Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Ora

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

Kent Partridge

We're in bigger markets now than when we first started, but the right ownership group and the right venue are more important than population size. The NBA hasn't put a timetable on going to 30 (development league) teams yet. We're always on the lookout for markets that make sense and we try to fish out and see if there are any interested groups.

Martin Seligman

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Leslie Bibb

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?

Michael Franti

I hope I inspire people to dream bigger than what they are living, but a dream within their reach.

Travis Bradberry

When you take on more than the norm, your boss can't help but think that you're capable of a bigger role. This includes showing that you're willing to take risks by making innovative suggestions.

Vern Lorsung

We have to get started cleaning up some of these lakes. Every year we let go by, it's a bigger hole we're digging.

Garrick Phillips

We have a special deal in our community, and with the kids. Unfortunately, it's about wins and losses sometimes. But overall it's a lot bigger than that.

Tom McKillop

We have no strategic need to be bigger -- none at all. So there is no reason to engage in major M&A activity.

Natalie Massenet

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

Michael Ashcroft

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.

James McAvoy

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

Michael Douglas

She is such a tremendous spokesperson for Britain in general, and Wales in particular, that it hurt to see how she was treated in this whole process.

Ed Miliband

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

David Bowie

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

William Hague

The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

Nigel Hamilton

As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in fact, had met most of the post-war prime ministers of Great Britain from Douglas-Home to Tony Blair.

Nigel Hamilton

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.

Samuel Smiles

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Granth Sahib

Like the mad dog running around in all directions, the greedy person, unaware, consumes everything, edible and non-edible alike. Engrossed in the intoxication of sexual desire and anger, people wander through reincarnation over and over again.

Chris Lynch

consumes significant amounts of management time and encourages a short term focus on what is a long term business.

Mark Ruffalo

This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world.

Ayelet Waldman

I've always written about maternal ambivalence. It's the subject that consumes me.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

Loretta Mays

In my present position, personnel management consumes about 95 percent of my time. I have experience working with people, and I'm also a people person. I think all of that will be important in this role.

Rick Majerus

He's real energized and enthused. It consumes his every waking moment,

Robert Gleitz

We are seeing an incredible growth in demand for wind turbines as more countries seek to expand their renewable energy production to help reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and improve their energy security.

Jeremy Hobbs

We are potentially in the final throes of this round of talks at the World Trade Organization, which was meant to help poor countries but has gone way off track. What is needed from Europe now is not self-interest and intransigence but genuine concessions that will put trade at the service of development.

Robert Smith

There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!

Chris Rudge

There are countries that want only gold. We may move to that at some point.

Dick Marty

There are countries that have collaborated actively, and there are others who have tolerated. Others have simply looked the other way.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are countries like Paraguay and others, their neighboring countries, they're all interested in being able to grow and function in a manner that's free of external influence and to do things in ways that fit their history and their circumstance,

Paul Nelson

There are countries I've never heard of that have like 20 people playing,

Yang Jiechi

We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

Allen Newton

We're about out of industrial property at the interstate. It's one of those things when you're looking for property, you need a lot.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.

Al Jourgensen

Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

Brian Rogers

The prospective is amazing. You really get the feel of looking down on this Pittsburgh industrial neighborhood.

John Coniglio

There is a real promise for this product for the industrial market.

John Rhys-Davies

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

Jacques Chirac

must seek to take the lead in industrial and research innovation.

Steven Johnson

I think you need to lower your industrial tax rates.

Akio Morita

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

Akio Morita

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

David Milne

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Suzuki

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Lucio Tan

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Billy Higgins

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Bill Plympton

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Charles Caleb Colton

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Charles Spurgeon

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Chase Carey

We have recognized that our churn rate was too high, and we have been monitoring the credit,

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

John Parsons

The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.

David Fischman

The rate of success is high, under the appropriate circumstances.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

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.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Charlaine Harris

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.