Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn McLaughlin

We want to take these meetings across the city to get as many people involved as possible. We are trying to build a coalition behind this.

Robert Kirby

We want to stimulate demand for physics and encourage young people across the UK to study it whatever their financial or social background.

Brian Peterson

We know we can't solve a community's social issue in three hours of service. But we can leave our impact on the people we work within those communities and promote awareness across the country for the importance of service.

Marc Rotenberg

We know from many other examples that there are lots of security breaches that occur across the country. There's no reason to think this will be any different.

Walter Harrigan

When I was a kid, there were no youth sports ? all they had was Little League. Now, everything is much more structured (with travel teams). It has helped us in getting our instruction across to the kids.

Jason Goldberg

Vertical search takes search a step further by enabling individuals to easily one-stop search for and find specialized content germane to a specific industry vertical, such as jobs, apartments and real estate, across multiple sites and content sources. New innovations in vertical search enable consumers to find the content they need faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Luke Bracey

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

Louis Stokes

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

Michael Specter

Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.

Kim Gandy

We know from Wood's experience that it's not a very welcome atmosphere for women's rights advocacy at the agency.

Bruce Gordon

We strongly oppose the Nebraska law that divides the Omaha public schools along racial lines. The Supreme Court ruled those 52 years ago that separate but equal schools result in inequality and poor education for minority children. We will use every advocacy tool, including legal, at our disposal to fight this unconstitutional law.

Maureen Shea

When we began this year, no one would have guessed that the vice president would be needed to break a tie on the budget. Our advocacy made a difference.

Esam Omeish

What has protected our community far before 9/11 from extremism and violent ideology is that balanced mainstream advocacy of Islamic principles.

Jerry Berman

There is concern by us and certainly by many others that this board is subject to capture. There is concern that it's subject to capture by a small group of corporations, to a country, to an advocacy group bent on changing the way the Internet works for its own purposes.

Brendan Bell

We're seeking to heighten the advocacy of the region as an energy supplier to the continent.

Chris Butler

We're excited about this. We think it will bring some relief to some of our clients. We've been working on the bill for about 2 ½ years now with other folks in the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, so we're also relieved.

Richard Blumenthal

Joel Klein has taken antitrust enforcement to a new and higher level of intellectual rigor and forceful advocacy and protection of the public, ... He's been more proactive and consumer minded than many other antitrust enforcers. Joel is a hands-on enforcer who is enormously energetic and supportive of his staff, inspires tremendous loyalty, and has very insightful judgment.

Craig Williams

While Which New Bank? has been an undoubted financial success - Mr Norris takes over a bank with strong profitability - declining customer advocacy presents a problem in a more competitive market.

Chris Chocola

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

Chris Christie

I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.

Richard Boucher

Verification and transparency are going to be very, very important to us. We're looking for compliance with International Atomic Energy Agency rules and safeguards in that respect.

Dick Armey

At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.

Doug Risebrough

Unrestricted free agency is not a savior. I've never seen an unrestricted free agent carry a team. But it is a tool.

Jack Stewart

We started this vote record last year to highlight the legislators who show an understanding of the economic and employment benefits of manufacturing and the cost burdens manufacturers incur to operate in this state. With over 340,000 lost manufacturing jobs in California over the last four years and no state agency in charge of retaining, recruiting and promoting manufacturing, we count on the Legislature to make this state more competitive for manufacturers.

Martin Van Buren

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Chris Kennedy

We always hope our federal bureaucracy is going to do a good job responding to the needs of Americans. The painful fact is, this is a bureaucratic process. Unfortunately, there are complaints all over the place out there about the speed with which the agency is dispensing with these claims.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

Mathew Staver

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

Ivica Dacic

We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready.

Joost Hiltermann

There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones.

Benazir Bhutto

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Christopher Dodd

We've got a very busy agenda at the U.N., it's going to be very difficult to get the job done. Let's get behind him, let him do his work I certainly want to see him succeed but I'm going to watch him carefully.

Nia Long

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

Newt Gingrich

Unless the commission has a dramatically different agenda and a dramatically different approach than the same tired, old, big-government liberalism, it'll be like the commissions we've had for 30 years.

