Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am here today to express BP's deep regret over yesterday's accident, ... Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who died and with those from the work force and the community who were injured.

Bill Lester

I am glad that the minority community took an interest. However, I am driving for myself.

Eliot Engel

I am always inspired by the community spirit and leadership I witness from African-Americans in New York and around the country.

He has never been convicted of a crime in any state in the United States, anywhere. Were there other instances? Sure, just like there are other instances with other members of the community every day.

B. F. Skinner

He has a proven track record in our community and has already helped start specific programs that we haven't had in the past.

Had the intelligence community concluded the threat was imminent or credible, we would have followed ... different protocols.

He had a great life. He did a lot of wonderful things, not only in sports but in the community. He was a real gentleman.

John Beal

He fought for this community, ... And whether he succeeded or not, whether each task he took on was successful or not, it was the fight that was important that 'By God, I stood up for my community and fought for 'em, and I'll do it next time too.'

Having Dell in our community has been an outstanding economic driver, ... We have seen growth not only in the number of jobs that is now double the original projections, but also in the scope and complexity of the jobs.

He'll sadly be missed by this whole community.

Jack Straw

He must not believe, because he would be making the mistake of his life, that he can mess the international community about yet again.

help retain a strong manufacturing presence in this community long-term.

Rob Wittman

Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities.

Richard Benjamin

I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George, members of the Latino community proposed having a "Dixie Fiesta." The resistance to that surprised me.

William McDonough

Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

William J. Clinton

Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from harm. Our solutions rely on working in partnership with States and communities.

Sara Bareilles

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.

Robert Cailliau

There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.

Umberto Eco

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Rodney Mullen

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

Robyn Carr

I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

Sarah Kay

Spoken word teaches that if you have the ability to express yourself and the courage to present those stories and opinions, you could be rewarded with a room full of your peers or your community who will listen.

Sandra Pupatello

The effects of abuse are devastating and far-reaching. Domestic violence speaks many languages, has many colours and lives in many different communities.

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.

Samuel Johnson

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

Warren Buffett

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

Werner Herzog

Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

Samuel L. Jackson

When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's one of those tragedies that we always see in riot situations, where the only thing that they can lash out against is the stuff that's right there in their own communities. They destroy the very things that help them survive in their own community. There is a level of futility in that.

Salma Hayek

I have always been an active part of my community.

Rudolf Steiner

In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of the work he has himself done; i.e., the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow workers, and the more his own requirements are satisfied, not out of his own work done, but out of work done by the others.

Vincent Bugliosi

One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.

Valerie Solanas

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Van Jones

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.