Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

There's obviously a message, or a moral, or something. I think that's good - but it's not something I actively think about, to be honest with you.

Curt Hecker

We appreciate the concerns for adequate downtown parking. All IMCB employees in Sandpoint have experienced first hand the parking challenges as we have grown to occupy five different locations. Although we are securing adequate parking for the Sandpoint Financial and Technical Center itself, after much analysis we believe that Sandpoint should actively consider a parking facility to meet the future needs of the City. Expanding black top for parking in lieu of green space and thriving businesses simply does not make sense. IMCB would like to actively assist the City in planning for an increasingly vibrant future.

Madeline Albright

to work actively to end the violence and maintain calm.

George Grey

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

Seth Godin

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

Paul Bishop

We don't have good numbers on this, but the information we do have is a lot of the activity is from buyers who buy one to two or more properties over the course of a year or two. The majority of these folks are actively in the market to buy investment properties as opposed to people buying a one-off home to rent. They are serious residential investors.

Money Magazine

We don't have a specific timeline, but we are actively progressing towards an IPO on a U.S. market,

Bob Bennett

We are actively working toward his re-election, and I am confident that he will handle this challenge with the best interest of his constituents in mind.

Dana Perino

We are actively soliciting the views of members of Congress as well as state and local officials affected by the transaction about what questions they want us to pursue during the course of this investigation.

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Kateri Callahan

You get the tax credit based on the purchase price of the product and the installation and it's up to 10 percent of that cost to a max of $500 will be returned to you by Uncle Sam.

Brian Postl

There's no science to this. The whole concept of having hundreds of benchmarks in place that are not based on any scientific merit is worrisome to certainly most people working in the system and I think to most Canadians.

Neil Cohen

There's no connection between how someone drives and whether they make a claim based on whether they're a doctor or a writer for a newspaper.

Justin Hawkins

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

Tomas Vokoun

There's no way of knowing before you get there. Everything else would be just words and not really based on any evidence. We'll all find out.

Rhodri Morgan

The Tories? relationship with Wales is based on trust and understanding. We don?t trust them and they don?t understand us.

John Galbraith

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

John Sattler

The training we're constantly modifying is based on lessons learned,

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Mike Sherman

I still haven't come to grips with the fact that he would be unavailable - because he's always been there, ... But we're not going to put him out there and put him at risk if that's going to be the case.

Mike Cooley

You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I think we'll see a few more people getting into it. I know the governor has turned into quite a cyclist, and I think there are other people out there that will probably sample it now that the president has given it a go.

Steve Squyres

Wind has to be involved at some level you figure. Frost might have helped. A frost build-up on arrays could coagulate the dust...but the fact is that we don't understand it very well. But I'll take it.

David Davidson

Whilst I welcome the fact that the minister has taken this step, I am exasperated by the executive's foot-dragging on the need for a replacement crossing.

Keith Cooper

We couldn't get over the hump, but I liked the fact that after they got up 25, we battled back.

Arthur Hardy

We hope it will signify our comeback. The fact that we're down but not out. We're doing it for group therapy.

Shmuel Shapira

For some reason, everyone is mentioning the less pleasant things. The fact... that his pupils are responding is a good sign. The fact is that the cranial pressure is normal, is a very good sign.

Franz Kafka

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Chuck Close

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Chuck D.

Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.

Christopher Walken

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

Christopher McCandless

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

Christopher Meloni

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

Christopher Morley

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Ansel Adams

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Anne Bancroft

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Sigmund Freud

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Sigmund Freud

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

Neil Gaiman

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

John Tillotson

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

John Tillotson

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

John Stuart Blackie

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

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.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Theodore Roosevelt

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

Work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing worth having comes easy.