Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Christopher

It is a grave concern that an employer would stoop so low as to illegally eavesdrop on their staff during negotiations for collective agreements.

Barry Gebhart

I didn't order awards, because I didn't want tonight to be about awards. I wanted it to be about a collective group of guys that may be together for the last time.

Elijah Wood

In some ways that's more gratifying, it requires more of your own energy and your own input, and everyone's kind of collective energy, and that's...in a way that's more gratifying.

Carl Guardino

If there was a giant sucking sound a few years ago, the sound is now a collective sigh of relief.

James Levine

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

Wendy Kopp

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

Mikhail Bakunin

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.

George H. W. Bush

supported by the collective will of the world.

Jeff Larson

It was a collective team effort tonight, and our kids did the little things right to win this one.

James Cox

I think it's a good idea. The Bangor School System is the gold standard as far as education goes, at least in this part of the state.

Kathy Ireland

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Damien Chazelle

Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

Fred Wilson

He's a wonderful person if for no other reason than the education piece.

Martin O'Malley

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

Ernest Hollings

There is no education in the second kick of a mule

Aaron Blake

I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to harm our community, because really something is wrong with them.

Russell Baker

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

Ruben Blades

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

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.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

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.

Guenter Verheugen

In the new global situation, our strategy is more justified than ever,

Ken Ford

In terms of global warming, in terms of price spikes, this would make us really leading the planet.

Joanne Woodward

I'm upset when I see that people don't seem to observe what's happening with the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming.

Kofi Annan

immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort.

David Robinson

The impact is presumably larger than the Asians' on global interest rates.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

James Kelley

We still have plenty of improving to do, especially in the secondary , but I think we made an important transition tonight. As long as we keep moving in the right direction, I'll be satisfied.

O. J. Simpson

The AXP System automates what was typically an 18-step manual process while improving the recovery rates of the stem cells.

John Street

On a regular basis, more properties become vacant and deteriorated than we are improving and tearing down on a regular basis,

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

James Barnes

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

John Sacchi

Ryan is starting to realize what it takes to win matches at this level. He keeps on improving every time he steps on the mat.

Tony Hawk

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

Rebecca Riddle

We've been improving every year that I've been here.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

Richard Bush

Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?