Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Vargo

As helpful as these individual steps are, they need to be followed by systemic changes that will put our trade relationship on a more fair basis.

Steve Letarte

As far as pumping up the team, we reorganized a little personnel on the team. I'm excited with the changes we've made.

Jon Cox

As expected, (there was) some confusion about the impact of IFRS changes but the underlying result was solid given the impact from negative currency and higher commodity prices.

Candace Smith

The big question is looking at the cost of all this. Is it worth making the changes or retiring old cars? The cost of this could be well over $2 million.

Raj Desai

A vehicle can be used for 10 years, but technology changes every two years or less.

Spanish Proverbs

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

Spanish Proverb

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never

Nina Olson

As it stands now, there is more testing for a plumber or a person who cuts your hair or who changes locks than for someone who files your tax return.

Bruce Buchanan

Reading the tea leaves of what they have been saying, there are more changes coming.

Ray LaHood

People can say all types of stuff, ... When I lived in Peoria before, people tried to convince me to run for things. I had an opportunity then and I didn't. I will say I'm never going to rule that out in the future. Politics is a lot about being in the right place at the right time.

Robert Blake

I wanted to convince him (the security) problem was real. And these were the probable reasons.

Abraham Lincoln

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

John Adams

Now, my friend, can prophecies or miracles convince you or me that infinite benevolence, wisdom, and power, created, and preserves for a time innumerable millions, to make them miserable forever, for his own glory? Wretch! What is his glory? Is he

Dominique Moisi

President Chirac has told him to back down as he was leading the country to the wall. He tried to convince himself he could be France's Margaret Thatcher, but forgot he was only the number two.

Tom Harkin

I've said time and time again, there is little risk of BSE in U.S. beef, but it is obvious that we have not yet convinced key trading partners of that.

Richard Lachmann

These young women aren't going to convince their boyfriends to go see chick-flicks and watch Lifetime,

Martina Navratilova

I've been talking to Martina about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.

Francesco Storace

The whole world is worried and we want to convince everyone, starting with the European Union, to coordinate measures in the face of a possible pandemic.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Tadahito Iguchi

As far as the playoffs themselves, there's not really much difference, ... The fact I was able to hit this home run this first year playing, I'm very happy.

Jimmy Carter

a saving factor was that there was no nationwide pattern to favor any one party.

Ed Gillespie

As I've said on your show repeatedly, the fact is the president will be up. He will be down, ... Inside Politics.

Martin O'Malley

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

Kevin Colbert

People say we haven't signed big free agents, but they lose sight of the fact that we signed significant players of our own.

Rick Honeycutt

People say we have no true ace. The fact is, we have four veteran guys that all have had good levels of success.

Cameron Crowe

Ashton was one of the guys I talked to who I really liked.

Larry Taddeo

Ashton is one of the hardest workers I've ever been around. The other guys have seen that and they've seen how it has paid off for him. I would say that's rubbed off on guys like Evan.

Rob Ciarlo

As a purist I don?t like it. Put nine guys out there and let them play.

Alain Vigneault

A win is a win, but the guys weren't happy -- they would have preferred to do it in regular time. It's a big win for us and I liked a lot of parts to our game.

Al Wallace

(Barber) is making more plays after the first or second hit. He just squirms out of there. When guys seem to relax, he pops out for 30 or 40 more yards. We're going to have to make sure we get him on the ground.

Ken Chevalier

As long as we have the lead, I'm going to sit you guys out.

Chris Harrell

As I walked back to the huddle, a lot of guys walked up to me and said 'You're back. You're back,'

Glenn Wilson

As I've always said, you find out what kind of player you are in the playoffs. And I know what kind of players these guys are.

Miles Walsh

That's where the big money is made. We keep telling the guys that if you are not willing to go to the net then you probably aren't on the right team.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Matt LaPorta

It was a little sore after Miami. I knew I would be OK (against FAMU) as long as I didn't swing and miss.

Bob Hill

I sensed he knew we needed him tonight ... Ray really stepped up for us.

Ryan Palmer

I've been through it. I've won on every level, so I knew I could come in here and do it.

Alexis Williams

I've been just waiting, waiting, waiting. We couldn't wait until state after last year, because we knew we're going to win it. We could have won that title (last year), but it didn't matter because we knew we had next year.

Eli Wallach

The whole thing was chaotic. Everyone spoke a different language. I knew a little French, so that's how I conversed with Leone.

Tim Cahill

They all looked at me because they knew it wasn't very good, ... It's terrible. The first words out of my mouth were a lie.

Dean Duquette

They all knew him and were friends with him. They are playing in his memory.

John Barnes

Another thing would be just leave and go home. You know, pick another day that you can come shopping.

Rep. Zuckerman

The big question is will he leave the seat unfilled.

Jeff Lenard

People price shop. There is no loyalty. They will leave you for a penny a gallon.

Pierre Corneille

Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.

Jim Beattie

Defensively, it would be a big uplift. He plays hard. He bounces off walls. He doesn't leave anything out there.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Mark Harris

After a while, it's kind of demoralizing. You train someone in, and then they leave for better pay somewhere else.

Brian Butler

Some people were already trying to leave and others were just sitting there going 'Yeah that's great!' and I remember that statement because I was like, 'This is not great, this is time to leave.'

Mel Tillis

So when I leave here at the first of the year it'll become... well, it's already open on Sundays as a church. But it'll be a full-time church.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Thomas Levet

A win is a win but playing in the Open is something else.

Steven Bell

As long as they keep shoving this down our throats... they'll never be greeted with open arms.

David Wu

Dell is going to open down significantly tomorrow, more than 10 percent,

Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Kari Lyles

Teachers said they were able to open up whole new discussions just by doing this project.

Al Johnson

I've never seen a project with this much open space and tree density.

Jody Van

The shelter will be open as long as they need it.

Michael Niemira

Is it enough to say this season could be more than OK? That's still an open question.

Neil Diamond

As he said to all the rich, middle-aged white people, 'We are all God's children.'

Rosa Durando

Addie did nothing different than her white counterparts have been doing for years.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive