Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Clive Davis

Unplugged debuting at number one is yet another amazing milestone achievement for Alicia, ... That makes it three in a row -- three out of three. You just can't beat that! What makes it extra special is the live format of Unplugged for the true musician -- the public really has to be passionate about the artist and the music to buy the album in these numbers.

Caleb Dolan

We are pretty intent on opening more campuses in North Carolina because the achievement gap is so great, whether you are talking about the difference between blacks and whites or the difference between eastern North Carolina and Chapel Hill.

Alexis Strauss

We are pleased to celebrate this achievement with the Navajo Nation. We'll continue to work together to protect and restore vital water resources on tribal land.

Chad Latch

There are some high-caliber teams here and placing anywhere in the top six is a great accomplishment. Matt Stephenson wrestled really well and was in every match. It's a good point in the season for Matt to realize that he can wrestle well at a tournament like this.

Samuel Smiles

''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Michael Gove

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Heather Watts

Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.

Jo Nata

We are prepared to do something dramatic again. Don't forget, we took over parliament and held hostages for what we believed in.

Martin Jacques

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.

Bryce Davison

We always believed we might have an outside shot (at earning an Olympic berth) and that if we did our jobs and trained hard on and off the ice it could be a possibility.

Jimbo Davis

We always believed we could come back, and once we got to their bullpen, we knew we were gonna score a lot of runs. It was just a matter of whether we'd run out of innings.

Craig Davis

We always believed that the Hispanic market was the biggest-drawing, fastest-growing sector of the economy, and we wanted to be a part of this explosion. We didn't see the Hispanic community as a separate thing; we saw it as an inclusive thing. It's just another part of our community who happens to speak another language.

Wendy Anae

We always believed in the kids. It was just getting used to our system. They worked hard, and always played with heart. I think they deserve everything they've gotten.

Ted Leonsis

When you're young and you buy entertainment-oriented businesses, you do it so you can package them in a way that enhances their value. I've always believed that to build the Internet you build a community of interests. Then you supply content to strengthen the sense of community - and a hockey team is content.

M. H. Abrams

We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

Tim Finchem

We've always believed we're prepared to do it, ... We can handle it in short order if we need to.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have no evidence at all that the allegation you cited is correct, ... I am sure it is not.

Kgalema Motlanthe

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

William Holmes

I was cited for having lights on a vehicle. I paid the fines and they released the lights back to me, and I put them back in the car, ... They weren't in use then, it was observed in my vehicle.

Kelly Quinn

While users cited opportunities for improvement with each vendor, the level of satisfaction with all server vendors rated in this survey was very high within the market overall.

Bob Gorman

This year's investment themes are highly consistent with those we cited in 2005. Overall, investors can expect steady, but not spectacular progress in their portfolios in 2006.

Gregory Melich

Management cited a narrower assortment of handsets, ramp up of expertise on the activation process, and fewer-than-expected promotions as reasons for the softness.

Elizabeth King

The move to penny increments, ... greatly reduced spreads in those securities trading in pennies and narrower spreads have been cited as one of the factors that led to a decrease in the use of payment for order flow in securities traded as pennies. Payment for order flow could similarly be reduced in options if spreads are narrowed.

Jim Leonard

There were a couple of interviews done with companies that left, and they cited New Jersey's bureaucracy and, on the flip side, the hospitality shown to them by the state they moved into as one of the main reasons they left.

E. Howard Hunt

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.

Mark Klein

We are pretty confident everybody will be back tomorrow.

Chris Jones

We acknowledge they're a good team. But we know we have a good team, too. I feel confident about our chances.

Rob Dickson

We always have a Plan B, and we're working on a C and D. We are confident we're going to find someone. All the ingredients are here. It's just a matter of what lucky group will open the store.

Todd Wuerger

We want to qualify as many guys for state as we can. If we can do that, I'm confident that we can hold our taper for another week.

Dan Petrocelli

We have a story to tell, and we're looking forward to telling it and we're very confident how it's going to come out.

Kristen Kinley

We have a solution that fixes the problem, and we're confident that this is going to be the right remedy.

