Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Elderfield

We also took images of what we already owned so he could see them in context with his collection, ... It was a great couple of days. He had really thought about things.

Jim Mendelson

Until we see all the earnings reports, it's hard to define the context clearly.

Donna Wing

You don't know who you will see from one room to the next. You may have someone come in and interrupt and take things off-track. There's the element of surprise: You know you will be seeing ghosts, but you don't know in what context you will see them.

Charlie Cook

It can't hurt the president to remove himself from the current context of scandals, miscues and partisanship and put him in a statesman setting.

Andrew Heyward

Just as the enormity of Katrina has created a new context for Rita, it has also done so for us,

Kunal Kapoor

I don't think it's a disappointment. You have to take it in the context of how the stock market has been so good so long and the long-term picture.

Joe Banner

I think a lot of people, including myself, do and say a lot of things in the context of negotiations that tend to go away and be forgotten,

Adlai Stevenson

What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Paul Tagliabue

Guaranteed contracts, within the context of a salary cap, takes it away from a player who is playing and gives it to a player who is not playing.

Alan Autry

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Jonathan Klein

We've got a newfound dedication to being the newsy alternative. We've always intended to be that, but we haven't quite been as up to that as we should have.

Jonathan Klein

We've got a newfound dedication to being the newsy alternative, ... We've always intended to be that, but we haven't quite been as up to that as we should have.

Benny Goodman

If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it.

Ayrton Senna

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Ayn Rand

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

Bruce Lee

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

Bruce Lee

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort of indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process, an ever-renewing process.

Bart Starr

Desire and dedication are everything!

Charles Sumner

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Charles de Gaulle

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

Charles de Lint

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Charles de Lint

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

Charles de Lint

Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

Charles de Lint

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Carolyn Wells

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Richard Aldington

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

George M. Cohan

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Jeb Bush

some spirit of patriotism rather than partisanship will prevail.

Huey Newton

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Perry Davis

She was just steady all through the game.

Wayne Primeau

He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.

Scott Benedict

That's what he does. He's been steady all year.

Elaine Jennings

There has been a steady stream all day.

Peg Stipetich

Our slowest time through the day was from 2-4 p.m., but we were still busy. It really was steady throughout the day.

Randy Thompson

Oh, my gosh, it's been pretty steady all year.

Scott Cross

He's just been really steady for us inside.

Harriet Tubman

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Joseph Powers

Irrigation is being done on the (town hall) mall, so I would suggest French's Common,

Fred Taylor

There are theories that suggest that. But we need a much better understanding before we can know about things.

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.

Mary Wesley

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Abheek Barua

There is nothing to suggest that would be the trend.

Steve Brown

It was a suggestion and time will go on.

Mike Dirnt

It was pretty intense. I don't suggest it any time soon.

Bernard Williams

Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

Bob Dylan

God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

Fanny Burney

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

Wole Soyinka

I am a glutton for tranquility.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Italo Calvino

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

Jim Butcher

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.