Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Lavoisier

Let us hope especially that the enthusiasm and exaggerations, which so easily seize men congregated in large groups - affecting human passions and leading the crowd against its own interest, sweeping up in their whirlwind the sage and philosopher as

Sathya Baba

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

Laura Blackann

Mr. Doolittle is not concerned about the media's irresponsible speculation affecting his leadership position.

Jay Bennish

My job as a teacher is to challenge students to think critically about issues that are affecting our world and our society.

Christopher Drake

Only 20 percent of children are getting optimal sleep, and nearly half are getting insufficient sleep. This is affecting all areas of their life.

Harold Ford, Jr.

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

Stefan Worrall

Obviously there are some risk factors with the end to quantitative easing and whether oil will start affecting global growth but the picture is pretty rosy for this year.

Ed Steadham

Obviously, the cost of health care is affecting every business in the country, and we're not immune to that. But when you look at what we've offered in total, we think it's a good contract.

Jim Hunter

The price of fuel right now is affecting us just like it affects every other American, ... It affects our teams, fans and all of us who drive cars to and from work.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Mike McCue

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

David Mellem

Lower taxes are great, but if its going to cost you money, it's not worth it. If a stock hits your sell range after 3 months, do you really want to risk 9 more months of fluctuation to get a lower tax rate?

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Kumi Naidoo

Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.

Mike Kelly

Last year we reached 355 fifth-graders, at a cost of $6 a student, ... We did this with the help and sponsorship of SFA, Nacogdoches ISD, Coca-Cola, Nacogdoches Safe and Drug Free and others. People stepped up throughout the year, and we received very positive feedback. It was a great adventure, and we will do it again.

David Hudson

Many, many farmers have made significant inroads into their cost structure and we have seen a very significant surge in diversification.

Joe Baca

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Kurt Barnard

Sears is on the way back to health. They're doing a good job (of cost cutting) and they are offering customers a good, recognizable value and customers are responding.

Stephanie Marquis

So far, we have 382 claims. We're estimating the cost to the state has been about $64,000.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Alexandra Fuller

I had the constitution of a missionary.

Albert Schweitzer

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

Bryan Smith

Last year, we only had a 1 percent increase in our health insurance premium.

Stanislaw Dziwisz

Many journalists who in the past have written about the pope's health are already in heaven.

Jim Edmonds

Scott's healthy and it looks like he's nice and strong. That is going to be a huge plus for us.

Elyssa Rosen

Self-regulation is not enough to protect the health of our communities.

Gillian Anderson

Motherhood has been enormously healthy for her. She's more secure.

Mike Keane

Obviously, we want Jason in the lineup but his health is the No. 1 concern.

Peter Lowe

From my own personal experience, I've seen real strengths in some of our programs and the coaching. We've had some very positive experiences, but I know Brunswick is not immune from the problems that are out there in sports.

Wim Duisenberg

We are not immune to developments in the United States and the world at large,

Greg Hall

We're more immune to the ups and downs.

Bob McNair

When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.

Jesse Spencer

I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.

Art Russell

The Nasdaq has largely been immune to the pullback in the Dow recently. Some of this response is overdue.

Jim Chapman

A cow's immune system is similar to humans.

Joel Fuhrman

The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

Jerome Verdier

No member of society is immune from the TRC process.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Logan Marshall-Green

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Chris Snyder

We've done a lot of research on it, and we don't know which way we'll go if offered one or the other, or both. We'll have to wait and see who wants us.

O. J. Simpson

You know he didn't have a caddie, so I offered to caddie.

Don MacAdam

We'd end up in the office talking hockey. He offered (to coach), and I'm not one to turn down help.