Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrienne Clarkson

A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society.

Pat Hayes

Once we get the public's acceptance on it, we're going to save some money. We've all used a pop machine, it's not that difficult, but people are still having problems with it.

Michael W. Smith

The Special Olympics European Football Week continues to expand each year with the outstanding support of the European football family. There is no doubt that Football Week leads to greater understanding and acceptance of the abilities of people with intellectual disabilities throughout Europe.

Arthur Gordon

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Leo Veness

Once we Live for Love we will then have Love for Life.

Malcolm Fraser

Sometimes the solutions will require acknowledgement of past mistakes, and acceptance of insights for which none of our learning has prepared us.

Andrew Miller

That's where all the growth has been. Now there's an acceptance of the A320 as a low-cost workhorse, whereas prior to that the 737 was the plane of choice.

Andrew Miller

That's where all the growth has been. Now there's an acceptance of the A 320 as a low-cost workhorse, whereas prior to that the 737 was the plane of choice.

Barbara Jordan

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Stephen Mandel

As Edmonton continues to position itself as a major film location, it is important that the industry feels welcome and views Edmonton as a film-friendly, professional destination,

Sheridan Murphy

As Florida continues to develop rapidly, this issue will continue to come up.

H. Hart

As CPIX (consumer price index less mortgage costs) continues to surprise on the downside and oil prices come down, pressure to cut rates will rise again.

Adam Mesurier

Arroyo continues to outmaneuver her political opposition. The various opposition factions were unable to gain any momentum.

Deborah Davis

As a leading international processor, Vital continues to offer the latest market-leading wireless payment technologies to service our customers. TNS has been and continues to be, our sole partner in delivering and improving upon wireless services through the Synapse Payment Gateway.

Lloyd Ong

As long as the government continues to do a long-dated deal, it's always viewed as a positive.

Dee Dee Myers

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

Peter Judge

As of this morning, the situation has been described as stabilized. The water level continues to be reducing a little bit.

Jordan Rohan

As long as Yahoo continues to meet or exceed projections, shares should trade higher. The stage is set for sentiment to improve.

Jeff Lebo

A win helps, no doubt about it. There's just a different look in their eye when you win. We needed to get this one.

Carla Ponte

Ratko Mladic is in Serbia. There is no doubt about this. He has been there since 1998. During all this time he has been and remains within reach of the Serbian authorities.

Reinhard Kurth

Personally as experts, we have no doubt about it whatever.

Frank Rossi

Our shot selection wasn't very good. No doubt that hurt us.

Ben McGrath

People doubted us all year. Now they're getting on the bandwagon.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Definitely, without a doubt, the president of the IFP knew of all these things.

John Connolly

And there is no doubt our forward effort was not what we would have liked it to have been, and they know they have to be much better on Saturday.

Ellen Pompeo

And that's one of the most genius roles ever played. So I think a sense of self-doubt somehow translates into something very interesting.

John Norris

A rate hike in November is without a doubt a given. We're staring 4 percent in the face,

Olli Rehn

Turkey's fit to open the negotiations with the European Union,

Klaus Liebscher

I think European integration -- and this is a must for me -- must not be counteracted by nationalist, protectionist measures.

Michael Caine

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Chris Tomlinson

I feel I've lost ground. I got to 22, I'd been to the finals of the Olympics, the Commonwealths, Worlds and Europeans and you think, 'This is it, 23, time to do it.' I'm now 24 and time moves on.

Jeremy Corbyn

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Jason Winston George

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

Brian Shea

For many of the European insurers, Katrina will likely push the full-year 2005 (earnings) to an above-average year with respect to large losses.

Pascal Lamy

It is the Europeans and the Americans that must budge,

Warren Christopher

At heart, ... this is a European problem.

David Middleton

Once we can expand this program, we'll be looking at a major.

Allison Teeters

The teachers liked the fact there are so many resources at their fingertips because the Web site has links to a lot of other sites that could be used to expand what they're focusing on.

John Clayton

Right now, there aren't enough players to expand from 32 teams. They're having a hard enough time getting a team in Los Angeles. You and I will be long gone by the time they go to Las Vegas.

Stuart Butler

This is not the time to expand the programs that were failing anyway.

Theresa Hamilton

This grant will help us to expand after-school programs into the secondary schools.

Tom Grey

That shows the gambling industry is having trouble selling itself to expand still further, even with all the government promotion it receives.

