Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Tim Sanders

We want them to have that local commitment to the community, and that's a big part of our request for proposals. We're not looking for Wells Fargo out of San Francisco.

Frank Hadden

We want to try and pinch some of their ball. Nathan has a long term commitment to playing for Scotland.

Chris Alexander

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

David Mixner

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

David Miliband

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

Jack Cohen

With the School Fire, you had so many structures ignite because they generally had continuous grasses right up to them,

Jack Cohen

With the School fire, you had so many structure ignite because they generally had continuous grasses right up to them. It wasn't that you had this big humongous fire. It was that at significant times during the fire, the intensity was high but the rates of spread were extremely high. And that's just very difficult to contain.

Michael Gelb

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Kiran Karnik

Security has always been a priority for us. We have made continuous efforts to make India a secure outsourcing destination through various initiatives.

David A. Bednar

Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward.

Charles Glover Barkla

The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.

Eric Betzig

You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.

Will Self

The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it's called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past.

Chris Woods

We're going to be simplifying and repackaging the message as part of a continuous data message, ... Right now, we use continuous archive and nobody knows what it means.

Jim Newberry

We've all seen the bickering, divisiveness and the lack of sense of vision for urban county government. That all needs to fundamentally change.

Paul Jacobson

Wayne County and the State of Michigan offer unique opportunities for the creation of the bio-refinery model.

Vic Lawson

We want to put elected representatives in Bradford County and our state representatives on notice that their jobs now depend on property tax relief for the residents of Bradford County, that lip service now is not going to get any of them elected any more.

Steve Smith

We want to provide appropriate education for all students, no matter what the student needs. I think all of the districts in the county are really making a concerted effort to serve kids as much as they can in the regular classroom.

Paul Tesi

We have saved the county millions since its inception.

William Bailey

We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

Al Sevier

Whenever (the county commissioners) see that, they acquiesce and kowtow to the numbers of voters. It's mob democracy.

Larry Hopkins

When you say county farm today people wonder what you are talking about.

Ann Wilson

We want people to gather, have fun and get to know local artists. Young couples and professionals are important to this scene because they know what's cutting edge and spread the word to others. Once people step into our activity, they realize there's a lot of talent here in Polk County that many others haven't yet experienced.

Tony Dungy

We want to see if we can get that done, ... So our focus is winning the first one. This is a very critical two-week stretch for us.

John Broughton

We are at a very critical stage in our negotiations,

Pat Sullivan

We're in that critical time that people can be rescued, ... If we don't get out thereto and do it now, then they're going to die.

Edward Everett Hale

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Dave Wannstedt

We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.

Willie Williams

We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries,

Thomas Galvin

Whenever the department suffers a fatal fire, we take a constructive, critical look at the event.

Bill Walton

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.

Judd Rose

While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

David Berkowitz

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Joseph Roth

We've already received such a warm reception from customers in Michigan. Just as we have customers who are excited about Ikea, we have lots of potential employees who are excited as well.

Cindy Adams

We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,

Carly Fiorina

Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do.

Alex Jones

When you talk to customers, you can tell that a lot of them are a lot more local.

Quincy Allen

We want our customers to be able to tell the difference.

Joko Widodo

When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.

Greg Brown

We are getting out and visiting customers more, and we are getting new customers calling,

James Hartman

We have no electricity, no public water that is safe to drink, and no telephones in most areas.

Elizabeth Ryan

We found ourselves with no water, electricity or phone for weeks. We needed to rebuild the entire infrastructure.

Keith Schwer

We're not a heavy user of energy. You may start to see an impact on electricity (rates) because we use gas for generation plants.

Tom Hodgkinson

It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life. A little more poverty would be a good thing.

Leroy Shafer

The price of gasoline, electricity, the price of natural gas, it's been a triple hit for the consumer.

Philippe Gijsels

Lower prices are hurting utilities and energy companies. Electricity prices are an enormous risk for utilities so we shouldn't be surprised by the response.

Stewart Tucker

We had no electricity, water or services. One of us would volunteer each week to pick up the garbage and take it away to some nearby Bedouins who would offload the trash if they couldn't keep it.

Andrew Kenny

We don't have enough electricity because we don't have enough power stations.

Carolyn Rebbert

People will learn about electricity but also get to explore static electricity.

Gerhard Schroeder

Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,

Tom Vilsack

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,

James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Travis Bradberry

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

Fidel Castro

The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic,

John Updike

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

Edward Johnson, III

Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential.

Dave Barry

In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

Dave Barry

I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.

David Talbot

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

Carl Hiaasen

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

John Anderson

We're not going to play differently because it's Florida State. We're going to be a team that's going to steal; we're going to put runners in motion.

Billy Gardell

I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

Betty White

I always tape my Christmas show in advance. That way I can spend the season of joy and goodwill with my only sister in Florida. She’s kinda a creep but she’s got a pool.

Helen Pitts

When we got her down to Florida and started training her, it didn't look like she'd lost that much.

Cheyenne Trussell

We faxed the application to about 12 other (state high school) associations, and Florida was one that posted it.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Austan Goolsbee

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

Dave Munson

With the investment we make in that zoo, it's a large investment. We want to make sure it's managed to it's maximum.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Bill Swank

We're looking at it as an investment on our part.

Lisa Ellis

Simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream rapidly and used up quickly.

Anna Akana

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Conrad Burns

I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.

Ronald Schmelzer

We see very rapid consolidation in this market.

Adi Godrej

When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of inflation is something that we should take in our stride.

Jack Cheevers

We are working rapidly ... to remedy the situation.

Betsy Beers

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Cecilia Zalkind

We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.

Lynn Coady

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.