Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorraine Toussaint

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

Natasha Trethewey

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Alonzo Church

Veblen was a great advocate of getting together informally. His teas were in the same spirit. He believed in taking long walks through the woods to discuss mathematical research.

Omar Bongo

Let's be clear: I do not advocate the virtues of a new African diplomatic model and do not pretend to be its theoretician.

Kathryn Lasky

My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.

Leonard Leo

She has been a forceful advocate of conservative legal principles and judicial restraint throughout her career.

Rudi Giuliani

Since they are advocating for a problem, if there are things that would make the problem disappear, sometimes unknowingly they continue to advocate and they don't embrace the things that would actually solve the problem,

Joe Mansueto

Since Morningstar was founded in 1984, our mission has been to serve as an advocate for the individual investor. We have been successful in executing our strategy, but we must refocus our efforts to capitalize on the opportunities in the marketplace.

John Deane

We have have been an advocate of world languages for a long time. And we've got to keep the place clean.

Sherwood Chillingworth

We want to sincerely thank the public for their generosity, and we would like to acknowledge Fred Stone, who put a tremendous amount of work into this project. Additionally, we'd like to thank all the jockeys who were so generous with their time and effort.

Chip Kelly

Everybody has the same amount of time during the day. You can either spend your time or invest your time.

Luc Montagnier

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

Farha Aslam

The poultry environment in the first quarter was very challenging with prices for both boneless skin breast meat and leg quarters near historic lows. Given the record amount of poultry in cold storage, we anticipate prices will remain under pressure for at least the next few weeks, if not months.

Mark Richt

The only competition that (Stafford) is doing right now is just trying to learn what to do. The other three guys, even four guys when you count (walk-on Nick) Dalton, have a lot better idea of what to do, even on the basics of calling the cadence. He's a talented passer. I think we all know that, and you can tell he's going full speed as far as trying to learn, but there's so much to learn in such a short amount of time.

Jimmy Palmer

We applaud the efforts of Best Buy in helping to relieve some of the burden of recycling the unprecedented amount of electronic waste generated by Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Coast. While recycling electronic waste takes more time and labor, this effort is about protecting human health and the environment.

Nick Gaffney

We've already had a real outstanding amount of help from the community. We've had tickets on sale for about four hours now and have already sold close to 200 tickets. Our community is really getting involved in this whole thing.

Stewart Hall

We've already had a decent amount of experience with a Canadian minority government. While the deck chairs may have been pushed around a lot, do the fundamentals really seriously change?

Peter Caruso

We believe that one of the reasons that CC earnings are imploding is because Best Buy is opening up powerful stores in large metropolitan markets, particularly in New York. We believe capacity will get worse. Best Buy has a large amount of cash and they are ramping up their expansion to try to pre-empt CC's turnaround.

Al Harrington

We've won our last three that way. We'll take 26 more like that as long we win. We never get discourage. We just play through our mistakes and that's the biggest difference.

Michael Strahan

I have the biggest sweet tooth! You name it, I will eat it. My all-time favorite is my mother's butter cake. Every time I go home, my mom will already have the cake made because I love it so much. This makes my siblings mad because they think she favors me. I don't care because she probably does!

Brian France

The other thing is, I know how competitively hungry they are. They're not here just to be here. They're here to compete hard, showcase their products and support their teams. And they're going to do it on the biggest stage.

Michael Klein

The potential of the hybrid capital market is enormous. As issuers and investors become more comfortable with these securities, they could become one of the biggest corporate funding innovations since high yield bonds.

Francois Trahan

The post-Fed performance of the S&P 500 could prove to be the biggest surprise of 2006.

Don Briel

The perception of some of the elderly is that it's electronic, and (they) don't want to get near it, but quite frankly, it's easier to use than the paper ballots. My biggest concern is elderly people that are too fearful to even try.

Len Lauer

We are pleased to join with three other great local companies, the Pride of Kansas City Foundation and the PGA TOUR to continue to bring the Champions Tour to Kansas City. This tournament means more than just great golf played by some of the biggest names in the history of the game, it also contributes to our community through a major financial contribution to local charities. Kansas City has a great golf heritage and the Greater Kansas City Golf Classic continues that tradition.

Ray Yeakley

We are averaging as many as 15 brush fires a week. We can't always determine the exact cause, but the biggest offender is people flicking cigarette butts out of their cars.

Dorothy Rothrock

We are at risk of losing some manufacturing, but the biggest risk is we won't get any expansion of current manufacturing. You're not solving the problem. You're just moving the greenhouse gases to another location.

