Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

A 'NO' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Robert Kirkman

As far as the trades go, I want to avoid how comics have captions or just really stilted dialogue at the beginning of the pages.

Neal Boortz

As a radio talk show host, I can say things no one else will because they are worried about being ostracized socially or on the job. I don't avoid controversy. My job is to stir it up.

Ian Heinisch

As a team, we have a little more pressure, but I think we are going to pull it off. I'd like to pin my way through state, that is my goal. But there are some good guys out there, and we will all have to avoid making critical mistakes.

Arthur Phillips

As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.

Ray William Johnson

As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.

Bill Sammons

The bottom line is this was probably a dumb call. You pick up the phone, you say, 'Let's get a statement out and get this behind us.' You avoid the kind of feeding frenzy we're seeing here today. I think the press smells a little blood in the water.

Tom Norton

The bottom line is that it would make the bonds very difficult to market. In some cases, where free roads are designed to take people to and from the same points as a toll road, they would use the free road to avoid the toll.

Joseph Lisanti

Avoid buying the highest-yielding stock in any one particular group, for that is often indication the market has beaten down the shares on fears of a dividend cut. It's better to buy something with more modest current yield and a good track record of increasing dividends.

Lou Gerstner

That's where the semiconductor industry is moving today, ... It really is becoming a very different industry than just a few years ago.

Ethan Harris

Real estate is a topic that has vaulted to center stage, ... The real reason the topic is hot and belongs on the front page of research reports is that the housing market is becoming more of an engine of economic growth, but is also the biggest risk to future growth if the boom goes bust.

Ruth Rendell

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

Eddie Williams

Primrose Hill is in danger of becoming another Notting Hill, with coach loads of tourists coming to gawp at someone's front door.

Larry Ponemon

Privacy is not just a compliance issue for the legal department. It should be a priority for everyone. You have to translate privacy into a customer issue because this is really becoming the holy grail of doing business for everyone in an on-line world.

Rebecca Stead

Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent.

Jim McKelvey

Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.

Sandy Parker

Our employers are not being passive. They're becoming very, very angry.

Paul Dowling

Our data confirm that India is rapidly becoming a more mainstream tourism destination, with tourist receipts expected to grow significantly over the next few years.

Matt Swanson

Once we had this program ready and heard some encouragement from a professor, we thought this would be a great thing to go with.

Barbara Pym

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

Charles R. Swindoll

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

Charles R. Swindoll

You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.

Jane Austen

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Elie Wiesel

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

Deepak Chopra

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

Dale Carnegie

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Theresa Parker

The response to our expanded product offering has been tremendous.

Tom Peters

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Jen Lancaster

I’m busy sorting through our new collection of rhinestone jewelry. Should anyone be in the market for sparkly accessories the size of a hubcap, this is the place to get them. Earlier today, a customer picked up one of the enormous chandelier-style offerings and asked, 'Do those be genuine rhimestones?' I couldn’t even begin to explain everything that was wrong with her sentence, so I simply replied, 'Yes. They do be genuine.

George Canning

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George H. W. Bush

Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know?...I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.'

Howard Schultz

Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.

Irvin D. Yalom

I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don't have anything better to offer him in a way.

J. K. Rowling

Crackers!” said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly.

Dakota Blue Richards

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Rick Riordan

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

Rocco Calo

As a stockholder myself, I want to see the stock do well but I also want to see them treat people well.

Shawn Amos

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

John Eales

As a captain, it's important to have the right people around you,

Peter Ueberroth

As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.

Ray Santiago

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

W. H. Murray

The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.

Margaret Thatcher

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

Bertrand Russell

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Benjamin Disraeli

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Billie Jean King

Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.

Brownie McGhee

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

Edmund Burke

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Robert Bork

We all have to have some sympathy for her.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alexander Pope

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.