Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pansy Tlakula

I urge voters to register or re-register as a matter of urgency and not to delay it beyond this week. They will only be able to do so until the elections are formally proclaimed in the Government Gazette, and that could be imminent.

Barry Long

Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating.

Corita Kent

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries

John Clare

Love lies beyond / The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew! / I love the fond, / The faithful, and the true.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Paul Bacsardi

Sean has been unbelievable for us this season. He has played beyond any expectations I had for him. Sean is always so calm out there.

Leslie Moonves

Seasoned broadcasters who are at once respected, charismatic and known throughout this country and beyond are increasingly important in this fragmented media landscape.

John Koh

So if we have to look beyond our shores to provide the lift, then we might just have to do so.

Rich Tehrani

She wanted to make sure we didn't call her the most powerful woman in the world. She seemed beyond humble. She's put on this pedestal by so many people, and yet is more humble than the person sitting next to you. Maybe that has to do with not working. Retirement may relax you to such a degree that you're not stressed out anymore.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Evelyn Thompson

That's a very difficult time, because you can't think. I mean, you know, you just don't process. And even in that meeting, I'm not too sure how much they heard me, but it was OK. Because I knew that, I knew they're not hearing it, or not right now. It'll come back maybe later, and they know they can call me.

S. Hughes

I was really looking to being wanted . . . to have a place to call home and finish my career out,

Bryan Thomas

I wasn't expecting to go to California. I got the call the day before the North-South game. I came home for Christmas and flew out (Dec. 26). Right after the game we flew back that night.

Charles Dickens

I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy.

Jules Verne

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

Annie Proulx

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

Erykah Badu

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Herb Williams

Who's coaching? I'm not sure. Maybe me. I don't know.

Brad Duke

Who knows? Maybe they are right here with us.

Victor Hobson

We haven't talked about that, maybe we'll talk about it during the week. We're just trying to get wins, and get on a roll.

Paradorn Srichaphan

I won maybe three times with that. It really shows my flexibility.

Howard Gordon

I wish that were the case. It's not true. But I think on some unconscious level, maybe we know more than we think we know.

John Waters

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

Mitch Kosht

I still haven't totally decided, but I think maybe I'll go to (the University of Colorado).

Hassan Adams

You always think that maybe there's something you could have done or should have done.

Pat Teeters

This is the next step in our ongoing efforts.

John Smoltz

It's a frustrating way to lose, because you'd always like to win that first game. Now we have to win the next two.

Phil Garner

I told him to take whatever time he needed, to come back when he's ready, ... That may be tomorrow, that may be the next day or the next day after that.

Kari Lyles

I tried to get as many administrators and principals as possible and sent out 20 to 25 e-mails. The next day I had at least 10 responses and everyone was so positive.

Ricardo Patton

It . . . really bodes well for our program. But right now, we just need to worry about the next game.

Herb Levine

I trust Marty, but, by George, I don't know who the next one is going to be.

Bud Selig

It's all in place. It's something we have to look at next year.

Daunte Culpepper

It's all about the next time we get the ball, what we've got to do.

Vijay Singh

I told the guys, 'Good, good, good. Let's go to the next tee box.

Anita Roddick

The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.

Anita Roddick

business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.

Anita Roddick

the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

Anita Roddick

You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.

Anita Roddick

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Andrew Wyeth

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

Edward de Bono

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Mack Brown

We'll let him get settled at linebacker, and if he wants to play some tailback, we will see if he can do both. He is just big, powerful and fast.

Richard Bach

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

Pierre Lafontaine

We're not really competitive yet, but we're sure getting there.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Robert Jordan

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

William Hazlitt

Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.

William Hazlitt

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

Morning Star

If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?

Marcel Proust

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

Joseph Addison

As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.

Joseph Addison

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.