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actions campaign change citizens climate collective consequences difficult earth embrace encourage everywhere future global hopeful illustrate imagine individual potential protect responsibility together
The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how individual actions can make any impact. We are hopeful that Yahoo!'s Earth Day campaign will illustrate that if we act as a global community, together we can make a difference. We encourage citizens everywhere to embrace our collective responsibility to protect the earth for future generations. Meg Garlinghouse
actions benefit clear crisis gas homes neither nor people relations sector
The people will not benefit from this. The people's homes will not get warmer. It is nakedly clear that actions by those who are responsible for this sector are neither professional nor competent. Those people have triggered the gas crisis in relations with Russia.
actions help high influence last pledge positive says school smoke
The pledge says 'I won't smoke in the high school and I won't smoke on school grounds. The last part says I will try by my actions to be a positive influence and help my friends so they don't smoke.
actions defend prepared various
We are prepared to defend the EO. We have anticipated these actions by various sectors, Raul Gonzalez
actions basically company customers financial fully growth internet management maximize offer powerful products range restore solutions taking team
We are aggressively taking the appropriate actions to restore the company's growth and financial performance. The realignment of the company is fully underway, our management team is basically in place and we already offer the powerful solutions and range of products customers need to maximize Internet benefits.
actions attempt believe bush constitute government immediate mexican response rhetoric strong united urge
We believe that the actions and rhetoric of the Mexican government constitute an attempt to infringe on the sovereignty of the United States, and we urge an immediate and strong response from the Bush administration.
actions believe canada common consider decision largest management respect senior tender whether
We believe that Sears Canada shareholders should consider the actions of the senior management and the largest independent shareholder when making a decision with respect to whether to tender their Sears Canada common shares.
actions appreciate art fire length provided service support taken time
We appreciate the length of service and time that Carla had provided to the Art Center, and we also support the actions that were taken (to fire Kelly). Chuck D.
actions build critical observe opportunity people protect smaller
We want people to observe how we protect the old as we build the new. It's critical that people have the opportunity to observe the smaller actions that make a big difference.
attack consequences potential
The potential consequences of an attack are just too catastrophic to ignore,
attacks group personal
The personal attacks and the attacks on the group are inappropriate.
attacks coming opening perception personal ridicule
The perception coming in is that you're going to be opening yourself up to personal attacks and ridicule from other councilors.
attack media parliament passed profoundly represents
We are profoundly disappointed that Zimbabwe's parliament has passed this law, which represents a fundamental attack on media freedom, Chris Patten
attack free throw
We started to attack the rim and we got to the free throw line.
attacking shooting
We started shooting better and started attacking offensively and defensively.
attacking call concerned ensure government media publicly safety steps
We are alarmed that state-run media are publicly attacking this newspaper. We are gravely concerned about the safety of Le Journal's staff, and call on the government to take steps to ensure their security.
attack believe denigrate deserve honor memorial nation nearly people respect seen single worst
We believe that the nearly 3,000 people who perished during the worst single attack this nation has ever seen deserve the respect and honor of a memorial that will never denigrate America.
attack believe causing conditions effective full inside time
We believe that the attack was effective in causing destruction of that facility. ... As to who was inside and what their conditions are, it will take some time before we can make that full determination.
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilized example expect message send society strong
We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody. John Wilson
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
committing people underlying
We have to get at what's really going on here, what are the underlying causes, why are people committing the crimes?
committing couple date gotten
We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet. Nia Long
committing dogs encouraged found longer people walk
We found that being responsible for a pet, such as committing to walk a loaner dog, encouraged people who did not own dogs to walk more often and for longer periods.
committing error grave holland jobs moving opinion plant solidarity
Solidarity is of the opinion that New Holland is committing a grave error in doing away with so many jobs and in moving the manufacturing plant to Johannesburg.
committing might period protecting understanding war
Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits. Donald Evans
committing confidence defenders hoped lack multiple pay shooting struggle
Obviously, we struggle right now with our perimeter shooting and play. We didn't make them pay as much as we would have hoped for their committing multiple defenders to McGrady. (Bowen) can make (shots). I'm disappointed in his lack of confidence. I have more confidence in him than he has in himself.
committing concern himself looked money people pockets proves smaller
My concern is that he has only looked after much smaller pockets of money before this. People will want to see how he proves himself before committing money.
committing felt floor herself mall mean suicide three throw whether window within
Because she was terrorized. I mean she felt like committing suicide within three hours. She was actually considering whether to throw herself out of the 10th floor window into the Pentagon Mall below. She was intimidated.
committing people
More and more people are committing to go,
concerning face played team tournament won
We're going to face a team that has played in the tournament and won in the tournament. That's one of the things that is concerning me. Tommy Amaker
concerning legitimacy mass protests seen time uncharted
We're in uncharted territory. This is the first time we've seen mass protests concerning the legitimacy of a person who's been elected. Abhisit Vejjajiva
concerning highly israeli issue major obama point record
When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view. Shimon Peres
concerning honour indulgence plain therefore views
I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest. Lajos Kossuth
concerning half optimistic performance second
We are guardedly optimistic concerning our performance over the second half of this year.
