Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Hall

These conflicting views suggest that compensation committee members are awake to the pay versus performance issue and their responsibility to exercise independent oversight.

Jaime Contreras

The sleeping giant is awake -- wide awake -- and we're paying close attention.

Eric Hyman

I've agonized over this. I lay awake at night trying to think about, 'What is the right price for tickets?' You sense the demand, but I've got to be sensitive to our supporters.

Edward Hirsch

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

Julia Sawalha

What keeps me awake at night? Just about everything! I worry that I am not there for my family enough. So what keeps me awake at night is general guilt!

Mike Mannino

You learn a bit more from your losses. It was an awakening for our boys. They took the long scenic route. Every game was away, but it made it sweeter in the end.

Rajneesh

Remember: whatsoever I am saying is not the thing that I want to say to you. Whatsoever I am saying has nothing to do with truth, because truth cannot be said. Whatsoever I am saying is nothing but a hammering. If you become awake, you will see the truth.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

Natwar Singh

As a senior leader and member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), I do not have the freedom to go to the town or for verbal overkill,

John Sullivan

As a result, Town Meeting and the Finance Committee have been voting in the blind. My goal is to make sure that doesn't happen again.

David Larson

promote better communication and make committee work more streamlined.

Jeff Sessions

Are we going to demand that they come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and renounce their faith before they become a federal judge?

Jim Herring

(The selection committee is) designed to be a filtration process, to, in effect, kick the tires. In my judgment, it's a systemic (problem). This is simply the tip of the iceberg.

Colen Garrow

The stance the committee has taken probably provides a useful reminder that the easier interest-rate cycle has bottomed.

Bernard Franklin

The staff review committee noted the unique relationship between the university and the Seminole Tribe of Florida as a significant factor. The decision of a namesake sovereign tribe, regarding when and how its name and imagery can be used, must be respected even when others may not agree.

Howard Archer

The testimonies to the Treasury Select Committee reinforce the impression that interest rates are set to remain on hold for several months to come.

Joni Comstock

South Florida was a very interesting team for the committee to review. They had some good wins that were important to us.

Mark Richardson

Any form of exercise that raises your heart rate and leaves you slightly breathless, if done on a regular basis, is extremely beneficial.

Josua Mata

As far as we are concerned, Labor Day is a legitimate venue for the workers to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of assembly.

Melanie Krauthoff

As long as you don't have a high fever or trouble breathing, you can exercise when you are sick.

Stanley Hauerwas

Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.

Dallas Anderson

And the nice thing is that we're talking about modest exercise, not two hours in the gym every day.

Alvin Hellerstein

The snuffing out of sound is not a permissible exercise under the First Amendment,

Kayle Storm

Running is for people that can't manage their time well enough to walk somewhere.

Don Ameche

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

David Finkelhor

They are a group of kids who do not exercise very good judgment about who it is wise to have sexual relationships with,

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Geoffrey Moore

And the number of ISVs is meaningless. The issue is what the power players are doing. Cisco and Microsoft have the strongest positions, so a solution that doesn't have their endorsement isn't likely to get very far.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Ron Klein

This is an issue that people are talking about. They want it fixed.

Patrick Kelly

This isn't an issue that's relevant to our research.

Asif Ali Zardari

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

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.

Connie Williams

As for the pay increase, let's let the voters decide,

Carlos Perez

People come back, they pay each month, we have no problem,

John Miller

People do pay more attention, and that's useful to me,

Mohammed Habib

The monitoring, following, hassling is always there. We just try not to pay attention.

Tom Meeks

...A pretty substantial pay raise in today's economy.

Rudyard Kipling

The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one

Louise Johnson

I used to do it myself, but it's not like it used to be. Every year there's something new, and it doesn't pay to get it fouled up.

Gail Goestenkors

Some teams don't make you pay. Carolina, they make you pay for your mistakes.

Dan Jiron

So they had to suggest an offset, a way to pay for the program.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Steve Adams

I was pleased with the team's performance this year and very proud, and wish the seniors well in their future.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Scott Winfrey

We played pretty well tonight. I was proud of our performance, and we were threatening.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

Jason Giambi

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Eugene Levy

You take more responsibility for the movie, and the movie kind of sits on your shoulders. I split that responsibility with Sam.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

Barbara Jordan

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Ayn Rand

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Ayn Rand

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Ayn Rand

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Benito Mussolini

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

Brian Sandoval

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Boyd Rice

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Juvenal

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.