Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Markee

This is a reminder and a wakeup call to city officials that much more needs to be done.

Nicholas Burns

This is an historic opportunity to shape the future of the country. ... We call on the new leadership to establish an inclusive transitional government leading to elections, and to ensure full respect for human rights throughout the country.

Patrick Comack

This is going to cause more price wars, minute wars, whatever you want to call it. It's great for consumers but terrible for the wireless companies.

Rick Parker

This is going to be one of those judgment call things that's going to be tough.

Frank Robinson

This is another step, and a very important step, in ownership being named. It was just a matter of when this thing was going to get done. That's the key right there. ... You want to get ownership named, so you can get the new ballpark, so you can feel what I call 'whole' as a team and as a franchise.

Glenn Rogers

This is a tremendous wake-up call for the church,

Donovan Hayles

This is the game we call a make-up game in terms of points and we have the opportunity of going back into the lead by two points.

Bob Davis

This is the first real cattle call for people to get a glimpse of who might be running for president in 2008.

Nicolle Packer

This is not like a pregnancy test, where you are either pregnant or you're not. It has to be prepared carefully and interpreted by an expert, who can mostly call it, I believe. But it is definitely skill-based, and that is why Wada is looking for a more clear-cut test.

Harvey Pekar

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

George Orwell

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Don Stewart

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

David Yost

We don't want the jury to hear anything less than the full case.

Jeff Ferrell

There's really no gain the $300 increase incentive they're making about the same money and they're rotating and not riding full time.

Barry Venable

There was a full and comprehensive investigation about the incident conducted,

Robert Evan

Is the price of staying full not standing up for anything? ... A school has to decide, what makes us, us?

Randy Baseler

What this says to me is, the recovery is in full swing.

Suzanne Yoculan

We tell all the girls we want them to have a full life. They can do that and still win championships.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.

Dennis Dunn

We just put too much on him, and I'm going to take full responsibility for this loss. This one is on Dennis Dunn, period.

Wendy Kopp

If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

Maria Sharapova

She's very young and has a great future.

Curtis Joseph

Signing one-year deals, you look at the future and you know what's going to happen. My preference is to stay here for sure . . . . If (a trade) is going to help the hockey club, that's what they have to do.

Gary Williams

Shane is a great young man, and we wish him well in the future as a student-athlete.

Ben Agosto

Since we've gotten back, a lot of kids have come to the rink. It's really special to feel that we may be helping to inspire future skaters and future champions.

Elon Musk

I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Stephen Chow

but I hope we'll do better in the future.

Guy Kawasaki

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Abraham Lincoln

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

Abraham Lincoln

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

Ani Difranco

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

Andrew Napolitano

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

Andrew Napolitano

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Mary Humstone

Being enrolled in the National Register of Historic Places is an honorific designation. It means the site has been studied and deemed significant in American history and culture.

Charles Flynn

It's on the National Historic Register. It's a significant historic property.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Al Sharpton

She was truly the first lady of the human rights movement. The only thing worse than losing her is if we never had her.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

William Channing

No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.

Eddie Compass

Right now, human life is paramount so I'm concentrating all my power on getting out people who want to leave,

Joseph Jarman

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Dick Thompson

But the risk is pretty much the same as it has been, it is very low to humans, but we're worried about the transformation of the virus into a human pandemic strain.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Jacques Chirac

Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events.

Hugh Mackay

One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.

J. K. Rowling

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Virgil

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

Warren G. Bennis

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Warren G. Bennis

I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Bill Gates

There's more opportunity for software than there has ever been ... in a sense, you can say that you haven't seen anything yet,

Mike Rounds

There's more opportunity for our products to get a better price in this area,

Rob Sanderson

Is that going to happen? I think if they have an opportunity to do that at reasonable terms they will.

Ricky Ledee

I still come to the stadium early, and I keep working on things. If I get my opportunity, I will be ready, because I have not been wasting my time.

Kim Moore

What this provides is a wonderful opportunity for a three-county area.

Jean Paul

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

Jerome K. Jerome

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

James A. Baldwin

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James A. Baldwin

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.

Jackie Robinson

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Eva Longoria

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

Estelle Parsons

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Evita Peron

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Fernando Alonso

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

Zoe Lister-Jones

The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.

Malcolm X

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

James Q. Wilson

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion

Oliver Cromwell

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...

Rachel Maddow

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

Paul Farmer

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

Paul Farmer

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

Marilyn Monroe

The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).