Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Holden

Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement.

Idina Menzel

I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

Gwen Moore

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

Gwen Moore

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.

Zaha Hadid

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.

Zadie Smith

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

Willard Boyle

I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged cooperative research, offered opportunities for access to sophisticated equipment, and fellowship.

Vivienne Westwood

I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I've always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn't sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I'm in a fortunate position.

Abraham Lincoln

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Gil Morgan

That was the main thing. I knew if I could do that, I was definitely assured of playing with Doug.

Rod Graves

The 10th spot is a very good spot for us to be in. I think that if we stay there we're assured we'll get an excellent football player.

Jay Taylor

We need to have some kind of mechanism in place to assure our customer base that they are not going to be a target of an outfit like the CIW.

Pat Roberts

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

Bryan Golie

We're talked at some length about whether taking all these fish will damage the resource, but our fisheries people assure me they can keep up with the demand.

Chuck D.

My clients are not conspiracy theorists. Our problem is just that you have to assure some sense of integrity in the system.

Joe Nemechek

We need to put it together and get on a streak. But whatever happens you can be assured that we will follow the soldiers' creed of never giving up.

Gary Jackson

You can be assured we are looking for another low-cost carrier. We're working diligently.

Yolanda King

It is certainly difficult for us to see Mother in a weakened state. Because our faith is so strong and we are seeing daily improvement, it helps. We are completely assured that she will come to a full and complete recovery.

Dan Fink

We just didn't play smart in the first half. Rapids attacked the basket, and we gave them a lot of easy baskets by loosing somebody on defense.

Robert Kelly

We came out in the second half and we defended batter, our press began to wear them down. And offensively we started to run our break a lot better and we attacked the basket a lot better.

Pat Conroy

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

Matt Davenport

We had our chances and at the end, we got some goals. Marietta attacked well, and we gave Marietta too many chances. But we hung in there and scored when we needed to.

Orhan Pamuk

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

Andre Brown

Whoever went over there unplugged the phones and locked the door behind hisself, and then attacked my grandmother.

P. Herbert

While email DoS attacks are quite new, they are increasing and slowly making headlines. Most people think of online gambling websites when they think of targets of DoS attacks, however all businesses need to realise that they could easily be attacked through email. It's a danger facing us all.

Bill Laimbeer

You always get concerned when your team goes flat during the course of a game. But we attacked the rim, got to the free throw line and got back into the game.

Craig Kowal

We got everything going to the basket on offense. We didn't make the free throws to ice the game, but we attacked well inside and got everything in the lane.

Christina Baker Kline

I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

John Salazar

We have a moral obligation to stand up and protect Social Security for the next 70 years and beyond -- that means stopping privatization and dropping partisan demands for private accounts,

Bill Cowher

We have traveled a hard road, and grew as a football team, and individually. This is a very grounded and resilient group of guys. We've never taken anything for granted and looked beyond the next game. We have kind of had tunnel vision throughout the process.

Raul Julia

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Michael Arrington

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

Patanjali

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

Randy Bly

We'll probably continue to see rising gas prices just beyond the Labor Day holiday.

Tim Gleason

To make it to back-to-back finals, I'm beyond proud. It's a big accomplishment what we've done.

Larry DiRita

to look up and look beyond the treetops.

Ismail Kadare

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

Giovanni Agnelli

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Wesley Clark

Ukraine is a big country. It is 45-46 million people. It has got a lot of modern industry; it also has a lot of very key resources. There is no reason for it not to be one of the leading countries of Europe.

Christien Meindertsma

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

Des Browne

Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?

Barack Obama

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

Malala Yousafzai

I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

Pauline Neville-Jones

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

Ian Mckellen

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

Gallagher

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

Zadie Smith

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Walter Smith

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

Christo

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

Clint Eastwood

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

Bill Cosby

Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what I do.

Nancy Gibbs

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

Pichai Lertsupongkit

The political situation has come to a deadlock that not only hurts investors' confidence, but also is likely to hurt the economy by delaying government infrastructure projects and free trade talks.

Jean-Cyril Spinetta

The pilots are responsible, realistic, qualified people, who know the (state of the) economy,

Michael Jansen

The outlook for the New Zealand economy points to relative weakness.

