Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Gordon W. Allport

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Naomi Hasegawa

Bond prices got a boost from the fairly good outcome of today's two-year debt auction, while index-trackers actively purchased government debt paper, which supported the market.

Shelley Duvall

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

Toni Simonetti

We are still actively engaged in discussions about Hughes with multiple interested parties. Those discussions are progressing.

Gary Loveman

We are very actively pursuing that. We think we have a very good chance to win.

Daniel Okrent

We think it's crucially important for us to understand and be actively involved in the digital distribution of content.

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.

Steve Ellis

The traditional bait and switch approach to credit card marketing doesn't work online. On the web, consumers are in the driver's seat. They are actively shopping for a card that meets their needs. Sites that make that process easy outperform those that don't.

Jefferson Han

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

Eric Benhamou

Our alliance forms the basis to serve a substantially expanded user base by offering advanced network infrastructures for integrated data and multimedia services.

Marilyn Schaja

The threat of a Fed policy firming on Nov. 16 will continue to weigh on the markets, despite the weak payroll figures reported in this morning's employment report. The sharp advance (in wage growth) will, nevertheless, worry Fed policy makers who are already concerned about the tightness in the labor market.

Mike Morgan

The thing we've been working on is advancing runners when we need to advance them and not leave guys stranded.

Michael Mahoney

The MP3 opportunity has been good but there's a lot further to go. The market hasn't fully recognized how advanced the delivery of music could wind up being,

Charles Gardner

Advertising signs that have been misplaced, are expired or have been put up in advance of a sale's start date can wind up costing consumers much more than they expected to be charged. Many consumers do not watch the register or do not check receipts while still in the store and will only find out later, if at all, that they have been overcharged.

Randy Juley

After not advancing anybody to the sectionals last year, having three flights advance to the sectional finals was quite an improvement.

Anne Fox

Seeing such dramatic examples of networked 4K media for science, medicine, education, culture, art and entertainment inspires the imagination about what can be done with advanced visualization and communications technology,

Dave Hunnicutt

Ross was far advanced beyond what you get with most lawyers with two years of experience. He's a harder legal worker than any legal attorney that I've ever worked with.

Liz Darger

Our effort was good, we wanted to come out and be aggressive in the beginning of the game and I fell like we did that.

Rashad Bobino

Some plays you couldn't be as aggressive as you needed to, because if you did, you would mess up the whole defense, something wrong would happen.

Richard Geiger

Some people think we're driving a Pinto in a Mercedes world, but that really isn't the case. We're going to be out there in the market place and we're going to be very aggressive in marketing the center.

Scott Raduka

So we have one of these for wrestling and hockey - the two most aggressive sports. Those are things that go unnoticed, and our people work hard at it. Our public needs to see that our kids are doing a great job.

Gail Patricelli

So the most appealing, successful males are the ones who give really high intensity, aggressive displays without threatening the female. They observe female behaviors and they increase their intensity as the female signals that she's comfortable, without being intense too soon.

Katrina Szish

Sources close to Heather say that Denise was the aggressive one. She called him, pursued him, in no way did he reach out to her.

James Annable

Once we read the speech we knew it would be a gradual increase, ... The Fed doesn't want to be aggressive without the smoking gun of inflation.

Earl Johnson

Now I can be more aggressive in my job search and home search, ... This place is as good as any other.

John Snow

Thanks to the changes we've made in currency design, thanks to aggressive law enforcement led by the U.S. Secret Service and thanks to an informed public, we've been able to stay ahead of the counterfeiters,

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Anne Stevens

As a leader in both hybrid vehicles and in vehicles capable of operating on ethanol-based fuels, Ford is the ideal company to bring both technologies together for the first time.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Rosa Gerra

An officer who speaks Spanish can't always be everywhere. It was a hit-or-miss thing. This way they know there will be someone there every Monday. It's got all the right ingredients of an excellent program. It's a win-win for both parties.

