Famous Quotes & Sayings

Des Browne

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Sebastian Faulks

I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine.

Peter Zumthor

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Peter Singer

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Steve Shannon

Use the Internet to read press releases and other information about the company so that you can take at least three pieces of positive information about them into the interview. You can integrate that information into some of your answers, and it will prepare you to respond well if the interviewer asks what you know about the company.

Bruce Simon

When the court asks to know just how rich pilots can get, her impartiality can be questioned.

Earl Calloway

We need to push the tempo, get it inside, play hard on defense, and do what coach asks us to do. We have to play good defense first. Defense wins championships and offense wins games.

Michel Gauthier

We intend to support the government if what it asks us to do respects our basic principles and the interests of Quebec. If the government respects those conditions, we will try to let it function for a good while.

Vivek Wadhwa

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Josh Hartman

We hadn't faced a lot of teams that pressured us and picked us up at half court.

Robert Bennett

You can be faced with possibly going to jail (in which all four of those did), possibly being suspended from school and even from the band.

Kelly Scott

We haven't faced a weak team yet. We're going to have to work for our wins.

Keith Rockwell

The problems we have faced all week continue, in agriculture, industrial goods, cotton.

Tracy Nelson

We dont see that kind of firepower we faced tonight very often.

Andruw Jones

We didn't score any runs, but that's okay. I think this is the first time these guys have faced high-level pitchers. It's good for them to see and now they can make their adjustments.

Peter D. Mitchell

On the other hand, faced with a new theory, the members of the scientific establishment are often more vulnerable than the lonely innovator.

Phil English

One of the major problems faced with Hurricane Katrina was lack of communication. This issue has been addressed. We have back up plans and then we have back up plans for our back up plans.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Christine Gregoire

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.

Noreena Hertz

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

Martin Parr

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

Tracy Morgan

We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

Saundra Hess

We could never get a run going. We shot ourselves in the foot.

Mike Glumac

We were going pretty well there for a bit. And all of a sudden, we've been sliding. We just have to find a way to get ourselves out of it.

Ken Lee

We have come a long way since we established ourselves here in May 2003.

Darren Alexander

We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound.

Al Johnson

You know if you don't do something in a big hurry, it's all going to slip away. We need to do something about it to make it stop. We got ourselves in it. We've got to get ourselves out of it.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Russell Smith

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.

Susan Rice

We have come a very long way in a very short period of time,

F. Stone

We need to play three periods tomorrow like we played the first one tonight.

John Clare

We're all in this together for some period of time,

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

Jessica Brown Findlay

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.

Jessica Szohr

You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.

Holliday Grainger

When I was younger, I was always being told I had a period face, but 'Bel Ami' was my first shot at it.