Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. Harvey

There is a little pressure there, especially it being held in Canada with the media requests and all that kind of stuff. I think (Team Canada coach) Brent Sutter will do a good job deflecting some of that away from him.

Richard Jenkins

We know from previous research that shopping cart abandonment is fairly high in Canada with about one in two shoppers reporting that they did not finalize at least one online purchase in the past three months. Shipping costs, customer service shortcomings and privacy and security concerns are holding consumers back from doing more of their shopping online.

David Suzuki

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

Haley Barbour

We've actually got utility crews in from Canada.

Leopold Trepper

The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.

Todd Smith

This program carries an internal cost, but protecting our environment is a priority investment. Regardless of your notebook PC, pocket PC or LCD PC monitor brand, if you live in Canada, we will retrieve and dispose of it for you.

Evangeline Lilly

One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that we're all good people, let's be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that.

Aileen Carroll

World Vision and Care Canada are working through their local networks on the ground to meet the needs of these devastated communities,

Catherine Mary Stewart

When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.

Norby Williamson

When he expressed to us that he was considering retirement, we repeatedly tried to convince him otherwise, but completely respect his decision.

Steve May

We have a year to convince John McCain and the rest of Arizonans about how harmful this measure really is.

Dean Stanley

There are a lot of good things here, and we've got to convince other people of that,

Michael Buckley

We usually are able to convince the person it makes more sense for them to cooperate,

Vladimir Putin

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

Pierre Ellis

This will probably be of great satisfaction to the Fed and will convince them that economic growth is on track without worrying them that interest rates are seriously too low.

Gary Wolf

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

E. P. Thompson

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

Erich Bergen

As an actor, when you are called upon to do a job, you are oftentimes convinced you can't do it. You say to yourself 'I don't have the talent for this; they are going to figure out I'm a fraud.' And then you watch how the others do it, and fake your confidence.

Charles Eastman

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Charles Eastman

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Terry Anderson

There is no money to pay any ransom, ... These were three nonpolitical missionaries working in an Indian village when they were taken. This was a mistake.

Larry Brilliant

I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

John Trudell

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

Richard Sheirer

Giuliani visited Indian Point and said, 'It's a reverse of Marion' high-security prison in upstate New York. It's as secure as Marion, but not in keeping people in but keeping people out.

Matt Will

No one is better situated than we are in Indiana to do this.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Unknown

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

David Christian

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

Jim Holperin

There also is a lot of interest in indigenous dishes, and seasonal cooking. It's a national interest in, and fascination with, Wisconsin foods.

Andrew Forrest

Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.

Michelle Paver

Indigenous people all over the world take quite a lot of trouble with their hair and their clothes.

Mark Lattimer

In every world region, minorities and indigenous peoples have been excluded, repressed and, in many cases, killed by their governments. In war today, the targeting of minorities is no longer the exception, but has become the norm.

Subcomandante Marcos

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.

Peter Hakim

It will have a tremendous symbolic value that the United States is interested in having relations with the first indigenous president of a very poor country.

Kevin Knox

We're going to see 4.6GB be a minimum for around six months or so. Then we'll move quickly to 6.4GB.

Rep. Lawlor

Most people who are sex offenders plea bargain, often because the victims themselves don't want to testify. If the minimum sentence is 25 years, no one would ever plead to a sex offense.

Jan Johnson

We have minimum wage laws. Do we need more social engineering? ... I say no.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

Thomas Sugrue

The $5 minimum wage was a moment of real innovation.

Ray Williams

We'll be out of power, they said, minimum a month,

David Byrne

We can say we're trying to reduce the risk to the minimum but there is no such thing as risk-free,

Tim Barrett

Some monthly minimum payments could be twice what they were.

Connie Miller

Probably daily. The minimum would be every two or three days.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Jane Addams

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Barbara Hepworth

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

Ashley Montagu

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

Carol Moseley Braun

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

Carlos Fuentes

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Agnes Repplier

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Alan Keyes

Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

Alan Keyes

Rights come from God and only from God.

Charlotte Bronte

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

Charles Sumner

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

Charles Edward Merriam

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Matt Hasselbeck

He sets the standards really high, especially at the quarterback position, and he isn't going to settle for anything less.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

David Sedaris

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

Caroline Flint

I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.

Jane Austen

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

Bill O'Reilly

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

Charles Manson

I treat everyone just like I would myself. If you treat me right, I'll treat you right.

Diana Wynne Jones

One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

Scott Andreassi

She was treated no differently than any other individual.

Austin Butler

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.