Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Porter

We want the kids to show up. We want to be accessible for any needy kid. It costs $300-400 to get started because the equipment is so expensive. We want to draw kids across boundaries to start relationships.

Alexander Downer

We want to see progress on agriculture, we want to see the European Union come back with a better market access offer that's going to be crucial to a successful meeting in Hong Kong,

Lisa Gansky

The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.

Lisa Gansky

A shift toward access and service would deepen the big-box retailer's relationship to customers and win their loyalty. A service focus would bring more rewarding, frequent, and lasting contact with grateful customers.

Lisa Gansky

Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services.

Tom Fisher

The potential is obviously great with the access to the freeway.

Nicola Lisus

The point of this exhibition is for visitors to harness their imagination and to show them that scientists, like children, access their best stuff through their imagination and fantasy. You think, 'Look at these characters, they're fantastic.' But they're all actually very scientific.

Viktor Khristenko

Unreliable access to energy, which has been evident from recent short- and long-term challenges and threats, has influenced the well-being of the entire world community.

Bill Richardson

We applaud Southern Company for being a leader with corporate fleets giving their employees access to a cleaner means of transportation and for continuing the partnership in the federal fleet program,

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

I. Stone

We are looking forward to performing in China for the first time.

Chuck Hagel

We are at a very important and delicate point in our relationship with the People's Republic of China and how this is handled will go a long way as to the future of that relationship,

Alex Wong

There are concerns that new competitors like China Netcom and China Telecom will enter the domestic market once 3G services are introduced next year. The focus now is on such uncertainties.

Mats Olsson

We're in close cooperation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Mats Olsson

We're in close co-operation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Steve Schneider

We actually find it not at all difficult in China -- it is more about how you drive growth; how you utilize technologies and how you train people.

Zhou Xiaochuan

What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.

Julie Gerberding

We remain sobered by the ongoing transmission in Hong Kong, China and probably Singapore,

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.

Blaise Pascal

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Aristotle

The best things are placed between extremes.

Tommy Mottola

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Jane Austen

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Jeffrey Schloss

There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other,

Michael Kucharek

That's a very costly kind of operation. With the Visual Warning System, we wouldn't necessarily have to go to those extremes to get their attention.

Don Sargent

And the extremes are what make the show so funny.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Spurgeon

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

Al Roker

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Chris Metzger

We want the kids to take pride in the Lely brand. We preach family and Thursday night we were all together and we didn't have to worry about where they were.

Chris Cagle

She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.

David Sedaris

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

John C. Calhoun

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

Amos Oz

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

Amos Oz

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

Cynthia Ozick

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

Fisher Ames

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Dell Leonard

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Dave Barry

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Byron Katie

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Dave Barry

We've actually gotten better musically over the years, ... But we've come to realize that we will never be good.

Nellie McKay

If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

Samantha Quigley

Yeah, it did. I thought it was going to hit the fence, so I was going so fast. Then I saw it went over and I was like, 'All right, all right.' The wind may have gotten it a bit, but I'll take it.

Rick Johnson

We're going to get serious. We've been playing around with this for too long, ... It's gotten totally out of hand.

Charlie Norwood

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

Kenneth Bonert

When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Ellen Gerton

Maggie has worked really hard and her skills have gotten so much better.

Kristen Schaal

I've been lucky. The projects I've gotten to work on are projects I'd want to watch myself. That's what I try to shoot for.

Ezra Klein

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

Bob Zelnick

the potential to inflame is greater than the value of the piece itself.

Richard Segal

We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.

Lucio Tan

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Bill Johnson

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Noreena Hertz

I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.

William Wordsworth

We feel that we are greater than we know.

Joseph Fiennes

Yes, in a way. Film is a by-product of my love of theatre. Theatre is for me the greater challenge. In many ways it requires more skill.

Rick Costa

The process is oftentimes too mysterious, and the public has a right to know. We're hoping that there will be a greater understanding of the process.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

Brad Henry

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

Barry Eisler

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

George Rockwell

Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement.

Bob Casey

I think it's time we had a senator who wasn't pushing a narrow, intolerant ideology that says 'I'm right, you're wrong and you don't know better.

Joschka Fischer

Violence was a mixture of ideology (and) macho status...,

Khalil Gibran

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Maajid Nawaz

Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

Dave Finkel

I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The separatist ideology remains and the violence will be a prolonged one because authorities need time to tackle this complicated problem,

Beatrice Wood

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

Aasif Mandvi

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

Larry Brilliant

I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

Jaswant Singh

Military intervention by India in Sri Lanka is ruled out,

Asif Ali Zardari

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

George Crook

But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.

Sharad Pawar

We share Pakistan's stance on this. India also does not support a Twenty20 world tournament.

Abdul Kalam

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Bodhidharma

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Peter Ueberroth

We are looking less favorably toward 2016 bidding at this moment,

Mike Scioscia

We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Bear Grylls

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Denis Waitley

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Eliza Haywood

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Henry Spencer

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

William Gerstenmaier

We're going to have to make some modifications to the tank, so that probably puts the September (launch) window into a not very likely possibility.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Kris Carr

When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.

Erin Morgenstern

I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series.

Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Henry Blodget

Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved.

Keitaro Matsuda

The overcrowding problem is likely to get worse.

Anthony Chan

The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Benjamin Franklin

Success is the residue of planning.

Abraham Lincoln

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Dorothy Teeter

The planning is complicated. ... But we can't wait any longer.

Dennis Conner

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

Edward Zander

We are planning some more wild products in 2006.

Patrick Leahy

We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington,

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Brendon Burchard

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Aristotle

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Aristotle

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Aeschylus

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

Calvin Coolidge

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Ansel Adams

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

Dave Barry

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

Janet Yellen

This suggests a presumption that the rate (now at 3.75 percent) will need to be raised further,

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Tom Rogers

What happens? We just, in turn, raise our prices.

Isabella Rossellini

I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.

Matt Zito

Lucent is trading at around $10 so how in the world are they going to raise capital?

The Mighty Hannibal

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

Justin Trudeau

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, / Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

Bible Bible

And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

Bible Bible

And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.

Bible Bible

And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.

Bible Bible

And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

Bible Bible

And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.

Bible Bible

And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

Charles Dickens

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Alan Perlis

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Darren Shan

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Carolina Herrera

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Carl Hiaasen

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Bev Perdue

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Benjamin Haydon

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Alan Lowenthal

Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

Bobby Flay

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

David Whitehouse

We are reaching the point where the temperature standstill is becoming the major feature of the recent global warm period that began in 1980. In brief, the global temperature has remained constant for longer than it has increased."

Jamie Farr

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

Janet Jackson

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never lose your temper, except intentionally.

Anthony Horowitz

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

William Shakespeare

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment?No man.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I really like Thanksgiving turkey... it does not take only time in Houston that you look at natural breasts.

Elia Kazan

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.

Brigitte Nielsen

Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

Charles Bukowski

love iz a big fat turkey and every day iz thanksgiving

Edward Abbey

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Atom Egoyan

April 24th was another commemoration of the genocide of Armenia people by Turkey. The perpetrator never admitted the crime. I was raised with that, this question: how do you actually find the truth of such a traumatic event? I'm obsessed with that issue.

Waverley Lewis Root

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

Alice B. Toklas

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

Al Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

David Hilbert

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Walter Salles

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

David Whyte

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears

John French Sloan

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Emile M. Cioran

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Charles Dickens

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

Alan Jay Lerner

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.