Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Allen

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

Dave Barry

Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements ...

David Talbot

EFR entered into an agreement to sell some noncore assets for $2.05M.

David Suzuki

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

Cathy Freeman

I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.

Caspar Weinberger

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

Anita Plessis

The powerful prayers of the righteous which moves mountains are determined by the power of agreement and not whether we're in the same place!

Trey Davis

The possibility of a settlement with Arthur Andersen presented many complicated and interconnected issues that required the agreement of numerous parties. Despite our extensive efforts, in the end these simply could not be worked out. Without their resolution, any settlement would have worked to the detriment of the class.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

Lydia Leonard

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

Billy Gibbons

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Denise Levertov

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Charles Garfield

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

Beth Orton

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Matthew Pearl

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

Barbara Tuchman

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Chris Bohjalian

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....

Chris Adrian

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

Caio Fonseca

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

Camille Paglia

The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Bill Russell

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

Betty White

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'

Arnold Bennett

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

John Roberts

Yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas, ... Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.

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.

Geoffrey Nice

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

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.