Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rubin Carter

Regardless of where you have been in the past, you have to go out and compete, give your best effort and don't quit. I only see a tremendous upside based on what I've been through with this program so far.

Corazon Aquino

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Lisa Randall

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Randy Vossburg

Releasing such a statement to the media (on Tuesday) before the township even had a chance to see the documents in question showed a distinct lack of courtesy and respect by the department. Creating media frenzy did not serve anyone's best interest and undermined efforts for good faith discussions based on preparation, planning and good sound scientific advice.

Colin Masson

Relatively few manufacturers have the luxury to choose a different product mix based on energy prices.

Ricardo Alarcon

President Carter represents the future, a day when there will be a mutual respect and a good neighbor policy between the U.S. and Cuba, a future with a policy based on certain moral and ethical values.

Trip Chowdhry

Our research shows that Oracle is losing some database business to IBM and Microsoft, ... Based on that, I doubt if the company can raise sales guidance.

Joe Horrigan

Our position has always been that O.J. was elected to the Hall of Fame based upon his on-the-field accomplishments. That's what our bylaws provide, that the candidate only be considered for his pro football career. And as such, he is in the Hall of Fame and will remain in the Fall of Fame.

Fidel Castro

Our relations are based on mutual interest and devotion to peace, in the context of cooperation and integration.

Thomas Tryon

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.

David Dunkel

Recent accounting-related legislation is having a significant impact at a time when the pool of qualified prospects is declining due to the 150-hour rule instituted by most states. As a result, many hiring managers have more work than they can handle with current staffing levels and cannot find enough capable new hires.

John C. Wright

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

Fernando Martin

Real Madrid cannot say it went off to look for him -- but that doesn't mean he doesn't interest us.

Wayne Dyer

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your ''now,'' is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

P. James

Our recruits and officers obviously cannot practice high-speed chases on the streets of Newark. Yet sadly, they do happen, and our officers must train for them. By making use of modern technology, Newark's finest will be able to simulate and train for these incidents.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Gleick

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

Greg Kutz

Orders were one of the key causes of the disputes and the problems.

John Olver

Our gasoline prices are hovering at $3 a gallon, and that causes a serious problem for a lot of our commerce and a lot of our families.

Sarah McCabe

Risk of not eating properly causes obesity and heart attacks. It can give you all kinds of health problems. Everyone needs to exercise and eat nutritional food.

Mark Hyman

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

Edwards Deming

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

Carl Sagan

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Ashley Tisdale

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

Stephen Flynn

It isn't the event but the sudden lack of faith in the system that it causes.

Gordon Brown

I welcome the Gates Foundation's announcement today. For far too long, world leaders have ignored the global tuberculosis epidemic, even as it causes millions of needless deaths each year.

Jerome Bonnafont

President Chirac expressed his hope that the international community would show solidarity with Lebanon on the economic and financial levels.

John Burness

President Brodhead has had a positive influence on town-gown relations. Duke's relations with the Durham community actually have been far stronger than one might have guessed from recent media reports. I suspect that's why despite all the tensions the media describe, the community has not splintered but, in fact, has come together during the current crisis.

Albert Carlson

Our position is that we want to protect community services, and there's no need to privatize or make cuts if there is no economic crisis in the city.

Joy Redding

Our paper actually the community's paper will cover eight years of local history each month using headlines and pictures from community archives.

Beth Martin

Parks are very important. Ours are used for many different events, including family gatherings and other community social events.

Jennifer Wagner

Passover is one of my favorite times of the year. This is when the whole community and family gets together to remember who we are and why we are here.

Charlie King

Part of what Mediacom is trying to do is become part of the economic development plans of our communities,

Adrienne Worthy

Part of the focus is educating people about the day-to-day work we do at Legal Aid. ... We've raised our profile in the legal community in terms of the work we do and how we are a big part of the justice system.

Jeff Jenkins

Our main purpose is to make sure fraternities are cooperating and making sure the Greek community is healthy.

Richard Doherty

Some of the policy matters around managed copy are still being worked out.

John Treacy

Some people are using this not to copy the picture, but as a starting point when talking to a graphic designer.

Greg Dierks

I think this year, she's going to have a hard time copying the offense she had last year. If she can match her numbers from last year, that would be great, but I think pitching-wise, she's going to improve some things and be more consistent.

JoAnn Carrin

It is not a formal investigation. Someone is sending us a copy of the study. When we receive it, we will review it and then respond to folks that inquired.

Oscar Wilde

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.

Oscar Wilde

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.

Susan Rosenberg

It fixes the hole in the DNA by copying similar information,

Jonathan Todd

It didn't think of popping around the corner and popping a copy through the door.

Jojo Moyes

I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.

Paul Moroney

Paul does all the work, inspects all the yearlings at a sale and then we go through them together, form a final list, and then decide what to buy,

Bruce Sullivan

Our observers will be the eyes for the National Weather Service. They'll use the information to decide if they need to put a warning out for the county.

Kiran More

Our one-day team has being doing well and we have decided not to disturb the combination.

