Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Liu Jianchao

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. ... We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can solve the question properly through dialogue and diplomacy.

Maurice Hinchey

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions, ... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts.

John Hamre

Recent events where criminals were able to become customers have led us to take this strong action in order to regain the trust of consumers that their information is being used only for their benefit, or the benefit of society at large.

Kristen Kinley

Recall numbers vary from year to year, and they don't necessarily rise consecutively year after year, and they aren't in the case of Ford. This was a hit to our recall volumes, but the number of actions was down.

LeBron James

Record-wise and going into the playoffs, we can't improve. I'm trying to get as much rest as I can. I don't want to try to force the action by playing on an ankle that's not 100 percent.

Adrian Foster

Recent price action suggests the dollar-yuan is more loosely following the dollar.

Gary Chase

Recent price action in airline shares has created some price disparities that we believe investors should exploit.

Charles Holliday

Recent movements in long-leading economic indicators and in raw material prices offer hope that an end to the spreading global downturn is in sight, ... Despite that, we continue to take actions necessary to emerge from these difficult times as a much stronger company.

John Marshall

Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination.

Matthew Pearl

Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Terry Teachout

I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

Misty May

Just the history, the boardwalk, the food, the amusement park.

Blaise Pascal

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

Blaise Pascal

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Blaise Pascal

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Blaise Pascal

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Kris Reyes

This proposal, as a locally owned amusement park, would make it very difficult to compete with corporate-owned amusement parks in Northern California because the playing field wouldn't be level.

Zhou Min

Reasons for giving up the animals are various including moving home, not wanting the pets to distract the kids' study or simply because the dogs were too old or owners had no more patience for raising pets.

Cherie Owen

Our main focus is to move the long-term animals. We've had some of them a year.

David Attenborough

People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it.

Phil Coleman

People love giraffes. There are plenty of zoos out there who want giraffes. People expect to see those kind of animals at the zoo. It's what they are familiar with.

Dick Thompson

Surveillance and response of H5N1 in both animals and humans needs to be strengthened in all regions bordering countries where outbreaks have been identified.

Dana Frye

Someone has to speak for the animals. We try to fix as many as we can and educate as many people as possible about spaying and neutering. We try to stimulate people's hearts, get them to open up to these animals in need. They give you a lot of joy back if you take one in.

Amadou Doutchi

Some herders who possessed between 30 and 50 animals woke up with none,

Dan Vaught

That could mitigate the bearish impact of a surge in placement rates, since the younger animals tend to take longer to finish, which in turn implies a wider spread of exit dates (as fed cattle) for them.

Eric Roberts

Rescuing animals is the only way to go.

Idotha Neal

Rehab is occurring all around us. However, there is a significant funding gap keeping the buildings from being financially viable for high capacity developers.

Joey Spatafora

Reliable power to this building is a chronic issue.

Shelley Smith

Our players have taken more ownership of the team and responsibility for improving their play. They are doing what it takes to get better, working hard physically and improving their mindset of the game. With that they are building confidence and that will help as they try to maximize their potential. Our team knows that we were stronger last year then the results showed and understand the importance of consistent play.

Ron Mosby

Our objective is to ensure the building is occupied -- that it just doesn't sit vacant.

Ruth Luban

People have to know that just because the refugee has landed in a new job, they're not necessarily safe, ... It's about building resilience, holding your boundaries, not giving 80-100 hours a week to the job and not losing your identity to the job.

Robert Whiteley

People often forget about management tools when they're building a new network or looking at the one they have. Most hardware vendors provide management software with their products these days, but there is a whole tier of software that can give visibility into the network as a whole.

Joan Claybrook

Such lavish travel gives lobbyists an inside track with lawmakers ... and could even be interpreted as building the groundwork for legislative favors.

Tony Boyle

Staying away for the weekend is an excellent way of building team spirit.

Bill Hogan

Stan Buchanan (a starter on the 1955 NCAA champion USF team) surprised me when he mentioned a few years ago that the team had always wanted rings but did not receive them, so we started a process of building an event to honor this distinguished group.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Our little systems have their day;/ They have their day and cease to be.

Andrew Collins

I think that investors, particularly in the financial sector, will cease focusing on interest rates, if they haven't already, and will increasingly focus on credit quality. But I think that if the economy continues to chug along, say at a 2-to-3 percent growth level, we won't see that impact credit quality in any meaningful way.

Stephen Harper

I'd anticipated the Liberals would want to delay the election at least until the spring, if not longer, ... But look, if there's a necessity to have a fall election and the NDP ceases to prop up the government, that could still happen.

Michael Friedman

If individuals are taking these medications, they should cease taking them and should consult with their physicians about what next steps should be taken.

