Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Lingle

Regardless of the legal basis of the decision this is not a just decision,

David Obey

Recent news reports suggesting that the CPB increasingly is making personnel and funding decisions on the basis of political ideology are extremely troubling.

Tim Purpura

Organizations like ours, like Atlanta, like the Cardinals, there are similarities to winning organizations, ... You have that focus that it's about winning, only winning. You have to have higher expectations than other people. And sometimes, you have to flush guys out of your system that might not buy into it, that might put their stats first, rather than winning. In those types of organizations, guys like that don't last, and they kind of self-select themselves out, and you end up being able to win on a consistent basis because you keep the guys who buy into that.

Leigh Ross

Our offense knows it has struggled lately, but we're still of the opinion that seeing good pitching on a consistent basis by playing such a tough non-conference schedule will continue to make us better for our MAC run.

Jamie Jackson

People make too much out of whether we're inverted or not. It's as if when we're positive by a couple of basis points, everything is OK, but if we're negative by a basis point, somehow the laws of nature have been violated. The reality of it is the curve is just flat.

William Frey

People make moves largely on the basis of they've got jobs somewhere, housing costs. But lifestyle, people generally don't take that into account. If you have an opportunity, stay there for a couple of weeks. Sit down and talk to people who have just made that move. Find out what issues they have.

Ned Riley

Some of the governors are going to challenge another 50 basis point (half a percentage point) reduction that many people would like. I think they'll be guarded in their commentary and that may be one of the catalysts for the market to correct.

David Velasquez

Our program is about improvement on a weekly basis and today we had a dozen kids (in the girls meet) that really improved.

Neal Hunter

Our product provides comfort, convenience, safety, and savings, while contributing to the reduction in global energy consumption. We believe we must deploy our technology on a rapid global basis to help relieve the pressures on our energy infrastructure.

Yang Jiechi

President Bush's visit has greatly increased mutual understanding, deepened mutual trust and strengthened co-operation between China and the United States ,

Jim Collins

Part of the path higher has been helped by the news from China that they don't plan to lighten their load of Treasuries.

Patrick McGovern

Our operations in China are indistinguishable from any of the 84 countries where we operate, ... We've never had any problems with the Chinese government restricting what we were doing or any incidents where proprietary information was lost.

David Li

Supply-chain management with China as the focus has remade the face of world trade.

Fu Mengzi

Such frequent high-level contacts between China and the United States are really rare in the history of their relations,

Li Peng

Such a system may be suitable to the West. However, China has its own conditions. We are a developing country with a large population,

Patricia Russo

Some of our recent wins in China demonstrate our services capabilities,

Richard Boucher

Our goal in sponsoring this resolution is to encourage China to take positive, concrete steps to meet its international obligations, to protect human rights, and fundamental freedoms of the Chinese people.

Theresa Mellott

Our goal in life has been to see the world. As a kid you said you wanted to dig to China. Well, I wanted to see what China looked like, so that was one of the first places we went. We raised our children, got them through college, then we climbed the Great Wall, did the whole thing. And we gutted the house.

Jay McIntosh

Our research shows that the Indian population tends to spend more and save less versus Chinese consumers who save up to 40 percent of their income.

John Lehman

Our recommendations are not a Chinese menu, ... They are a whole system. If all of the important elements are not adopted, it makes it very difficult for the others to succeed.

Brian Kemp

Part of why we were able to get this deal done was because they really want American families traveling in China. They're infatuated with American culture. And with the Olympics being held in Beijing, the Chinese tourism officials need to show that they're open for business.

Eric Schmidt

Our No 1 goal here by far is to serve Chinese users, who want useful information on the Internet.

Jiang Zemin

steadily expand its opening-up program in terms of commodity and service trade, and create a level playing field for a fair and transparent competition between Chinese and overseas enterprises.

Gil Perry

Our target is low-to-medium volume while Chinese manufacturers are interested in high-volume products.

Mark White

People who listen to the music for the music and are adventurous in their playing tend to dig it, those who have a narrower perspective don't.

Bubba Thornton

We'll also have the Chinese and a team from either Jamaica or the Bahamas. This meet ranks with a lot of meets in Europe. What better place to take a test?

Ralph Cossa

I think there's some understanding that if we back off for now, the Chinese will make some movement on currency.

Hal Sparks

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves is about a communist sympathizer in tights who, uh, takes people's hard earned money and gives it to lazy people.

Pat Robertson

launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.

Bill Maher

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.

Danny Fortson

If you are going to be in that type of position, you better even things out. All men are created equal. In the United States, you are equal. Is the NBA a communist bloc? Or is this an equal democracy? He needs to figure that one out. And if he doesn't, I'm going to make it a democracy.

