Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Post

Regardless of how legitimate it looks, it's a fraud. No government agency or company is going to ask for sensitive information over e-mail.

Gregg Wilson

Regardless of age, what we want is people who are physically active, doing those things they can.

Phil Crane

Re-examining all of the federal departments and agencies and whether they should exist is the next great battle for conservatives.

Bob Lohn

Recent information and further analysis leads our agency to conclude that the Southern Resident killer whale population is at risk of extinction, and should be listed as endangered. By giving it protection under the ESA, we have a better chance of keeping this population alive for future generations.

Philip Ruddock

Relevant agencies are currently assessing the statements made in the video but at this stage indications are that it is authentic,

Bill Johnson

Release of the draft environmental impact statement represents a significant milestone in the review process. This document gives the public a detailed look at the project and its consequences. There's also the opportunity to provide feedback for agency consideration.

Esther Dyson

Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age

Michael Gallagher

President Bush's committed focus on wireless as a catalyst for technology growth is paying dividends. His leadership resulted in the historic agreement of the Department of Defense and other agencies to open up the frequencies, as well as the passage of key legislation a year ago that will make the 2006 auctions a reality.

Karl Rove

Our party will win (in November) because we have an agenda to run on and that Americans agree on.

Barry Ritholtz

Regardless of whether this upcoming release shows inflation today, given the supply shock to oil, we're expected to see inflation move higher in the next few months. It would certainly put a fork in the concept that the Fed has the opportunity to pause.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Regarding these issues, certainly what is most important is to preserve and enhance the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Dave Vining

Record wise, I knew we would have a winning record coming into this season, but I figured maybe we'd finish around 14-8. We had good kids, seven with experience, but we did much better than I thought we would. We did great, a lot better than expected. I certainly can't complain.

E. B. White

Real world, certain positions come with certain perks, and I'm not opposed to having certain perks as long as there's no hint of impropriety

Fernando Martin

Real will have 99 percent of its squad ready by June 30, that's for certain and will have a new coach in two weeks.

S. Walker

Regrets? Well, certainly I regret that I did that which got me into jail, ... Other than that, no. I've had a very roller coaster life, very roller coaster. And except for that -- which, of course, I regret exceedingly -- boy, no, I don't have any regrets.

Gene Luen Yang

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Anne Sinclair

Parts of the city have been waiting for their turns for years, and their turn has finally come. I'm not certain that there's a sense on City Council to change direction.

Scott Skiles

Paul pretty much has his way with us the whole night. There are certain rookies who come into this league and are ready to play and he is definitely one of them.

Greg Chappell

Paul was a different character that some said was pretty selfish,

A. Bush

People know we're close ... As a result of my friendship with Harriet, I know her strength of character.

Jon Favreau

People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

Ryan Phillippe

People often say that even if you're playing a character who's not redemptive, you have to like the character, which I disagree.

Bible Bible

Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope (Romans 5:3-4).

David Irving

Steadily, smoking has gotten to be known to be such a killer. It makes it difficult to put your lead character with a cigarette in his mouth.

Martin Brodeur

Some of the stuff he would tell us was really out of character.

Jerry Williams

Some of the kids may have dropped out right away because they didn't understand how it works. Grooming the horses teaches you character and it teaches you fortitude.

Chris Scelfo

Our team is going to be ready to play. You are going to be amazed. It is a special group with character and pride. We are going to control what we can control.

Eric Williams

Originally a one-day event, local schools would identify needy children who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

Suomi Sakai

Organizers of any demonstration or public gathering have a responsibility to ensure that children are out of harm's way, particularly children without family, such as street children who have no-one to look after them and are even more vulnerable.

Christine Jackson

Parents who smoke feel guilty about being role models for smoking; they feel hypocritical about trying to prevent their children from smoking. For these reasons, it's difficult to persuade parents who smoke to become anti-smoking advocates in the home.

