Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Jared Diamond

Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that persisted on the Australian mainland. For example, bone tools and the practice of fishing were both present in Tasmania at the time that the land bridge was severed, and both disappeared from Tasmania by around 1500 B.C.

Tim Cranton

This was a pretty astonishing number for us. We knew that it would be a high volume, but this was an even greater volume of spam than we had anticipated passing through one computer.

Richard Holbrooke

the U.N. is being tested in Kosovo as it has never been tested before, with responsibilities greater than ever before.

Jim Webb

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

Georg Hackl

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.

Harry Harnish

The turkey vulture has a V-shaped wingspan and a white head. Unlike eagles, vultures tend to glide for longer periods of time.

Peter Frampton

The Longer You Love,The Longer You Live,The Stronger You Feel,The More You Can Give.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Christopher Shays

We will come and make a longer trip soon,

Andrea Dworkin

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Aldous Huxley

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Alice Paul

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

Carl Orff

Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.

Ismail Haniyeh

The Hamas movement will lead Intifada after Intifada until we liberate Palestine – all of Palestine, Allah willing.

Gloria Steinem

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

Ken Joyce

I can't understand how his record is how it is. It seemed like every one of his pitches had movement on it.

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

Javier Solana

We would like very much to support President Abbas at this period of time. This is what we are going to do today.

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Swami Vivekananda

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Sabeer Bhatia

Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.

Ricky Ponting

Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.

Mark Pryor

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

Jack Kornfield

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.