Buddha

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Glenn Tilton

We look forward to competing with Southwest, as we do in other cities, ... a reminder that our challenges will not cease the day we exit Chapter 11.

Source Unknown

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Edmund Burke

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue

John Keats

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Phil Jackson

Our game plan was to exploit the middle and do the things we wanted to, but he (Bryant) was still supposed to be a force over on that side of the offense. I just felt he never really got in rhythm until the end, and we said ?Just go after it.

Kip Meek

It is a service that exploits the rigidities in pricing regimes, and regulators have a worry about that.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I think some people wanted to exploit this thing for political ends.

Patrick Hinojosa

Because this exploits particular programs on Windows, rather than Windows itself, your machine can get infected simply by visiting a Web site that's set up to exploit the flaw.

Priyanka Chopra

I feel there is tremendous talent in India which has not been exploited well. I am therefore ready to sign with new directors.

Laura Romo

I was praying it wouldn't go in. We missed free throws down the wire that we should have had and defensively we made some mistakes and they exploited them. I'm just glad to be where we're at. The girls have worked hard.

Nathan Brookwood

Henceforth, those who need more performance must exploit parallelism -- multiple processors, often on a single silicon die. AMD is winning the dual-core server race.

Tyrone Slaughter

Oh, yeah, they try to get on him. Clearly, as a white point guard in the Public League, people think they can exploit him.

Edsger Dijkstra

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

Steve Matlock

Our reorganized sales management team is 100 percent focused on providing dealers with the support they need to be successful in their businesses.

Saddam Hussein

Our political program will focus more on getting the Americans out of Iraq ,

Tom Amstutz

Our players were aware, sure, but they didn't focus on any of that. We prepared well and we executed well. I was proud of the way our team went about its business.

Elliot Hovey

Our race on Saturday was the most focused and well-executed race this year. Every race we've been getting better and better.

Chris Hutchens

Our main focus will be to have a quick start and not wait until the second half to make plays.

Mike Pirtle

Our main focus was to play the we've been playing.

Andre Morgan

Our main focus was to come out (in the first half) and execute. I guess we did execute, because (Jacksonville) is a very competitive team.

Amanda Hansen

Our main focus is to get past that first round.

Andre Patterson

Our main focus has been getting better every time we get on the floor. We don't look at where we're playing or who we're playing. We just look at it as five-on-five and that we're going to work harder.

Scott Goslin

Registration will be lower than it was in the fall. We will also have T-shirts instead of jerseys for the uniforms, and that will make them not as expensive.

Dale Shull

That's what I think about when I'm running. Instead of just running for 15 minutes, that makes me go for 30 minutes. I think about being a four-time state champion.

John Bennett

I wish my son could have known her instead of telling him stories about her.

Stephen Harper

I think Mr. Martin is making a mistake talking about issues no one wants to talks about ... and instead not telling people why they should vote for his party.

Andy Roddick

I thought he played great, let's get that out there right now. He really took it to me so I was playing reactive instead of active.

Jamie Kennedy

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

Robert Webb

I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Michael Heizer

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

Shakira

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

Dave Kaplan

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

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.

Derek Sivers

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

Tom Lehrer

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

Rob Thomas

Because we've spent so much time promoting the album, doing radio shows where you play one or two songs, and doing interviews, I'm all about wanting to get on the road and just play.

Wu Bangguo

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

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

Kurt Knauff

We're treating it, where we weren't treating it before. We were just protecting her.

Larry Mullen

I'm thinking he thought he was protecting them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Veronica Roth

You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

Jim Tutwiler

I have a Rembrandt etching. I have a Renoir etching, and we've already sold two Renoir etchings at this show.

Terry Davis

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

Syed Ahmed

He not only sold us a building, he sold us the town.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Blaise Pascal

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

Benito Mussolini

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Calvin Coolidge

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

Carl von Clausewitz

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Crystal Kelly

Our team is so talented. We have so many threats. Teams shouldn't be able to stop us.

Jim Tressel

Our first thing is to stop the run, period.

Shaul Goldstein

Our battle, ... is to try to stop it all.

Bill Crawford

Change isn't about what you are stopping... it's about what you are starting.

Bill Crawford

Making changes isn't about stopping the problem, it's about starting the solution.

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Abu Ahmed

Just because we have a big guest, do we stop going to prayers?

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

Bobby Frankel

I was experimenting, but nothing worked. I just had to stop on him.

Pauline Hanson

Reconciliation is everyone recognising and treating each other as equals, and everyone must be responsible for their own actions.

Dr. Wu

I'm her treating psychiatrist, and she did not know right from wrong.

Kathy Fackler

By treating them seriously, they're just on fire.

Michael Sata

This is our country. You are treating me like an animal, like it's not my country.