Jeff Butler

Our lease ran out and we decided not to renew because of all the construction (on U.S. 41). We loved that spot, but fiscally, we couldn't keep up with the sales we needed.

Ahmed Ali

Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the new election, we voted for the Sunni list.

Bob McKenzie

State engineers have taken a look at it and decided what we'd do to alleviate some of the problems we have there by reducing it to 45 mph.

Deborah Pierce

Some of our members heard about Nathaniel's situation and we decided to do what we could to help.

Chuck D.

Our plan was to develop some physical toughness. The last three years, we've really had that, and we decided that we needed to start that today.

Nancy Todd

Our girls just decided in the second game that we had the match won. After that, it was check-out time for us.

Fred Upton

Prices are averaging $3.19. It's as high as $3.58 from $2.61 on Tuesday, ... My sense is the supply and demand equation does not fit a 60-cent (a gallon) increase in the last 36 hours.

Robert Greenwald

O'Reilly has simply lost his mind, ... I demand that O'Reilly apologize.

Ashok Kumar

Our lowered expectations imputes a meaningful pickup in demand over the next three weeks.

David Steiner

Supply is not meeting the demand of the industry. We have to wait for material. As we wait, our lead time goes out.

Jim McCann

Supply can never keep pace with demand at this particular weekend,

David Parks

Supply and demand is what drove up the prices. Demand was growing, and supply was staying relatively flat.

John Carson

Suppliers here in Tucson can not keep up with the demand they are only able to produce so much. They can't keep up with the demand.

Simon Derrick

Sterling has been remarkably robust in an environment where it could easily have lost ground, that encourages me that there has been some real underlying support and demand for the currency.

Bob Costello

Our peak demand seasons, when we see the highest diesel prices, are fall and winter. It makes me very nervous to see the prices we are seeing at this time of year, and I'm telling everyone I see no relief in sight.

David Payne

Our plan is to use the items on one test and not on subsequent administrations of test.

Pat Joyner

He'd order 40 to 50 of these items at a time.

Lindy Urso

Whatever they're looking for is not in there. He doesn't have any of those items any where. I'm not at all concerned. I know none of the items they were looking for are in Carlos' possession.

John Morse

None of these items should have come as a surprise to anyone.

Hans Blix

There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament.

Benjamin Tal

So I will not be surprised to see consumption of other items going down, like people taking less vacations, spending less on furniture, or any other items that are non-essential.

Robert Baird

We've been working on this for years, ... It's not going to be fail-proof. It's going to take some time to get items in order, but the system works well in the states that have it.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

I live about 60 miles northwest of New York City, and whenever there's news of a big snowstorm coming, everyone runs for the store. The perishable items are usually the first things to go, which doesn't make sense because they perish.

Craig Bradley

Parking here is worse than on many other large campuses.

Tom Daschle

That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Hans Vestberg

Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Danny Shader

Overall, the situation is going nuts. We are getting a very large number of inquiries.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Mike Chung

Large trucks have been so much more inexpensive recently.

Craig Colten

Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.

Akinobu Okada

Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.

Cheri Cihak

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.

Lisa Busch

State means everything to this team. As seniors, it means so much more for us.

Barack Obama

Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home.

Mahmud Abbas

Our security services are trying to use all means to prevent their arrival.

Phil Klay

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

Sharan Burrow

(We need) a broad-ranging inquiry, one that travels around the country, so that working people can talk to the senators about what it means for them.

Joe Hymer

It is an encouraging sign, but we don't know what it all means and where those smelt will end up.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Harrison Ford

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Donald Fagen

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Ryan MacDonald

Our problem (was that the DWI unit) was pulling over everyone, sober, un-sober,

Beck

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

B. F. Skinner

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

Bill Burton

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

Craig Conroy

That's been our problem -- we haven't been able to score goals.

Tom Collins

It isn't a problem unless you want it to be

William Pickens

It is not the ought-ness of this problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

Fran Dunphy

I wish that was the only problem we had.

Doug Cole

Other things can be replaced ... but not photos.

Alan Alda

No one can replace a unique person like Peter.

Kevin Phillips

Obviously, we are not going to be able to replace these vans with one bus. It's going to be a two-to-one ratio.

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

John Garber

We're never going to replace the radiologist, and that's not the intent,

Thomas Schaaf

We can't replace Miro, but we have to put that aside.

Derek Hall

We will replace the projectors, we will review our security system in the building, and see what we can do.

Kathleen Patterson

What we take out today takes 30 to 100 years to replace back into the aquifer. You can use 10,000 to 20,000 gallons (of water) on even a small lot. Micro-irrigation uses about a 10th of that.

Mariella Ruocco

We can replace the car, we can't replace you.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

Esai Morales

Well, actually yes, in 1988. There was a warrant for me because my assistant hadn't paid a ticket of mine.

Larry Peterson

I think she had to get a ticket to get back in the ballpark.

Melissa Gregory

We still have the ticket he never used.

Hugo Burge

Those are important in making ticket decisions. The better you do them, the more tickets you will sell.

Dave Cobb

We have to think of ways to redistribute tickets that are not going to be used.

Donald Barthelme

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

Douglas Coupland

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Amber Heard

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.