Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wen Jiabao

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

Wen Jiabao

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Zubin Mehta

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

John Malone

The pilots understand. It's a critical time period.

David Thewlis

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

Noah Baumbach

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.

Sergei Lavrov

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.

Kristy Curry

That would have been critical to us. It was a gutsy play by her. Thank goodness she was set.

Katherine Harris

We will all remember these times as some of the most critical and defining in our nation's history,

Zubin Mehta

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

Brewster Kahle

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Abby Bellows

The 17 students sitting in Madison Hall are not sitting for arrest. We're demanding a living wage; we're not demanding to get arrested.

Randy West

As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.

Paula McLain

It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' and wanted to know more about her - who she was, how she and Ernest met and fell in love, what it was like for her to be married to such a demanding and stormy force of nature.

P. C. Cast

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

Chris Bell

Just about everyone in our state is demanding that leaders do something about the quality of education in our public schools.

Jennifer Allyn

We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this sense of burnout. We know our people need to rest and recover.

John Grahame

which is more demanding than the (current) 27.5 miles per gallon for passenger cars.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

Nancy Keenan

The American people need to know where this man stands on the issue of privacy.

Dennis Hastert

The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.

John Snow

That will tee up the next major issue for the president ? broad-based tax reform,

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Larry Baer

We've reached out to her and she referred us to her son. We're working with the son to see what if anything to do.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Billy Graham

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Heraclitus

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.