Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

E. B. White

The public has the right to know why the police took the action they did, and that information is available to the public only if search warrant affidavits and arrest warrant affidavits are public.

David George

U.S. Bank is taking action to be on the offensive as well as defensive. St. Louis has become a very competitive market. It makes sense to spend money to build brand awareness.

Jim Leach

We will take a look at why it wasn't reported when it started. We will determine at that time if there is any enforcement action that's going to be taken.

Tim Delaney

The public wants to be assured that action has been taken rather than this silence. Either he (the city manager) agrees with the report and some action should be taken or he doesn't agree with the report.

Nolan Bushnell

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Patti Spencer

We want to be very expedient, and at the same time, very thorough, so that the investigation reveals all the facts. Then, action will be taken or not on the basis of those facts.

John Dwyer

What I think is going to happen is that tests in relation to reasonable management action taken in a reasonable way is going to be blurred with those concepts of procedural fairness and what you're going to find is the QIRC considering appeals against decisions to grant workers compensation to dismissed employees where the employee was denied procedural fairness.

Douglas Merrill

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

Greg Kelly

We'll make a determination once they (completely) register students whether additional teachers need to be hired. A lot depends on how many students enter our schools system.

Orrin Hatch

I think the fact that he would ignore and violate a subpoena would certainly be grounds to file articles of impeachment, ... If Kenneth Starr does have additional information, I think it could snowball into a real impeachment problem for the president. I personally hope that doesn't happen.

Abby Ottenhoff

The Chicago Public Schools have requested an additional $70-100 million in state funding. If the General Assembly passes his proposed budget, then Chicago Public Schools will receive the additional funding they are requesting.

Steve Coleman

We are coordinating with the other airlines. Unfortunately we don't believe there's enough capacity, on the Delta Shuttle for example, to serve everybody. But we're doing our best to serve as many people as possible, ... What we're doing is we're going to have extra customer service folks at the US Airways terminal at LaGuardia, and additional customer service representatives to help find alternate travel arrangements.

Sean Wargo

Eight million units shipped in 2004 and shipments surpassed 25 million in 2005. We anticipate an additional 30 million will ship this year, which puts MP3 right up there with televisions.

Jeremy Bowler

On average, customers utilize an additional 1.57 products or services from their home equity lender, and the number increases substantially among lenders with satisfied customers. With this in mind, cross- selling products can be extremely beneficial for lending institutions that have been successful in satisfying their customers.

Harry Reid

The nation is already reeling from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and the Senate should focus its immediate attention on helping the victims of that tragedy. The death of Chief Justice Rehnquist presents an additional reason to adjust the schedule.

Greg Pettis

It tells us that individuals in the party believe this is a winnable seat, not just in 2008, but right now. It's good for the party in terms of registering voters, raising money and it will also help provide additional interest in our congressional race.

Joy Bacon

It will definitely be an edge for us if we can boast of industry-certified animators. Studios will be confident that the people they are hiring are industry-ready and require little or no additional training.

Edward Kennedy

The president has moved the goal posts. Americans understand changing the rules of the game; they don't like it,

Penelope Tree

Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.

David Martinez

We played well in the first half. But Lake did a good job of changing up their defense in the second half, and this got us in trouble.

Henry Markram

All evidence indicates that the neuron does not reset. The synapses do not reset. They are always different. They're changing every millisecond. Your brain today is very, very different from what it was when you were 10 years old, and yet you may have profound memories from when you were 10.

Juan Montoya

Unless we want to finish about 10th or 12th then we should think about changing (the engine) to be honest.

Dave Bonnot

You are changing the rural environment of the area. That is what is going away ? piece by piece.

Madonna Ciccone

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

Sarah Miller

With technology continually changing you need financing from somewhere. Without tuition going up to accommodate for this we'll miss out on research opportunities and anything else that could be new.

John Simpson

We will have a plan as to what we will do differently. We're changing the culture of school,

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Alison Lohman

I like to take a character and develop it

Alfred Molina

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

Alex Borstein

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

Alex Garland

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

Aldo Leopold

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

Aldous Huxley

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Aldous Huxley

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Aldous Huxley

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world -- intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man..

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Bernie Sanders

I know media is not necessarily focused on these things. But what a campaign is about is not Hillary Clinton, it's not Donald Trump. It is the people of this country, people who are working longer hours for lower wages, people who do not have health care or are underinsured.

Rebecca Martin

We felt that we disappointed students. We tried to reach out to the country demographic, and it did not work out.

Eid Kabalu

We expected that he would win the bout. We join the Filipino people not only in the country but those overseas as well in celebrating his victory.

Tywon Lawson

We're usually one of the top 10 teams in the country each year. So naturally that No. 1 spot is something we hope to get each year. But the main thing is to just win games. Not to lose. We don't want to lose.

Thomas Bock

Veterans feel kind of neglected by the country right now. There's a lot of room for her to come down on the side of veterans.

Jim Peterson

Very often (data disparities start) on political boundaries, where one country had better surveying than the other,

Chris Witty

You go back to your country and then a few months later, nobody remembers your name. Sometimes, it's hard.

Paul Farmer

You look around the U.S., and the nature of the people who settled in New Orleans is such that you couldnt go to another part of the country and find that mixture. Thats one reason the ties are so strong.

Paul Tillich

There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.

Frank Luntz

Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.

Jo Nesbo

Doubt is faith's shadow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Gustave Flaubert

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Gustave Flaubert

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

Gustave Flaubert

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

Booth Tarkington

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously

James Hilton

They will see information about how to find an in-copyright work, either through a bookstore, a publisher or (the closest) library,

Gary Defina

It was a great hockey game. It was fun for us to watch. There were two evenly matched teams, and it could have gone either way.

Joan Rivers

I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.

Josh Boone

It seems like either we've gotten a lead and let up a little bit. But I think we've done a very good job of working through those lapses. We were also able to come back. We've been able to win.

Ned Yost

It's tough on him. He's either pitching a lot or not pitching.

Lauri Hakala

It's one of those things. You either have it or you don't. It went the wrong way.

John Porter

People always say that when something like this happens, you either get better or you get worse. I reckon I'm going to get worse.

Jim Johnstone

Our group includes people who are either non-exercisers or who have fallen off the exercise wagon. I think many of them volunteered because they felt they needed someone to teach them a program.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Sam Brownback

You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.

Friedrich Schiller

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

Lawrence Eagleburger

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Phil Collins

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.