Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

E. B. White

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Donald Byrd

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Delmore Schwartz

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Dan Millman

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Malcolm Bradbury

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Elizabeth Gilbert

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Leonhard Euler

Now I will have less distraction.

Nik Wallenda

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

Brian McFadden

What we're playing here is a cat-and-mouse game. Are we going to have two factions sitting here, trying to wait out the other faction?

Desmond Morton

There are different factions and backgrounds and points of view in the Conservative coalition.

Susan Carroll

I feel all the religions should be able to co-exist if the various factions would be willing to respect and learn from each other's faiths.

Mike Tice

There are going to be factions in the building, ... There are guys that want Mooch to be there, and there are guys that might be happy he is gone.

Gary Powers

We have two factions on our team right now. We have guys who are trying to do too much because other guys aren't stepping up. And then we have another group of guys who are just out in left field somewhere and don't seem to get it.

Rafael Alcantara

People are worried by the quality of Chavez's advisors and the left-wing factions that support him.

John Pomfret

The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.

Richard McCann

Im not sure there was one specific reason, ... I know (there are) factions in the Police Department. Karen and I thought it was a good idea to have a study done to put a lot of issues to rest.

Veronica Roth

I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.