Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stefan Pryor

We want people to observe how we protect the old as we build the new. It's critical that people have the opportunity to observe the smaller actions that make a big difference.

Richard Curreri

We have requested the leadership of the TWU to take the actions necessary to direct its membership to immediately return to work and they have agreed to take such actions.

Christine Jackson

The fact that parents who smoke can exert a protective anti-smoking effect on their children might seem counter-intuitive. Other research has already found that strong parental attitudes and actions against smoking reduce the odds of children using tobacco. Our study found that the same is true even when the parents themselves are smokers.

Klaus Toepfer

The extraordinary rise in both human populations and consumption levels leaves us no choice but to take innovative and ambitious actions to reverse the widespread destruction of species and ecosystems,

Jim Ross

The fact of the matter is that the Williams family has guarded that property, kept trespassers off of that property, had contracts to maintain Coronet property, and when they joined the lawsuit, these types of retaliatory actions began.

Gary Weiss

The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

Fabian Nunez

There are a lot of areas we can tackle and make a difference for California. The question is, are we going to walk down that path or not? When you are in a relationship and have a falling out, you kiss and make up the first night back together. You say the right things. But then you have to make sure actions are consistent with words. It will take some time for us to figure this out.

David Trimble

The people of Northern Ireland will now judge Sinn Fein on their actions over the coming days, ... An end to the war means the weapons of terrorism must be destroyed and all forms of paramilitary violence must cease for good.

Samuel Smiles

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

David Ferrell

We want to provide the kids with an opportunity to play against the state's best. It gives the kids a chance to get better and it gives them a chance to get seen by some of the college coaches.

Angelo Forte

We want to prepare our team mentally and physically against the best teams in Ohio. This is an important week. The Stellar gives us the opportunity to play some top teams.

Joe Sakic

We want to play well against Vancouver. We want to make sure we try and get a good win and have a good game there. We'll see how it plays out.

Jeff House

We have to have all five players on the court and be aware of where she is. She can get shots in a variety of ways, and everybody has to be aware of her presence. The biggest thing we need to do against her is get to her before she has the basketball. If you prevent her from getting the basketball you can get under her skin and limit her production.

Jon Jansen

We have to go out and prove we can do it against teams that we should have success against. We need to prove that we're a good team, and we haven't done that yet.

Tom Peterson

We have to go on the road against No. 2 (Cal Irvine) but first is tomorrow night. We have to make sure we're playing better each night. That's who will come out on top, who's playing better at the end.

Scott Johnson

We have to go back on to that drawing board and come up with something different next weekend against France.

Andy Nieto

We have to get those guys to go out with the same type of confidence they had against Cal.

Matt Cavanaugh

We have to get the turnovers under control. But it is more than just Tyler -- our receivers have to work back to some balls, our line has to protect a little better. But if we can cut down on turnovers against Nebraska we will have a chance. There are a lot of nuances about the college game that I have to learn as well. It's only two games so it is too early to press the panic button just yet.

Bill Stewart

We have scheduled a mediation session with the firefighter union and its representative for Friday, March 3. It is in the interest of the city and the union to settle the contract to avoid the time and cost of Act 312 Arbitration.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire, and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Stuart Rothenberg

The problem with the big issues, Social Security reform, campaign finance reform, fundamental tax reform, is that they are so politically dangerous that I think both sides want to avoid them.

Therese Fowler

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

A. S. Byatt

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

Thomas Pogge

Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.

Tim Bray

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.

Tim Russert

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

Laura Halldorson

We have to focus on playing solid defense to minimize scoring opportunities for our opponents because we probably aren't going to put up the numbers we put up last year. But winning by one or two is the same result as winning by four or five.

Junior Seau

Whenever the defense needed to get off the field, we didn't execute. We recognize that, and hopefully it won't happen again.

Jeff Gundy

When you score that little in a fourth quarter, it's usually part defense and part just missing some shots.

Charles Tillman

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

Alan Bennett

We have smaller defensive ends, but they're quick. They'll be OK. Everybody knows their job, and our defense is better this year. If we play better in the second half of the game this year, we'll do better.

Adam Kennedy

There is no doubt about it. It is a big situation, a big game, a fun game. It is fun to play defense like that and make big plays for your pitcher.

Ted Cruz

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

Rashad Anderson

We know we're good. But now we want to be great. And playing tough defense is one way to get there.

Manny Legace

We know we have to come out strong this way every time we play this team. The guys have just been playing great defense in front of me. I didn't see much tonight, especially in the second period.

Michael Rodgers

We have instructed the administrators to do everything possible to get this spending under control.

E. Hicks

It is for this reason I have instructed lawyers to issue the petition on his behalf,

Jackie Wagstaff

I think she did her job as well as she was instructed to do her job.

Yogi Berra

For a spring training drill, Yogi instructed his players to: "Pair off in threes

Javed Miandad

I told the caller that first they should let me know who had instructed for my presence in the meeting. Was it the Presidency or the Board?

Saad Hariri

instructed and obliged him to give a perjury.

Bus Cook

They've instructed him to work out somewhere else other than their facility.

Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Ron Krumer

The Prime Minister is still in a serious but stable condition.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Brian Mulroney

You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Marwan Kanafani

We have been pushed to this situation by the positions of Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Winston Smith

We said a prayer for the incoming prime minister and his government.

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Carl Elliott

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sam Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Natasha Trethewey

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.

Carlos Fuentes

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

Carlos Castaneda

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

Carlos Castaneda

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

Carlos Castaneda

... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

Alan Sugar

Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

Charles Taze Russell

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

Charles de Gaulle

The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

David Allen

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Jane Smiley

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Brandon Sanderson

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Jack Jones

We are taking steps one at a time.

Brian Johnson

Let the results be a by-product of you taking impeccable steps day-in and day-out.

Boz Scaggs

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.