Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Covey

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

M. H. Abrams

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

Edmund Burke

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success

Karl Menninger

Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

Barack Obama

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Sebastian Faulks

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.

Greg Graffin

There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power.

Dick Cheney

The governor has given me some criterion in terms of the kind of individual we're looking for, ... We've put together a very detailed questionnaire to gather info on each and every candidate, including public records, financial records, health records -- all of those kinds of things that you look at.

Stephen Graham

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

Ari Fleischer

Kennebunkport has a very strong sense of family for him.

Roberto Alomar

John Hirschbeck is a wonderful person with a wonderful family. I'm so glad that we have become friends.

Kelly Hoppen

Jude loves her, and he's really showing that. The whole family can see they are trying to make it work.

Jerry Davis

Jobs are a great therapy. If you have a job, you can find a way to get health insurance. You can support your family -- on and on and on.

Patricia Johnson

It ain't about the money, it's about the people. I see them more than some of their family do.

Quentin Thomas

I talked to my family back home and my mom and we just prayed on it. It was something I went through and I'm not going to sit here and say it was something I'm glad I went through ? but it's helped me.

Josh Duell

I talked to my family about that, and they're fine with it. They just wanted me to be happy.

Robbie Loomis

I think it's a good time for me to reprioritize my personal life and get things figured out there. In life, for years, I've had racing, God and family. I'm trying to get it God, family then racing.

Vance Havner

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Roland Allen

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

William Carey

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Alan Hevesi

Part of our mission in this project is to restore some of that confidence, ... But, that's going to take some pain.

Brad Gair

Our number one mission is to get people into something safe, sanitary, private, and out of public shelters as soon as we can.

Steve Smith

Our mission is to work prisoners in a businesslike manner. If you work in a businesslike manner, you have to make a profit.

Brian Morrison

Our mission is to make people as comfortable as possible as they're undergoing the treatment process.

Jan Chovanec

Our mission is to be ready 150 percent for the NCAA.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Mona Singh

I have never made statements like, 'I'm quitting TV' or 'I'm quitting Bollywood.' I have always wanted to strike a balance between the two.

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Nancy Frazier

I want to make a statement to other businesses,

Christopher Seekins

They are totally different statements and are dishonest.

Niklaus Wirth

Go To statement considered harmful.

Peter Higgs

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’