Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

Sandip Gupta

The overwhelming adoption of our solutions worldwide clearly demonstrates the demand for professional caliber software in the hosting market. We expect the significant growth that we experienced in the first quarter to continue its momentum in the remainder of the year.

Kevin Russell

The appetite for 3G services is growing in Australia and globally. It is the future for delivering mobile services and in the next two to three years we will see its rapid adoption - fuelled by exciting multi functional handsets and appealing information, entertainment and communication services. 3 has led the way in making the 3G experience a present day reality for over half a million customers, and we want our 2G customers to be able to upgrade and experience 3G easily.

Marcus Samuelsson

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

Pamela Passman

Microsoft is partnering with these NGOs to drive further adoption of technology that can speed information when it is most critical. We at Microsoft believe it is important to help improve humanitarian efforts through financial donations, technical resources and the volunteer efforts of our employees worldwide. This grant is directed at improving collaboration among agencies, which is one of the most vital issues our NGO partners are trying to solve.

Matt Wagner

Wireless, more than any other technology, is driving the adoption of our business notebook line. Staying connected when you're on the road is fundamental to the value proposition of a notebook.

Eric Wiegand

We continue to be long-term believers in the productivity enhancing benefits that technology brings to corporations and consumers and we've seen a tremendous adoption of technology over the last few years.

Greg Beck

It is definitely exciting news. I think that this policy will go a long way toward increasing adoption among providers. Providers will begin to realize this is actually a technology they can incorporate into their business practice.

The Committee

the President and directing the Secretary of State to transmit to the House of Representatives not later than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution all information in the possession of the President and the Secretary of State relating to communication with officials of the United Kingdom between January 1, 2002, and October 16, 2002, relating to the policy of the United States with respect to Iraq.

Bruce Weber

You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.

Victoria Osteen

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

F. Sionil Jose

Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

C. S. Lewis

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Carl Rogers

There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate message of the person, no matter what that might be, there is the universal. Hidden in all of the personal communications which I really hear there seem to be orderly psychological laws, aspects of the same order we find in the universe as a whole. So there is both the satisfaction of hearing this person and also the satisfaction of feeling one's self in touch with what is universally true.

Carl Rogers

If I can listen to what he can tell me, if I can understand how it seems to him; if I can see its personal meaning for him, if I can sense the emotional flavor which it has for him, then I will be releasing potent forces of change in him.

Ashley Tisdale

Communication is so key.

Bill Vaughan

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.

Bill Vaughan

There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going to make people curious. There are communities who feel we need to fight them tooth and nail. What we have seen, though, is that ignoring them does not make them go away. If we sit back and let them have free reign, we lose members of our community.

Isaac Brock

I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

Anna Nicole Smith

I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Because nobody knows you.

Osama Laden

The accumulated evidence to date indicates that we are not yet winning the war on terror,

Nikki Rocco

(Theater owners) want it, and they want it in as many play dates as they can get it.

Martin Evans

When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.

Pierce Brosnan

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

Patti Stanger

It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.

Patti Stanger

When you know what the male species is looking for - 'I'm not into a redhead,' 'I don't want a fat chick,' - I have to tell them that X won't date you unless you're this. I'm just the messenger.

Nils Frederiksen

We have a gambling statute, so the tool exists, but we haven't found to date a Pennsylvania-based operation. Our focus would be on the organizers.

Iyad Allawi

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

George Allen

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

Yo-Yo Ma

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Billy Graham

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Don Rickles

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Ben Elliot

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Becky G

There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

David Kay

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

Preston Sturges

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Peter Jackson

I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.

Peter Jackson

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

Zak Orth

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

Daniel Schultz

We are directing them to resolve these serious violations promptly, and to do it not as it relates to specific products ... but rather to do it on a corporate-wide basis.

John Coates

We are directing most of the funding where it is most appropriate. The new funds will be expended within the programs that are operating - aerials, moguls, skating - the sports where there are more potential medals for our money.

Walter Gossett

On the last day, I wound up doing everything from carting flowers into the house to directing traffic.

John Crowley

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Benjamin Rush

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Bill Vaughan

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Bill Bryson

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Bill Burr

If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Brian Kernighan

If you don't understand viruses, phishing, and similar threats, you become more susceptible to them. If you don't know how social networks leak information that you thought was private, you're likely to reveal much more than you realize.

Dolly Parton

I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Noreena Hertz

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

Jon Wilkins

We have also negotiated with Royal Mail that, instead of the paper process by which they sign for receipt of mail, they will sign our drivers' pocket PCs, which means the information can go straight on our website.

Mark Zuckerberg

It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

Scott Horne

Typically the rule with respect to publicizing information is that if it's information that a person could obtain by sitting in the courtroom, then release of that information through the media is allowed.

