Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Carol Moseley Braun

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

Carlos Mesa

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Carlos Mencia

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Carlos Mencia

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Carl Andre

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

C. S. Lewis

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

C. S. Lewis

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Chamlong Srimuang

We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not stubborn, we have the interest of the country in mind.

Nate Hurst

The fact is employers like Wal-Mart are good for working families.

Thomas Perez

Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses. And yet in America, they've traditionally been an undervalued and underutilized tool in our nation's workforce development arsenal.

Dallas Salisbury

Until recently, it was an expensive and complicated thing to do because of the integration of systems that employers had to do. Now, most of these are put together with a Web-based interface and individuals are able to do most of the stuff themselves.

Sal Souto

We've become a 24/7 society and employers are taking it out of the hide of the working people. Employers are paying them less, not paying them for the hours they work.

Michael Farr

Lots of employers don't want people around who aren't loyal,

Mary Long

Many of the employers mentioned that the job seekers seemed more prepared for the event and more qualified for management positions.

Erich Klemm

We're not after a strike, but if the employers don't move, then we will have no other choice.

James P. Hoffa

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

James P. Hoffa

We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.

Jody Kielbasa

We want to pound home the idea that the festival is for the entire Gulf region.

Jim Hale

We have never talked about being ranked No. 1 or being undefeated at all the entire season. Those numbers aren't important to us.

Mark Driscoll

We want our fans to show their support for our program by wearing green. We want the entire stadium in green.

Terry Zwigoff

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.

Sherri Shepherd

I want to know how to feel good while I'm in the gym, because I'm mad while I'm on the treadmill. I've got that angry-lady face the entire time.

Tracy Letts

The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.

Thomas Lennon

We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.

Uzo Aduba

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Tim Matheson

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

Stephen Chick

We've seen some existing home sales figures starting to look weak or negative. That's usually followed by a slowdown in sales at Home Depot or Lowe's after a six- to nine-month lag.

Bob Chase

The fact is a lot of our local associations have been willing to look at alternative pay schedules on top of existing plans.

Bill Maris

The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.

Thomas Mallon

Stars, of course, are too hot to support life, so wherever life might exist in the universe, it has to be on planets or moons that are warmed, but not incinerated, by the stars they travel around.

Sharon Stone

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

Mayor Ralph

What we did was expand existing areas. We didn't go out and include a new one. When you say smart growth, that doesn't mean no growth.

Katharine Weymouth

It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.

Richard Freund

We are helping to recover the Jewish history of Spain, ... After Israel, Jerusalem and Babylonia, this was the largest and most important Diaspora community. It existed nearly intact for about 1,500 years.

Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

Sue Fox

We've sent quilts to Kosovo, the Middle East, any time people have been devastated. They need the basics. They need to be warm and protected.

Randy Simmons

When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.

Lance Lattin

We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.

Kurt Vonnegut

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

Madeleine Albright

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

Anthony Rapp

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

Jerry Miller

Working 5 to 9, Monday through Sunday, and being out in the middle of nowhere that combo is really something.

Tom Warner

We're right smack in the middle of winter. This has the potential to be the coldest spell we've had so far.

Diane Sawyer

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Clare Short

We have reports of systematic and organized use of rape,

Jann Wenner

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Lee Scott

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

Lisa Morton

There haven't been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.

Eddie Izzard

Peace, peace, peace. Peace is organized.

Robert Myers

Many people want to restrict your access. They are well organized and very vocal.

Vicente Fox

On that side and this side there is organized crime. On that side and this side there is drug consumption.

John Marshall

Because Ray was so organized anyway, we just kind of plugged things in and we go.

Will Rogers

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Abner Louima

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Evander Holyfield

Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal,

Billy Graham

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

George Cunningham

We've been out there shaking the bushes. We're going to have to reach out to our churches.

Richard Wagoner

While it may have taken some time to reach this solution, I think it was time very well spent,

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Gareth Williams

Up until now it's been a psychological battle, but that doesn't preclude them reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Eduardo Paes

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.

Julie Kenner

My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Ted Strickland

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.