Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Adams

Like every issue, it has been actively discussed at the technical level and the point now is to get everyone in a room together to review what has been done.

Roy Brown

Make good choices, set realistic goals, develop pride and respect in yourself, be active in your community and become a good role model for someone.

Susan Walvius

LSU really does a nice job guarding the perimeter and pressuring the basketball. The one thing LSU does different from other teams is they have extremely active hands on the ball. They get a lot of deflections and play the passing lanes. Teams tend to throw (ball) away because it looks like the passing lanes are open.

Patrick Campbell

Let's just say we will be very active in discussions with suppliers in trying to hold the line here.

John Harbaugh

looks OK, but again, I don't think he's at 100 percent. So that's still part of the process, whether he'll be active or not. It looks like he has a chance, but he still has to get better.

Steve Kolenda

Last year's group was probably more active than ever. It was probably the last one that disagreed with selectmen.

Joseph Addison

Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

Naomi Hasegawa

Many investors are reluctant to trade actively before the central bank starts its two-day meeting Wednesday.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices ended weaker. This is because of lingering concerns about a lack of active inflows of funds from offshore investors.

Alisa Gravitz

More institutions are screening out the very worst social but also using shareholder advocacy to improve those that don't make the grade.

Nicholas Kristof

One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed that is part of their job, but advocacy is also getting governments to step up to the plate. They can also give more voice to those who don't have one.

Teresa Evans

I have been the forensic interviewer for about a year and a half, and my job is to interview the child that is brought to the advocacy center, or the Gingerbread House.

Charlie Rose

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

Mark McKinnon

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

Bob Johnson

We disclose our funding, Common Cause does not. So it's rather ironic that we would be attacked on that basis. But at the end of the day, just because Common Cause doesn't agree with the way we seek grant funding, that doesn't make advocacy illegitimate. Nor does it make theirs legitimate, their attack legitimate.

Len G. Murray

The option of solicitor advocacy came on the scene a bit too late for me.

Mark McKinnon

Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.

Maureen Shea

When we began this year, no one would have guessed that the vice president would be needed to break a tie on the budget. Our advocacy made a difference.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Ivan Seidenberg

Like all companies, we are closely monitoring the economy, but what we see at this time indicates we can hit our target for full-year revenue growth,

Jeffrey Kaye

Many times workers work very closely to each other in the 'cube' environment, and that is very stressful because it's noisy, there's little or no privacy, and there is a forced conviviality.

Walt Riker

McDonald?s priority focus continues to be on our customers. We listen closely to them and welcome constructive feedback. We welcome an objective and fair discussion about issues important to our customers.

Eleanor Catton

One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the quality of their thought is very closely identified and analysed.

John McCarroll

More and more people are talking about the 'one community' concept, and emphasize that the university and the community are very closely related. The success of one means the success of the other.

Ed Rohling

Now that our overall portfolio is in a more competitive position and our markets are rebounding with the national average, we are focused on maximizing the returns on these upgraded assets. We will face some ramp-up time, but we are working very closely with our general managers and sales directors to realize the full potential of these renovated, highly competitive hotels.

Jan Egeland

NATO is planning to increase its operations further, and will work closely with the Pakistan government and the United Nations in this regard.

Mark Gwozdecky

From our satellite photos, we've seen evidence that some of the facilities we used to monitor closely have been dismantled completely,

Laura Miller

From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I think we'll see the coalition forces being able to pare down,

Eyal Arad

No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.

Peter Pace

I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders have and will continue to be that we will treat everyone in our charge with - humanely and with respect.

Robert McKillop

From a symbolic perspective, this is a very important election for Japan as a victory for Koizumi and the coalition would be the most powerful signal yet that the economic model in Japan will change. Ultimately the economic cycle will prove a more significant driver of share prices.

Juergen Trittin

If we get the necessary majority, there will be coalition negotiations very soon.

Hossam Bahgat

Because of the wide coalition of forces supporting the judges, it will only become more difficult for the government to suppress their activism. But whether or not the government will compromise on a draft judiciary law will be seen in the next few days.

David Smith

Sir, we as coalition forces ... have taken a supporting role only as they prepare to execute this referendum.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We have long said we want this coalition and there are no reasons why it shouldn't happen.

Andrew Lansley

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.

Carl Hiaasen

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

Brad Smith

We had a very constructive dialogue yesterday. In fact I wish we could have had had this type of dialogue sooner.

Ted Baker

Given that we're starting on Sept. 2 and the NHL pre-season doesn't start until two or three weeks after that, we'll be able to dialogue with the NHL about things we're seeing in our games that will hopefully help everyone.

Sanjaya Baru

The Prime Minister would like all men and women of goodwill in the dialogue process to end the period of suffering.

