Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert McCullough

Vermont's 19th century highway system was in need of improvement.

David S. Rose

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

Eiza Gonzalez

I'm happy and I'm focused on my work... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States.

John Irving

I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst, and I'm not an intellectual.

Igor Ivanov

We are at the start of the 21st century and there are many risks in the world and we think that collaboration between Russia and the Vatican corresponds to the common good,

Cecilia Bartoli

I am a person of the 18th century.

Octavio Paz

For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Twyla Tharp

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

Mark Hyman

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

Claron McFadden

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

Dennis McDonald

When you say you are going to do something, you get it done. I committed myself to filling them all. I didn't quite make it.

Connie Miller

When you're with this many wonderful, committed people, it just keeps you going,

Kami Roeder

We have six wins and that's a lot better than what we had last year. These are great kids and they've committed themselves to be better.

Al Sharpton

But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Chris Daly

The performances of the different offices are on opposite ends of the spectrum. In Fresno County we have what seems to be a near abdication of their responsibilities, whereas in Alameda County we see an office committed to protecting all residents in the county.

G. H. Hardy

We are praying we don't have an earthquake, ... This is money we've committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

Dane Moody

We've all committed ourselves to having a good team, and we have a lot of individual talent. I think one-on-one, individually, we're better than any team in the country.

Joey Lott

We started slow out of the gate last week, and had some turnovers early. We also committed a lot of penalties and we know we can't do that this week. I've told our guys that Bowman is good enough as it is, and we don't need to help them by playing sloppy.

Herb Vincent

We have to have a lot of cooperation from everyone involved and our fans. We've never done something like this before.

Andrei Popov

We have repeatedly stated to our European partners that restrictive policy toward Belarus is groundless, far- fetched and useless. Real understanding and constructive cooperation are obviously reached through dialogue, but not imposed with sanctions.

Mark Fagan

We have six very violent people in custody. There was full cooperation from everyone involved.

Liu Jian

We shall enhance cooperation in trade and investment within the region, open up markets for each other, and promote trade and investment facilitation and liberalization, and strengthen regional economic integration,

Karen Hughes

Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.

Luis Walter Alvarez

At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

Lucie Morillon

This probably would not have been possible without the cooperation of Yahoo.

Strobe Talbott

would be an obstacle to cooperation on other issues.

Madeleine Albright

One of my trips was to meet with the Gulf Cooperation Council with all the Saudi foreign ministers, and when we started the meeting I said 'Perhaps you've noticed that I'm not dressed the same as my predecessors", but no-one had a problem and I was never treated with anything other than respect...So I did not have problems with that, interestingly enough.

Jeff Lungren

We have safeguards to ensure people aren't deported who shouldn't be.

Travis Bradberry

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

Fidel Castro

The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic,

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Edward Johnson, III

Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.

Lawrence Summers

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

Mike Lee

We are here to ensure we help the local nationals live and experience the same liberties we have in the United States without being oppressed by terrorists. These Soldiers took an oath to do this duty.

Bob Collins

We have a responsibility to ensure that every student is given every opportunity to be prepared for, and to pass, the CASHSEE. We are exploring every possible way to work with these students to provide their passage to the next stage of their future.

John Updike

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

Agnes Repplier

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

Agnes Repplier

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

Alan Sugar

I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.

Charlotte Bronte

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlie Daniels

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

Charlie Chaplin

I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

Charlie Chaplin

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

Charles Dudley Warner

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Charles Dudley Warner

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

David Baker

We've seen incredible growth in the past two years.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Mitchell Corwin

Walgreen remains on a steady growth path, relatively unabated by industry or competitive threats.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Janet Yellen

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

Jane Goodall

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

Elijah Cummings

Since 1987, the month of March has been designated to give special prominence to the women who have made lasting contributions to our society.

Deepak Chopra

The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

Benjamin Netanyahu

lead to a real peace, a lasting peace, not a minute-long peace.

Latin Proverb

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule

Ed Rollins

I do not think it is a lasting issue. I think it is just a series of things that this administration has done that makes it look like they are not always forthcoming.

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Joschka Fischer

For me this is the end of a period of my life lasting 20 years, and a new beginning.

Dan Gelber

I think it will be a lasting legacy, in a sense, because he has so many picks.

Tom Lehrer

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

Wu Bangguo

I am sure your visit will go a long way to promoting the development of China-Pakistan relations.

Michael Heizer

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

David Blunkett

No one is going macho, no one's trying to do this for the sake of promoting some sort of vitriolic or anti-human rights agenda,

Simon Lock

We've been heavily promoting it around the region.

Shakira

I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

Derek Sivers

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

Dave Kaplan

I'm all for promoting Kodiak fish. I always have been.

Nola Rocco

The movie is promotional in the sense that we're promoting the area.

Charles de Gaulle

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Andy North

We have had a long-standing relationship with UPS. That's not going to change.

Barry Hyman

The P&G story is a lot more significant than just its relationship to P&G.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Brian Weiss

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Diane von Furstenberg

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

David Sedaris

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

David Thewlis

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

Brian Eno

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

I take sounds and change them into words.

Brian Eno

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Dick Armey

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dexter Gordon

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Jandy Nelson

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

Perry Davis

She was just steady all through the game.

Elaine Jennings

There has been a steady stream all day.

Wayne Primeau

He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.

Scott Benedict

That's what he does. He's been steady all year.

Peg Stipetich

Our slowest time through the day was from 2-4 p.m., but we were still busy. It really was steady throughout the day.

Scott Cross

He's just been really steady for us inside.

Randy Thompson

Oh, my gosh, it's been pretty steady all year.

Harriet Tubman

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'