John Pye

Many parents refer to Sugar Creek as their home. Some parents really want to stay at the school.

Catherine Johnson

Plum Creek totally failed to listen to Maine people. What we have today is the same development in essentially the same places.

Sasha Alexander

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked.

William Mitchell

I can't do anything about the water at the No. 3 tee, ... It's because the water level at the creek is higher than the groundwater and you can't drain wetlands.

Steve Brady

I am a fourth-generation descendant of the Sand Creek Massacre. My great-grandmother and great-grandfather were here during the attack, and they survived it. It's a special place for us, and I am happy that legislation to make this an historic site has passed.

Pat Connors

The creek is under assault. The township has done a good job. It's an ongoing project to make sure the creek isn't threatened.

Elizabeth Ward

The creek is kind of a dumping ground. I guess people don't feel a lot of ownership for it.

William Bailey

He was driving up the little creek toward Rural Ridge when he got stuck again,

Randall Schoen

I thought Silver Creek gave a lot more effort than we did.

Joe Papin

Tomorrow we have even a tougher task. We are probably going to be facing a stronger team. We have to play for three periods no matter what the score is. You would think being 14-0 I would be happy, but right now I'm not.

Matt Bowen

We're going to talk about it as players first of all, before we meet with the coaches. That's not the way we play defense. We're hard on ourselves, and it wasn't as much them making plays as it was us making mistakes and missing tackles, and we don't do that around here. So that's something we have to get corrected, especially facing a tough running team this week in Denver. We don't do that stuff.

John Edwards

What he does is he comes into a ticketed event, stands at the podium, delivers a speech, may shake a few hands on his way out, ... What I've been doing is I've been in people's homes, on Main Street, in cafes -- not only talking but listening. Giving speeches does not teach you what the problems are that people are facing in their lives.

Simon Maughan

Unless HBOS and Northern Rock step back, Barclays is facing a long uphill struggle in mortgages.

Richard Cripps

We're facing the realization that rising (interest) rates and rising stock prices are incompatible. The higher rates are really starting to make themselves felt.

Jake Brace

We're facing some negative sentiment in Washington. We talk to lots of people in Washington. Their message is: More is needed.

Michael Rothman

We're facing a situation in the latter part of the 2002 not unlike year 2000, when OPEC was in a position of having to unwind quotas to prevent too tight an oil balance.

Pedro Martinez

We're facing a good team, a smart team, ... Right now, they're on top of their game and we're not.

Sherry Sealey

We know where we're going and who we'll be facing this time. That's got to help.

Jim Sensenbrenner

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

Conrad Lautenbacher

We've been able to improve our warning system. Our records on tornado warnings, hurricane warnings, on flood warnings have been improving,

Jay Punia

We are getting ready for a major flood fight.

Rick Barry

We know what it's like to go through something like this, with the Hurricane Ivan floods last year,

Elliott Abrams

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.

Brooke Bingaman

Since it's just cresting over the flood stage, it's minor flooding that we're forecasting. You probably don't need a canoe, but it's probably wise to move vehicles out of the area.

Charles Dickens

Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a Sedan chair.

Larry Snyder

Miles before we got there, you could smell the stench of all this rotting from the flood ... even from up in the air, ... I would be surprised if people would be able to move back very soon, just from the level of destruction.

Gordon Sinclair

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

John Harper

We want to try to get a better understanding of the lakes and their relation to the groundwater.

John Ellinger

The positives are, there is a team in Salt Lake City. And the fans; we've been received.

Cory Jacobs

We are proud of what we've done because nobody has done what we've done at Lake Fenton for a long time.

Benjamin Millepied

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Aaron Sorkin

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

Charlaine Harris

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

Paul Reid

We're going to find out a lot this week. Houghton Lake plays Clare, so we'll know more after Friday's games.

Thomas Friedman

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Bart Stupak

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

Alanis Morissette

All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.

Alan Watts

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Alan Watts

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

Alan Watts

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

Alan Watts

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is God who works in and through us, if only we would let God do His work.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.

Chris Colfer

Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of Glee. Explanations will come shortly,

Alan Watts

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

Justin Davis

We want to sort of put this out there that this is an institutional problem and not just one incident.

Chip Kidd

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

David Seabury

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

Agnes Martin

Anything can be painted without representation.

Billy Corgan

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Rep. Taylor

She had to represent her constituents.... I think all these commissioners do the same thing.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Lupe Ontiveros

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Khare Hawkins

You do have to be fashionable because you do represent us. If you are part of this troupe, you must look the part at all times.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.

Dave Barry

I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

David Stockman

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries....