Famous Quotes & Sayings

We also target youth in schools as a preventive method. We talk to them about safe and unsafe behaviors. We encourage them to speak to their friends who may be on runaway status about practicing safe behaviors and finding a safe place so they won't be victimized on the street.

Denise Juneau

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

Denise Levertov

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

The point is, let's encourage America's families to save for education.

Tom Lantos

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

We still keep seeing better-than-expected earnings. That gives me encouragement about our economy.

Martin Freeman

There was very little drama and performance at my school, so I've never forgotten the people who did encourage me and I've thought whether it would be a good idea to even get in touch with them and just say thanks, because they really opened a door for me mentally and emotionally - that's really important.

Lev Yilmaz

We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

There is no need to be excited or encouraged by the appeal.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Natasha Trethewey

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Pat Barry

We're going to encourage people to visit a lot of places so we can pack the streets.

Donald Rumsfeld

What they're doing is they're trying to pretend that they're functioning well, leave the impression that people should give them money, their financiers, leave the impression that they're a viable organization and that they should get recruits, and just generally give encouragement to their people,

When we encourage kids to drink, we're putting them at risk of dying.

Caitlin Moran

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

Bill Murray

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

Celeste Holm

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

Bill Gates

I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.

We're honored to have been able to do our small part for those who are doing so much. We can only hope that this work motivates Americans to let their words of encouragement and support be heard by those a world away.

Keeley Hawes

We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

We're really excited about it. We're also encouraged by the number of competitors who've signed up. So long as the weather holds up, we should have a great day.

Bill Kreutzmann

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

Eric Kandel

What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.

Karen Hughes

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

Johnny McDaid

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Jane Austen

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Jane Austen

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Al Gore

I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.

Charles R. Swindoll

If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well.

Charles R. Swindoll

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

Charles R. Swindoll

You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.

Elias Hicks

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.