Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

Zac Goldsmith

By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

David Kay

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.

Chris Crutcher

I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.

Neil Patrick Harris

I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.

Jack Schwartz

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

Krishna Sitaula

The announcement of constituent assembly elections will be the main agenda item for the reinstated parliament.

Jim Clarke

The assemblies are more enjoyable now. The agendas are well-planned, there is thought about what they are going to do. We've seen a big turnaround, we're very pleased.

Adam Ereli

That will definitely, I think, figure on the agenda of our discussions in both India and Pakistan. But it will by no means overshadow the other very, very important bilateral issues that we have with each one separately,

Idina Menzel

You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

George B. McClellan

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

William Reddington Hewlett

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.

Whitey Ford

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Wendy Kopp

It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

Wesley Clark

I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.

Ezra Taft Benson

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Wole Soyinka

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Nancy Gibbs

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

Brian Bethune

The overall momentum in construction remains solid. We expect this pattern to continue, with public and commercial construction taking the leadership baton in 2006 as housing starts ease back moderately.

Chris Bailey

We were going to be nomads for the most part. There's no place to room in Baton Rouge.

Peter Wright

Most of the people here think this is the best-kept secret in Baton Rouge. If you're wondering what the dirty little secret is, there isn't one. We're just north of Florida Boulevard, that's all.

Ian Holloway

Whoever picks up this baton has to be able to carry it forward,

Denny Lynch

We feel every comfortable with the baton in Jack's hands. He's been there before.

Archie Manning

I was very proud of them. It was heavy on their hearts and they moved fast. Peyton got the plane lined up. Their mother and I think that it did some good. I've heard so many comments from people in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. And after talking to the boys when I got back I could tell it did them some good, too.

Nicole Scherzinger

When I think about eighteen months ago when this all began and how far we've come, I can't wait to see where we are eighteen months from now. It's also such an honor to have the baton of a number one song passed to us by an icon like Mariah Carey.

Ed Renwick

Nobody knows who they are or where they are or if they're going to vote. Ideally, you'd have to run a multi-city campaign in Baton Rouge, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta.

Jonathan Daniels

Baton Rouge, New Orleans and southern Louisiana are the largest shipping complex in the world, and the U.S. is extremely reliant on shipping in the Mississippi River corridor and Gulfport, Miss.

Wendy Kopp

In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

David Chalmers

Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.

Peter Singer

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Richard Jefferies

I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.

Peter Cardillo

We have the weapons inspectors returning, mixed corporate reports and no new economic news to focus on, so stocks are taking a little pause, ... The broader market is mixed to lower but is showing no great declines, while the techs continue to perform a little better.

Douglas Altabef

Today, there isn't any economic news, and the earnings news is having an impact on those stocks but not the broader market.

Deborah Miller

We have a five-year plan to double growth. The merger has given us a much broader geographic spread and a very experienced management team which will be a solid foundation for expansion.

Andrea Gambotto

Using this technology we can have much broader protection, which is important because the virus is always changing.

Katsuhiko Kodama

With the current currency level, it is really tough for investors to buy tech shares. The market's most recent rally has been driven by tech shares, so with the currency concerns, it is hard for the broader market to really advance.

Ellen Key

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

L. Doctorow

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

Bette Davis

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

Bill Vaughan

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

Mary Alexander

We have a generation of young people who have grown up with recycling, and now they can't throw a can away. I think that will happen with water conservation. The priority should be in helping people learn how to do it themselves.

E. Helm

Windows Live is the next generation of MSN.

Kofi Annan

I think this is a once in a generation opportunity that we have to do this,

Kevin Powell

I think this generation has a very 'me, me' attitude, and it's to our detriment.

William McDonough

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

Ralph Klein

The $72 million that was spent on the two auditoriums, the Jubes in Calgary and Edmonton, was spent in the inside of the auditoriums to make them more performance-friendly. All of the seats point into the stage so people will have a wonderful opportunity to see the performances unimpeded,

Humberto Moreira

The 65 trapped people remain inside the mine.

Raymond Carver

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

Marlon Wayans

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

William Williams

Time is a storm in which we are all lost. Only inside the convolutions of the storm itself shall we find our directions.

Dondi McGowan

We wanted to make it a half-court game, because we couldn't run with them, not all night. (The inside game) was the advantage, and we tried to use it as much as we could tonight.

Darren Mathews

We wanted to go inside to Liz. We just couldn't get it in there. And we had a tough night shooting from the outside.

Gerry Byrne

Most of the other awards, quite honestly, they're more inside the industry, ... This is meant to reach out and touch the consumers.

Jim Young

When it makes sense for my shareholders, when it makes sense for my customers, we're willing to put the investment in,

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Joseph Lisanti

What is a dividend but your payment as an owner of the company? If you don't get that, then the only way you can profit from your investment is to sell all of it or part of it.

Todd Pratt

He has been great, ... This is what the organization made that investment for.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Gwen Moore

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Bill Bradley

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Joe Mihalich

That whole team is on a mission. They have the senior leadership and they can win this.

Jessie Evans

We need to have more patience. We need better leadership ... especially from our perimeter players.

Xavi

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Neon Hitch

Yes, it's my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it.

C. S. Lewis

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Carrie Brownstein

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

Carrie Fisher

I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

Carl Sagan

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species.

Bethany Hamilton

Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love and it’s a part of me,

Bethany Hamilton

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Richard G. Scott

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Edie Falco

I was here when it happened. I need more time, but that's just me. I'm personally not ready for it.

Hal Gill

I think if you don't want to wear a helmet, don't wear a helmet. If you don't feel like wearing pads, don't wear them. It solves a lot of problems but I think it's a personal decision.

Bill Ritter

Personal responsibility has to be a part of this.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

John Buskirk

That was a tremendous punt return. Robert's punt return really kind of put us over the top. That put us in a real, real strong position.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Robert Anderson

My tax return is in a sense very ordinary,

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Carlos Menem

Here we are. What Evita (Peron) said is being fulfilled: I will return and be millions,

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.