Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

Veronica Roth

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Vikram Seth

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Our real goal is to really make our city where people choose to live, regardless of their demographic or social makeup,

Passengers have to choose another route or another airport. We've seen a dramatic loss in seats.

Our lives a series of defining moments,strung together by passing time.Surrender fully to this moment,because it is not the moment itself that defines us,but how we choose to live in it.

John Lubbock

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking

In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I could tell you your future.

Deval Patrick

In a healthy democracy, the voters choose representatives. In the system we have, the representatives choose the voters. That's upside down. This proposal puts us right side up again.

Richard Rogers

If you had to choose a nation that is moving fastest in cultural terms it has to be Spain. After 40 years of the limitations of a fascist government, you suddenly see a tremendous vitality. You feel it in the street.

Martin Rees

If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.

Tayshaun Prince

If you keep him out of the paint, that means you've got to sag off your man and he's probably the No. 1 in the league in terms of finding the open man. It's kind of a pick and choose your poison with him. Do you want to try contain him and let him shoot open shots? Or let him penetrate and get him?

If you lined up Lawyer Ron and Red Raymond and had to choose which one would win the Kentucky Derby, it would be Red Raymond. He's a good-looking horse.

If you look at it on paper, we are similar in a lot of ways. But I'll say this: If I had to choose one or the other, I would rather be with the guys I am on the field with any day, any night." ()

If you choose to be an independent community hospital you have to figure out how you're going to deal with ... the fact that you're smaller,

If you choose something that's really bold, it can really stand on its own.

Douglas Leone

If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.

In the face of challenge,who do you choose to be?The one who stalls and stagnates,or the one who flies free?

In small communities, so many big things happen that it's hard to choose just one person to honor.

In our sum-of-the-parts valuation, we estimate that intrinsically, the stock could be worth as much as $27 a share, if all of the value were unlocked, ... While its is unclear whether management will choose to or be able to unlock some or all of this 'hidden' value, the company stated that it is conducting a strategic evaluation on all of its assets.

Clarence Norman is not involved in my campaign, ... the assemblyman is a private citizen. He can choose to do what he wants.

Jeremy Miller

Choose your man of the match. It's time to shoot the boot!

Joseph Joubert

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Sathya Baba

Choose friends who will stick to you till the end, through thick and thin.

Choose an improvement that makes sense for you and your family and one that you can afford.

Brandon Boyd

I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... "I choose the way you areYou, the way you are

In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter

I'm surprised that the Congress and the president would choose to honor the Constitution by violating it.

Mike Ross

If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you've got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor.

If there's going to be retaliation, which frequently takes place in the trade world the kind of retaliation would be either tariff barriers, non-tariff barriers, or prohibitions similar to any that the Congress of the United States may choose to impose on the ports deal. How could that be good for the world's largest exporter, which is the United States, with 30 percent of our economy dependent on (international) trade?

Tom Renney

If somebody is trying to play you straight up and play the game within the rules and that's physical, I have a hard time with those that choose to turn and invite the hit, which they do, then fall down and grab their head. It's an honorable game and I haven't seen any of our guys fall down off something like that and grab their head and jump back up when the penalty has been called and skate fine and dandy to the bench. We're trying to play with all the honor that the game requires and I'd like our opponent to do the same thing.

If we've helped one victim, we've succeeded in our journey. However, our journey doesn't end here. We've been dealt a life sentence. Now we must choose how to live it.