Jim Duggan

Parents who send their children to school are entitled to expect that in that environment, at least, they will be protected from predatory sexual behaviour,

Walter Dellinger

Patently offensive material is widely disseminated on the Internet, and computer-literate children ... can easily find and retrieve it.

Quincy Jones

Peace is possible around the world, and children are the answer.

Rocky Watson

Our main concerns right now are the two children,

Barbara Schneider

Our lives are busy, but we have to find time to enjoy our family's company and share experiences. When parents and children do things together, it can relieve stress.

Jonathan Kozol

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

Robert Seiple

Relative to what's at stake, it's trivial. What was at stake was a violation of the core principle of the universality of the human right of religious liberty.

Anna Burger

Organizing is our core principle. It is our north star.

Rob Keck

Patriotism is one of the core values of the NWTF. We are indebted to our troops and veterans and honor them in any way we can.

Bob Colarossi

Part of the mission of this event is to give back to the communities that we visit. As an investment in the future of California's children, the education curriculum is a core element of that mission and will help ensure that we leave a positive footprint on communities throughout the state.

David Wright

Surprisingly, Utah is the second highest in the nation in the number of eighth-graders taking algebra, but we are still low in achievement. Our state math core only goes through linear equations.

Dave Brennan

Some of those jobs are still going to migrate back down to Cincinnati, where Federated is located. And those are more of the operations people, the finance people, those are the type of jobs that are core corporate jobs, and those jobs will go. So it's not that there won't be something (of a) direct impact locally. There will be some.

Simon King

Our core skill is printing variable data onto products at high speed in the manufacturing environment.

Michael Moskow

Rising oil prices, like other unfavorable price shocks, can also feed through and raise underlying core inflation, ... So there is also a risk on the inflation front, and the risk is higher now than it was a year ago.

Matthew Szulik

It is at Red Hat's very core to help unlock the power of open source and open communities.

Michael Levine

Patients who have this procedure understand that their shoulder may not do what it did when they were in their twenties, but now they have greater movement and freedom from pain, ... That equates to making a significant difference in our patients' lives.

George Nessman

(Spicer) outfought our players for space in the paint the first half. That was a big difference in the first half.

Ara Parseghian

Some of the old timers might be offended but they have to understand personnel now. You have 250-pound guys who can run the ball. The difference between skill positions is dramatic.

Randy Bennett

Somehow, we've got to make shots. Those little things make a big difference in a game like that.

Mike Knuble

Our power play hasn't really done that well of late, but I think we should be proud of the difference we made.

Rick Hendricks

Our son placed a great importance on doing one's part to help others. He had a passion for making a difference in people's lives, which is exactly what Levine Children's Hospital will do for families of this region.

Chris Kennedy

Our goal is to make a difference over there and help people that need to be helped. If one life is saved then we've done our job.

Steve Alford

Our three starting guards got outscored (by Iowa State's guards) 48-29. If you look at assists-to-turnovers, which has a lot to do with guard play...that was probably the difference in the game.

Mike Cahill

Other than in individual situations, it really doesn't make much of a difference when you graduate. Graduating early is not something I would encourage someone to go through all the great effort it takes to make it happen just for that reason.

David Sanborn

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

Sam Walker

It is, on our records, probably one of the earliest ones, as far as our recorded history goes, in 126, 130 years.

Margot Asquith

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

John Boyega

My earliest vivid memory would be my Nigerian mother. She would wrap me on her back. I remember being on her back a lot. It felt like a ride, like I was riding a dinosaur; going everywhere and seeing everything.

Lemmy Kilmister

My earliest memory is shouting. At what and for what reason, I don't know. Probably a tantrum; or I may have been rehearsing. I was always an early starter.

Rick Bayless

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

Mohsin Hamid

My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

Jonathan Nolan

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

Ellsworth Kelly

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

Doug Aitken

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.

