Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Bruener

As a member of the organization, I have to roll with it, accept the change and know that we have to move on,

Adrienne Clarkson

A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society.

Jerrold Post

Other journalists are starting to wonder, should I accept this assignment.

Paul Sharratt

People say this is disgusting and I accept that criticism, but we're making a serious attempt to do something that many, many millions of people around the world think is possible.

Paul Sharratt

People say this is disgusting and I accept that criticism.

Casey Jones

People tend to be able to accept change for a short amount of time. If the strike were to progress longer ? maybe a month ? then their habits might begin to change permanently.

Michael Rodgers

People don't want to face this reality. Once you accept it as a possibility -- not even as a certainty, but just as one of many possible scenarios -- then you have to make all sorts of changes (in the way you live), because it would not make sense not to.

Lars Trier

Opera is more like melodrama. And the good thing about opera is that if you can accept that people sing instead of talk, then you don't have to go in and out of it. And that means you can have your emotions with you.

Lars Lagerback

Of course you feel extra pity for Tommy ending with losing on penalties. In a way it's always easier to lose a game when the other team is better and you can accept it afterward. So it was pity for Tommy, an extra pity.

Carlos Ramos

Personally, I am not satisfied. I think that was a day of democracy, if you will. Personally I really don't think any punishment or consequences should have been there in the first place but like I said, this is just my personal opinion.

Susanne Bier

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

Pam Marshall

I've lived here since 1982, and when the trees start re-budding in November and the winters are lame like they have been, and each summer it seems the heat comes earlier and stays longer. ... I just think it's unfortunate we have to think extreme heat could have devastating consequences on people's health in Minnesota. But it's creeping north.

Dr. Miglietta

Sometimes it takes days or weeks to figure out what the long-term consequences are going to be.

Howard Dean

Sadly, the federal government's lack of preparation followed by its inept response had deadly consequences for far too many Americans in Katrina's path,

Randy Dunn

Schools rely on these results. It has tremendous consequences for hundreds of our schools.

Kurt Cobain

There will be sentencing and some further consequences at that time. I think you either need a long-term drug program or a long term in county jail.

Scott Smith

It would have devastating consequences to the advancements we have made in terms of higher education access.

Tom Hudson

This is a situation that could have had some tragic consequences. But the students who alerted the staff showed an interest in the safety of their school -- and they did the right thing.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Amelie Mauresmo

It would be great (to end 2004 at number one), ... Hopefully, I can make it this week even though I know it will be very tough. She's been playing well also. I'm looking forward to the next match every day.

Michael Lombardo

The work out there is moving forward at a very rapid rate.

Mike Metcalf

These are the kind of games you have to win. Low-scoring games like this you have to have good pitching and play defense. We took a step forward tonight.

David Thomas

This is a week I look forward to every year.

Javier Solana

This is a significant step forward for regional and global stability.

Josh Byrnes

This is a significant step for our organization and we look forward to seeing this talented young man in uniform.

Harvey Rosenfield

This is going to be a catastrophic mistake for the insurance industry if they go forward with this.

Mark Gottfried

This is devastating for our team as it gives us only 10 scholarship players and a thin backcourt. We'll have to play a small forward at the guard position this year. We'll have to adjust.

Jarrod Kerr

A rate hike is now 50-50 in May and fully priced by June.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Ahmad Fawzi

So now we have a road map. It's an important first step toward the establishment of a fully representative, broader-based, gender-sensitive, multi-ethnic government down the line.

Mark Murray

Technically, this is simply what's called the 'answer' to the complaint. So it is not Microsoft's full response and all the company's legal arguments.

Jennifer Granholm

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Chris McGill

Right now we have a supply picture that is fully utilized, even with record wells drilled, record rigs,

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Bill Carmody

I should have called a timeout. I'm upset with myself. I take full responsibility. I have to make that call.

Rowan D. Williams

I shall want to know more about how you will come to have a full share in the good things of this country.

M. Wolfe

The swelling had gone down and I'm just glad to be back playing. I couldn't wait to get back into the groove.

Barbara Walters

You should be glad you're doing features; (they're) happy, glad (stories).

Patrick Warburton

Even right now, I'm glad to be working.

Rob Potter

Every step you make is just a bonus. We're just glad to be here.

John Hoag

Every year, we do a Santa run and Bobby's always very glad to see us. We all know him personally.

Gary Long

We've played well at the end of the season. We're glad to be home, but we've normally had success as the No. 2 or No. 3 seed. We've played better on the road in the past.

Eddie Murray

What a man. This man has taught me so much. He was just special. Elrod was a super person and I am glad that I've known him.

Carlos Flores

We're picking up. They played hard, and I'm glad they did.

H. Hunt

We were prepared for the worst. We are very glad it has been so peaceful, law abiding and low key.

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Stone Gossard

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Sonia Choquette

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

Barbara Jordan

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Ayn Rand

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Ayn Rand

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Ayn Rand

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Benito Mussolini

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

Brian Sandoval

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

Brian Tracy

The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

Brian Tracy

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.