Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Jon Huntsman

We're interested in making sure we protect middle- and low-income Utah while stimulating economic development, ... we need to make it acceptable to legislators.

Manmohan Singh

We remain hopeful that solutions acceptable to all sides will be found.

Kofi Annan

work this out and come up with an acceptable resolution.

Joel Klein

We requested the opportunity to analyze those suggestions, and there may be a few that are acceptable to us.

Matt Hall

With the real estate property and valuations continually increasing in that area we just can't continue to operate that kind of retail store. We weren't able to secure another lease that was acceptable to us and acceptable to the owners.

Richard Rogers

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

Kevin Mitnick

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

Jeff Cogen

We're not doing anything different, but it's being done in a different atmosphere, an environment in which people are acceptable to our message.

Charles Stanley

If you have an anxiety lay it down before The Lord

Charles Spurgeon

Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

Alan Watts

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

David D. Burns

Practically everybody knows what its like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

Carl Sagan

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.

Camille Paglia

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

Donald Selkin

We're in good shape for now, but there's still going to be this anxiety, where people are looking over their shoulders, waiting to see what's coming next on the national level.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.

Rick Rashid

The personal and informational connections made possible through computing and communications technology are becoming ever more critical to economic, educational and social progress,

Bill Ward

We are losing students because they are becoming discouraged. It's hard to keep their interest when they don't have the facilities to practice.

Tom Kendall

We are seeing a lot of non-traditional investors in commodities, such as mutual funds and pension funds, becoming interested in commodities such as platinum because they want to diversify their portfolios.

Wenonah Hauter

We strongly support efforts to make shellfish safe for consumers, but irradiation clearly is not the answer. The FDA is just throwing one problem on top of another - and this is becoming an illogical pattern.

Ryan MacMurchy

We started building back slowly and becoming that team we were before Christmas again, the No. 1 team in the nation. This weekend, especially, there was no doubt in our dressing room. We had no doubt. We knew it was ours for the taking, it was our tournament to lose.

Ernie Els

Where it used to be kind of the most fun of all the majors, it's becoming the hardest one now. Over four days of competition, it's going to narrow the field dramatically. You will be doing good to break par on the back nine.

Liya Kebede

There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Luis von Ahn

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

Li Bingbing

I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.

Sam Marks

We've actually had someone on campus have their guide dog hit a few times last year. The dog now has messed-up hips.

Ben Digman

We're interested in doing something that expresses what the students on campus have to say. Those of us involved right now, we're not interested in doing a watered-down publication that is not a voice of the students.

Jenny Smith

Where there is a will, there is a way. There are scholarships, grants and loans that can help you pay for school; if you still need assistance, there is always campus work-study.

Andy Robinson

What we're most concerned with is that we don't want to have hundreds and hundreds of people trying to get in and out of this campus at the same time as some of these other businesses.

Patrick McGurn

Very few educational institutions have filed corporate governance or social responsibility proxy proposals at publicly traded companies in recent years. The reason for this is not clearalthough the general decline in campus protest efforts is sometimes cited as the cause.

Linda Edwards

We are going to have to put security fences around all of our units throughout all of our campus to keep this from happening again. That is going to be a tremendous extra expense.

Rob Evans

We met with the six returning players from last year and in those meetings my staff and I went over what each of them needs to do to improve their skills and help the team, ... With the improvements that all the returning players have made by spending the summer on campus and working in the weight room, in conditioning and on their skills, we have a chance to be right where we were last year and that is competing for an NCAA Tournament spot.

Allen Carlson

She has shown a lot of leadership in terms of organization and getting the girls going. It is a good quality in a captain and this year since we have missed a lot of practices and games-and with me being an off campus coach-it is good to have someone like her as the captain who I can call.

John Burness

Since the early '90s, Duke has been helping stabilize neighborhoods near campus by increasing the stock of owner-occupied housing.

Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Chinua Achebe

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

David R. Ellis

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Catherine the Great

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

John Segrich

Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Carol Jordan

There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Steve Perkins

We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.

Rolly Woolsey

We started the deal and here they are 30-years later in the Super Bowl.

Craig Brown

There are some deals to be made right now. Some people don't want to rebuild. And they don't want the headaches. But it's not as valuable as it will be in the future.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Al Pacino

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Dave Chappelle

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

Bryan Sykes

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Brigitte Bardot

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

Tina Brown

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Barbara Ward

This submission also perpetuates the myth that women should submit and be subservient to their husbands,

Adam Savage

Failure is always an option.

Cassandra Clare

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

Kate Thompson

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Cornelia Funke

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

Bill Johnson

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

JoAnn Carrin

We're confused. We don't understand the judge's reaction. We're perfectly prepared to prosecute this case.

David Schwimmer

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

Elsa Peretti

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

Aldous Huxley

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

John Drinkwater

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Annie Lennox

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Drew Brees

There are a lot of reasons to be motivated.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Cathy Freeman

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Alan Moore

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past

Alan Greenspan

Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.

Chris Cannon

Nothing relieves stress like setting things on fire.

David Allen

Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

David Allen

Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance.

David Allen

If we didn't have any stress, we'd never grow and you'd probably wouldn't test your mettle and you'd probably wouldn't come up with a lot of creative stuff that people come up with by being somewhat on the edge.

Dave Chappelle

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.

David Nail

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've always loved being a student.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Jane Jacobs

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Jan Morris

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Carmen Davis

There are unhappy parents, students and staff. The only ones who are happy are the administration.