Famous Quotes & Sayings

Li Keqiang

Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high.

Lindsay Fox

People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take. I think I've adopted that all through my life. Caring and sharing are two major fundamentals of life.

If we adopted Valery, she is going to be happy with us because she knows New York, she knows her little friends and she knows who is family.

Peter Gabriel

We are trying to change things and allow artists to be at the front of the food chain and become their own retailers and keep a big part of the margin. They can get paid directly as the money comes in and they can monitor it day-to-day totally transparent. That is a model that I would like to see adopted by the music business.

Rodney Atkins

There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.

Rodney Atkins

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

Rodney Atkins

The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home.

Mahmoud Abbas

Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

Life in our family changed when we adopted him. It has been challenging, but very rewarding.

Carine Roitfeld

Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

My hopes are that people will take some time out to watch this broadcast and see first hand how great the needs are of our adopted city.

John Deane

No president that I can find in the history of our country has really ever adopted a policy of expanding presidential powers for the sake of expanding presidential powers. And I think that's what we have going on.

She's born to an American citizen, she was adopted by an American citizen, and here she is without her citizenship, ... ... She's been in limbo for almost three years now.

Mike Reagan was an adopted child adopted by Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan. Here, at Centers, we do adoption support. And Mike Reagan aligns well with our mission.

Miranda is in theory a very simple concept that has actually become pretty complicated, ... The fallback should be, you should have a form that's been legally adopted through the prosecuting authority.

Last year there were eight versions of the budget (the ninth version was passed by the board of education) ... This is version four. We'll probably do four or more of these (budgets) until it's adopted in September.

She's had quite a day. Four different families looked at her until she got adopted out.

President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration's political agenda.

When we adopted this policy, we were trying to solve a problem,

Looking ahead, we see the Bluetooth market continuing to expand. The 'attach rate' in mobile phones is increasing both as the demand for hands free calling grows and as mobile phones increasingly move into services such as music streaming and gaming. Bluetooth is also being adopted in the wider electronic goods markets and in new application sectors such as automotive and consumer.

Line-of-business applications will become more prevalent. Currently 25% of companies have adopted them and we expect that to increase by 10% by the year-end.

Opal and Forrest need to be adopted together. They're a bonded pair. When they form deep attachments, it can cause all sorts of stress if they're separated.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Pending actually reading the new rules, we are generally optimistic. We think they have adopted almost everything that the Assembly of Scientists says the rules should have.

Charlie Pierce

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.

Cliff Richard

We need to be adopted by God through Jesus - that was what happened to me, and that's what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling.

Barry Ritholtz

Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.

We believe that Windows 2000 will ultimately be a widely adopted corporate computing platform over the next two years, and we remain bullish on Microsoft's prospects.

Ronan Farrow

He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

Rene Cassin

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.

Ted Leonsis

There is this primordial soup brewing of more bandwidth, more storage, more devices and more people creating content which is inherently digital. The lightning that struck is that the people have rapidly adopted all this even faster than we in the industry conceived, and bypassed the traditional media.

There's an expectation that nanotech inspection tools will see a big boost from being adopted by nanomaterials manufacturers for quality control in the factory,

Pat Toomey

a bizarre interpretation of the Club's mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations governing nonprofit organizations.

Matthew LeCroy

It's been so awesome. Our families have learned so much about adoption. They all know that she was handpicked, so that makes her a little different. Sometimes you might worry that (an adopted child) wouldn't treated as an equal, but both families have been so good and she's treated just like she came from Holly.