Kate Grenville

I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

Li Zhaoxing

China-US relations have, on the whole, maintained stability and growth. Dialogues and exchanges at the various levels have improved mutual understanding and mutual trust,

Tracy Chapman

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

Sha Zukang

We are ready to have dialogue . . . we are ready to talk to them,

Vuk Draskovic

We are ready for dialogue and we are ready to stop the demonstrations. ... (but) that dialogue must be expressed in the media -- state media -- in a free and open way.

Eric Tolbert

What you're seeing is revealing weaknesses in the state, local and federal levels. All three levels have been weakened. They've been weakened by diversion into terrorism.

Alex Pareene

For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

Desmond Tutu

God is not a diversion.

Ted Harrison

My perception is that we are headed toward a future where the surface water from the Rio Grande diversion is likely to be the dominant source of water for most communities around the Santa Fe area.

Maryann Gregory

Some of this is a diversion to keep your mind off what is really going to get you.

Martha Stewart

Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.

Cynthia Covell

Diversion does not only mean taking water from the river.

Ellen Willis

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We have not seen diversion of nuclear material for weapons purposes, but the picture is still hazy and not very clear.

Unknown

May the love you've expressed to each other today always be the first thoughts during any trying times in the future.

John Pearson

Mortality, and Paternity; the one supposed, the other expressed in the text: Jacob was the Father of Joseph, and that Father dead, and therefore Joseph mourned for him.

Luhanna Chesley

I can tell you that my sister never expressed fear to me. I talked to her the Sunday before she died. She was her happy-go-lucky self.

Brett Hall

Frankly, we haven't had any major discussions on that bill, but no one here has ever expressed any objections to it.

Shinzo Abe

... I have heard that the North Korean side also expressed views and questions of their own.

Om Puri

When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

Luc de

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.

Oscar Arias

On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.

Simon Van Booy

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

George Crumb

Numerous recordings of non-Western music are readily available, and live performances by touring groups can be heard even in our smaller cities.

Maribeth Lartz

We have sign language practices and sign language groups before each of our meetings.

Ahmet Ertegun

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

John Oates

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

C. Everett Koop

That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.

Tadashi Yanai

Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

Ice T

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

Nelson Mandela

Tomorrow the two groups will meet on the ship,

Pat Metheny

'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Alexandra Fuller

I had the constitution of a missionary.

Albert Schweitzer

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

Bryan Smith

Last year, we only had a 1 percent increase in our health insurance premium.

Stanislaw Dziwisz

Many journalists who in the past have written about the pope's health are already in heaven.

Jim Edmonds

Scott's healthy and it looks like he's nice and strong. That is going to be a huge plus for us.

Elyssa Rosen

Self-regulation is not enough to protect the health of our communities.

Gillian Anderson

Motherhood has been enormously healthy for her. She's more secure.

Mike Keane

Obviously, we want Jason in the lineup but his health is the No. 1 concern.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Gerry Reno

Now we get this taken up to 360,000, and now they intend to go to 400,000. Where's the limit? How much entitlement should there be?

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Richard Menicke

I had intended to race three in the varsity race.

Donald Rumsfeld

sit down with the Russians in a way that's rational, and professional, and we don't intend to violate the treaty.

Debbie Reynolds

I don't intend to speculate on the N-type until I have formal, official confirmation of this.

Chen Guangbiao

I intend to buy 'The New York Times.' Please don't take it as a joke.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Gavin O'Connor

I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Ron Gettelfinger

Make no mistake about it, we will make a big issue out of that in the (bankruptcy) hearings,

Bill Flott

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

E. Hurley

MADD is not the white-hot issue it was in the 1980s, ... But we need to rebuild our organization with even more volunteers and a stronger structure than we had in the past.

Christopher Klaus

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,

Gerardo Copca

Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.

Christopher Richter

Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Matthew Fassler

Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.

Neil Lomax

Mouse's philosophy was, 'Hey, this is what we do. I want my third-stringers to throw. I want my receivers to catch,' ... I just, personally, now have an issue with it. What are you trying to prove after 70-75 points?

Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

Richard Adams

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Michelle Ryan

I was shy and really into my school work and my drama. Then I joined 'EastEnders' at 16, and it was work, work, work. You become very isolated. I rarely went out and so didn't get to meet anyone.

Bill Campbell

Since she joined us, we haven't lost a match. She really makes a difference.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Will Poulter

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Kate Thompson

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

Rosemary Palmer

He was persuaded that if he joined the Marines he would get a new sense of purpose.

Eduard Limonov

He has joined us without any conditions. Yegor stands for red, Soviet-style nationalism.

Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Joseph Volpe

Maybe with 'Parsifal,' because it's only three performances and a limited rehearsal time, we'll be able to get someone really good.

Margaret Gillett

Now we have space to move around in. We were pretty limited before.

Seth Godin

Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

James T. Walsh

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

Jennifer Freeman

We're limited as to what we can say,

Jalal Farzaneh

We were students on a limited budget. We had to move.

