis Nikolaou

I was the only one of the 104 members who did not vote.

Mark Morton

To become a member of the National Organization you have to stand an inspection.

Jenni Allen

I was pleased with representation on the committee. There were a variety of different opinions and we've successfully incorporated every member of the third-year class.

Gorden Blain

If I'm going to be a member of Rivals, they want the message boards. If I pulled the message boards, then I would be lopped off the network.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.