Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim McCormick

There are differences in personalities, in the city agendas and goals, but the IT systems are what stand out as the common thread." ()

Jackie DeShannon

I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

Larry Harris

Governors don't have to embrace social agendas the way federal candidates do.

Steve Boylan

I ask that when you report on the events, take a moment to think about the effects on the families and those serving in Iraq, ... The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone. It is an artificial mark on the wall set by individuals or groups with specific agendas and ulterior motives.

Don Johnson

I was just suggesting some times to discuss things at future meetings in order to set up agendas ahead of time so that we know what's coming down the line. I don't think we need to discuss that in the meeting.

Rick Warren

To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life.

William P. Young

You are free to love without an agenda

John Hodgman

Terry Gross has never had me on her show and you know, it's her show; she sets the agenda and that's not Hodgman. But I'll still listen to it.

Gary Zukav

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

Michael Ramirez

President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.

Ken Goldberg

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.

Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

James Altucher

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

Mack Whittle

He studied and learned about the procedure and about the company that made the artificial hip. So he bought a lot of stock in the company and made a bunch of money on it.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Ross is breathing artificial life into the peace process.

Igor Ivanov

without any artificial delays, without any artificial obstacles.

Bertrand Russel

Whether artificial man will be better or worse than the natural sort I do not venture to predict.

Roberto Denis

I don't think anything would have or should have an impact on this state. Every time, they implement some artificial restrictions on the market, they have unintended results.

Moe Ammar

Any time I asked him for anything that Pacific Grove needed, any cause, he always pulled his checkbook and wrote a big check. Mr. Chamberlin, as your neighbor, as your friend, I will miss you.

Jimmy Carter

Another thing that we share is a need to earn a living after we leave the White House. Rosalyn asked me to announce, by the way, that our books are still on sale.

Tina Donahue

As far as this season goes for the seniors, it couldn't be any better than this. If we win these two games, we break the record for consecutive wins. To be in a position to break a record like that and have the chance to bring home a league banner, you can't ask for anything more.

Jim Lites

As far as I know, none of our players are involved. But don't ask me if we're going to ask every single player if he ever bet on a football game, because I'm sure several players have legally done that.

Sharon Dawley

Ashleigh was tremendous on Ray Williams. (Williams) is a great post player ... but she doesn't like it when a guard defends her, so that's a switch we made and we were going to keep Ashleigh on her until she asked to come out of the game.

Ted Kulongoski

As Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Oregon National Guard - with more than 1300 Guard troops and many other Oregon soldiers deployed overseas - it is my responsibility to ask whether our national leadership, which had a plan for starting this war, also has a plan for ending it.

Dan Shechtman

As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.

Roger Clemens

As far as Brad knowing the game and his receiving skills, he would rank right there with Charlie O'Brien. If you are a catcher in Little League, high school, college or in the Minor Leagues, if you don't want to ask any questions and you want to learn by watching, I would get a video tape of either one of those guys.

Tadahito Iguchi

As far as being asked to play in the WBC, I am incredibly happy and incredibly honored to be asked. It just didn't work out this year. I definitely wanted to perform here in the camp in the beginning, especially with the change in the batting order.

John Snow

While this will elevate spending levels for '06, primarily because that's when the major effects will hit, we're going to stay on track with the president's deficit-reduction program,

John Snow

While this will elevate spending levels for '06 - primarily because that's when the major effects will hit - we're going to stay on track with the president's deficit-reduction program,

Pearl Bailey

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -- not our effects on others.

Anne Enright

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

Scott Ransom

We know in the past that there are effects that have hurt our surveys.

Davis III

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Wendy Wright

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple use -- if a woman uses it more than once.

Mark Chesterman

Traders are uncertain of the full effects Katrina will have on production.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Scott Brown

We did real well. Having three girls in five events and we got 10th, I'll take that.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Kevin Mawae

What Pop Warner does for kids on and off the field is great. It's nice to take part in events like this. It is all about youth football and it is the future of our sport.

Chris Bucknam

You have to have the right surface, the right field events venues and the right track width in order to win those bids.

Stephen Jay Gould

If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range ...

Martin Freeman

As a result, these families are being destroyed.

Lawrence Summers

Raising personal savings is an imperative for American families and an imperative for the national economy,

David Fraser

Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of these soldiers.

Darko Milicic

Our families have been fighting for long time.

Gerald Newman

Our families are a very important part of our volunteer work.