Paul Robeson

What do you mean by the Communist Party? As far as I know it is a legal party like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

Shashi Tharoor

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

Shinzo Abe

China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introduced the market economy. As a country that is under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, normally what they should be seeking is equality of results.

Eduardo Paes

There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the authoritarian style of the dead communist experience. It seems that it is no longer society's obligation to understand legislation; it is a duty for governments to be understood by their people.

Janos Kadar

The ranks of the Party will thin out, but I do not fear that pure, honest and well-meaning Communists will be disloyal to their ideals.

Zachary Abuza

suffered terribly in terms of arrests - more than 300 around the region - including its founding leadership.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We no longer want an immigration that is inflicted (on us) but an immigration that is chosen, this is the founding principle of the new immigration policy I advocate.

Michael Ignatieff

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

that the warheads will not be targeted at the states which have signed the (NATO-Russia) Founding Act.

Monica Crowley

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.

Ram Shriram

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.

Sun Moon

Our movement has the greatest weapon if you use that word truth. We also have the greatest target: the human heart.

Layzie Bone

Man, we love El Paso. We've put on some of our greatest shows in Texas.

Wendy Nehring

I was able to interact with the greatest minds in all disciplines that serve this population.

Kurt Knauff

That was the greatest thing she ever did.

Shimon Samuels

That was the greatest disappointment for a man who had invested his whole life in this.

Brian McCann

That won't sink in for a while. He's one of the greatest pitchers of all time.

Tony DiCecco

That was one of the greatest thrills we've had here. It was just a monumental win for our program.

Dustin Hermanson

That was one of the greatest leaps I ever had,

David Ayers

That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and sit down right over there. Then there's people like myself who think that it's the greatest thing ever. And you can't get enough of it.

Kughalo Mulatonu

Our main headquarters and all our top leaders are safe.

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our on-time performance was at its lowest point in the weeks leading up to the strike,

Sylvia Bennett

Our leaders left us to die, strangers took us in,

Randy Cunneyworth

Our leadership has to step forward, and not just by being vocal in the room.

Yukio Hatoyama

People have raised expectations for leader Ichiro Ozawa.

Jonathan Epstein

People look for their leaders to show progress. And they look at mayors as people who solve problems. When they see someone who can show progress as mayor of a big city, they respect that.

Kip Janvrin

Steven is our top thrower. He did well and started his year off well. He's one of our leaders.

Elliott Smith

Static in my head,the reflected sound of everything,tried to go to where it led,but it didn't lead to anything.

Marvin Miller

Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.

Uma Bharati

Party workers are at cross-roads, in a state of shock and confusion.

Beck

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Too bad. There's a party on the coast. I thought we could go." He actually sounded sincere. ( a bit after) I affected a yawn. "Well, like I said, it's a school night." In hopes of convincing myself more than him, I added, " if this party is something you'd be interested in, I can almost guarantee I won't be." There, I though. Case closed- page 77

B. J. Novak

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

Bill Shorten

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

Bill Shorten

I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.

C. S. Lewis

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

C. S. Lewis

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Cecelia Ahern

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Ahmed Ressam

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target,

Kenneth Wong

For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.

George Bodenheimer

We haven't firmed up precisely how and when we're going to do that.

Mahmud Abbas

I'm never going to predict precisely when this is going to come to a conclusion. But I do think they have made a lot of progress.

Margot Robbie

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

John Cheever

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.

Bill Brandt

Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.

Bertrand Russell

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

Barbara Kruger

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Augusten Burroughs

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

Ben Kingsley

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

Albert Schweitzer

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

Laura Linney

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

Albert Einstein

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful ...

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Ron Reagan

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Adam Carolla

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Colm Toibin

I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.

Georges Pompidou

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

Jeb Bush

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Donald Trump

Republicans have not won the state of Pennsylvania and look what you have. You're companies are all gone. Your jobs are all gone. You haven't won the state of Pennsylvania in 28 years.

Ambrose Bierce

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Bianca Jagger

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

Berkeley Breathed

I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.

Arnold Schoenberg

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

Bill Hicks

Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

Bill Hicks

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Beleive or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Bill Hicks

We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Benjamin Disraeli

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Carroll Quigley

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.

Carrie Chapman Catt

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

Charles Darwin

...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

Blaise Pascal

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Chris Evert

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

C. S. Lewis

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Alain Badiou

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Brian Littrell

In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.

Brian Michael Bendis

If you like Powers, you'll love The Victories!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Bill Shoemaker

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

Bill Shoemaker

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Bill Shankly

If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

Bill Cosby

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

Bhagat Singh

Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.

Big Sean

I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.