Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Baker

We are going to be here to help you when you are ready to go. In the near term, we are not going to be abandoning you, so I don't want you to be concerned about that.

Graham Alexander

When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young.

Scott Carr

We haven't heard from them since yesterday. The last report we had, they were abandoning their vessel and getting in a life raft.

John Ridley

The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how godless you are, and how if you and the rest of the heathens in Tinsel town would put more God-centric shows on TV, people wouldn't be abandoning prime time in favor of their Bible study classes.

Chuck Smith

She writes a lot about the abandoning father. The unfaithful male. I've told her that the next time she does that in a play, she should give it to someone else. I love her and I love what she does, but I've been frank with her. I can't deal with it anymore. Those are not the black men that I know.

Barry Hyman

I think people are just abandoning technology, especially when you can't count on a 'Nokia' that hasn't missed (expectations) in years. The point is that there's nothing wrong with these companies - what's wrong is that analysts were not looking at the second half of the year. What's happening now is estimates are going to come down to match the reality of the economic situation.

Lloyd Axworthy

Canada is abandoning its 40- to 50-year traditional diplomatic approach in how to deal with the dangers of nuclear weapons.

Jim Calhoun

I have said since the beginning of this process that we should never be in the business of abandoning young men who have made a mistake and I am glad that we will not be doing that,

Diane Setterfield

The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting other worlds has influenced me in many ways.

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

John Canavan

The sell-off has been sharp but not extreme. It did push the bond above 5 percent and that is going to be the psychological story taken away from all of this.

James Williams

The strong build in gasoline coupled by the fact that every major product has inventories above the high end of their average range for this time of year will add to the recent bearish sentiment.

Mike Degory

Coach is trying to instill core values, trust. We're becoming more of a team. Eight months ago, it wasn't really like this. Will it pay off in September? I hope so.

Hamse Warfa

So you are becoming their problem solver. You go and hear all of their problems.

Brian Tracy

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

Tom Higgins

There is a real possibility that measured will be gone from the statement but that's not necessarily to say that the Fed is becoming more hawkish,

Patrick Vogt

There are more choices for consumers. You see what's happening in the broadcast area. TV is becoming more fragmented and I do believe that will happen on the Web with more niche type sites and community type sites.

Alex Neve

The outlook for technology stocks is becoming increasingly positive. Hewlett-Packard released some good numbers and it looks like this is becoming a very good quarter for Dell.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

Christina Norman

We're always looking to inject excitement and energy into the show and Miami has a lot to offer. As far as celebrities, Miami is becoming a destination.

Jim Ewan

We have quite a few new players but they have worked hard. Our region is becoming more difficult, but we feel we are right where we were last season at this time.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jenny Nimmo

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Jonathan Jackson

You're probably saving money if you factor in the grief . . . of dealing with children in the supermarket. I think it will take off in the suburbs, particularly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Ben Marcus

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Barbara Jordan

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

Baha'u'llah

O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

John Shimkus

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

Fadel Gheit

Our economic dependence on oil is much less than it was even 10 years ago. If inflation comes, it won't be as big a hit as it was in the '80s.

John Wagner

depends on strength because he can't retain technique.

David Patrick

Depending on the industry you're in 10 percent to 80 percent of employees can migrate to a Linux desktop now.

Marco Rubio

Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

Cheryl Baker

So, one word can mean four different things depending on how you say it.

Barbara Turner

This is going to let us know if we're mature enough to come out and play really well on the road and be together. It prepares you for the tournament. Very rarely do you get to play on your home floor. I know we've been fortunate a few times, but it's rare. It's a totally different atmosphere. You don't have the normal support that you usually have. You have to depend on each other to win.

Timothy Karr

This is the first step down a slippery slope. A large e-mail provider wants to turn e-mail into a paid and privileged realm, but what about the non-profits that depend on a free and open Internet?

LaMarr Woodley

Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

Gordon B. Hinckley

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

Abel Ferrara

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

Peter Schuyler

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

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

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Lynn Forres

We have appropriated about $90 billion. And I don't see that the homeowners are getting it to be able to prepare to put their houses back.

Chris Proulx

What are they getting for houses in Portland? $250,000? Why?

Gary Gambardella

They traded their houses for the big house.

Charles Simmons

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Thomas Harris

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Jonathan Schwartz

I want to see most of the planet online.

Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Edgar Mitchell

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Tony Robbins

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

Robert Boyle

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

Shane Koyczan

We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone