Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

Charles Stross

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

Charles Stanley

You always have God's undivided attention.

Alan Watts

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

Alan Perlis

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Bill Brown

Very cheap for a house this size. If we hadn't paid attention to conserving energy, our bill could easily be $350 a month.

J. M. Roberts

Ultimately, it doesn't matter to the world whether you paint or dance or write. The world will probably get by without the product of your efforts. But that is not the point. The point is what the inner process of following your creative impulses will do to you. It is clearly about process. Love the work, love the process. Our fascination will pull our attention forward. That, also, will fascinate the viewer.

Don Cheadle

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

Laurie Sabourin

The postures are unfamiliar, we have to pay attention and focus. It?s not like being on a treadmill at the gym. We all know how to walk. Yoga is so foreign that you need to concentrate. The postures kind of sneak meditation in through the back door.

Paul Dravis

We are lowering our rating...as we await evidence of recovery in the IBM OS/390 mainframe market and improved traction in the European sales organization.

Bob Barr

We have a president who's told the world, 'I am a liar, I am a perjurer.' I think that places this president in a very weak position and our nation at risk abroad. I await the Starr report because I'm more interested in what the evidence of obstruction is and not simply what the president wants us to believe.

Christine Harforth

She has emerged as one of Russia's leading young pianists, and we await her interpretation with great interest.

Bill Cunningham

What we're going to see I suspect from now on is the bonds market treading water somewhat as awaits signs of another rate cut. There's not a lot of direction outside of that.

Charlie McCreevy

I favor initiating some action, but I await final conclusions from our legal services," ()

Jim Davis

Kelsey isn't a big girl, just a well-coordinated player who gets everything out of her swing. She's patient, knows the strike zone and awaits her pitch - then drills it.

Peter Cardillo

I suspect over the next session or two, we could see more selling, as investors await all the economic news due next week,

Jesse Jackson

He exudes a great sense of confidence in the jury as being fair. Michael anxiously awaits the jury's verdict, but anticipates acquittal.

Paul Cavalluzzo

He does have that evidence, ... If it established complicity or pattern, he will be in a position to make that determination. But we'll have to await his report for that.

William Steere

We want to see how it plays out in the court and how it plays out in the market,

Tod Kowalczyk

Ultimately, it comes down to a half-court game. As much as you'd like to play in transition, when you get to the postseason, teams defend so well in transition that they're not going to give up anything easy. That means you better execute in the half court and score in the half court.

Michael Clarke

The person I heard in the courtroom was not the real Dennis,

Nathaniel Persily

We are at a defining moment. The court is going to decide when political parties go too far in rigging electoral districts for their own advantage.

James Greer

We stress El Camino tradition all the time. It's our job to hold court at home like so many of the past El Camino teams did. EC pride means simply not losing.

Donald Copeland

We spread the court well. Grant, who is an excellent passer, he's able to see over defenses.

William Shakespeare

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

William Shakespeare

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

John Roberts

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

Angelo Reyes

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

David George

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Steve Denney

We're making Herculean efforts to get into some of these areas.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.

Rudi Giuliani

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

Edward Jackson

We're getting offers of help; we're getting word that people are trying to structure efforts for us.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Al Oerter

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Ries

Good things happen when you narrow your focus

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Matt Strophy

We lacked focus and intensity. We can't do that with the next four teams on the schedule or we're going to go 0-4.

Steve Mullins

We know what we're playing for. We know what we're going to Milwaukee for. It's just a matter of us keeping everyone focused. I think we were really focused last weekend, which was why we were able to be so successful.

Doug Scofield

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

Ronnie Milsap

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Merle Black

Most voters don't judge a governor on one decision,

Chuck Logsdon

There are some key issues where we've not received a response that is what the governor wants to hear.

J. C. Watts

Yesterday Governor Perry declared Texas a state of disaster.

Tommy Thompson

I think the governor is putting this out to see what response he might get, ... It's an indication the governor recognizes we have these revenue challenges.

Dave Nabity

I thought this plan was supposed to offer tax relief for those who paid too much to the government. I'm sure it will help these people, but it is not tax relief, as the governor claims.

Jon Birsner

Maryland played it well and Ian wasn't wide open. It really didn't matter because I was going to throw it to him no matter what.

Skip Lockwood

Maryland is the first state that seems to be going section-by-section through the bill, because so much opposition to this has come out of the woodwork that they are very concerned.

Paul Blank

This is a responsible piece of legislation that the people of Maryland probably support.

Rich Rodriguez

Syracuse was tough, but Maryland is the most talented team we've played so far.

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.

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.

Sitaram Yechury

Our party's position is clear. We are opposed to FDI in retail sector.

Jean-Pierre Leaud

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

Michael Town

I think if enough people tell him they oppose it, he will listen.

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.

Liu Jianchao

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

Wes Miller

We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.

Diane Wakoski

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

Brandan Wright

We stopped pressing them and started trying to get into the passing lanes.

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Carol Leifer

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

William Shakespeare

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

Elizabeth Bishop

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Vin Laczkoski

She's one of the more underrated players in our league. Whether it's setting picks or passing the ball, she does things you look for as a coach.

Sarah Hill

We were challenging the keeper. We had a wonderful passing game.

Pam Walker

The possibility for the process to be tainted is just too much.

Pascal Hundt

We are seeing a process of spreading poverty.

Bill Joy

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Barbra Streisand

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Diana Wynne Jones

...don't spoil my learning process!

Bill Nighy

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Bruce Miller

We have no idea how long this process will take.

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

E. Hicks

While we would like to have had some resolution today, we are willing to wait,

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Mark Gurwell

We're the first to have the combination of resolution and sensitivity to be able to do this experiment.

Bill Richardson

It is our view that this is a strong resolution with teeth that would send an unmistakable message.

Charles Taze Russell

In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the kingdom of God, will be accomplished by the end of A.D. 1914.

Charles Sumner

The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.

Charles Dudley Warner

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Charles de Gaulle

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Charles de Gaulle

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Charles Dickens

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Carolyn Roberts

We've already established our credibility. The Legislature is very supportive of the university system and comfortable with our role.

Martin Freeman

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Walter Jones

I think so. This is the ultimate goal.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Donald Trump

I say God is the ultimate.

Donald Trump

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage