Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Scott Skiles

Luther's been great. I liked watching him in college. I think he's a great all-around player. My feeling is, wherever his career is going, he's probably going to continue to get minutes. He looks like a good pro guard to me.

Bill Conti

Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says "I want one thing." The guy who feels that his career hasn't happened yet. The guy who has that kind of hunger, who wants money and fame.

Derrick Brooks

Let's not be naive to the system. For the countless examples of people who have changed teams, there are countless of examples of people who haven't changed teams. Darrell Green finished his career with the Redskins and he always was one of the highest-paid cornerbacks in the league. Jackie Slater was always one of the highest-paid tackles in the league and he played his whole career with the Rams. Brett Favre got a $100-million contract a few years ago and they found a way to keep him, so it can be done. Is it important to me? Yes. Is it in my hands? No.

Ian Millward

Liam can reflect on his career with great satisfaction,

James Roday

Leonardo Dicaprio didn't change his name, Emilio Estevez didn't change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what my career was and I was very, very blessed and very, very lucky, and it got started very quickly after college. And I only know that by going with Roday.

Richard Bolles

Many people take career tests with the hope that someone can definitely tell them who they are and what they should do. No test can do that. I recommend that people use the results of their career interest tests to stimulate their own ideas about possible occupations.

Mabel Illidge

Many students see the importance of the minor, and even a major in Spanish for personal pleasure, for interest in new careers and for enhancement of their own careers.

Royce Chadwick

Senior Day is unique. It's always tough for a lot of reasons. It's hard for them to know that it's their last to play at home. The reality of the season starts to sink in. There are no more games left. But some of them come out and have career performances. I just hope we're ready.

Edmund Shing

Miners have been massive in the past 12 months. The commodity bull-run has been enormous.

Morgan Stanley

We have significantly increased our short-term and long-term commodity price forecasts to reflect our expectation of sustained tight markets and ongoing deficits in 2006.

Deborah White

Funds are throwing a lot of money at all the commodities, and most of the commodity markets have been rallying.

Mark Zandi

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

Josh Stiles

I would be interested in what those Fed members who are concerned about longer-term risks to the economy say in terms of any damage from higher energy prices and commodity prices.

Gautam Adani

Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

Bryan Cranston

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

Jim Wicklund

Typically, when commodity price estimates decline, so do the stocks. These are dangerous times.

Jim Mitchell

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.

Sam Keen

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Mark Geragos

Scott looks forward to finding out who did this,

Cynthia Morgan

Seventy-two percent said they'd use their ex-supervisor as a reference in finding a new job,

Steven Katz

One important finding is that most patients reported that their surgeons recommended the less invasive treatment. Second, patients had substantial involvement in the decision-making process. More patient involvement, though, yielded more mastectomy, not less.

Jim Wooldridge

Obviously, we don't have any momentum going. We're finding ways to lose instead of finding ways to win.

Scott Drew

Obviously with a young team, the more time the better and we don't have a lot of time. It gives us a stepping stone in finding out what we need to improve.

Bruce Dressel

Now that we have a good view of everything of the Loop 101 south, we're finding all kinds of little issues people never called us about.

Mike Frisk

(Neely) has a knack of finding her teammates and also knows when to take it to the hole. She's unselfish and just a tough competitor.

Capt. Solano

Obviously the guns are out there but it's a matter of finding them and getting the right people on the team.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Monica Cruz

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

James Hayes

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.

Greg Zenerovitz

We had been preparing to open up with them so we could measure where we were at.

Willie McGinest

I have a lot (left). I don't measure by years. I take it day by day.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Armand Salmon

Tolerance for pain and suffering is no measure of strength.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Corin Nemec

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Harriet Harman

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Robert Ritchie

This parcel has got a lot of options.

Bill Rocco

It's part and parcel of the globalization of the world market.

Walter Smith

It is part and parcel of international football. It is disappointing but not a surprise.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

Elbert Hubbard

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

Edward Abbey

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Deepak Chopra

An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.

David Nicholls

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

Suranne Jones

She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,

Ryan Scolpini

She's pitched every time we've played. There will be no secrets there. They'll know she'll pitch.

Jason Schmidt

I don't know what the big secret is.

Blake Lively

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Dennis Potter

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dee Dee Myers

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Earl Nightingale

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Elizabeth Bowen

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

Elizabeth Bowen

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Elinor Glyn

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

Jules Verne

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Joss Stone

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Richard Grasso

would have been a valuable contributor to our board.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Alice Hamilton

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.