Joe Torre

We have a lot of information to digest.

Mark Fulghum

We've got some information, but we've got a long way to go. We still have a lot of unanswered questions.

Jim Rogers

We're waiting to get more information from Canada, at which point we could be able to scale back, ... We just need that information.

Phil Gardner

We haven't seen a labor market this strong since prior to January 2001. This is a significant gain.

John Ruiz

New Year's resolutions are quite prevalent in January but usually non-existent after the Super Bowl.

Marty Heires

We've been told we would get some shipments in December, they would not be dependable, and that in January we would get all we need.

I. Stone

If only all that January rain had been snow.

Paul Alderete

We're still in the process of doing enrollment projections for next year. When the projections are completed, we'll know how many portables should go in and when and where they'll go in by January or February.

Vijay Dandapani

There are two periods when New York is soft: January and July.

David Boies

Was that your view on January 6, 1999?

Cheryl Brom

We start getting them about spring when it warms up. It's rare for us to get them in January and February, but the winter's been warm, and we're getting them a little earlier.

Carol Simon

Our catered events, not just weddings, but anniversaries and different types of parties are very strong in January and February.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.

Bill Johnson

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

Billy Zane

One who knows nothing can understand nothing

Beth Moore

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Charles Colson

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Theodor Mommsen

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

E. Stanley Jones

We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

David Platt

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

Dallas Willard

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

John Travolta

I would love to do that, ... We're planning on doing that in the near future, perhaps later this year.

John Landis

Who knew? Peter Bogdanovich said that the only true test of anything is time. Well, it's 25 years later and here we are.

Tim Purpura

We haven't even thought about it or talked about it, ... After the 18-inning game, he might have said, 'See you later guys.'

Dave Wood

We?ll find out about Pat later this week and Mike?s hamstring has not responded to rehab the way we would have hoped.

Jerry Bell

We'll maybe find out something there later this week.

Shanna Carpenter

We are planning to reschedule the movie night later this week, while Welcome Week is still going on.

The Jerusalem

Only later in the morning the soldiers saw that these men were not armed.

Debra Thompson

We do have to be really proactive with some students, and it's helping, I think. We're seeing the results, and we saw results in October testing. It really did have an impact.

Natwar Singh

If it was a stalemate then I would not be going to Pakistan on October 3, would I?

Peter Scott

He was sold out for the October trip by June.

Abdullah Gul

I can't see any problem that will prevent the start of talks on October 3,

Benazir Bhutto

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

Ben Bernanke

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression,

Dean Koontz

I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.

Vance Joy

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

Arthur Hailey

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Chris Zimmerman

We're working on what the specific policy would be.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Condoleezza Rice

We recognize any policy will sometimes result in errors, and when it happens, we will do everything we can to rectify it.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

John C. Calhoun

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Albert Camus

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

Andre Gide

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Dave Greenberg

We're competitive now. We struggle to score. That's why every possession is so valuable to us.

Kobe Bryant

The big three he took says a lot about him because he hadn't been shooting threes well all night. And he pulls up down there in the stretch, on a big possession and not only takes it but drills it.

Dan Davis

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

David Platt

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

Nina Easton

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

Bill Vaughan

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Bill Vaughan

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Howard Dean

We know that the president wasn't truthful with us when he sent us to Iraq,

Elaine Sanchez

Typically, the president is on a very tight schedule.

Donald Powell

Today the president is requesting another $1.5 billion.

Tom Ridge

will be a president we can respect and we can trust.

John Kasich

We aren't going to do this alone, ... We're going to go out there and tell the president 'look, the ball's in the president's hands.'

Donald Rumsfeld

The president has not suggested that that is going to be needed,

E. Hicks

While we would like to have had some resolution today, we are willing to wait,

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Mark Gurwell

We're the first to have the combination of resolution and sensitivity to be able to do this experiment.

Benjamin Franklin

No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.

Ken Williams

I've never made a New Year's resolution before. I didn't think about it until now.

Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bertrand Russell

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Jackie Spinner

That was a sign of respect for her. She was able to make a connection.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

David Cross

[If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don't know. I'll probably end up working in the cafeteria.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Bill Richardson

My view is that the secretary should step aside.

Suranne Jones

She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,

Philip Reeker

The secretary reiterated what we have said before. We are not seeking to escalate this problem, but we are not going to give in to blackmail.

J. Stoltzfus

This is the secretary of transportation bill, that's what this is.

Michael Bloomberg

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Hillary Clinton

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

Hillary Clinton

I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."

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.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Drew DiPippo

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

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.

Frank Biondi

At some time, we'll be able to transmit video real-time

Richard Rohr

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

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.