Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

David George

U.S. Bank is taking action to be on the offensive as well as defensive. St. Louis has become a very competitive market. It makes sense to spend money to build brand awareness.

Jim Leach

We will take a look at why it wasn't reported when it started. We will determine at that time if there is any enforcement action that's going to be taken.

Tim Delaney

The public wants to be assured that action has been taken rather than this silence. Either he (the city manager) agrees with the report and some action should be taken or he doesn't agree with the report.

Nolan Bushnell

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

John Dwyer

What I think is going to happen is that tests in relation to reasonable management action taken in a reasonable way is going to be blurred with those concepts of procedural fairness and what you're going to find is the QIRC considering appeals against decisions to grant workers compensation to dismissed employees where the employee was denied procedural fairness.

Douglas Merrill

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

Chuck Palahniuk

This is passive-aggression in action.

Christopher Moore

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Olga Pomar

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

Nancy Allen

Since it happened in our area, and it?s the Oxford Lions, we thought we?d step up. We decided last Thursday at our meeting. We wanted to get it out and do it quick.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Jakaya Kikwete

We promise to respect people of all creeds: those who are Christians, Muslims as well as those who have decided not to follow any religion.

Ed Rendell

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

Horacio Gutierrez

Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues.

Paul Scott

While we have some promising signs, we need to see the proposal still. We're pleased that Mills has decided to step away from direct involvement of the project.

Ted Forrest

We wanted to have a little tea party here at people's advocate. We didn't have any tea, so we decided we'd throw the governor overboard.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Rick Riordan

I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.

David R. Brower

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

Gopalakrishnan Venkataraman

The world has realized that India has many things to offer, not only from a tourism point of view, but economic, science and technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and information technology points of view. India is increasingly recognized as a destination with many facets.

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.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Jose Marti

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge to-day of any civilisation. ...[T]he type of man dominant to-day is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.

Henry A. Wallace

During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression.

James Russell Lowell

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

James Purefoy

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

James Redfield

I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason"...

James F. Byrnes

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.