Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Schock

I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.

I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental.

The land reform is irreversible, there is no shift in government policy when white farmers apply for land. They will be treated like every other Zimbabwean.

The family in Miami thinks the issue is that (under) the asylum laws in this country, any alien, regardless of age, has the right to apply for asylum and the INS has the obligation to adjudicate the case.

The Fed chairman is not habitually in the business of delivering shocks to the markets unless the circumstances are especially dire. That is certainly a fair description of the situation in the states hit by Katrina, but it does not apply to the rest of the economy.

David Lindsay-Abaire

I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.

The first officer reached over and pulled the thrust reverser switch. He also moved his seat forward to help the captain apply maximum foot-pedal braking.

The company is making slow but steady progress in refocusing its products on e-business, an area where the company clearly has technology to apply but has yet to establish a strong market presence or a substantial revenue contribution.

Bertrand Russell

The conception of purpose is a natural one to apply to a human artificer. A man who desires a house cannot, except in the Arabian Nights, have it rise before him as a result of his mere wish; time and labor must be expended before his wish can be gra

The employees have the opportunity to apply for jobs within the tribal enterprise system.

Confucius

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

The 'green card' simplifies the procedure of applying for a Chinese visa and renewing it over and over again,

The great thing about that is that she did most of it in the first half and didn't play that much in the second half. So it really shows that we came out strong. Sometimes teams definitely have a tendency to kind of sit back and try and feed, but sometimes those feeds will open up if you keep applying pressure and we definitely did that today.

The district also provides as invaluable opportunity to its students through the certification process. Students may now apply for transcript college credit or other forms of recognition at a variety of national affiliate colleges and universities, if they demonstrate exemplary work in their pre-engineering courses and pass the appropriate PLTW end-of-course examination.

a great deal more basic research is needed before we can even begin to think about applying this to humans.

A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower. The result is refunded premiums for customers and profit for the company.

Christine Pelosi

A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.

You know that old saying, 'If I knew then what I know now?' Well, now's my chance to apply it.

You could apply for $10,000 in funding, but by the time all the applicants were considered, it might be $5,000 or $2,000 that you would get.

Anders Hejlsberg

You can query pretty much anything. LINQ works with any collection you have in the .Net Framework today. It's a single programming model for data where the things you know in this domain just magically apply for another domain.

The key is to make SMART resolutions. Over the years, we have learned how to set goals that are reasonable and that will lead to success. We encourage sales executives to apply a simple test to their business resolutions. Ask if it's SMART: specific, measurable, activity-based, realistic and time-bound? If they meet these criteria their success will escalate.

Ken Thompson

Their laws aren't a good fit for escrow companies outside of California, and I think they're overly strict. They're trying to apply a law written for real estate escrow companies in California to any Internet escrow company based outside California.

The ultimate goal is to take this technology and apply it to the whole blood supply so that every unit of blood that's given in the United States would be converted to a universal type before transfusion. The polymer coating hides the blood group antigens so that the recipient's immune system can't recognize the foreign blood cells.

David Garrett

You would be an idiot not to think he did it to evade capture . . . He is an outlaw, he believes the law doesn't apply to him.

All vocational programs have labs where students can apply the skills they learned in the classroom.

The economy has improved. We are now serving thousands of people who didn't know they were eligible, or who didn't think it was worth pursuing because benefits would be too low, or who didn't apply because they thought it would be a hassle.

Chris Cooper

The DOT has provided the city with information on how to legally apply for those signs to be posted to promote the Pilot Pen,

Marco Rubio

The Dream Act as it's been written originally is too broad, to be honest. It basically would apply to too many people.

The current auditorium is appalling. This goes to the fundamental of what schools are about. You can?t pull out potential in the current facilities. You can teach music, but you have to have a place to apply it.

This is our opportunity to revisit the issue to take what the cities have done and apply it statewide.

This is our new network for broadband and we'll apply in the next couple of weeks.

This is mainly going to alleviate overcrowding at Double Churches. We're going to let fifth-graders who get assigned from those two schools to North Columbus remain at their schools, if their parents want them to continue there and they apply for a hardship. Students in the other grades can apply for a hardship, but we will look at space available.

Andrew Nikiforuk

If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.