Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Doherty

A team is like a child. First it's the infant stage then the adolescent stage. I think we're in the adult stage. Hopefully, we don't revert back to the adolescence stage.

Jennifer Kern

There's been a real big push from the federal government to promote this as the answer to adolescent drug use. The assumption, I guess, that propels this is that once you randomly test students, they'll just stop experimenting. But behavior is really complex. It doesn't always work that simply.

Ben Mendelsohn

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

Simon McBurney

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves.

Richard Smith

Adolescent alienation is going to find a sympathetic ear in Thoreau.

Steve Erickson

Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.

Rebecca Makkai

Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.

Pope John

I urge you to adopt a policy of zero tolerance for all offenders, whether they have abused one child or adolescent or many, whether past, present or future.

John Spencer

This is a worrying trend for future adult oral health, as this is occurring despite nearly every child and adolescent using dental services in the last two years, mostly at a school dental service clinic,

Dave Ross

I would urge the council not to adopt these fee increases, ... I do believe they are a backdoor tax.

Jack VanDerhei

I would say that a huge percentage of them who don't already have automatic enrollment would adopt it overnight.

Anthony Chan

keeps the Fed tightening engine humming along and does raise the possibility that a more aggressive posture could be adopted somewhere down the line if the inflation indicators continue to surprise to the upside.

Howard Dean

John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly enough, neither is George Bush's position because George Bush adopted John Kerry's position after John Kerry won the primaries.

Anne Hendricks

I think it is important for businesses and industry to adopt anything that is environmentally friendly. We all live on this planet.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It (Britain) forgets that unanimity is required to adopt the statement and subsequently unanimity for Turkey's negotiating framework

Joe Laszlo

It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.

Rhea Perlman

It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a few years away, to know that there are post-adoption resources and specific financial assistance opportunities available to them.

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Charles Dickens

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

Charles Dickens

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay

Charles Dickens

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Charles Dickens

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

Charles Dickens

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

Charles Dickens

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bogan Durr

They need to put the receptacles back in until the university is ready to back up the policy with some enforcement.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Donald Rumsfeld

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Stephen Harper

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Alexa Von Tobel

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Charlie Rose

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

John Taylor

A smart entrepreneur will go back and present it again.

Rose McIver

Really, I'm never much of a goal-setter. Whenever I've tried to make big, solid plans, they don't happen. I'm more into whatever the circumstances are that present themselves, making wise decisions around that.

Robert Webb

The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.

John Siira

Right now, this is just a little feeler. I think we do have some property or, working with Wakefield Township, could present something.

Joni Mitchell

Say, won't you stay; we'll put on the day and we'll talk in present tenses

Woodrow Wilson

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

Will Durant

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Tucker Carlson

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Samuel Beckett

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

U Thant

Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

Roger Ebert

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

Wilma Mankiller

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

Twyla Tharp

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

William Allen White

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Kate Fleetwood

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

Mark Butler

There is a real urgency here and there is an irreversibility. Look at the waters here, there's no groundfishery left.

D. J. MacHale

I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader

Tom Hayden

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Jan Egeland

We need to have a sense of urgency here like we had in the tsunami.

Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Robert Conquest

We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.

Rob Sheffield

On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

Ron Atkinson

Zero-zero is a big score.

Tyler Oakley

Everybody on YouTube starts with zero subscribers. You think of everyone you look up to or have watched for years or whatever, they may seem like this is their life now, but it wasn't always that.

Toshihiko Fukui

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

Rick Riordan

No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

Richard Curtis

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

William J. Clinton

...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

Sarah Palin

Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.