Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Fred Wilson

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

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.

Ruben Blades

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

Tryon Edwards

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Rick Boucher

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

William Lyon Phelps

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

George Hoffman

I would think that is highly unlikely any of our employees would do that.

Jose Gonzalez

I would say the vast majority are not in a day labor-type scenario. Contractors and employers have a need for good workers, and once they find them they keep them.

George Reid

I think it has improved the safety for the public and the employees that work in this building. For the most part feedback has been positive.

John Wolkonowicz

If you employ fewer engineers you let them finish one project before starting the next, instead of having two sets of engineers working simultaneously.

Melissa Norcross

In order to protect the privacy of victims' families, we will not release the names of those employees and subcontractors who have lost their lives.

S. Truett Cathy

I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

Alan Pollock

The employees already have it; they were our beta-testers.

David Kelly

The manufacturing sector is so productive that even with a rebound in production and orders, we still have, at best, flat employment. This is encouraging, but manufacturing employment remains a sore point in the American economy.

Robert Herta

It's up to the employee to provide the work log and the records.

Agatha Christie

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Jan Morris

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Agatha Christie

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.

John Gould

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

William Godwin

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

William Godwin

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Richard Whately

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Vera Brittain

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

William Arthur Ward

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Ruben Hinojosa

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.