Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Janet Hubbell

The real focus here is bringing some sort of order.

Jeff Evans

My teaching is by way of starting out with something small, bringing it big and then bringing it back locally,

Tisha Hill

You just got to keep coaching them. You see the talent, you see what they are bringing to practice each day.

David Frank

I think we're OK. We're going to look at bringing some kids in.

Phil Jones

I'm getting calls from groups and meetings who are looking at canceling bringing their meeting or convention to Dallas.

Dana Shaughnessy

The first quarter we did well. Then we went into a slump in the second quarter, but we opened it up in the third. We were cold on offense, but we got it done. Our defense and rebounding keeps bringing us through.

Eric Denton

You definitely have to give the organization, coaches and GM (Charlie Wright) credit for bringing in these players no one knew anything about, ... You never know what you're going to get unless you're willing to take chances.

Robert Randall

Their allegations were remarkably consistent. We didn't get six people in the room and then they fed off each other. We're only interested in bringing forward meritorious claims.

Tommy Franks

We're taking part in a global war on terrorism,

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.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

David Christian

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.

Klaus Toepfer

There are also global implications, not least because a pollution parcel like this, which stretches three kilometers high, can travel half way round the globe in a week.

Kerry Emanuel

When you look at global hurricane activity, you really do see a trend. It's up everywhere.

Klaus Zumwinkel

This transaction is a major strategic step in Deutsche Post's development and represents the continuation of our strategy to become the leading global logistics company.

Albert Einstein

From discord, find Harmony.

John Dryden

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Ariel Sharon

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Aldous Huxley

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Albert Pike

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Susan B. Anthony

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Blaise Pascal

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Brother Lawrence

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

Brother Lawrence

Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Douglas Adams

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

Countee Cullen

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.