Bill Hall

I am embracing being in the lineup, no matter how I get in there.

Mark Salling

Glee's good because it tackles the issues by embracing what's different, and telling people, 'That's what makes you special' - I think that's the underlying thing.

Constance Wu

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

Natalie Massenet

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.

Nina Garcia

I'm really looking to reach any woman who's interested in refining and embracing her personal style.

Erin O'Connor

It's not about hiding your imperfections on a shoot; it's about embracing them and being unapologetic about them.

Allan Savory

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

Dianna Booher

Our mission is not just to make a profit, it is to fulfill a calling. ... An ethical standard is higher than a legal standard.

Peggy Kerns

States are doing this for two reasons. They want to be ethical institutions, and they want the skeptical public to view them as ethical institutions.

Sen. Langhorst

It gives the public a better way to judge whether they think there's ethical conflict.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

Don Seymour

John Boehner has ties to K Street, but they're ethical ones.

Peter Butler

I think it is the moral and ethical problems that we face, and that's where there needs to be full and frank public debate, and that's where I would like to raise the issues,

Kelly McBride

If you are going to do a gossip column, you should do it with the same ethical standards as in the rest of the paper. But the minute that comes out of my mouth, it sounds preposterous.

Joe Jamail

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Bill Clinton

Mine will be the most ethical administration in the history of the republic!

Janne Darata

His mother said it would be wonderful to know we were honoring Mike and thinking of him.

Tom Johnson

Midland has always been about hand-shakes -- honoring verbal contracts.

Bob Lewis

This is a veterans memorial. This is where Jackson honors its dead. This is the most meaningful place to be because we're honoring our dead.

John Amos

I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him.

E. B. White

This is his hometown. What better way of honoring him?

Danny Meyer

Diners are upset that restaurants aren't honoring reservations, and a lot of restaurants help bring this on by overbooking.

Peter Costello

part of the Western tradition of individual rights. If you dont like those values, then dont come here.

Alfred Jarry

Our lives are without reason, nothing outside the individuality.

Jim Neal

Suffice it to say, there was quite a physical struggle in this and this individual was injured severely.

Kathy Smith

Some of those issues are things that are going on at the individual sites. People are pulled in every way and sometimes things just get overlooked.

John Cornyn

on the side of justice and individual liberties.

Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

B. F. Skinner

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

C. S. Lewis

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C. S. Lewis

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

Steve Hartman

He understands that because he's a Muslim and this involves terrorism a lot people presume he's guilty.

William Empson

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

Dennis C. Blair

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

Trip Adler

Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

Anthony Fauci

It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.

H. Hart

There is only one way to retaliate, and that involves shooting yourself in the foot.

Darrin Zeer

Travel involves a lot of waiting. I thought, 'Wow, what a perfect time to do a pose or take a breath. Yoga is so portable.

Tom Hodgkinson

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

Kelsey Jakupcin

Our parents really support us. They come to every one of our matches.

Scott Smith

Our parents get to stay in some five-star hotel, and we're staying in a hostel.

William Raspberry

Parents who were not successful in school still have the power to teach.

Dennis Wharton

Surveys we have seen suggest parents are using them.

Gerhard Schr

Otherwise, I have been shaped by parents and I am proud of that as well.

David Garcelon

It is a sensitive time, but the parents are very good. There's always one of them there.

Rep. Hogue

I feel real strong that violence should be in (the statute). We need to give parents a tool to protect their children.

Parry Aftab

I have 11,000 volunteers working for me, and I still can't keep up. I don't know how parents would.

Dawn Check

I think the program is really supported by parents. It's worthwhile to the community. It's part of their education, part of preparing them to go out in the world.

Joel Edgerton

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

Dan Butler

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

Phil Klay

Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Bede Griffiths

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Billy Corgan

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

Bill Crawford

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

Bill Crawford

You never want to tie your responsibility to another's irresponsibility.

Bill Cosby

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.