Nikki Green

We have a solid defense and a solid keeper. She made some great saves. I'm really confident in my keeper.

James Clarke

We have no evidence of feathers in this species. But there is evidence of feathers in another primitive tyrannosaur. We are fairly confident that it did have feathers.

Daniel Gaul

We want people to leave here after a session knowing they got a good workout, feeling confident and able to defend themselves.

Sam Altman

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

Azim Premji

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The compassion of Christlike friends deeply touches and changes our lives.

Enya

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Erin McKean

Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.

Richard Rhodes

When I heard what had transpired, I was deeply saddened. I resigned in support of Mrs. Wheatley because I know she has given unselfishly of her talent to this community.

Joe Solmonese

Signs that Ford may have capitulated to right-wing extremist groups are deeply troubling.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Alan Bullock

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Blinder

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

David McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David Korten

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

David Korten

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

C. Wright Mills

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Carl Icahn

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

Ai Weiwei

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

Jenna Berry

We recommend parents come with their kids because some of videos are graphic. We are not trying to scare the youngsters, we just want them to be more educated so they can make better choices.

Maria Brown

We had no idea so many people would actually go out on a reef. People need to be educated that they're stepping on living creatures.

Evan Spiegel

I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.

Philip Dick

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

David Gardner

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Danita Rickard

For so many years we've prepared our students to go into higher education and they rarely returned to the community. Hopefully, our students will now be educated here and go to work here.

Flea

The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.

Rob Oertel

It can be a little slow, and it's not the most popular sport in America. People aren't educated enough about it.

William Channing

He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Stanley

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Michael Deaver

When we were engaged in the intensive parts of the investigation or trial preparation, I did not have time for anything else.

Richard Peddie

What we're missing out on is the single game sales and when you start the season 1-15, that doesn't get the heart racing. People aren't engaged yet.

Ted Cruz

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.

Alice Waters

She just had a very quiet way of speaking, and it really engaged you because she was so soft-spoken; you had to listen carefully. There was a kind of intimacy that you immediately had.

Christopher Koch

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

Bernie Sanders

Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

Sarah Stevens

The projects get the kids engaged - it is reading and researching and writing and history.

Saint Francis de Sales

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We no longer want an immigration that is inflicted (on us) but an immigration that is chosen, this is the founding principle of the new immigration policy I advocate.

Zachary Abuza

suffered terribly in terms of arrests - more than 300 around the region - including its founding leadership.

Michael Ignatieff

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.

Monica Crowley

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.

Ram Shriram

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

that the warheads will not be targeted at the states which have signed the (NATO-Russia) Founding Act.

Natasha Trethewey

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Brian Moehler

We're going to make mistakes. That's just the way it is. Hopefully you learn from those mistakes and don't make them as frequently as the year goes on.

David A. Bednar

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

Clint Eastwood

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Charles Francis Richter

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

Bill Owens

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Ben Carson

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

We don't know how frequently this kind of mutation can appear,

Gary Sheffield

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Bob Lutz

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Richard Thomas

We're manning up production as much as we can, ... We can only produce so many.

Max Bukovac

We're going to produce some runs, and I would be surprised if we didn't.

Jim Thomas

With nanotechnology, you can produce steel that's 100 times stronger but six times lighter.

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

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!

Jeff Olson

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

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.

Amber Heard

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

Diana Ross

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Alda

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Felipe Calderon

He didn't come because he does not have viable proposals.

Ricardo Patton

If we don't go, I don't know that it will be because of this one loss. But I still think that we're a viable candidate.

Dennis Hastert

We're willing to look at offsets if there are viable offsets,

David Miles

There's not that much viable agriculture in this county.

Andrew Zimbalist

I don't think contraction is a viable option.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Mark Edwards

We're doing what we can. We think it's a worthy cause.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Alice Hoffman

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Angelo Sorce

We're really working to make this a show worthy of the audience's time.

Bible Bible

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

Horace

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

Pierre Charron

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

Philip Pullman

A murderer was a worthy companion.