Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wen Jiabao

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

Wen Jiabao

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Zubin Mehta

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

John Malone

The pilots understand. It's a critical time period.

David Thewlis

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

Noah Baumbach

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.

Sergei Lavrov

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.

Kristy Curry

That would have been critical to us. It was a gutsy play by her. Thank goodness she was set.

Katherine Harris

We will all remember these times as some of the most critical and defining in our nation's history,

Walter Kirn

Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'

John Benjamin Hickey

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.

John Fernandez

We know it's been used for drug traffic but this really illustrates the dangers and risks of security to Americans.

Danny Miller

One of the dangers is inventing a solution before there is a problem.

Steve Cassidy

Today is an immensely sad day in the history of the department. Sadly, these dual tragedies serve as a reminder to New York of the extreme dangers firefighters face.

Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Kevin Clark

We're in schools at least three or four times a week trying to teach students and parents about the dangers on the Internet. We try to impress upon them that the odds are in their favor. They most likely won't be a victim, but if they are, there can be severe consequences.

Alan Blinder

What this illustrates is the virtue of being more plain-spoken and the dangers when you are not.

Dave Marshall

The dangers are definitely there, it is always in the back of your head.

Ashton Kutcher

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Chris Young

We have a huge immigration problem here and the government is completely failing in protecting us on the borders.

Jim Crace

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Terri Johnson

He just wouldn't study. Then he'd get these failing grades, and that would further hurt his self-esteem.

David Mitchell

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Eddie Izzard

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Mark Cuban

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

Calamity Jane

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Victor LaValle

I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

Marc Volavka

There are still a significant number of hospitals ... that are not benefiting from the overall increase in revenue.

Debbie Oliver

Many birthing hospitals are not knowledgeable about cleft palate.

Patti Smoake

We need nurses in all places -- in universities and in hospitals -- and the only way to solve this problem is to train more.

Rick Wade

About 25% of hospitals are in the red.

M. Wolfe

Every week, more than a thousand patients are killed in American hospitals as a result of negligence.

Andrew Lansley

Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.

Michael Jacobson

It looks to us as though hospitals hadn't been thinking about how they've been preparing foods.

Lee Millman

Hospitals will work to be sure that they're within the standard of care.

Peter May

The political reality is that seismic safety, like hurricane protection, is not a mass politics issue,

Craig Fugate

We've got roughly 4 to 6 million people right now who are experiencing hurricane or tropical storm-force winds.

Joe Becker

We've learned a lot in the last months. We have taken a large number of steps to be better this hurricane season. We will be more prepared for the worst-case scenario.

Mark Lambert

We're working to make sure we're prepared for the 2006 hurricane season.

Harry White

We have no time to waste. Everything we do is targeting to getting the sinking done before the start of hurricane season.

Jeff Smith

Unfortunately that hurricane is sitting right on top of my search area.

Matt King

One of the recommendations is you may need to water the trees more after a storm or hurricane for quite a while until it's able to put new roots out.

Kerry Emanuel

I was skeptical that the increase (in hurricane intensity) would be sufficient to observe by now ... (but) the increase has been much more than we would have guessed.

Rob Young

I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina, ... It's laughable to think it could have been manmade.

Carl Sagan

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

Paul Auster

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Chogyam Trungpa

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Yuvraj Singh

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

David Vitter

We'll only victimize the victims of Katrina all over again.

Paul Gillmor

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

Kim Elliott

Most have never seen a pandemic. And we saw with Katrina that patients went off their medications, especially psychiatric medications. Medication is something people are overlooking.

Stacy Brown

I'm still waiting on official Katrina evacuee demographics. I think that it's going to be pretty useful data, because it will serve as a source of how many people can potentially become homeless.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Mark Zandi

Katrina is going to muck things up; it's just a question to what degree.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Steven Wood

Manufacturing is mired in a deep, prolonged recession.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Kay Nehm

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.