Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maynard Jackson

I look forward to working closely with the DNC under Terry's tenure, ... I look forward to continuing the focus I began in my campaign on rebuilding state parties, election reform and ensuring that no voter and no state is left behind.

Robert Lewis

The group began by making comments that the victim looked like a geek or a nerd.

Dinaw Mengestu

In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.

Dinaw Mengestu

Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew I would always write; I just wasn't always sure how I would go about doing so.

Paul Engle

I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.

Pete Rose

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.

Natasha Tsakos

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

Dick Armey

Our guys began to realize the opportunity we had,

J. B. Priestley

Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

David Osgood

That usually takes nine months to a year from the time of the suspension, and by that time the business is gone.

Glen Gulutzan

That one, they gave to us for free. This time, they came in here to play a three-game series for first place. They're here for business right now. They're not going to give us anything for free now.

Harry S Truman

A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics.

Michael Maddox

You're talking about a lot of pet stores that primarily sell dogs that would be out of business overnight.

Deirdre O'Kane

Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.

Camille Lavington

You've Only Got 3 Seconds: How to Make the Right Impression in Your Business and Social Life.

Ken Stein

You shouldn't be broadcasting what you see in an e-mail unless you have really legitimate business reasons for doing it.

Martin Bashir

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

Newt Gingrich

All free people stand on Reagan's shoulders. His principled policies proved that free markets create wealth, that the rule of law sustains freedom, and that all people everywhere deserve the right to dream, to pursue their dreams, and to govern themselves.

Arlen Sanders

The idea is to create jobs and create opportunities.

Sharon Dingman

The hospital wanted to create a place where all of our women could come and everything in one location and registration.

Maurice Elias

The horrors he saw but could not prevent, as well as some he may have directly participated in -- it can create tremendous psychological pressures that can manifest.

Mark Burnett

The hope is to create a wildfire effect.

Daddy Yankee

You can see that he invests time to develop excellent work that differentiates itself from others. I'm always looking to be a leader, and Carlos knows how to stay on the forefront and create things that have never been launched before. Fans have a lot of options, and we need to stay on top with unique ideas.

Tony Granato

Everyone made a big deal about it, but I didn't understand how it couldn't work. I think it's just people trying to look at a situation and create something that's really nothing.

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Dreams grow holy put in action.

Adepero Oduye

The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.

Adam Rodriguez

Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.

Adam Braun

Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

Adam Braun

When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

Adam Braun

My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Dalai Lama

Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

Dalai Lama

Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.

Dalai Lama

All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

Dalai Lama

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

Dalai Lama

There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

Dalai Lama

If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.

Deepak Chopra

Each of us lives in multi-dimensions. We can choose where to focus our attention, and wherever that focus goes, a new reality opens up. When I speak of other dimensions, I'm referring to domains of consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

The important message of the energy of attraction is in learning to master your choices in the present to create a personal reality that reflects this expanded consciousness.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Steny Hoyer

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

Sigmund Freud

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

Shakti Gawain

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To work is to live without dying.

Ray Charles

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

Todd Rundgren

Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.