Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Tim Sanders

We want them to have that local commitment to the community, and that's a big part of our request for proposals. We're not looking for Wells Fargo out of San Francisco.

Frank Hadden

We want to try and pinch some of their ball. Nathan has a long term commitment to playing for Scotland.

Chris Alexander

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

David Mixner

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

David Miliband

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Akio Morita

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

Akio Morita

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

David Milne

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Suzuki

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Lucio Tan

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Billy Higgins

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Bill Plympton

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Johann Lamont

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Terry Abbott

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

Uzo Ohaebosim

We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Jacques Chirac

What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration,

Michael McCaul

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Elizabeth A. Sherman

It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

Robert Hale

We've been doing this for a long time, ... We look at our policies on a regular basis.

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Henry Markram

You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.

Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Joseph Hume

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Tom Rockwell

We know the San Andreas produces earthquakes every 200 years. It's been a long time.

Plutarch

The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds

Howard Schnellenberger

It's no secret that this state produces high-quality players, ... And there is no reason why every team in the state can't become a winning one.