Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

M. Wolfe

The outstanding result achieved by MANN-FILTER for services and product quality reaffirms our strategy of offering top-quality products and providing outstanding service to our original equipment manufacturer and aftermarket customers. Our customers can be assured that they can continue to expect world-class products and services in the future.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Mike Chambers

The 2006 Olympic Winter Games have been a great success for Canada. We set an aggressive goal of a top-three finish at these Games and we will leave Turin having achieved that goal.

William Allan

The acceleration in sales growth achieved in the third quarter gives us further confidence that the company will deliver enhanced revenue growth throughout the second half of the year,

Bill Coleman

We couldn't be more pleased with the business and financial results we achieved this quarter and in fiscal 2001.

Rick Kobe

We have the same goals every year. We've never achieved them, but we want to go undefeated, we want to win a conference championship and we want to have at least a 3.0 GPA. We've got two of the three a bunch, but the undefeated one is tough to do when you have some of the schools on your schedule that we do.

Sebastian Horsley

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

Michele Quinn

This is definitely an austere show. The weight and scale come across, which are the crux of his work.

E. T. Bell

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

Joost Hiltermann

The situation in Iraq looks austere and the implementation of a new all inclusive government is very important for better security.

Damian Fraser

This number combined with the other high numbers is going to force the government to keep interest rates high and make sure the budget is austere for the next year. High rates are bad news for equity holders.

Yuri Milner

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

Nelson Mandela

The policy of the People's Republic of China is that there is only one China, which we accept,

Choi Hoon

The outlook on the steel industry is not that positive with increased production from China and price declines.

Roy Wadia

That was something that made China very upset indeed.

Rajiv Dutta

The $100 million investment is aimed at generating eBay's long-term revenue growth. We're not interested in just being No. 1 in China but the No. 1 player in ecommerce,

Xiao Yaqing

We have a market share of about 50 percent now in China and would like to keep it at between 45 and 50 percent in the next five years.

Mark Fischer

We have up to 38 million viewers who watch at least one NBA game in China per week (on free television).

George Wu

We've had enough of China telling us how to behave. We want the world to know about China's threats. But we are small, so we have to speak loudly to be heard.

Alan Johnston

We're well established as a company that services the UK parts market but to find success with international shipments to a country like China is especially pleasing given the current import climate. It proves that the UK has a lot to offer - if it looks for opportunities in the right places.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.

Bill Haynie

We are being left behind. The consumer's sitting there going, I feel like I live in Communist Cuba I'm forced to take what they give me.

Helen Suzman

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.

Bill Maher

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.

Paul Robeson

What do you mean by the Communist Party? As far as I know it is a legal party like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

Charlie Chaplin

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

Alexander Cockburn

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

Elliott Abrams

At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.

Vladimir Putin

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

Jim Gallagher

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

F. Sionil Jose

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Roger Altman

The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.

Arthur Levitt

The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the American people.

Bill Grant

That would be great. The more economic development you have, the better it is for the region.

Rainer Guntermann

We have a more mixed picture (and) that would have made some people rethink economic prospects maybe towards the end of the year.

Paul Hubbert

We could have another economic downturn. We need to maintain a reserve.

Mike Schussler

We know that with a lot of the strikes, if they last only a day or three, we can make up that lost production. If it lasts a week or longer we make up only some of that production. That's when it starts having economic consequences.

Yolanda Adams

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

Ian Mcewan

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

Wendy Kopp

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

Wendy Kopp

People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

Wendy Kopp

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

Ezra Taft Benson

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

Bill Harris

The political parties don't fight over whether education is important. They know it is.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Wole Soyinka

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Yahya Jammeh

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

Harvey Rosenthal

The only reason they're putting them there is that mental health law allows them to.

Barry O'Farrell

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

Barack Obama

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

Richard Lamm

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

Carl Rogers

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Ashley Tisdale

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Bill Vaughan

The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

Wesley Clark

China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.

George Pataki

We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.

Subcomandante Marcos

We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.

Baz Luhrmann

Western films don't do very well in India.

Paul Horn

It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound.

B. R. Ambedkar

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

Navtej Sarna

We have an interest in taking it forward, India needs gas.

Mahatma Gandhi

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Garry Marshall

I think on the first day we get there everyone will have a peak at the Indian training session to see who's there.

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Kati Haycock

That we have such problems is clear. The way to better results is less clear.

Porter Goss

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

Emma Bunton

We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working.

Pete Rodda

We are not putting anything out that is not public record.

Kathy Nelson

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

Edmund Hillary

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

D. H. Lawrence

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

Aristotle

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

David Eckstein

It's just a whole different realm of a leadoff man. You've got to be patient.

Christine Gregoire

It's completely within the realm of possibility that what they need is hospitalization,

David Frank

Nothing's out of the realm of possibility right now.

David Bowie

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity...

Hanna Rosin

Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

Neil Harris

It's different, but within the realm of the sitcom still,

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.

Clint Hurdle

He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

John Hedgecoth

We think that this strikes the right balance.

Themistocles

Strike, if you will, but listen.

Dennece Knight

Most of our visitors will be here to have fun.

Harry Friedman

We know our visitors like to see us in different cities,

Charles C. Mann

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

Jeremy Paxman

Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there?

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Jeff Kinney

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

Jack Kelly

Visitors may want (the vendors), but it's not all about the visitors.

Hattie McDaniel

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.