Famous Quotes & Sayings

Omar Bongo

Let's be clear: I do not advocate the virtues of a new African diplomatic model and do not pretend to be its theoretician.

Steve Davis

Loretta's extensive business and public service background, coupled with her community involvement and role as a nationally recognized advocate for cultural diversity, make her an ideal choice to lead the New Mexico team.

Ralph Rivera

Many parents today are concerned about the content found in video games today and the effect these games may have on their children. AOL has long been an advocate for parents on the Web and we believe the Family Gaming Guide will be a valuable resource to help parents determine which games their children should be playing.

Steve Cassidy

Sen. Hillary Clinton has proven herself to be a tireless advocate for New Yorkers and our firefighters.

Courtney Boone

Sen. Stevens continues to advocate for the promise that was made to Alaskans by Congress 25 years ago.

Russ Newman

Senator Figueroa has been a champion of quality health care and the inclusion of psychological services. We are delighted to present this award to someone who has not only spearheaded efforts to expand mental health services in the state of California, but has also been a friend and an advocate of the psychology profession.

Greg Aiello

Mr. Wilson is a strong advocate and passionate. We're very aware of his views and the governor's views about how important the Bills are. We're working with all 32 clubs to make sure revenue sharing works for all the teams.

Andy Baker

Maynard Ferguson loves doing this kind of stuff for high schools and colleges. He is a huge advocate of music education.

Terry McElroy

Obviously this department is a big advocate of prescribed burning or controlled burning.

Ronald Kessler

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.

Rohit Shetty

Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully aware of what they want. Every filmmaker has a different point of view and presents facets of society.

Marco Brambilla

I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part of our day to day life. We're seeing large-scale projection mapping, like on buildings. There's video everywhere. It's much less noticeable that we're actually looking at technology.

Joe Nolin

We're not certain at this point, but we are aware of the opportunity and we might have a use for it on the beach.

Michael Haneke

Manipulation is constant in the media. Even the images of 'reality' on television are manipulated. The difference in this film is that the manipulation is there to make you aware that you are being manipulated, that you can be manipulated.

Robin Bowen

Life is about becoming more aware of who we are and how we fit into the world, not how the world has told us who we need to be. Ultimately, everything changes, and if you stop changing, you stop growing.

Chris Clarke

Major League Baseball helped kicked this off during the World Series when this was fresh on everybody's mind. Unless you are living in the Gulf Coast, you are probably thinking about other things other than families down there and what they have to go through. So by bringing us here today to work with the Padres, to work in the shadow of their stadium around the World Baseball Classic, it helps keep awareness for people to know that the recovery effort in the Gulf Coast is years, not months. We have to be there today, tomorrow and beyond and Major League Baseball has been a big part of that.

Ken Starr

Major decisions during the Lewinsky investigation have not been easy. And given the hurricane force winds swirling about us, we were well aware that no matter what decision we made, criticism would come from somewhere.

Richard Katz

Let's not kid ourselves. The entrance into the Big East Conference was primarily the result of positive visibility and awareness of the nationally ranked basketball teams under Bob Huggins . . .

Marcy Kaptur

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

Glenn Cooper

Many of the elderly will pay their utility bills and go without medication without food.

Rep Clymer

Many of the amendments to the gambling bills have gone to him as well, so it just stands to reason he would get this bill.

Rep. Reece

My concern is that there is going to be a convergence of immigration-related bills and the result will be complex and confusing and the session could end with the bills stranded in a conference committee.

Nora Johnson

More than 90 percent of the hospital bills I've audited have gross overcharges.

Tina Brown

Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.

Dee Dee Myers

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

J. Taylor

I can't get down (emotionally). I still have bills to pay and will try to go with the flow. Hopefully, I have enough talent to get another job around here ... I hope they can privatize Lone Star to keep it open and supply jobs.

John Felmy

The prices could go up, and consumption could go up, making bills even larger.

Frank Arnesen

Many clubs like him and this is normal, he is big lad, left footed and has a lot of experience even though he is only 21.

Robin Birley

My father has never really had time for children, ... My mother encouraged us to be pretty naughty. We used to go to Dad's clubs all the time when we were little but, to be honest, he was busy. Our mother was much more sociable then, but not so much now.

Chris Cornell

I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there,

Charles Portis

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

Dave Collins

I can't imagine all the clubs in the division continuing to play under .500. But stranger things have happened.

Scott Boras

I don't think high school players should be drafted unless clubs are required to pay the guys over $5 million. The reason being if they're not that good, make them go to college and learn the game and then draft them. But if you draft a high school player you have to guarantee his future. And if the player is not that good the team won't take the risk. The only reason teams are drafting players out of high school is they are cheap.

Richard Francis Burton

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

Matt Kuchar

I had a temper when I played junior golf and had my clubs taken away for slamming them on the ground. I learned very quickly that I didn't want my clubs taken away from me.

Jim Shuping

Sex-oriented clubs have no place in our school system, gay or straight. They are disrespectful and disruptive to our educational process.... We need to take a step back from this and take control of our schools.

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Dr. Nabarro

I don't know why they are not sharing those samples.

Tom Shadyac

If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.

Evan Spiegel

There is real value in sharing moments that don't live forever.

Joseph Lawrence

We'd be sharing tight quarters, but it's better than sleeping on an interstate, which is what some of them are doing.

Ryann Kishbaugh

That was a little strange, sharing a spot on the podium. I had never done that before.

Michael Levine

It was a very sweet idea. To think of all those women sharing their memories.

Bob Brown

It's kind of a sharing thing going on right now.

John Salmon

That (not sharing the ball) has been the problem, but I think we have an understanding of what we have to do. That's how we've got to play.

Oprah Winfrey

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Michael R. Bloomberg

making sure there are things going on that are unpredictable.

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Andrew Burke

Look. We will give you the servers. We will give you the DRM. We will give you the middleware within the box. And we'll make sure that all of those work effectively together.

Josh Beekman

Now they want to be sure when you come in that you're going to graduate.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Kenneth Lay

I did everything I could humanly do during this time. Did I make mistakes? I'm sure I did.

Jeff Hanna

If anything, it was, 'Are you sure you want to do this?',

John Currie

We need to make sure they all understand that this is a different Northeastern than it was 20 years ago,

Joe Wineke

We need to make sure our vote is out there.

Albert Schweitzer

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

Albert Schweitzer

Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.

Albert Schweitzer

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

Albert Schweitzer

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

Ludwig von Mises

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.

Chris Crutcher

No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.

Dennis Ritchie

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

Dennis Prager

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

Dennis Prager

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

Janet Fitch

My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.

Marina Abramovic

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,