Sue Monk Kidd

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

Al Pacino

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Kaline

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

Akio Morita

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

Becky Miller

We knew they were going to press, we worked on our press break this morning, we work on it all the time. We did not handle their pressure well. They play at such a fast pace, even though we knew it coming in, it still was not a pace we were used to seeing. We didn't do a good job running our offenses, especially in the first quarter we took crazy shots because we panicked.

Marty Holah

Very disappointing, we certainly had the opportunities to put the game away in the first half. We made a lot of line breaks and didn't convert them into five pointers.

Jamie Munro

Ultimately, we didn't end up getting some breaks we needed to get an upset. Virginia has a great team and we tried to take it to them. ? We played hard. They played hard.

Djuna Barnes

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

David Popenoe

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

Adger Ross

We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.

John Payne

We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet.

Kim Chance

We knew they were working back then and doing the improvement so I'm sure the city has it in well-capable hands.

Carl Peterson

The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.

Bible Bible

The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

Artur Davis

the people who sat comfortably in this city last week.

Al Naomi

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

Kevin Jackson

We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.

Mike Birbiglia

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Steve Winter

We lack a unified voice to coordinate economic developments.

John Fuller

We always coordinate our efforts with FEMA and the state EOC, (Emergency Operations Command).

Michael Brown

We're not a first responder agency. We're there to coordinate and help people prepare and coordinate in times of disaster. And so if the country wants us to be more, then we should have a great public policy debate whether that's true or not,

Richard Turnbull

Last winter a group of us got together to coordinate various dining programs between the MU and UHDS.

Sharon Kesselring

Our goal was to coordinate efforts between other groups and ourselves while giving all of the support that we could.

Ray Lovell

Our main focus here is on the individual and the family and how they're suffering. Our job is now to coordinate all the help that is out there to help in the recovery effort.

Kurt Angle

I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.

Paul Steiger

I look forward to hearing from you further on this matter so that we can coordinate Danny's safe and timely release.

Phil Clark

We're saying please coordinate with the state. It's not that we don't think this help is important.

Cynthia Price

We know women influence up to 85 percent of all (auto) purchases. We decided to create an event that's a more relevant experience for women.

Lawrence Awe

We know we've got to create time out of no time.

Deirdre O'Kane

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

Don McCoy

Venus is extremely inhospitable for life, whereas Earth is a great place to live. If these planets were created about the same time, why would Earth take on such a different character?

Thomas Kristensen

Vendors can take months to create patches, and sometimes users grumble about that, ... But the alternative is to have patches that can be circumvented or aren't appropriate for the vulnerability. It's a difficult balance.

Lisa Jakub

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

Michael Steele

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Ghazi Hamad

The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.

John Brown

the people who create it want the most to protect it.

Charles Dudley Warner

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles Dickens

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

Charles Simmons

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Roger Morris

Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.

Diane von Furstenberg

Italy will always have the best food.

Dave Barry

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

Catherine Bertini

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

Kathleen Blanco

The power is out, the phones are down and there is no food or water, and many trees are down.

David Sedaris

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

David Mitchell

Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.

Benjamin Franklin

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

Edwin Louis Cole

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

Bill Gates

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Dikembe Mutombo

Food - there's no greater gift...

Deepak Chopra

Eat only when you feel hungry. Notice and feel your hunger. This is conscious eating.

Arthur Hertzberg

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

Bruce Springsteen

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

John Berlin

It is a real stretch from the indoor 55 hurdles to the 100 and 300 outdoor hurdles. Right now we are just trying to get her timing down and conditioning up.

Scott Nicklas

He may have pulled his (right) quad. We'll have to wait and see. (But) he pulled out of the hurdles and triple jump because he hurt it in the long jump.

Jack Michael

We had a nice day. It was pretty much a team effort. We were disqualified in the shuttle hurdles relay but scored pretty much in every other event.

Joe Girardi

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Benn Steil

It's one significant step, but there are still a lot of hurdles to overcome.

Bill Warlick

It looks like the last hurdles are something they can get over here.

