Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Edward Snowden

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

John Prendergast

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

Seth Godin

The most popular TV show in America is a game show, ... People have been playing our games for years and are playing more and more games. The relationship they build is similar to a magazine that has a subscription base or a newspaper with home delivery customers.

Simon Winchester

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.

Gary Orfield

Suburban America has no idea about this crisis. But we are all going to pay for it in the end.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Some European countries and America are using the Security Council as a threat. They threaten us so that we give up our rights,

Q-Tip

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

James Cromwell

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

David Nathan

I think the fact that they didn't attain the level of success of solo artists probably has something to do with it as well. They may have had some impact, but none are around today. They weren't able to sustain it.

Michael Williams

There was a time when black artists couldn't get signed to a major label.

Dinesh Vazirani

There will be 125 lots, featuring 44 contemporary artists - the post independence generation who I believe have created their own sensibilities with an eye on international trends.

Cassandra Peterson

There's 20 really cutting-edge, cool artists on there, so I was so thrilled to be a part of it, ... And it's a really fun song.

Van Toffler

This is what happens when you have a live show, these things happen. We didn't run full sets of some artists because we would have had to lose other artists altogether. We ran only eight hours, and there were 40 to 50 hours of performances. We wanted to be equitable.

Elizabeth Feder

It's about trying to revive our community, its artists and our museum. Like so many other museums, residences and businesses around here, we suffered some damage from the storm.

Benjamin Chavis

They're being profiled, ... Over and over, our artists are targets only to be later found not guilty. Like (Sean) 'Puffy' (Combs).

Suzanne Somers

I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.

Saxby Chambliss

I know my 48th Brigade has been through some difficult times, ... It's a tough job. It's a dangerous job. On behalf of all Americans I want to thank you.

Ashley Caiafa

Every time a shot went up, I put a body on someone. You have to to get a rebound. It's not just about jumping.

Brittany Bowe

For me, I always think about keeping my upper body relaxed, my hips level, and my right side down on the turn. If I work on nailing those three things at every practice, I hope that by the time I get into a race situation I can stay completely focused on the task at hand, and the rest will happen naturally.

Jessica Rye

While they were doing that, they dropped some equipment off the tray. What they dropped was a film processor, it struck the left hand side of the body flap. There was some tile damage on the body flap, which they're addressing. They're looking, of course, at structural inspections to evaluate if there is any structural damage to the body flap.

Ralph Rivera

We all tried to get out. Most of them made it out, but the two guys went back there to put it out. I know one didn't make it. He tried to put it out, and I just saw his body on the ground over there.

Isaac Newton

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Matt Kiefer

As the season wears on, your body starts to wear down more and more. It's just a matter of doing things off the court, making sure you eat right and get enough sleep.

Csaba Csere

Concept cars are used to introduce a new body style and, on top of that, the manufactures throw in all kinds of features. Often, those ideas are not ready for production. It usually takes three years from design to production.

Glenn Morris

Diseases are caused by viruses and bacteria. If the body doesn't happen to have those viruses or bacteria, then the risk is less,

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Lita Ford

Last night we challenged him in front of the whole team because I think in the last few games he didn't give us the games he should have. He responded and that's what I'm excited about. Some guys can't take getting called out in front of the team, but the guys that can use it as a motivational factor come out with games like he had tonight.

Ed Hooi

He had no fear and he took the shots and drilled them. In life, you are going to be challenged and when you respond like he did, you are going to be a champion.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Peter Chernin

From our perspective it created a unique and wonderful opportunity.

T. Harv Eker

Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more.

Sarah Waters

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

Wentworth Miller

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

Werner Herzog

We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.

Rhonda Byrne

There is always something to be grateful for.

Chita Rivera

I'm very grateful that so many people are not sick any longer... I'm so grateful not to be going to so many funerals, and losing my friends.

Mike Conklin

I'm sure he'll be tough, but I'm just so grateful to be in the state championship. I'm just going to try and do my best.

Terri Martin

I'm grateful he's here, and I hate to see him go back.

John Gibbons

I'm grateful for it. Now it's my job to make it work.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.

Deepak Chopra

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness

Matthew Tobin Anderson

You need the noise of your friends in space.

Maya Angelou

Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

Max Cannon

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

Max Beckmann

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Max Beckmann

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Patricia Briggs

I liked Lost in Space,” Stefan said. “The movie or the TV series?” “The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie,” he said soberly. “It was better that way.

Paul Weller

Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.'

Martin Rees

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

Mithun Chakraborty

It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.

Mitt Romney

I support the work of the NRA, but disagree sometimes.

Publilius Syrus

What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!

Leonardo da Vinci

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

Learned Hand

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

Lauren Weisberger

Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Don Herold

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Don McLean

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

Dylan Thomas

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste ...

Dorothy L. Sayers

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

Dorothy L. Sayers

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

Don Shula

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.