Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salam Fayyad

We want the new cabinet to succeed. But this requires an understanding on many issues, especially the nature of the Palestinian political system and the role of the president of the Palestinian Authority, who is also the chairman of the executive committee of the PLO.

Bertie Ahern

It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.

Fidel Ramos

The process of not giving it to the Cabinet for review means that that whole thing was pre-cooked.

Tom Lehrer

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

Brian Mulroney

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

Brian Selznick

Maybe we're all cabinets of wonders.

Brian Selznick

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

Elaine Sciolino

Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.

Earl Butz

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

Peter Harris

We are pleased with initial customer reactions to our merchandise assortment changes and store service improvements. While still early, we are making visible progress with our targeted initiatives.

Dan Roberts

We've already noticed some changes in the water.

Derek McLuckey

We are making adjustments in the first quarter of this year because of changes in our military support business. These changes have forced us to make this necessary decision to ensure our competitiveness.

Juergen Boos

We are looking forward to presenting in Frankfurt the great changes that have taken place in India over the last 20 years.

Bill Belichick

There are changes every year. It's hard to tell how all of those will pan out. But there's a lot of work to do.

Frank Robinson

We started making subtle changes during the course of that (1988) season and got prepared for '89,

John Ashcroft

Where there are responsible changes to be made, we will make them, ... Where there are mistakes to acknowledge, we will not shy away from doing so. Those who step forward to voice their legitimate concerns will be welcomed, and often their ideas reviewed and embraced.

Nicolas Roeg

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five.

Brian Morrison

We're not going to put asterisks on any of our records. There have been so many rule changes, and so many changes in the style of play, and so many other things to consider over the years that we're not going to go there.

Bob Kelly

We are going to shape the industry discussion on this.

James Wolfensohn

We respect the demonstrators' right to protest, but who wins by shutting down discussion of some of the world's most pressing problems?

Scott Magruder

We're back to the status quo. After all the discussion we've had about this issue, there's no reason to make any changes.

Richard Flanagan

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Leon Trotsky

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Peter Bart

When I was at MGM some years ago, I remember that there was a serious discussion of trying to remake some of the (Spencer) Tracy and (Katharine) Hepburn pictures. And that's a great idea except that they were successful because of Tracy and Hepburn.

Ariel Sharon

We had a very constructive and frank discussion of strategic issues in the interests of the United States and Israel,

John Moores

We really haven't had any discussion on what we want to see out there.

Thomas Bangalter

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

Dennis Hopper

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

Ed Cunningham

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

John Barth

Mainly it's the public documents of the defendants that will prove the case.

Jamie Bell

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

Bryan Cox

She later recanted. It was investigated and documented that she lied.

Auguste Rodin

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Orrin Hatch

We held some 24 hearings on this issue, and not one time have they been able to document an abuse,

Des Browne

With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.

Gretchen Rubin

For quotes, I have one document for general quotes; the other for happiness-related quotes, which I use for the 'Moment of Happiness,' my daily emails of happiness quotes.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Diana DeGarmo

West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Dan Brooks

When you've got talent from top to bottom, everybody's playing to count. It's a tremendous experience to play without that mental cushion.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Gretchen Rubin

I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

John Vane

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Jason Bruffy

Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Andy Wachowski

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Tim McKee

We would rather not maintain the new stadium if we didn't have to.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

Lisa Bonet

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Frank Villante

With the major resource stocks, the fundamentals still look very attractive.

Nykesha Sales

Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.

Alan Ritchson

I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

Akon

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

David Suzuki

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

David Suzuki

If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

David Suzuki

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

John Roberts

Pretty much everybody knows there are not enough organs for all of those patients who need to get transplants, and what happens is, is that organs are actually directed in liver transplantation to those patients who are the sickest. So the patients who have the greatest chance of dying in the next three months or so are the ones who get the priority for the liver transplant.

Blanche Lincoln

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

Denis Waitley

Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager...

Bill Moyers

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"

Aya Cash

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Aya Cash

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

Stephen Merchant

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

Laird Barron

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

Rabih Alameddine

When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Francois Fenelon

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

David Carson

A lot of commercials that have been rejected are really entertaining.

Alexandra Chando

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.