Walter Isaacson

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

Carl Safina

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

John Snow

the American economy remains in good posture and on a good path.

Ashraf Laidi

That would really hurt the U.S. housing market, which is already slowing. It would hurt the U.S. economy and would hurt the rest of the world's economies.

Roger Wicker

Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.

Bill Buff

We have a growing economy and a growing population and our road system's just not keeping up with that growth.

Steve Shaw

The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort.

Lee H. Hamilton

We have thought about what to do, a global strategy, and how to do it: A different way of organizing our government.

David Ball

Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.

Joe Johnson

We have a global Navy, and we're not going to restrict where the system will be deployed. It could be worldwide.

Tim Laatsch

We have to look at us as a global entity.

Markos Kyprianou

We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Kevin Lowery

We're a global company. We need people who understand global issues.

John Messina

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

David Wimhurst

We have all our security people out there to maintain order. When you get thousands of people on the streets, things can get unpredictable.

James McHugh

We have a message to suggest there are ways to maintain these costs.

Richard Parker

We have always been unique and we have always maintained the old-style structure and doctrine.

Jim Boyle

We're working-class people trying to maintain what we have.

Patrick Ramsey

You kind of go through the monotony of practice, and you have a routine that you go through, and you have to maintain the routine. And for me, personally, I didn't maintain that routine as well.

Martin O'Malley

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Junichiro Koizumi

I will try to maintain the postal network, which is people's important assets, and see to it that no inconvenience will ensue,

Dirk Benedict

I maintain you can make a film/TV star out of a can of sardines.

Gabriel Macht

Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

Carl Griffith

We could have a massive inundation of Port Arthur.

Peter O'Toole

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

Margot Robbie

'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.

Zara Phillips

My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.

John Edwards

We have to sell that to young people. It's a massive opportunity.

E. F. Schumacher

Not mass production but production by the masses.

Holliday Grainger

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

Robert McGregor

People were sure that science, education, technology and mass production were going to solve their problems,

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

John Doherty

If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Dave Hill

Damien will be watching on TV but it's not the same. That's why I've been out to watch Slavia. But if there is a problem he sees that we don't see, I'm sure he'll get onto us.

Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Anne Brown

We are not seeking a totally safe world, but we are doing what we can to prevent those really serious injuries.

Shoichi Nakagawa

We have to start over from zero regarding preventive measures.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

A. Hodge

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.

Christopher White

Our first priority is to prevent these breaches from occurring at all.

Walter Brower

The PD is over now. We've got a new season to play now, and we need to go 3-0 to get to where we want to be.

Carl Sagan

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ...

Antoine Rivarol

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

Bill Vaughan

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

David Dellucci

That was the worst part of the season that stands out.

Daunte Culpepper

We can still do what we set out to do. We have a lot of season left.

Rohit Sharma

Every first-class season is important; every game is crucial, irrespective of whether you are in the Indian team or not.

Willie Randolph

We'll probably be going back-and-forth all season with these guys.

Sam Madison

Usually this time of the season takes a nosedive.

Allan Hale

We're visualizing spreading it around a little bit,

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Darryl Drake

That comes with time. When you've got a young quarterback, a new quarterback with the system, the more comfortable he gets, the more he'll start spreading it around.

Katsuhiko Machida

The old way of doing things was just spreading us too thin.

Dr. Nabarro

Avian influenza is a big threat. It is spreading throughout the world.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.

H. Hunt

We are now well and truly in the post-Maui era.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Al Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

David Hilbert

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Walter Salles

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

Dick Vitale

Oh, it's a vital part of the game,

Ricky Kelly

It's vital that we get the word out. This one is all or nothing.

Kenzo Tange

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Bertrand Russell

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

Eric Frankel

We have more programming in our warehouse than we can monetize on traditional TV,

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

William Shakespeare

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

Baz Luhrmann

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

Patricia Schroeder

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

Friedrich St. Florian

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

Karl Liebknecht

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

Harry Dean Stanton

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Heinz Guderian

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Calista Flockhart

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

Paul Davis

We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it.

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Aldrich Ames

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

Adolf Hitler

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.