Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

As 1999 approaches, I will endeavor as state president to delegate more and more responsibility so as to ensure a smooth transition to the new presidency,

Vince McMahon

You do have to delegate as you grow.

Michael W. Smith

My objective would be to get myself on the ballot, and my hope would be to get a delegate or two.

Traci Dickson

We don't delegate what each member does, they must reach out in their own ways.

Kiana Tom

However, with more projects on the table, I am teaching myself to delegate and rely on a good team of professionals to lighten the load.

William Carey

It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.

Samuel Johnson

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.

Blair Underwood

I'm not upset about LAX being cancelled. I'm disappointed because any time you take on any endeavor you want it to be successful, but not upset.

John Hall

No man of honor, as that word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste and temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, or to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his

Samuel Johnson

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor

Aung San Suu Kyi

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor,

Aristotle

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Greg Dunn

We are very excited to be one of the beneficiaries of the inaugural endeavor of the Aloha Street Nature Project.

Bruce Betts

The opening of this telescope represents one of those rare moments in a field of scientific endeavor when a great leap forward is enabled.

Najib Razak

My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

Greg Gallaspy

What we want to do is ensure there's a balance. That's the key.

David Hartley

Having a new state-of-the-art plant is encouraging, but it does not ensure that Cott will do a better job of managing its entire plant operations.

Norm Coleman

He's actually a good man (but) an incompetent administrator, ... heavy lifting that will ensure success for reform.

Michael Chertoff

to ensure a work environment free of unlawful discrimination and retaliation.

Denis MacShane

I will be urging him to ensure any shutdown is as painless as possible for local communities,

Charles Grassley

We must ensure that this nightmare NEVER occurs again,

Jon Postel

reserved for infrastructure purposes to help ensure stable operation of the Internet.

Martin Winterkorn

Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive industry.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

William Safire

Our rogue President, after selling face time...

William Safire

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richard P. Feynman

It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

Richard P. Feynman

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Russell Crowe

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

Ron Chernow

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Umberto Eco

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

Travis Barker

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

Richard Davidson

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

Jon Glaser

I'm sort of known in the comedy community as 'Smooth Sailing,' just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn.

Mindy Kaling

I found it to be smooth sailing - 100 percent smooth sailing my whole career.

Jimmy Cliff

Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

Carl Everett

I told him in the top of the ninth, when we win this game, you're the MVP. To come out as smooth as he did, to me he's the MVP.

Giselle Davies

The tests went very smoothly and there were no complaints.

Ashley Wagner

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Aftab Dada

Everything is going as smooth as could be.

Amanda Bynes

I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should I.

Tu Mingde

The preparations have been going smoothly and well on schedule.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Lewis Black

I'm going to make my transition to weatherman soon,

Mark Messier

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

Georg Simmel

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Gavin Bryars

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

Doug Freeman

It's a little gut-wrenching for me for us to have to make this decision, but at least we were able to transition into something new.

Bill Vaughan

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

Chaz Bono

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Brandon Sanderson

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.