Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Gary Locke

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

George Graham

We have schools teaching yoga, rock-climbing, martial arts, fly-fishing, ... If a kid is in a program that hasn't changed from when the parents were in school, it's just not OK.

Oliver Kahn

We have a small lead over Werder Bremen but things can change quickly. We were lucky in this game.

Oliver Kahn

We have a slight lead over Bremen now, but at this level everything can change in an instant.

Lynn Fox

We have no plans to change the guidance policy.

Stephane Dion

We have no choice but to act. Climate change is the worst threat the world is facing from an environmental perspective. It's putting at risk our relationship with the planet.

Dan Bartlett

What the public wants is back-to-basics governance and decision-making. This is not a situation in which it changes overnight or that there's a 'Hail Mary' pass that changes the dynamic. . . . There's not a magic bullet.

Matt Barnes

Whenever we need some kind of big play to change the course of the game, we look for Crosby to do it. He's always a threat to score no matter where he has the ball.

Alan Lowenthal

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

Anthony Cordesman

The problem with the speeches is they get gradually more realistic, but they are still exercises in spin. They don't outline the risks. They don't create a climate where people trust what's being said.

Brian Cox

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

David Suzuki

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

Lawrence Summers

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

Jane Siberry

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Bob Hill

We're good enough to be a playoff team with those two, no doubt about it in my mind. We're a different team with them. We're fast. We run and get out on the break. ... The entire climate has changed.

Todd Dawson

This project really shows the importance of the world's biota and especially trees on the climate system.

Berry Gordy

Today's business climate is not for me.

Sheikh Rashid

We have no desire to become involved in a heated conflict. We will do whatever it takes to defend our country.

Abu Abir

There is a long history of conflict between us. The Preventive Security always tries to demean our members.

Richard G. Scott

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

Sergei Kupriyanov

Ukraine refused, which shows that the Ukrainian authorities planned a conflict from the very beginning, i.e. to tap, or rather steal, gas intended for European consumers.

Jared Diamond

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

Dore Gold

We want the peace process to succeed. In order for it to succeed, you, Mr. Arafat, must move away from terrorism, shift this from a conflict process to a peace process. And then we're ready to engage diplomatically.

Kirk Hanson

The potential for conflict of interest is greater today than it's ever been.

George William Russell

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.

E. P. Thompson

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

Jill Soloway

Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.

Peggy Jones

We're extremely honored to have Sonia Sanchez at this year's festival. For decades now, she has been an original, serious voice who movingly describes the African-American experience.

Robert Reich

The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.

Mahmoud Abbas

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

Douglas Coupland

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

Jim Whitehurst

My goal at Delta is to return our service levels to industry leading, which they were for decades until the mid-'90s. If we do that and keep the hearts and minds of our people as we do that, it will ultimately lead to financial success.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Kevin Browne

Four generations of our family have lived and worked here at Shafer Shores. Through the years we have thrived on repeat guests, many of whom measure their time here in decades rather than years.

Charles Sturt

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

David A. Siegel

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

Dave Foley

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

Dave Barry

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Dave Barry

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

David Quammen

Islands are where species go to die.

Richard Blumenthal

This project has no place in Long Island Sound. It would threaten navigation security and be a sitting target for terrorists.

Jim Doyle

With this designation, we can maintain these islands as they are, guaranteeing they will not be developed.

Carolyn Murphy

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

Tom Robinson

We have never operated outside permit levels at the plant.

Ian Hamilton

The process sets wage levels for the country.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

David Allen

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Jane Yolen

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

David Stiff

The problem with migration numbers is they come out too late.

Steven Starr

It is a new frontier. The migration of video onto the network is upon us, and the rules of that migration are being worked out as we speak.

Sue Clark

They are amazing. This migration is amazing. The whole system has to stay intact, not just the fir trees in Mexico, to preserve these treasures.

Ronald Reagan

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Wolfgang Schauble

It is clear to us that we will have to become more involved in our neighboring regions so that the migration pressures aren't so high there. Of course the budget negotiations will be difficult, as they always are.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Edmund Burke

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Christian Lous Lange

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

John Bolton

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

Phil Fontaine

There are at least 100 First Nations communities that are in a boil-water situation. There are at least 40 of those in Ontario.

Agnes Repplier

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

Agnes Repplier

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Charlotte Bronte

The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.

Charlie Chaplin

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charles Sumner

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

Charles Caleb Colton

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

Charles Caleb Colton

Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

Queen Latifah

I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.

Richard G. Scott

Yes, pain, disappointment, frustration, and anguish can be temporary scenes played out on the stage of life. Behind them can be a background of peace and the positive assurance that a loving Father will keep His promises.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Charlie Munger

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Nick Zito

Since he's come back to Kentucky, he's been super. I think he's rising up at the right time.

Charles de Gaulle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something

Dhirubhai Ambani

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

Dave Barry

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

David Sze

When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

Erica Jong

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Lou Jiwei

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Barney Frank

It is a terrible allocation of scarce resources, ... The time has come to de-emphasize the manned space program.

Bhagavad Gita

Scarcely any one of the striving, or even the perfected persons, truly understands Me.

Joanna Lumley

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Carlos Mesa

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

Made Pastika

We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again.

Joseph Pusateri

We were always taking a back seat to him.

Charlie Cook

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

Charles Dickens

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Charles Spurgeon

That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape

Richard Walker

We've still a lot to do before the season starts.

Brian Dawkins

I will never have my best season.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Arlen Specter

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Tom Mison

I think I must be one of the only actors I know who has never even auditioned for a small part in 'Eastenders.'

Jim Gibbons

very devastating to communities with a small tax base.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Bob Harper

It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Nikki Sixx

When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young.

David Suzuki

Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.

Bryan Stevenson

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone,

Catherine Fisher

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.

Alan Cooper

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

Al Purdy

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

Kurt Vonnegut

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

Edmund Spenser

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Elie Wiesel

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

Edward Norton

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

Roger Andrew Taylor

We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.

Vic Rubenstein

This weekend we will trigger the millionaires' amendment.

Deanna Hindenach

We can't put a trigger on it, why it happened.

Paul Walsh

And who triggers that demand? ... The weather guy.

Bob Lohn

It triggers a consultation. It doesn't automatically trigger restrictions.

Evel Knievel

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

T. Boone Pickens

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

Toby Dawson

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.