Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Lance Jennings

Any change around the receptor site is viewed with concern.

Carol Bartz

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

Richard Holbrooke

Are we satisfied? Of course not. There has been no change on the American position ... that Mr. Karadzic should present himself to The Hague for trial.

Steve Murdock

Are they likely to change the (overall) crime rate in Texas? Not really. ... Will it change the directions and patterns in Texas? I doubt it.

Tommy Bowden

Are our games close? Well, yes they are close. It would be crazy for me as a head coach to go and change a lot of things. I have learned to stay the course. Now if we were losing games by 30 points, then yes we would have to change things, but we have not been doing that.

Alex Gilady

Apparently, he forgot who he voted for and wanted to change his vote.

Anthony Cumia

Back then, the climate of radio seemed to be: the worse you got in trouble, the better you did in radio. Well, that era is over.

Emily Brydon

You wouldn't want to run a race that wasn't fair for everyone. I'd rather wait for good conditions that are fair for everyone than to hold a race where the climate fluctuates from one skier to another.

Frances Beinecke

Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.

Margot Wallstrom

an historic moment for global efforts to combat climate change.

Jennifer Woods

E.P.A. will review all options and make an informed decision on how to proceed. E.P.A.'s climate protection programs continue to exceed the agency's greenhouse gas emissions goals and are on target to meet the president's 18 percent goal to reduce greenhouse gas intensity by 2012.

Catherine Pearce

Countries are not on track to reach even their modest Kyoto targets, despite growing recognition that we are already facing dramatic consequences as a result of climate change.

Derek Jacobi

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.

Donella Meadows

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

David Attenborough

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Jimmy Wales

IAR is policy, always has been.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Strobe Talbott

These are tough issues, ... It's a work in progress.

Cam Newton

You cannot make progress with excuses.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Daniel H. Pink

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

Stephen Jay Gould

Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

Alfred North Whitehead

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Stephen Mangan

Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

Denise Monteiro

The social worker told her there was hope.

Connie Smith

This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

John Schneider

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Anita Roddick

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

Rob Portman

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Lowe

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

Ron Perlman

I'm not a social rider. Strictly professional.