Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper - probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.

Philip Treacy

The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape.

Nancy Taylor

I'm impressed they've accomplished so much. It's really heartening to know. They're balancing families and still feel responsible for the community and are able to be good role models for others.

Kevin Sharer

We are balancing the need for continued investment to ensure the success of these new products while at the same time delivering continued earnings growth.

Dick Gephardt

While Dean counts the Vermont prescription drug program as an accomplishment, the truth is he put it on the chopping block four separate times. When the chips were down and Dean had to choose between balancing the budget and cutting prescription drugs for seniors, Governor Dean chose budget gamesmanship. That is not the type of president I would be.

Yelena Baturina

As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

Julie Martineau

One of the challenges we'll have is balancing response and recovery. I've always seen us as a recovery group, but we're getting pushed to response.

Cervantes Saavedra

God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.

David Newman

I think it's best not to rely on an individual physician. Individual doctors have their specialties, their biases, their preferences for certain kinds of treatment and getting multiple opinions is the only way you can create a sense of trust in that particular course of action. It's a ways of checking and balancing the subjectivity or the prejudices of an individual physician.

Mark Fuhrman

Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't been shot at and punched. I have. I've paid my dues to be able to say I'm not a racist.

Dana Fox

I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

Royce Chadwick

We sure paid our dues this year. It seemed like every time we thought that we got it, we had to back up, regroup, reshuffle and refocus. Last year we were able to gel in late February, but this team never really did. This was one of the hardest years I've ever been through. But, I'm most proud of their fight, vigor and tenacity.

Laila Robins

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

Nita Lowey

Stand up, delink paying the UN dues from family planning. Don't let this issue be hijacked by an extremist group in the Republican party, ... Late Edition.

Ingrid Jensen

Unless they show up there as a millionaire, they have to be ready to pay their dues, and that was the first part of me paying my dues in New York.

David Quammen

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

E. O. Wilson

No one should be forced to pay union dues to get or keep a job.

Frank Gaffney

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.

Vivek Wadhwa

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

Bertrand Russell

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

Sam Pitroda

We need to increase that number to 25 percent.

Chen Geng

We will see a substantial increase (in the overseas production) by 2010.

Eunice Foster

We're working to recruit. We're working to increase the number of students that are in our college, period.

Aaron Adams

We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all the new shops.

Derek Hall

UVSC is now the third largest institution in the state, and this survey shows that our support and perceptions have increased over the past two years,

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Stephany Smith

I think it will increase the noise because people are outside smoking and talking.

Rick Warren

My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

John Ortberg

Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.

Richard Menicke

I had intended to race three in the varsity race.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Ted Lavit

He never has, never intended to and never did.

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

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,

Lambis Nikolaou

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

Paul Dee

He's always talking about all the members of the NFL that had played at the U.

Jim Moran

I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.

Marty Brown

Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead