Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Forest

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Linda Halsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Douglas Brinkley

Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.

George Clooney

(M)ore important than that, (McCarthy) was wrong every time he denied people their civil liberties.

Lorde

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

Alan Gottlieb

Natural disasters may destroy great cities, but they do not destroy civil rights.

Martin Meredith

Ghana embarked on independence as one of the richest tropical countries in the world, with an efficient civil service, an impartial judiciary and a prosperous middle class.

Baruch Spinoza

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

Kenny G

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Deborah Tannen

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Edward Abbey

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

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.

Jesse Ventura

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist....

Frank Moore Colby

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Jeff Nobers

Once we get the permits, it's about 120 days to get the store built, stocked and open.

Sherri Coale

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Eric Zorn

I've been retired for about four days now.

Ray Visneski

You might get two days off without any snow or ice.

Reggie Wayne

First Monday in March, 5:30 in the morning. We were in there four days a week, grinding.

Roy Knight

We'll spend the next two or three days rearranging our campuses - cleaning, disinfecting, making them safe for our kids and expect to start school Monday. No one is required to come to school - not teaching staff or otherwise; they need to tend to their own family needs at this point in time.

Michael Campbell

My putting was very average. Basically, I wasn't there. My mind was focusing back to what happened two weeks ago, I think, and just wasn't on the job today. Hopefully the next three days I'll shoot low and be in contention.

Paul Hodgson

It is early days yet, but it may be possible to find some small encouragement in the fact that, at least for a group of companies, compensation increases for CEOs, while farÊexceeding those for other employees, have dropped from the heady levels found in last year's survey.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Elizabeth Strout

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Stuart Desjarlait

There's still a lot of sadness. This is going to take years to get over. A lot of the students, I think they have to graduate, leave the building, get away from that.

Woody Allen

In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.

Christopher Shays

I know and you know people who would not leave without their pets. They will stay. They did stay in New Orleans,

Napoleon Bonaparte

I know when it is necessary, how to leave the skin of lion to take one of fox.

Bubba Tyer

It's healing, everything is on track. Our plan is just to leave it alone.

John Thomson

Then we turn around and three weeks later, we had to leave our homes.

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

Javier Solana

We would like very much to support President Abbas at this period of time. This is what we are going to do today.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Brittany Snow

I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'

Ron Kaufman

Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Steve Jobs

The customer is the final inspector.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.