Michael Schroeder

Unlike a lot of retailers, they are somewhat limited in what they can offer. I just don't think they are ever going to make much money on their retail stores.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Dick Reed

If they have to do everything from Riverside, I don't know how we'll manage local emergencies.

Victor Lin

If we could get support from the state and from these local companies, there is no reason why it would not stay here. I see opportunity in Iowa.

Michael McDonald

We have to work with a lot of other local agencies, and that takes time.

John Desmond

We need to use the local option. We're at that point.

Trayce Geddes

Mediation did not work for us, in our town, with our people.

Peter Struk

Media has been all the go this morning.

Vera Gibbons

My friends in the media want to know when the housewarming party is going to be, and they want to know if Walter is going to come. He's already told me he'll be there.

O. Henry

No, I just thought I'd mention it to you people (the media).

Dennis Prager

In attempting to understand 9/11, the first question asked by the world's elites - as exemplified by leading media and academics - was, 'What did America do to provoke such hatred?' Ten years later, the same people are still asking the same question. And it is as morally repulsive now as it was then. It was always on par with 'What did the Jews do to antagonize the Germans? Or 'What did blacks do to enrage lynch mobs?'

Dennis Prager

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

Debra Winger

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Eduardo Galeano

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

Nic Beaver

Mental toughness is what got us through the game.

Jeff Suppan

Mentally, I think is the key, staying mentally prepared in a number of ways,

Brad Shaw

Mentally and physically, I didn't think we were sharp.

Edvard Munch

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

Maria Sharapova

I feel like I'm mentally tougher out there,

Steve Roberts

I was taken off-guard by our start. I thought our team was prepared mentally and emotionally. As much as they spread the field, there's a lot of running room. Even if you play perfectly.

Zabian Dowdell

I was surprised that he played. He's a strong kid, mentally and physically.

Retief Goosen

I worked on my temper and worked with Jos from 1998 to 2002 on the mental side of the game.

Phil Willard

She's a special kid. She just has that mental toughness.

Richard Butler

We don't want our system misused in that way.

Clayton Ruby

There's not at a hint he's ever misused his passport.

Napoleon Hill

Most misfortunes are the result of misused time.

Gregory David Roberts

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

M. K. Hobson

I've just always been fascinated by what our belief can do, and what happens when we misuse that.

John Green

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

Frank Sacks

More people will take it and many people think it's the panacea, which it's not, ... Who's going to monitor it to see if it's effective? There's no monitoring for safety.

Vidal Querol

Monitor well and be ready for any contingency.

Phil Evans

NBA teams can be there to monitor (player) development or take part in development. They could work out a player before practice or after practice.

Mark Black

If they aren't able to be out on the floor, they are able to monitor what's going on in the school.

Haz Iwendi

We are on red alert. All state commissioners of police are under instructions to monitor developments and prevent any violence.

Dean Cox

We're able to monitor without physically being on scene and if we see indications of trouble, then we send people out.

J. M. Roberts

I think it's something we are going to have to monitor over the next two weeks to two months.

Rich Ackermann

We wanted a tool that was not intrusive and was able to monitor the end-to-end experience.

Yvonne Smith

We don't do the pill because we don't have any way to monitor what they are taking every day.

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Coleen Rowley

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception.

Joe Tiberi

Those talks are ongoing today and they are progressing well.

Matthew Kaufler

Consolidation will be an ongoing theme in the industry.

Tiffany Townsend

An investigation is ongoing about the accident, and we're still trying to find out what happened.

Liu Jianchao

China's position on nonproliferation is clear. We resolutely oppose any proliferation.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

Brian Higgins

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Roger Cook

We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Robert Myers

Many people want to restrict your access. They are well organized and very vocal.

Vicente Fox

On that side and this side there is organized crime. On that side and this side there is drug consumption.

John Marshall

Because Ray was so organized anyway, we just kind of plugged things in and we go.

Will Strauss

TI is not doing anything it couldn't have done before. It is just being more organized about it.

Lonnie Donegan

The shows weren't organized at all. They just happened.

Calvin Klein

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

Eddie Izzard

Peace, peace, peace. Peace is organized.

Jann Wenner

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Clare Short

We have reports of systematic and organized use of rape,

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

George Galloway

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

Tom Smothers

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Nicola Sturgeon

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Andrew Morton

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Keith Gilbertson

We never had to go to public lands.

Julie Warner

Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.

James Franco

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

Caroline Williams

Now we all know what our roles are now, each person. we're all working together better.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Marc Morial

She was singular in the role that she played, and she can't be replaced.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Tanya Fischer

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

Laura Osnes

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

Paul McNulty

Ms. Lewinsky's testimony has never been more important than it is now,

Cam Newton

I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.

Christopher Low

It's the same tone that he took in his testimony two weeks ago.

Michael Ramsey

The value of the testimony of such witnesses is about zero.

Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Tipper Gore

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

John Walters

There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

Joe Williams

Treatment is the way to go, ... It can work if you have the right model.