Bill Gross

What we're doing is kind of expanding upon the neighbor concept.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

And with every work I have tried to expand my experience, moving sound and space, and finding new ways of superimposing different tempos and rhythms.

Stephen Johnson

Eventually, I hope to expand and make that a full-time office. In the future, we might look as putting offices in other communities.

Sheldon Brown

Any time he steps on the football field, he makes a difference. But we can do it with the guys we have.

E. O. Wilson

As a result, we're not a very good football team right now. What we have to do is get better.

Wayne Jackson

Aycock is a good, solid football team. It's going to be tough for us to stop them.

Justin Tuck

As long as I feel the love of the game and my health is good, I'm going to play. I don't want to be one of these guys who stays too long or regrets leaving early. Football has been great to me.

Scott Riggs

As our new sponsor, Checkers/Rally's has been fantastic. It's great to be able to take our relationship to a new level with a football tie-in. This is a very relevant program for our fans.

Scott Riggs

As our new sponsor, Checkers/Rally's has been fantastic, ... It's great to be able to take our relationship to a new level with a football tie-in. This is a very relevant program for our fans.

Joe Gibbs

People say, 'Why would you go get the free agents? Well, look at the guys we wouldn't have on our football team.

Clint Walker

People are surprised when I tell them that I didn't play football in high school with my size and strength.

LeBron James

Opposing teams don't realize I'm a football player first. I can take those hits.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Jane Siberry

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Martin Rees

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Louis Reigel

After 9/11 there were some of these sites. It was much greater after the tsunami, and it's even greater after Katrina,

David Williams

Once you understand your inventory, then you can start integrating at a greater level.

Francesco Cossiga

Perhaps, my dear, young Mr. Gates, before putting your new products on the market with so much publicity you should have them tested for longer and with greater care.

John Curtis

The Rockies, by all estimates, will play a much greater role in natural-gas production over the next 25 years.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Ariel Sharon

make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us.

Tim Donovan

For the second match in a row, we have leads and get to 20 points and lose our focus. We have to learn to put teams away when we're ahead.

Philip Dow

I think this is a one-day pause. I'd be really surprised if this was all there is to this rally. .. . I don't see anything in the tape today that leads me to think this trend should be over.

John Sales

I don?t think we give up two-goal leads very often.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Horst Keller

This leads to the question of how many places there are in the universe where life could potentially have developed.

Mike Haley

We don't have any leads that would take us out of this area,

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Andy Murray

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Shaun White

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Shaun White

I didn't understand how big a thing the Olympics are until I showed up here.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

W. S. Gilbert

I saw rowing in the Olympics and I said, 'I want to do that. That's my sport,' ... I had always been a swimmer, but when I saw rowing, I said, 'That's it.'

Michelle Kwan

I respect the Olympics too much to compete.

Dakota Blue Richards

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Rick Riordan

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

Rocco Calo

As a stockholder myself, I want to see the stock do well but I also want to see them treat people well.

Shawn Amos

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

John Eales

As a captain, it's important to have the right people around you,

Peter Ueberroth

As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.

Ray Santiago

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

W. H. Murray

The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.

Brandon Roy

It would have been really special if he had come here. We would have been really good.

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Charlie Warner

This is a special group. They never quit.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before. We don't know how much we'll be getting or how it will be dispersed.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before,

Melanie Sloan

That, to me, would be special treatment that he doesn't really deserve.

Jan Karon

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

Bon Scott

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Chris Schuster

The Tigers would like to thank all the support throughout the season.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

Brian Sandoval

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Brian Tracy

The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

Arthur Bloch

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

Ann Macbeth

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Rick Clausen

The most important thing is understanding your role,

Rita Ora

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Todd Nace

We're about a week away from reopening, once we get the (insurance) settlement.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Sylvester Croom

This week has never been about just football; how could it be?

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Taye Diggs

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tony Abbott

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

William Reinsch

A year from now we're all going to be embarrassed by this.

Wade Taylor

A year ago I thought it was a done deal. I thought we weren't going to have a pool. I'm encouraged.

Trey Blue

I've always been able to score; this year I'm more of a playmaker who can score.

Ted Sim

The motels this year have been really accommodating for us.

Tim Franklin

The most important thing we've been this year is a symbol.

Matt Light

I've said that every year I've been here.

Kim Clijsters

It would make the year even more special,

David Richards

The way I went about it this year has been much better. The conversations we have had have been very good.

Tommy Tuberville

This is not going to be our most experienced year at quarterback,