concerning disputes gas price russia volumes
There are no disputes between Russia and Turkmenistan concerning the price or volumes of the Turkmen gas that we import.
concerning june proposal related submitted
There are discussions going on concerning our proposal submitted on June 14. Part of our proposal is related to GECAS.
concerning uncommon
I think it's a little too cozy. It's not an uncommon practice, but it is a concerning one.
concerning express gratitude offered prayers return safe sincerest support
to express our sincerest gratitude to everyone who offered their prayers and support concerning the safe return of Erica.
criticized president spent
We spent more than the president requested, and we were criticized for pork-barrel spending, Bob Bennett
criticized crush dream dreams foolish giving half people special whenever
Whenever we dream out loud, were criticized for being foolish by people who really have no idea how special we are. As a result, we crush our dreams without giving them half a chance. Barbara Sher
criticized defend foreign forgetting latin life military object policy regimes saddam side states supported supporting taught united whipped whipping
Life has taught me that if someone is being whipped and someone is whipping this person, I am always on the side of those who are being whipped. I've always criticized U.S. foreign policy for forgetting that the United States should defend those who need to be defended. I would object to U.S. policy if it supported Saddam Hussein, and I have always criticized the United States for supporting military regimes in Latin America. Adam Michnik
criticized proved throughout time
We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.
criticize hamburgers might united
I'd like to think that, in the United States, you can criticize a company that makes hamburgers without having to worry about what might happen to you. Eric Schlosser
criticized fear reporting
The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful groups.
criticized good wave white
We were broadly criticized by some, especially in the Senate, ... We did not back up. We did not wave the white flag. We did not retreat. ... I think this is a good bill. Dennis Hastert
criticized critics-and-criticism demanded last maps quality rand simplicity sort
Last year, we were criticized for the simplicity of the maps. This is the sort of quality with maps that we demanded when I was with Rand McNally.
criticized produced though work writers
There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one. David Rabe
errors mad void
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.) Charles Stross
errors events chance
You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied. Charles Spurgeon
errors needs done
If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.
errors programming reborn
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. Alan Perlis
errors mental-illness illness
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
errors giving support
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou. Dave Barry
errors perception optical-illusions
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. Carl Sagan
errors safe reacting
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error. Bill Johnson
errors useless repentance
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. Edward Gibbon
failing
How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!
failing exception
Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive. Calamity Jane
failing managers ifs
If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Mark Cuban
failing excellent projects
Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up. Eddie Izzard
failing
Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor. Diego Klattenhoff
failing cigarette score
Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score. Earl Weaver
failing models rely
A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail. Charlie Munger
failing preparing-to-fail preparing
The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin
failing danger
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing. Ben Bernanke
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution.
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed.
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learn offspring reason
We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.
learn people stop tolerant
We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.
matters
We won. That's all that matters to me.
matters people reinforced september stories whatever
September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.
matters solid
The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class. Dennis Franchione
matters middle night serious solve
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. Philip Dick
matters sort statistic voters
One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more. Mark Zandi
matters none supposed
None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to, Jorge Posada
matters peers
I'm an All-Star in my mind, and I'm an All-Star to this city, my peers and this organization. So that's all that matters to me. Gilbert Arenas
matters
I don't even think like that, ... Why wouldn't you want me? I went out there and did what I had to do today. That's all that really matters to me right now.
matters stage whether work
The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film. Sally Field
past political reform
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.
past men miracle
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."
past self years
Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last. Charles Studd
past done lasts
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.
past years tvs
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).
past years judging
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
past giving video
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune. Alanis Morissette
past puppets driven
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.
race cells organization
If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!
race faces smile-on-my-face
There's a smile on my face for the whole human race. Alan Jay Lerner
race conversation made
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race. Alan Ayckbourn
race people
I love all people, whatever race they are. Alain Robert
race balloons curtains
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons. Al McGuire
race soul done
Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system - it's created the highest standard of living. Chris Chocola
race ideas america
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman. Chip Kidd
race knows
I know that my race must change. Chief Joseph
race racism waiting
The Indian race are waiting and praying.
relationship believe two
I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.
relationship honesty wife
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife. Alan Arkin
relationship leadership responsibility
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them. Akio Morita
relationship sex passion
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 Sedaris
relationship girl realizing
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? David Thewlis
relationship sex opposites
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it. Cary Grant
relationship
Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French. Lance Armstrong
relationship voice scare
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too. Aimee Carter
relationship needs given
You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you. Billy Joel
remarks totally
He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.
remember foolish gentle
How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves
remember lord divine
Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.
remember divine conditions
Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.
remember-you remembers-you people
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
remember ifs
If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there. Al Jourgensen
remember moments
You dont remember days, you remember moments
remember
I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
remember let-me-go ifs
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
remember forget
Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about. Cal Thomas
results rational knowledge-and-experience
Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.
results ifs
If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results. Arnold Schwarzenegger
results sweet time
We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do. Jason Terry
results
When money follows results - we will get more results for our money Bob Riley
results produce process
Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize. Bill Walsh
results
When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.
results
We're just getting our first results back. So far, so good.
results domain said
Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied. 'The end result is always you.X always equals Beth. Alexandra Adornetto
resulted
I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat. Kirstie Alley