Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Michael Barone

Obama's attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in a nominee to replace Justice David Souter. He wants 'someone who understands justice is not just about some abstract legal theory,' he said, but someone who has 'empathy.' In other words, judges should decide cases so that the right people win, not according to the rule of law.

Seamus Heaney

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Sean Connery

My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'.

John Wesley

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

John W. Gardner

A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. This is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society. That is what gives a nation its tone, its fiber, its integrity, its moral style, its capacity to endure.

Theodore Roosevelt

Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

Bill Muir

As European markets move farther east, Ukraine becomes cost-competitive with our most competitive places.

Rig Veda

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

Bob Kelly

What this means is that Windows becomes the platform for virtualization. Customers will consolidate existing systems to Windows using virtual technology. This is very compelling to our customer base.

Bill Murray

I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.

Jim Calhoun

We still have a chance to have a special season, there's no question in my mind. In order for us to finish up the season the way we have to, we have to eliminate some of those inconsistent moments, because pretty soon every game becomes important, and if you have an inconsistent game, you go home.

Kevin Reilly

It's not entirely analogous, because those movies were ready-made products you could go and acquire. With this, at best, there's probably something that's going to be a presentation for something that becomes a pilot for something that could eventually become a series.

Mike Timlin

It's not any different until we get a significant lead and it becomes different when our magic number is zero. Then it becomes different. Then you can take a deep breath and concentrate on the next step.

Dhulsini Zoysa

Eighty dollars a share is certainly a fair price for this business that we suspect is not nearly as damaged as the media coverage would suggest. It becomes increasingly difficult for J&J to follow Boston's lead on price.

Jessie Stricchiola

Everyone in this industry agrees click fraud exists, and everybody agrees that advertisers should not be billed for it. At the end of the day, the question becomes 'what constitutes a fraudulent click, and who works to determine that?' Up until this point, it's been the search engines making the determination without using the data on the advertiser's side.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Danny Mercer

It will be a significant event for Washington, and for the entire western U.S..

Tracey Bregman

They could make an entire blooper reel of the scene of the two of us in her hotel room. I could not remember all the names. 'Who's got the fake teeth? Who's the writing partner? Which one am I talking about?' It was crazy. I'm looking forward to a different kind of story for Lauren.

Michael Mak

They want me to rebuild the entire intersection for all four corners.

Marcus Williams

They looked out of rhythm. They had to run all the way through their entire offense and then force up a shot.

Bill Cotter

They heard one side of the story. The next jury will hear the entire story.

John Knight

It was a fitting tribute to Rosa Parks, ... There's no question. She means so much, not only to Montgomery and to the state, but to the entire world.

Lew Dutrow

They will play four different pieces, two at each show, and then join the guest musicians for a final piece with the entire performing group.

Sean McGowan

It signals that there's still a lot more to find our about what's going on. Given that they are underscoring the liquidity of each unit, maybe they will hang a 'For Sale' sign on the entire business.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

David Attenborough

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Daniel Webster

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Daniel Webster

It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.

Daniel Webster

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Daniel Webster

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Ameen Rihani

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Charles Peabody

It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious,

Anna Netrebko

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.