Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Granth Sahib

That person, unto whom Your actions seem sweet, comes to see the Supreme Lord God in each and every heart.

Najib Tun

Prompt action must be taken at anywhere terrorists are detected and are vulnerable to commit acts of sabotage like this,

Stuart Levey

Proliferators of weapons of mass destruction often rely on front companies to mask their illicit activities and cover their tracks, ... Today's action turns a spotlight on eight firms involved in weapons of mass destruction proliferation out of North Korea. We will continue to expose and designate these dangerous actors.

Mark Harris

Prince of Egypt' is an enormous gamble for DreamWorks, ... It's a very expensive film. The question is: can they be all things to all people? Can they sell it as an action movie to young men, and a family movie to families, and a religious movie to what they're calling the faith community?

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Bill Gates

Private philanthropy is no substitute for governmental action here,

Timothy Muris

Privacy and security promises must be kept. It's good business. It's the law, and we'll take action against companies that do not keep their promises,

Noah Cowan

People who have viewed the film -- and that includes several Toronto journalists and our curators -- indicate that it certainly does not allow room to sympathize with the actions of the convicted criminals portrayed in the documentary and shows them to be morally bankrupt.

Marcia Gay Harden

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

Paul Grasmanis

Another very intense guy. He plays hard when he's in there. He plays violent. We call him 'Violent Gras.'

John Hales

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

M. Wolfe

As analysts we are paid to make anticipatory calls on things, and if all we do is repeat what management says to us, we are not doing our jobs. So I don't spend that much time listening to the companies.

Terry Fleck

As a matter of fact, I'm going to call the governor's office right now to encourage that.

Sian Jones

The call would go out: 'Who can drive a bulldozer?' and inevitably someone would raise their hand.

Bill Cowher

The call was made to try to get us a spark and get us another possession. That's my decision. If it works, it's a good play. If it doesn't, you're open to second guessing, which is the nature of this business. But I have no second thoughts about that, I really don't.

Brent Sutter

The call was made. They had the opportunity to review it. As far as the IIHF was concerned, they didn't feel it was worth a suspension or worth a review. I trust them on that.

Brad Dean

The call volume has been higher and more steady than preceding some of the hurricanes we had last year.

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Frank Garcia

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alfred Kazin

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

Alexander Herzen

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

Chuck Close

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

David Colton

There's really a lot of unanswered questions regarding this plan.

Rick Glancey

We just want to find the 7-year-old boy, no questions asked.

Mike McCurry

Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Tracy Austin

I think there are more questions in the first week than we've seen in a long time.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

We can't be talking about changes. There are questions to which I say 'next question' and this is one of them.

Trace Adkins

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Craig Benson

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.

Ashwin Sanghi

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

Bryan Whitman

There is no ?silver bullet' to solve this problem.

Tony Dungy

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

Buzz Hargrove

We have to solve that or it's a showstopper for sure.

Billy Beane

It's a necessity. We've got to get it done. It's not something that's going to solve itself.

Megan Smith

It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.

Steve Roberts

They are doing nothing, nothing to solve this case.

Nestor Kirchner

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Jane Green

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Cesar Chavez

Together, all things are possible

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

J. Lewis

Everything we've done has been put together that way,

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.

Jane Hirshfield

Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.

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.