Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kirsten Gillibrand

I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need.

Sher Valenzuela

Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it.

Ben McKenzie

Modern medicine is advancing to the point where the average human life span will be 100. But I read this article which said Social Security is supposed to run out by the year 2025, which means people are going to have to stay at their jobs until they're 80. So I don't want to commit to anything too soon.

Michael Heath

Liberal proponents of homosexual 'marriage' flatter themselves by casting their agenda as part of a modern civil rights struggle, ... But there is nothing noble about advancing the final frontier of a sexual revolution that has resulted in tens of thousands of men getting sick or dying young because they engage in homosexual perversions.

Jim Perrin

We're getting better at hitting behind runners and advancing runners. We had more balls hit to the right side today, so I felt better about that, and I'd like to see it more often.

Rick Perlstein

Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms - often putting their lives on the line - called themselves liberals.

Keith Richman

Nick brings an invaluable understanding of technology and emerging platforms with more than 20 years of senior management experience to our team. We are thrilled to have Nick help drive our vision for advancing the wave of user-generated media and digital content creation.

Patrick McGovern

I am hopeful that the scientific research done at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research can make significant contributions to advancing human learning and communication within the next 20 years,

Kenichiro Sasae

I believe there is a possibility of reaching an agreement. Talks are in the direction of advancing now more than they were Sunday.

Stanley A. McChrystal

In June 2010, after more than 38 years in uniform, in the midst of commanding a 46-nation coalition in a complex war in Afghanistan, my world changed suddenly - and profoundly. An article in 'Rolling Stone' magazine depicting me, and people I admired, in a manner that felt as unfamiliar as it was unfair, ignited a firestorm.

Tom Lenk

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.

Temple Grandin

When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn't normally read. And more often than not, the articles that you don't expect to care about are the ones that grab you.

Karen Finerman

When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

Shane Warne

Where it came from I don't know. But if people are trying to unsettle me personally and the team all together through the newspapers, it won't work. We'll be looking into this article in particular and taking it from there.

Kristin Cavallari

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

Demetri Martin

I've never read an article of clothing.

Joel Edgerton

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?

Kathryn Reith

We have seen an average of 5,000 votes come in after the first count.

Ed Young

We have to get a better flow. We average 75 points per game, and we haven't had that for a while. Without Vaughn, we're missing 17 points, five assists, four steals.

Tom Cappel

We have no superstars, but a lot of better than average players. Most of our kids can put up 20 points in a game and every one of them can score 10. What is nice about this team is if somebody messes up, we don't go down. We have kids who can step up. It's a fun style to coach. There are no egos on this team. The chemistry is very good and they are really nice kids.

Joel Berg

When every fifth child in New York City lives in a home that doesn't have enough food, it is clear that New York City is facing a hunger crisis. You could fill Yankee Stadium more than seven times with these children. Such numbers should be a wakeup call for government leaders, business executives and average residents alike.

Dan Murphy

We want more people to play. We want to make the game fun for the average player. Clearly, the golf consumer likes to watch the ball hit a long way, and when they play themselves, they like to hit it a long way.

Randy Blach

We were a perfect commodity business from 1980-2000. It didn't matter if you were feeding cattle or in the cow-calf business; the average producer didn't make any money.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Tom Lyons

We've seen growth in the average daily rate throughout the city, from Westport to downtown, especially with an increase in convention business in St. Charles. With the new stadium opening up and development continuing downtown, we're confident we'll see growth in the new property, too.

Carlos Ghosn

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Anne Roberts

We have to get at what's really going on here, what are the underlying causes, why are people committing the crimes?

John Kramer

We have no money, so the committee will have to go out and raise it, period.

Claron McFadden

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

Dennis McDonald

When you say you are going to do something, you get it done. I committed myself to filling them all. I didn't quite make it.

Connie Miller

When you're with this many wonderful, committed people, it just keeps you going,

Rob Fields

We want people to know we take this very seriously. This isn't for us to go out there and play. It's a lifestyle, a commitment you've got to make.

John Luckhardt

We were trying to go hard to get guys in here for competition. Instead of one guy, we may go by committee to try to replace Antoine.

Charlie Daniels

Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Jeffrey Williams

We have salvageable patients we are going to lose because we can't get these people out of here. They are human beings, after all.

Elias Canetti

We have no standard any more for anything, ever since human life is no longer the standard.

John Salmons

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

John Cassavetes

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

Carole Bouquet

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Carol Leifer

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Moseley Braun

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carlos Ghosn

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

Carlos Ghosn

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

Shannon Miller

We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.

Dan Webster

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Agnes Macphail

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Maria Sharapova

When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.

Tracey Emin

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

Tim Finchem

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Daniel Barber

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Charles W. Pickering

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

Charles Caleb Colton

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

David Mixner

The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population in the U.S. but also an increased lifespan for people with HIV due to antiretroviral medicines and other treatment advances.

Dave Barry

Is there a medical rule that requires doctors-office personnel to treat you as though you have the IQ of a Cheeto?

Arthur Conan Doyle

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Carl Jung

Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

Carl Jung

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

Bill Maher

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Emile Cioran

To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.

Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

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.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Rivers Cuomo

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

Theodor Mommsen

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

Mack Brown

We did not have to show very much from a scheme point of view, ... and that's what we wanted.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Carol Kane

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

Carol Vorderman

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

Carol Vorderman

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

Carlos Queiroz

Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

Carlos Mesa

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

Carlos Delgado

I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

Carlos Beltran

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Carl Crawford

Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

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.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Jared Diamond

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Baltasar Gracian

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Gregg Bishop

(The sequel) would span its own time period. You wouldn't have to see the first one to get it.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Oscar Wilde

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

George Herbert

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Michael Chang

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Meryl Streep

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Tequan Richmond

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

I. Stone

We're here to stay and see this thing through.

Chan Ho Park

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Demi Lovato

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

Sam Reed

We were supposed to get it the first of December.

Mike Radke

We wrestled very well. We weren't outstanding. We just wrestled like we're supposed to wrestle.

E. Hicks

She was able to make some shots. That's what she is supposed to do.

Mike Landry

She's a player. You watch her play and you say, 'That's how the game's supposed to be played.

Robert Wilson

I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.

Jennifer Shoaf

We've surprised a lot of people. We've even surprised us. We weren't supposed to be here.

Al Michaels

But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.

Chris Harris

I feel like I'm supposed to be here.

Pat Bennett

One never did anything without talking to the other first. That is the way it is supposed to be.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.