Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dogen

When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine many things with a confused mind, you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

The projected rate increase sends confusing signals to ratepayers and industrial customers.

Sarah Lewis

The prohibition from participating in the competitions is not a sanction, but is considered to serve to protect the health of the athlete.

Christine Quinn

When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

Chuck Hagel

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

Chip Conley

I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

Benigno Aquino III

I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

Gia Coppola

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

Gabourey Sidibe

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

George Karl

I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Elizabeth McCracken

Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Ginni Rometty

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Georg Simmel

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

Geoffrey Canada

In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.

We know we are going to have some people who are going to have some issues. But we are uncovering gaps, uncovering mistakes, getting people connected to their plans.

We have county employees who wanted more money and processed a contract giving themselves more money, ... To me, there is a conflict-of-interest situation that is fairly blatant.

We have considered many strategic options over the last several years and this merger is by far the most attractive.

Robert McCullum

We're still winless in conference play but we've played a number of games that could have gone either way. I feel our fortunes are going to change." ()

We're ultimately driving toward the whole idea of the connected building, everything on one wire.

Alan Furst

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

John Dryden

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Gloria Steinem

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

Banks

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

Colbie Caillat

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

We urge the government of National Unity to continue to take steps to stop the violence, to promote reconciliation and to maintain momentum on implementation of the comprehensive peace agreement.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.

Ahmed Zewail

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

Malcolm X

When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

We have seen the first decommissioning (of GAM weapons) yesterday. We took in about 62 weapons. Today was a much better day. We took in 100 weapons, so we are confident the GAM side will meet its obligations.

This will ensure fairness since the two envisaged regulators have no conflict of interest in the industry.

The party division being addressed is a market positive, but Arroyo staying on will mean continuing political tension.