Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

Charles Stanley

You always have God's undivided attention.

Alan Watts

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

Alan Perlis

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

China Mieville

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

C. J. Mahaney

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

Laurie Sabourin

The postures are unfamiliar, we have to pay attention and focus. It?s not like being on a treadmill at the gym. We all know how to walk. Yoga is so foreign that you need to concentrate. The postures kind of sneak meditation in through the back door.

Kyle Johnson

The point is, somebody else is in need and in a grave condition. You want to focus on that and make sure that the person gets the attention that he needs.

Ernie Johnson

The only reason I'm bringing my condition to your attention now is because the swelling of a lymph node near my left ear has become noticeable to viewers of TNT, and there have been questions asked. My plan is to work the rest of the NBA season and playoffs, go to the beach with my wife, Cheryl, and our four kids, and start a treatment regimen in late June, which will likely include chemotherapy. And then I'll go back to work.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Lucas Till

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Louis Stokes

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.

Michael Moriarty

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Brendan Taman

The other thing we need is Canadian depth.

Paul Tate

We're interested in continuing to grow our Denver presence and clearly a natural link or extension would be Canadian service.

Joe Sakic

When you think of Canadian hockey, he was the greatest ever to play the game. When he talks, everybody listens. He has that much knowledge and respect, and whatever he has to say is important. It's not that we can't win without him, but we feel that much stronger with him.

Ralph Goodale

We want every Canadian to have an opportunity to experience the fulfillment, empowerment and freedom that flow from higher learning,

Rick Moranis

When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.

Jack Layton

Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as Lester Pearson or Pierre Trudeau. And so, most Canadians think it's time for a change.

Michael Shanks

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

Tony Valeri

We're focused on keeping the House open, not shutting it down, ... It's the opposition that seems to be focused on shutting it down and dragging Canadians back to the polls.

John Matheson

We know he hasn't got any money...the American people say he hasn't got any money and the Canadians say he doesn't have any money...he tried the same scheme here.

Al Pacino

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Andy Reid

We utilized him in training camp. We have to make sure that most of his concentration is on the tight end spot. But he is a guy we could use to get us through a game at fullback.

M.I.A.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

Edie Bailey

Life is too short to waste our precious time with stress and frustration. We should concentrate instead on the many things we have to be grateful for.

Tony Russa

We've won the division, and I think he's lost a little mental edge as far as concentration,

Siri Hustvedt

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

Brent Guy

Leon did a fine job of running the football. Toward the end of the game, he didn't do a few things we wanted him to do. He lost his concentration a little bit. But we're pretty pleased with the way he handled the game. He ran well and took some big hits. He's going to do nothing but get better.

Gore Vidal

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

Yuvraj Singh

From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Phil Garner

We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

Jim Harrison

We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.

James Sinegal

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Alan McCoy

(The price of zinc) has increased dramatically, especially in the past year." ()

Chuck Brown

We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Cate Blanchett

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

Natasha Tsakos

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

Kim Priez

While Mardi Gras may be smaller this year, the pageantry is not going to be lacking in any way.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

Phillip Brown

With the lack of support there last night to stop the A&P tax, I don't see the need to do anything further.

Keke Palmer

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Kelly Rowan

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

Tony Stewart

We're ready. I don't feel like we're lacking anything or waiting on anything.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Mark Shapiro

We lack upper-level, left-handed relief depth. (Heredia) could be a Major League alternative for us this year.

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.

William Shakespeare

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

Niki Tsongas

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Alan Greenspan

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

Chris Christie

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Chris Christie

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

Chiranjeevi

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

David Mitchell

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

David Kim

Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Doris Williams

Women can do a lot of things when they have to, and she was a prime example.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Robert Reich

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Brendan Behan

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

Geoff Stults

I think anybody can relate to the reluctance to have to lead sometimes.

Gustav Mahler

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Todd Duncan

All reluctance is a lack of confidence.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

TR Harlan

She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Les Garland

We want the Web site to be a storefront, as a service to our viewers.

Les Garland

We want the Web site to be a store-front, as a service to our viewers.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Jeff Gundy

I don't think they have many weaknesses. I didn't think they had many weaknesses before, either.

Billy Donovan

I don't really see too many weaknesses with those guys.