Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Douglas

As effective as he's been. I agree with that (decision), I think it's an effective cost savings move. Our office largely deals with three department heads directly.

Ian Macfarlane

Australia is already fully committed in terms of uranium production through until about 2008, bearing in mind that the signing of this agreement means that this is really only the start of the process.

Ben Phillips

A world conference in 100 days time could agree to the principles of ATT to control international arms transfer and India can be a key influence at the UN conference.

Javier Lopez

Our experimental results agreed with the computational findings, indicating that these ratchetting points mediate the removal of intron subfragments in one direction as the gene is transcribed initially from DNA into RNA,

Kobe Bryant

People that know me understand that's just me. That's not something that was fabricated. The people who don't side with you or agree with you, you use that as fuel. You use that as motivation.

Rafael Ramirez

Of the 32 (companies), we have agreed with 30. We believe this was a mistake on the part of Total and Eni.

Marco Basaglia

After the auction, which soaked up a huge amount of paper, operators only agreed to buy at a much lower price.

Tom Vincent

After years of working with multiple software vendors in this industry, we're excited about this opportunity to sign an exclusive agreement with a long-standing and financially secure partner with a diverse range of customers nationwide. This partnership links us with a leader in enterprise behavioral healthcare software.

Rick Perry

Day in and day out, there are pieces of legislation that members don't agree with, ... The democratic process is to debate and vote them. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. All the people of the state of Texas are asking is to let democracy ... work.

Anthony Ross

The soldiers now are loved and they know the effort they're putting in to make our country great and the world better.

Juan Cole

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

Edward Tufte

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Leland Stanford

We deem it of the first importance that the education of both sexes shall be equally full and complete, varied only as nature dictates.

Temple Grandin

I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.

Robert Brustein

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Paul Farmer

Even die-hard fans of the market acknowledge that TB care should be free. Why? Because it's an airborne disease and treatment equals prevention.

Carol Foreman

Boycots are something that may make the person who's boycotting feel better, but it doesn't necessarily make conditions any better for the child.

Paul Farmer

Well, I don't think that the role of the pharmaceutical industry is any different from that of other transnational corporations.

Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Sydney Smith

A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a Curate!!!

Jane Austen

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Boris Johnson

Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Dennis Prager

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Ben Jonson

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Earl Nightingale

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Linda Foley

The ones who are serving life sentences are victims.

Ken Scholen

The older you are, the more money you can get because life expectancy is shorter.

Larry Brown

After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone

Gore Vidal

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Manju Warrier

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

Tim Howard

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whether I'm playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

Robert Edwards

The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.

Henry Selick

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Mitch Hedberg

I sick of "soup of the day" it's time we made a decision, i want to know what "soup from now on" is

Doris Wallace

You're just sick to your stomach, wondering who in the world can come, because everyone is busy; everyone who's touring already has dates.

Elizabeth Scott

There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.

Edward Abbey

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

Andre Leon Talley

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

Anais Nin

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

Ann Aguirre

I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

Rupert Murdoch

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

Anita Diament

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

Suzanne Collins

Some walks you have to take alone.

Teresa Palmer

I can walk around relatively anonymously.

Michael Stipe

Anybody that walks can sing..

James Bryant Conant

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We cannot walk alone.