Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Wong

Obviously, parents felt the need to include the schools as part of the boycott activities.

Micah Lee

We're kind of just starting, as far as the boycott of BU goes. But you can definitely tell we're getting somewhere. We're putting a lot of pressure on BU and creating a whole lot of stir in the media. Hopefully, it will force the decision makers to be accountable for their actions.

Al Sharpton

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

L. Neil Smith

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

A. Hodge

I think the boycott will die of its own weight,

Alejandro Aviles

The people who are participating in this boycott are simply letting everybody know that we have an impact. The people organizing this want to make sure the message is positive.

Leith Kubba

No call for boycott has worked, ... The most important thing is for Iraqis to take part by voting 'yes' or 'no.'

Amiruddin Saud

If the temporary visas can be reviewed only after three years, then our boycott will also be lifted only after three years.

Malcolm Hoenlein

Rogers told us he regretted hosting the meeting with that group and that he would never have hosted it if he had known the organization might call for a boycott of Israel.

Jim Johnson

Luckily, we had some engineers along. They just love that kind of scenario -- troubleshooting on the fly. That's what brings us joy in our work is fixing something and carrying on, instead of just being shut down.

John Strand

Luna Energy is a neighbor that brings tax revenues and new jobs to our city and county.

Buck Martinez

Luis Gonzalez has the respect of everybody in baseball, and his opinion is very valued. He's always been a character guy that we respect a lot. We felt that he brings everything we want on this team.

Cathy Allen

Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.

Judith Miller

Let's wait and see what Mr. Fitzgerald has. If he brings indictments, if he has a very serious case, then I might have to say that perhaps his zealousness with respect to this mission was justified,

Ellen Davis

Many retailers find that moving their business online brings them an entirely different set of customers than they would have found in their local market,

William Wordsworth

Many are our joysIn youth, but oh! what happiness to liveWhen every hour brings palpable accessOf knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,And sorrow is not there!

Elton Brand

Mike Miller brings a lot. He can shoot the ball, rebound well. The intangibles are there for Memphis with him coming off the bench.

Rob Spear

Mike (Kramer) had a very productive interview. I love his energy and his passion. I really like what Mike Kramer brings to the table... And the thing I love most is that he's an Idaho Vandal.

Robin Cook

make a very serious decision in the next few hours.

Dennis Ross

make the decision on how to resume with the final procedures.

Gary Peters

Making the decision now allows Stuart to go out and try to get a head start.

Philip Crosby

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Jim Davies

made the decision that unity is the key to our success.

Bob Graham

(Maddox has) made the decision that unity is the key to our success,

Brent Guy

Leon made some nice plays. He knew when to run and get the yardage. ... He is making better decisions.

Pete Townshend

left entirely to me the decision as to whether or not to go on with the tour.

Nick Holt

Leaving you guys is the hardest decision we made in our young career. You guys don't need me any more.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.

John Frame

Scripture nowhere divides worship up into a series of independent 'elements', each requiring independent scriptural justification. Scripture nowhere tells us that the regulative principle demands that particular level of specificity, rather than some other.

Richard Holland

Meeting today's and tomorrow's demands for safe, fresh water requires everyone's efforts, from isolated village communities to global industries and world leaders. Solutions need to be as diverse as the threats. The key will be in finding solutions that view meeting people's needs and nature conservation as compatible, not conflicting, aims.

Zalman Shoval

Now they want to say, 'What the previous administration put on the table, OK, we take that and let's start and have further demands and have further concessions from Israel,' ... That's not the way to do business.

Marilynne Robinson

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

Zoran Djindjic

Getting all our seats is not enough to satisfy Serbia, ... Our demands go far beyond.

Jamal Crawford

I felt overwhelmed by ticket demands and people wanting something from me. I said, I've got to get me a home team.

Dave Farrell

She still has some things to learn. I haven't pushed her to be a team leader because she is playing with juniors and seniors. But her position kind of demands it.

Austin Hill

If this is true, it could potentially be a very serious problem for Intel. It could lead to demands for a recall of the chip,

Tony Dungy

Like '94 with Warren Moon and Joe Montana, you'll see two future Hall-of-Famers in Saturday's game.

Alexandra Robbins

...make sure you are still living in the present, rather than for an uncertain future.

Jam Master Jay

Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!

Bernard Kouchner

Let's talk about the future, not about the past. Next time I will be sure that they will not tell me that there is a Serb side and an Albanian side. Here's a hospital that will reach through this bridge.

James Schamus

Look out that window and you see a lot of people, including a lot of young ladies, ... That's the future of our film.

Justin Ossola

Leadership: that's what we learn here at USNA. Our goal is to teach people how to motivate whomever they're leading to do the right thing. Leaders of the future must have a strong moral foundation.

Brian Cashman

Let's get what we can get accomplished and let's concentrate on the future at a more appropriate time, which is after we get through the season.

Alfred McEwen

Learning more about where the water is today and where it was in the past will also guide future studies about whether Mars ever supported life.

Matthew Cooper

Sea level rise is a significant and growing threat to New Jersey, ... Future Sea Level Rise and the New Jersey Coast.

Christopher Thompson

Let them know they hold the key to the 22,000 jobs.

Jeff Reed

Second, I passed one of the numerous records he holds in the NFL. Gary's the most-respected kicker who's been through this league. It means a lot.

Ming-Na Wen

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

David Pickett

Much has been written about 'super mums', but there are many 'super dads', holding down jobs and doing work at home.

Angus MacKenzie

MOTOR TREND holds a distinctive place in the landscape of automotive journalism. It is a strong and influential publication that is poised for tremendous growth. It is the right time for Ira to take MOTOR TREND to the next level.

Mike Greene

McNabb was having his game, but we were holding him pretty good. And we just let it get away from us. That's just part of being a young team.

Unknown

May the joys of today Be those of tomorrow. The goblets of life Hold no dregs of sorrow.

Michael Shermer

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

Taylor Twellman

Obviously, we've missed Pat tremendously his play, the way he holds the play up. It's a pleasure playing with him, and hopefully we can do well together in the playoffs.

George Washington

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair

Spike Jonze

Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.'

Gene Cisewski

Nobody ever questioned your honesty. I have never thought of you as less than an honest person.

Chuck Grassley

More of his unreserved honesty is needed inside the beltway,

Lilly Singh

My fans are honestly so unique and so similar. Wherever I travel, they are so, so different but so the same.

Tom Selleck

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

Charles Peguy

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

Charles Peguy

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

Charles Peguy

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Patsy Ramsey

let's have a trial and get it over with

Susan McDougal

was not on trial here, only Mrs. McDougal.

Charles Stanley

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Charles Spurgeon

Great faith must have great trials.

Bill McCollum

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Bernhard Goetz

The whole trial seemed surreal.

Jane Austen

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Richard G. Scott

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.

Connie Willis

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Coolio

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Donald Tusk

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Deng Xiaoping

Seek truth from facts.

Democritus

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Joss Whedon

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.

Patricia Bryant

She was there until the week before she died.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Michelle Wie

I didn't want to write anything on my scorecard until I made a birdie.

John Oates

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

Samuel L. Jackson

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Waite Hoyt

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.