Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Tim Sanders

We want them to have that local commitment to the community, and that's a big part of our request for proposals. We're not looking for Wells Fargo out of San Francisco.

Frank Hadden

We want to try and pinch some of their ball. Nathan has a long term commitment to playing for Scotland.

Chris Alexander

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

David Mixner

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

David Miliband

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Laura Innes

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Robert Maguire

She has touched more lives personally than all 12 of the disciples.

Dan Ware

We're here to provide as much protection as possible. We're here to save lives first, and then do as much as we can to protect property.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Anna Deavere Smith

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Irving Kirsch

There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

Andrew Yaracs

We've become very well-known and through our exposure, we receive a lot of yearly invitations.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Matt Hasselbeck

Miscommunication. Usually, that is a wide receiver running that. I was thinking one thing and Jerramy was thinking another.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Sean Moran

We have yet to receive a response from the town or the Benjamin Co..

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Anne Campbell

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Mike Janko

Upon death, heirs receive a step-up in basis.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Alan Greenspan

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Alan Greenspan

Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices, ... This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Al Pacino

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

Dave Barry

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

David Sze

When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Suzanne Collins

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Bernie Mac

I've been in training for stardom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Deena Kastor

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Bill Nye

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernard Lagat

You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training.

Bill Wilkinson

We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don't want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to that message.

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Ted Strickland

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

Bill Johnson

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

Cat Deeley

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

Gregg Laskoski

We were as wrong as you could get.

Charles M. Blow

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Bob Parsons

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

Douglas Brinkley

With Nixon, you see the right way to do it and the wrong way to do it.

Anthony Horowitz

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Dean Koontz

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.