Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Powanda

We know clearly from the orientation that Pat and I do that the clinical staff are coming to Griffin because of the approach to patient care. It's the reason they went into their professions when they were in school.

Andrew Wilkinson

Ultimately, if employees are given the choice to watch key matches it may result in reduced absenteeism and a more responsible approach to personal workloads.

Paul Tagliabue

ultimately how maybe we can approach the construction of a stadium and eventually, possibly having a team back in operation in Los Angeles.

Charles Kennedy

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

Mike Greene

The point is not to lecture. We approach this from the premise that U.S.-China relations are good and we're committed to making them better.

Michael Stern

We are pleased to be able to work so closely with Brian, his team of trainers and coaches, and especially the elite athletes that look to TEST Sports Clubs to improve their performance. Our cutting-edge approach to athlete nutrition matches is a perfect complement to TESTs approach of using science and creativity to open new horizons for elite athletes.

Lawrence Byrd

We are at the beginning of the road. In order to grow we need to change the way we approach the way we do business.

John Kilduff

We are at levels that in the past several years had caused gasoline prices to approach the $1.70-type national average record levels.

Lee Bermejo

As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center.

Dave Barry

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Pitt younger

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins

Jim Lee

When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.

Anton Chekhov

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Bill Brown

The process was so graceful; I was lucky to have such a wonderful team. I created the score in the most easy and fun collaboration I think I've ever had. We were blessed to have the A-list of LA players with us. They brought the score to the next level for sure...as they are so apt to do. I'm grateful for the opportunity to create this score, and so glad I had the chance to work with everyone at Radical and at Vivendi-Universal Games.

Bill Brown

The process was so graceful; I was lucky to have such a wonderful team. I created the score in the most easy and fun collaboration I think I've ever had. We were blessed to have the A-list of LA players with us. They brought the score to the next level for sure...as they are so apt to do. I'm grateful for the opportunity to create this score, and so glad I had the chance to work with everyone at Radical and at Vivendi-Universal Games.

Benjamin Spock

She's not cooperating knowingly. And some babies who have been 'caught' early in this way are more apt to rebel later through prolonged soiling or bed-wetting.

John Tyler

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

Chipper Jones

If a guy who has a personal interest in the Braves buys the team, he's more apt to take the money that he makes off the team and put it right back into the team ? such as Ted did. Time Warner didn't do that. Obviously, selling out to (Liberty Media), I don't see things being any different.

Marie Osmond

I never had a sister growing up. Donny was the closest thing.

Katie Simons

What has kept it current all these years is that it's so true to family relationships and the way we hurt the people who are closest to us.

Shawn Rojeski

We're getting fantastic response on our Web site, e-mails from all over the U.S. in places that definitely don't have curling clubs. We have piles of them that are actually looking for the closest curling club because they're so intrigued by watching everything.

Joe Wilcox

The reality is that most of Microsoft's partners are also its closest competitors, but that's nothing new,

Prince Charles

We shall not forget you, and we shall watch with the closest interest as you embark on this new era of your remarkable history.

Jason Mraz

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Jason Mraz

My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Todd Rundgren

The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the formality of a concert into more of a lifestyle thing.

Les Brown

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Jay Staggs

We lacked heart, effort and passion, which really concerns me considering this was a huge league game for us and we did not show up wanting to win.

Kyle Wilson

Uh, no. I don't have any concerns as far as that goes. I don't really want to talk about it. But I'm not concerned.

Darrel Good

The persistence of moderate to severe drought conditions in parts of Illinois, Iowa, and much of the southern Plains increases concerns about yield potential. As usual, forecasts of summer weather conditions are not consistent at this time.

Kofi Annan

There are concerns that if we do not make progress ... desperate people will resort to violence again,

Eric Johnson

There are concerns as to whether Ralph will continue to make headlines that are harmful to the party.

Samuel Bodman

There are concerns about the supply of natural gas,

John Connolly

There are some concerns there, which will probably see us including quite a number of props in our training squad so that we can get a handle on it. Getting the front row right is expected to be an evolving process.

Toshihiko Matsuno

There are some concerns that stock prices may be too high, and that seems to be weighing on the market.

Tom Schrader

There are some concerns about retail sales but they don't seem to be weighing on the market.

Charles W. Pickering

The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

Charles Edward Merriam

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

Charles Edison

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Charles Edison

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

Charles de Gaulle

These people really aim very badly.

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.

Charles W. Pickering

The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

Charles Edward Merriam

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

Charles Edison

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Charles Edison

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

Charles de Gaulle

These people really aim very badly.

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.

Charles Sumner

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

Linda Patterson

We want to see justice served for what was done.

Chris Christie

She supported a deal that didn't even require this murderous regime to return a cop killer, JoAnne Chesimard, to face justice. See I know about this personally.

Chris Christie

Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Diane Watson

Justice deferred is justice denied.

David Ruggles

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

John Owens

Since we're not making money, I think there is skepticism that is out there and it is legitimate skepticism.

Scott Fetzer

I think all three have legitimate shots to be wrestling Saturday night (in the finals).

Ernesto Zedillo

It is not legitimate to use something that pains and angers us all for political benefit,

Tommy Jones

He has tremendous makeup. When he was in the minors, I thought he'd be a No. 3-4 starter. I didn't think he'd be a No. 1, but he's a legitimate No. 1.

Ghassan Khatib

He is pursuing a unilateral approach, which is not constructive, and he wants peace that is incompatible with our legitimate rights and with international legality,

Don Porter

Our national federations are legitimate members, some are stronger, some are weaker.

Vincent D'Onofrio

We need substantial legitimate work on television, ... and we don't need to lose shows like that -- we need to get more of them.

Bob Martinez

But we told Mike we're not going to back off on what we see as our legitimate role as a party.

Matt White

I don't condone the use of EPO, but it does have a legitimate use in the treatment of a number of cancers.

Charles Sumner

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Charles de Gaulle

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

Charles de Lint

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Charles de Lint

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

Charles de Lint

Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

Charles de Lint

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Daniel Breaker

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

Mac Gifford

We've never seen these Midwest teams before and we're starting to realize that we can play with them and even take them now that we've had a taste of them.

Charles Stone

Drumline' was originally about a scholarship student in the Midwest who does core-style marching, ... We kind of funked it up.

Phyllis Schlafly

Not much. I don't think Giuliani or Pataki will resonate with grass-roots Republicans or Midwest Republicans. They are SO New York.

Paul Rudd

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

Nick Goepper

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

Lee Iacocca

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ...

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.

Charles Comiskey

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.