Mark Bryant

The three hurdles that we had to get over this summer, we got over without incident.

Rubin Carter

I know we still have some hurdles to cross. You just don't know what they're going to be.

Devan Downey

I'm so proud of our team. We have been through so much together. We overcame a lot of hurdles all year. Even tonight we didn't give any excuses.

Benjamin Tal

So I will not be surprised to see consumption of other items going down, like people taking less vacations, spending less on furniture, or any other items that are non-essential.

Pat Joyner

He'd order 40 to 50 of these items at a time.

Lindy Urso

Whatever they're looking for is not in there. He doesn't have any of those items any where. I'm not at all concerned. I know none of the items they were looking for are in Carlos' possession.

David Payne

Our plan is to use the items on one test and not on subsequent administrations of test.

Hans Blix

There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament.

Robert Baird

We've been working on this for years, ... It's not going to be fail-proof. It's going to take some time to get items in order, but the system works well in the states that have it.

Kelly Callahan

We'll have a lot more items than we've had in the past, probably 15 different vehicles and all kinds of other things, from A to Z.

James Billington

We have 119 million items in 460 different languages,

John Morse

None of these items should have come as a surprise to anyone.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Bill Gates

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all - including the poorest.

Claudia Black

I know a lot about health, wellness, and nutrition. I make my own kombucha. I'm clumsy.

Margo Wootan

Disco-era nutrition standards don't make sense in 2006.

Marion Nestle

The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science is that it takes the nutrient out the context of the food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle.

Nicole Ari Parker

I'm really into nutrition from the inside out.

Jimmy Piersall

Nutrition makes me puke.

John Dewey

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

Kim Kardashian

We just started seeing a nutritionist who changes our diet every 10 days.

Tyler Florence

The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance

Charles Sumner

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Charles Edison

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

Charles Caleb Colton

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

Charles Dickens

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

Alan Greenspan

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

David Morrissey

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

David Morrissey

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

David Greenberg

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

Dave Barry

Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Kevin Eastler

We stay in touch pretty regularly, via e-mail or the phone. He'll send me programs and I'll tell him how I'm feeling. He'll give me paces and whenever we have the opportunity, we'll get together.

Rod Williams

We were able to put together a packet of programs and get her into a house.

David Heil

We don't know if any of it's going to be funded at all, and if so, we don't know what programs it will be spent on,

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Chris Mitchell

There is a lot of support for youth programs here.

Thomas Burke

That's $200,000 in drug programs that won't get funded,

Susan Hayward

It's for the public, it's year round, and it's also for the schools because we're going to re-establish our school programs and all our outreach programs.

Erskine Bowles

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

Antonio Banderas

I think it actually will be an interesting play. I think it is a very smart proposal for theater.

Sergei Ivanov

If such proposals come -- we have not yet received them -- I am sure that they will not solve the ABM issue,

Ken Karl

Under my proposal there?s only one wire to move.

Sergei Kiriyenko

Our proposal remains in force, but only as part of a comprehensive approach.

Burton

Most of the restaurants and taverns, especially the ones downtown, support the proposal I've introduced,

John Izzo

My proposal is a starting point. It isn't an absolute.

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Ann Coulter

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Hans Eichel

Everything I proposed and much more still will be done now,

David Lennon

That is false. They have proposed nothing to us other than threats, concessions and substandard conditions.

Khaled Mashaal

They proposed this. Our reply was clear. We told them that we already have had two recent experiences regarding the truce that were not encouraging.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Jim Gibbons

very devastating to communities with a small tax base.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Diana Gabaldon

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Anton Chekhov

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Frank Nelson

She's not real thrilled about me being away so long, but she's very understanding.

Tom Kloza

I can tell you traders aren't thrilled by that idea.

Graeme Murphy

I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.

Mike Ledsome

I'm so thrilled for him. It's so great.

Harold Lewis

Bart is just thrilled to come back home.

Scott Coffey

I am thrilled with the results. I am thrilled he is going home.

Carolyn Clark

I am thrilled for her. It's her dream.

Roz Foster

We had no idea it was still there. We were thrilled to find it.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.