Kim Hunter

Other families have waited six weeks, maybe more, before their loved ones were found, ... Without it, they wouldn't have found Paul so quickly, and the wait would have been worse. It saved me a lot of heartache.

John Evans

A photograph doesn't tell the story of the families who you meet who were the victims of this hurricane. Somehow, they remain resilient, and that's what I'm going to remember most about this trip.

Jeremy Hardy

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

Rebecca Stead

I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fencing. I don't have a point of view of homeschooling. For some families, homeschooling works.

Sam Reed

As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.

Mary Gauthier

The most important thing I got from philosophy was that there are no answers. There's freedom in knowing that you don't have to know it all ... which is why to me a song should end with a question, not an answer.

Pablo Neruda

Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing.

Paul Murphy

safe in the knowledge that the honor and memory of those men who gave their lives for freedom on the Western Front has been preserved.

Ralph Hall

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Jack Clark

This is sacred ground today. The price of freedom is truly visible here today.

Paul Silva

This is something we'll stop and do for you so that you can have the same freedom that we have.

Matt Mullenweg

You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

Ayn Rand

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Kenneth Prewitt

are groups not likely to use the Internet.

R. Inge

You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn't is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market.

Barry Gibb

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

Robert Lacey

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

Red Buttons

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the only woman ever to apply for group alimony. Never got a dinner!

Richard Harris

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

Michael Emerson

We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.

Sienna Miller

I have the same group of friends I've had since I was three.

Margaret Mead

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

Jack Straw

are here for the long-term to see Iraq through to a better future.

Mr Bush

I've made my decision. We will stay on the offensive. We will stand with the people of Iraq and we will prevail,

Richard Engel

Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'

Cindy Sheehan

So you're the little woman who stopped the Iraq war.

Scott McClellan

It would be wrong to suggest that he (Bush) was saying that there would still be substantial number of troops in Iraq after he is out of office. That is not he was asked. That is not what he was talking about.

Don Harper

This is a priority because of all the difficulties they're having in Iraq getting convoys from point A to point B.

Joseph Biden

This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.

Evan Bayh

We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why it is important to stick it out to it's successful conclusion.

Craig Kilborn

In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy.

Jalal Talabani

For the Iraqi state, it is very difficult,

Michael Rubin

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

Patrick Burns

The Iraqi people are out of luck, the way it stands right now.

George H. W. Bush

This is a very positive day for the Iraqi people and as well for world peace, ... Democracies are peaceful countries.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

John Norris

You have enough men, ... We will work together. We will not let the Iraqi people down.

Glenn Smith

People thought he was messing with Mark White. It embarrasses the governor.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Richard Herring

So they have to be outwardly directed. And the North American market is the richest market, so its not too surprising that they are making acquisitions here.

Felix Kulov

Russian investors? presence in the Kyrgyz market is vital

Kenneth Sheinberg

Right now the trend is up but we're getting very overbought. The market is susceptible to any pullback.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

Right now the market supply for oil is tight.

Fred Dickson

Right now, the market is going through rapid rotation and very little stability in the process of trying to find sector leadership.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Rick Ross

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

Dennis Kucinich

the United States must seize this moment and end the occupation of Iraq.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Steffen Schmidt

There are moments when people have to realize their credibility, which is the only thing politicians have, is hurt.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

David Arner

There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to our water.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Brennan Manning

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Carina Perelli

This has been a much more solid operation than the one we saw in January, ... It has been a peaceable election. Voters were much better prepared.

Kazimierz Krzowski

The rescue phase of the operation is over.

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Dwayne Andreas

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Mike Torres

The service may be a little slow for a little while it stabilizes.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Les Garland

We want the Web site to be a storefront, as a service to our viewers.

Ron Kaufman

How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong?

Ron Kaufman

Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Ron Kaufman

Preparation clears a pathway for success.

Ron Kaufman

A scattered effort is a poor effort.

Tony Hsieh

Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company.

Steve Jobs

The customer is the final inspector.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

Michael Brown

Thanks for update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Shannon Edge

Even though you do not live in a specific area, you can come to any of the meetings.

Scott Aker

We haven't set it as a specific goal.

Richard Boucher

I do not have anything specific to Yemen.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Justin Vernon

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Brandon Sanderson

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Ayn Rand

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

Brian Aldiss

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.

Jamie Dimon

Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame." And, broadly, they're right.

Ben Gibbard

There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I'd always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, "I will never live in fear again."

Carey Mulligan

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Cameron Diaz

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

Carrot Top

I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'

Carson McCullers

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.