Tom Sexton

An obvious key who came to us this year tremendously more mature ? and that's a really big point for him ? is Addison Beaver. His speed is real key for us, great shot with both feet and can play any position.

Ted Sarandos

The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.

Michael Ching

The size of this charge reflects both much weaker demand forecasted over the next 12 months as well as the costs for certain commitments that Cisco felt obliged to fulfill.

Guy Boutilier

Alberta Environment is doing, and has been doing, everything possible to respond to protect the environment, ... We can always learn from these incidents how we can do better and thats why Ive established this commission to review our capability to respond to these types of situations and recommend how we can improve.

Sue Feldman

There is a welter of information today, and it's only increasing. Search firms recognize that knowledge workers and even consumers need better ways to sort through information. That's what's driving innovation, and we'll continue to see better and better search capability because of it.

Maryann Mitts

Marina has that capability to spark us. When she's on, when she's focused, this team will follow her lead.

John Logsdon

It doesn't hurt. The money they provide is very important to the Russians in keeping their capability for human spaceflight active.

Mike Riley

I think it's exciting for everybody. I think everybody realizes what Joe has meant to the program and what capability that Joe has.

Roger Cressey

In times of crisis I think you have to explore, use every capability and explore every option. But past those, in the day-to-day operations when there is no imminent threat, you need to revisit procedures and structures in place to ensure proper oversight.

Melissa Temme

If you have an item you think is OK, but are unsure, you can contact your local thrift store and they can let you know if they have the capability to repair items.

Zach Nelson

The market is changing, with enterprises moving away from the old-style CRM. They want more capability and flexibility, and we're happy to give them that.

Edilberto Adan

For every $100,000 of ransom that is given to these terrorists, that means much more capability and recruits to the movement,

Bruce Johnston

Are you telling me, Mr. Jensen, that if Mr. Stevens were to testify that he did, in fact, tell you about that option, that you would say directly that he is lying?

Lisa Alther

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Hunter Tylo

I like to give the fans advice, so what I have been doing is working with the fans directly through e-mail, which is really unheard of.

Jerry Graybeal

I haven't heard directly from anyone. But I have heard from some of their representatives that they're interested.

Arthur Lewis

The insistence by CBC on the need to be able to hire more temporary workers can be traced directly to the corporation's serious funding shortfall,

Toby Miller

It will save us time to take it directly to the public for a vote.

Tom Ridge

Time will tell if we can directly link him to a specific organization or not,

Lloyd Axworthy

We have called in the Malaysian High Commissioner today to register our consternation directly with governmental authorities over Mr. Anwar's trial and sentencing,

Alan Dershowitz

What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

Craig Ferguson

North Korea announced that they have nuclear weapons and they have no plans to give them up. The White House, acting quickly, announced their plan to invade Iran.

Andrew Young

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

Michael Scheuer

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.

Alexander Yakovenko

Moscow sees no reason to submit the question of the Iranian nuclear program to the UN Security Council,

Ulrich Wilhelm

She personally does not think much of the idea of keeping Iran out of the games.

Christopher Hitchens

There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

Hillary Clinton

Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

Hillary Clinton

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Daniel H. Pink

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Daniel H. Pink

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Daniel H. Pink

We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Andrei Sakharov

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Susan Rice

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

Tom Harkin

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Fareed Zakaria

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

Kay Yow

Offensively, we never got it going. We didn't play well on the inside. We didn't play well on the outside ... (FSU) played very well defensively.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

David Rossi

At this point in the semester our students would have already been suspended outside of school 700 days.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Mike Parks

We just had one today outside a restaurant.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Jackie Kennedy

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

John Reynolds

He's outside the country, and we'll make him stop right away.

Tim Shea

One of the things I'm trying to do, and we all need to do, is look outside our public schools.

Stephen Harper

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

Sly Stone

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.

Michael Moore

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Maria Montessori

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Nikita Khrushchev

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

Frank Miller

I take his weapons away from him. Both of them.

Helmut Schmidt

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences.

Julio Cortazar

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.