Famous Quotes & Sayings

A home address certainly could be traced to the child. I don't know that simply withholding the name is an adequate privacy protection.

A growing percentage of trading closed-end funds is occurring electronically and away from the exchange floor. NASDAQ is well designed to trade closed-end funds. NASDAQ's electronic trading is efficient, translating into excellent retail investor access. And NASDAQ Market Makers are well qualified to address the nuances of trading closed-end funds.

Alice Paul

a group of feminists, some with life partners, some not . . . who gather to address mother's rights and other issues important to us.

A greeting message is good advertising for Berlin, especially for international visitors, ... We want them to come to Berlin. But anyone who has a problem with it doesn't have to go to the (S&M) event.

a great advocate for social justice . . . she fights for affordable housing, civil rights and economic empowerment.

a great addition and a great help to me personally and also the program and the kids. He's done a great job of bringing our football alumni back into the fold.

William Hazlitt

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best advantage.

A good bond fund, like a high yield fund, has less credit risk and less interest rate risks -- and a good manager will add value,

Agents would have to jump through some additional hoops.

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

John Todd

You will also see us meld small business advertising with consumer advertising campaign.

You want to designate a spokesperson. You want to plan in advance who's going to be the one to speak to the media.

You want the wage base and the job base to adjust to the housing reality,

James Altucher

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

Jacques Pepin

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

Jacques Ellul

The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct.

Henry Rollins

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

Henry Rollins

The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

Henry A. Wallace

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

Helen Hunt

I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; only a little thought is necessary. There is no greater religion than love. God is love; and the best form of love is to be conscientious regarding the feelings of those with whom we come in contact in everyday life.

Heather Mills

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Hector Hugh Munro

The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

Henry David Thoreau

My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.

Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

Henry David Thoreau

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Henry Ford

If it doesn't add value, it's waste.

Mahatma Gandhi

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

John C. Maxwell

When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.

John C. Maxwell

SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

James Joyce

The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.