Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Nicholas Kristof

One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed that is part of their job, but advocacy is also getting governments to step up to the plate. They can also give more voice to those who don't have one.

Rae Tyson

I believe that some in the advocacy community are overlooking that the most obvious way to reduce injuries is to buckle up. The vehicle can only do so much. At a certain point, people have to do their part.

Antawn Jamison

We have to give a better showing than that, ... I'm not worried about the offense. We know we can score. Give them credit, they hit some open shots, but we have to do a better job of getting a team out of their comfort zone, stopping their runs early. I know we were missing some guys and we're still trying to find ourselves but we have to play better than that.

Moran Atias

Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

Charles Dickens

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Carl Sagan

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

Giselle Davies

We did not have in the past few days any meetings of the coordinating committee as there were no issues on the table and this is a comfort factor for IOC.

Jenna Morasca

There are plenty of easy things that you can do from the comfort of your own home to get you started on the path of giving back.

Jane Austen

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

Jason Bateman

It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.

Jane Smiley

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

Michael Bean

We have quantitative data on several species and each example shows that a species can make significant progress. But that progress is measured in decades. All of the species (in the report) are still on the list and are likely to remain on the list for many decades to come.

Steve Ballmer

We have programs... with SAP to take market share from Oracle as the application and database platform in the largest enterprise.

Neil Mellor

We've seen better economic data out of the U.K. and that has helped the pound.

Jim Barksdale

The fact is we have very few facts. The purpose of the Internet Policy Institute is to gather the kind of data that's going to be essential to develop the Internet.

Lee Tien

The fact is that over the last 10 or 20 years our privacy has been at risk by the vast amounts of data that society is putting in third-party hands. That's how modern society has been architected.

Gail Bronson

There is a lot of froth and fever surrounding the debuts of new stocks. But that is not the data on which investors should determine their long-run strategies.

Fred Davis

We're just trying to develop a database and establish a baseline.

Len Lichtenfeld

The outcome of the study is not as clear-cut as we might have hoped for. It will take some time for experts to review the data to determine which of the two treatments is preferable.

Stephen Elliot

Vendors are moving away from centralized, agent-based technologies to real-time data collection.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Mark Regev

We have never said more than we have said in the case. This issue has been solved in a satisfactory way with the New Zealand government.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Ann Brackbill

We want interoperable systems and that's going to happen. The issue is how we will work together. Without the right coordination, privacy will be at risk in our view.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

Carole Bouquet

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Carol Leifer

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Moseley Braun

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carlos Ghosn

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

Carlos Ghosn

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

Shannon Miller

We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.

Dan Webster

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Agnes Macphail

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Charles Lamb

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

John Heywood

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

Benjamin Franklin

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Daniel D. Palmer

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Ambrose Bierce

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Daniel Nathans

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Dennis McBride

We are trying to get referrals from the physicians themselves,

Hippocrates

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

Hippocrates

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

Max de Pree

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Bill Richardson

We want to resolve this diplomatically, but we are not ruling out any option.

Javad Zarif

We want to resolve it through negotiations. But we want to resolve it with our rights intact.

Benjamin Franklin

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

Arthur Phillips

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

Mitchel McLaughlin

If this situation is not resolved satisfactorily, he will not travel.

Jeff Koons

We waited too long to resolve this, ... Negotiations went sideways, and then up and down.

Robert Williams

When I get out of here I'm not going to look back. All I want to do now is resolve this. I just want to go anywhere.

Richard Kaplan

We have very little tolerance on this, ... While they're doing what they need to do, we are doing what we need to do. We're not resting until this is resolved with or without First Student.

Henry Mazurek

We will resolve it. Whatever time it takes.

Bruce Henderson

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

Drew Endy

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Pat Monroe

Somewhere in that scope of things there was a breakdown. Specifically where, I don't know. It's a tremendous disappointment.

J. J. Johnson

The scope of this one is so large.

Jim Balsillie

It was very important to get the scope we wanted.

Nitin Nohria

Education can change the scope of an entire family

Carol Leifer

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

Charlie Gonzalez

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Diane Watson

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

Catherine Ashton

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Alan Clark

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Chip Conley

I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite questions are "Tell me about a failure in your career, what you learned from it, and how you've leveraged this lesson" and "All of us are misperceived at one time or another. What's the most common way you're misperceived in the workplace and why?" Both of these questions require a certain amount of self-awareness and a willingness to not give pat, normal answers that we offer experience in interviews.

Edward Snowden

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

Ben Macintyre

What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

Brad Henry

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

Brandon Sanderson

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

Bill Vaughan

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

Chaz Bono

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Greg Buckner

The playoffs, that's just the way that it is. You're not going to get too many transition (baskets).

Jill Harris

We will also work on our transition game; we've been a little slow,

Mohammad Saeedi

We are in the transition state, and the inspectors will work under the NPT.

Alan Dundes

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Alfred Rosenberg

We are the transition from one education to the other.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.