Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Yunus

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

Patrick J. Kennedy

There is a program called Keeper of the Bridge; in the old days there was a keeper of the bridge who cared for the bridges, fixed things and watched over it. Keeper of the Bridge program encourages students to learn about and adopt covered bridges. It seems to help cut down on the vandalism because the students take a moral ownership of the bridge.

Larry Diamond

There are elements in the newly adopted constitution that cannot stand ... if Iraq is ever going to be stable.

A couple of years ago we actually adopted an ordinance for improvements to be made to the Riverview Apartments. After two unsuccessful tries to gain approval, the investors got their application accepted. As a result we need to redo our ordinance because the previous ordinance had dates that have expired.

William Butler Yeats

Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

Something that's attractive for one customer could be a recipe for disaster for another. It comes down to what you envision for your customer. Just adopting wholesale what other retailers do is not going to do it.

Some people will no doubt regard it as a sell-out. But it's about engaging with contemporary culture rather than adopting an aloof view.

Kofi Annan

Specifically, I ask developing countries to improve their governments, uphold the rule of law, combat corruption and adopt an inclusive approach to development,

SPARC for some time has not been highly regarded for various reasons. We adopted a completely different design philosophy.

Geraldine Brooks

So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted a brother, and then I thought, 'Oh, that'll be bloody lucky!' So, we ended up adopting a beautiful boy who was then five years old, from Ethiopia.

Once you show that important, thoughtful companies have adopted majority voting, you could prompt a mass movement in that direction.

This discrepancy is likely due to the fact that we are in the early stages of an evolution in mobility. With single-purpose products disappearing as functionality converges, consumers are resisting making a choice. But our research shows that in time, mobility will be adopted widely. The mobility evolution has begun.

This contract augments our reputation as a leading safety training provider. We will be working with the apprentices at the start of their career providing the necessary support to ensure that they are fully capable of working in their chosen field offshore, and will adopt safe practices whilst doing so.

This changes the dynamics of the potential adoption of XDR memory.

This alternative vision is offered as a concept for interested parties to consider, evaluate, discuss and, we hope, adopt as a better way to move forward.

This album was really my way to say thank you to France for having opened its arms and adopted me, calling me one of their own.

This administration, like that of President Nixon, has apparently secretly adopted a legal view of the executive branch's power that is unbounded.

This is an end-to-end strategy and not a point strategy. Microsoft believes that customers are looking for ways to adopt virtualization on the route to dynamic systems, and so our strategy is the Dynamic Systems Initiative, with dynamic systems the end game. And the way customers get there is very important,

We were surprised at the small number of firms utilizing live chat tools especially given the fact that back in May of 2005, our research showed the average response time to an email inquiry was sixteen hours. Clearly, instant messaging is being widely adopted both by consumers and many businesses yet there is reluctance by online brokerage firms to embrace this popular technology. We recommend that firms provide their clients and prospects with robust live chat tools and technologies in order to increase customer satisfaction and ultimately, gain new clients and revenues.

We've identified the Embedded strategy as one of our foremost growth drivers. To date we have signed up HP, Lenovo and Gateway as partners and we continue to work with other computer manufacturers to adopt our BIOS initiative.

With so many single purpose devices in the market, combined with evolving technology, consumers are resisting making a choice. Our research shows that over time, mobility will be adopted more widely. The mobile evolution has only just begun. Compatibility and convergence will be the key influences on consumer purchases and enterprise product development as we move forward.

Quite a lot of what we do before we adopt a building ordinance is to consider the way the building looks. City staff and the Planning and Zoning Board also pay attention.

Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly adopted the broad moratorium through an agency-wide rule,

Rather than starting from an approach which focused on particular/specific types of transactions and provides views on whether revenue arises from that transaction, and when and how much revenue, the exposure draft establishes broad principles and then explains how those principles are applied to particular transactions. This means that the principles are in place to provide broad guidance. They can be applied to transactions that may be of particular importance to some jurisdictions, but not in other jurisdictions. The problem with adopting an approach which focuses on specific transactions, is that some types of transactions may be missed. This is particularly significant for international standards intended to encompass many different jurisdictions, with different resource flows and administrative arrangements.

Prominent problems include too quick growth in fixed-asset investments and bank loans, which the country will adopt measures to tackle to ensure a steady and relatively fast economic expansion.

Prominent problems include a too prompt growth rate in fixed-asset investments and bank loans, which the country plans to adopt measures to tackle, as well as measures to ensure it keeps its steady economic growth.

Project and portfolio management is critical as development is increasingly distributed, as organizations adopt service oriented architectures, and as audits require evidence of regulatory compliance. With IBM's new project and portfolio management software, organizations can more effectively govern their software and systems development projects.

The simple logical substitution of running Linux on less expensive hardware does not play out on the client. Businesses don't look at the client and say they want to make a 100 percent crossover from client to client, unless I can do something to improve the workflow and lower the cost of execution and the cost of ownership. Some of the simple models that drove server adoption will not drive client adoption.

The text that was adopted recognizes the diversity of approaches.

David Brown

These are the sort of numbers that should give extra leverage to the ECB (European Central Bank) to keep pressing rates higher, but we still believe the benign inflation picture will force them to adopt a softly, softly approach to tightening this year.

Mort Kondracke

The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research.

These allegations, and particularly the claims that the DAS may have been sharing information about people at risk, who it had the obligation to protect, are extremely serious. The government should adopt the high-level commission's recommendations and thoroughly reform the agency.

I told (Lucas) I'd adopt her for the day. I said we'd pass the hat and see if we can come up with a ticket for her, which, seriously we're doing.