Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vinessa Shaw

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Winston Churchill

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

Juliet Stevenson

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Georg Solti

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

Simon Sinek

Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.

Robert Andrews Millikan

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

S. Truett Cathy

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Peter Singer

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

Plutarch

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Terry Eagleton

Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

Terence McKenna

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

Lewis Mumford

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

Joseph Conrad

My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything.

Bill Bryant

Our aspiration is to be the largest, most dynamic, vibrant mobile community offering to consumers. Our starting point is a mobile entertainment service, and that is a steppingstone to a broader conception of mobile community.

Laura Hillenbrand

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

Jiang Zemin

It is the common aspiration of the international community to safeguard the Security Council's authority when dealing with significant issues like the Iraq issue,

Hu Jintao

We're pleased with the recent sound development of Sino-US relations, ... We both believe it's the common aspiration of the two peoples to maintain sustained, healthy and stable development of bilateral ties.

Anna Jameson

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Gerard Houllier

There's a great aspiration to get fourth place, which means every game has a lot at stake,

Tom Courtenay

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

Alexandre Vinet

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Mandy Moore

I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.