Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Anton Corbijn

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Kris Kristofferson

The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

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.

Donald Powell

This program allows states' leaders -- who are closest to the people -- to decide exactly how this grant money should be spent.

Gioconda Belli

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.

Ken Salazar

There are two strong factors happening right now, ... Supply and demand are those factors. We have to really deal with the demand side of the issue, and I strongly encourage Americans to conserve more by driving less.

Gerard Houllier

We deserved to win this match. Even though Real Madrid had a lot of possession in the second half, we were able to conserve the score. It's a good start for us and for the fans.

Bob Taft

I encourage all Ohioans to conserve motor fuel use whenever possible until the state's supplies are fully restored,

Kim Brown

I always conserve energy. My husband likes to leave things on, but I go around and shut everything off, the lights we don't use in every room anyway.

Rick DeLisi

To continue to conserve on operating expenses, we are reducing the overall number of flights as well as service to these four markets.

Paul Jepson

Hopefully this highlights the need and desire to conserve whale species in general.

Catherine Rossi

If we each try to conserve gas, collectively we can reduce the demand for gas.

Steve McCormick

This really represents conservation in the 21st century. To conserve globally important natural habitat worldwide on a scale that will be meaningful, we have to contemplate human use." ()

Gloria Arroyo

While we conserve energy and seek cheaper, more stable sources of oil, we must at the same time nurse our foreign exchange reserves by increasing inflows and curbing dollar expenditures,

Paul Clarke

The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church.

Li Zhaoxing

The position of the U.N. ... must be strengthened so that it can perform its duty of safeguarding peace in a more effective way,

Edith Wharton

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Charles Buxton

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Benjamin Franklin

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

Kerry Greenwood

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

Eric Brown

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Kathe Kollwitz

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

John Abizaid

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

David Rockefeller

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

Barry Commoner

Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.

Barry Commoner

Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.

Bill Nye

I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It's not that we need more food. It's that we need to manage our food system better.

Tony Vecchio

We've always taken a special interest in the health of coastal ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. This fascinating lecture is a way we can educate the public about the importance of our coastal environment and its fragility.

Boris Johnson

It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.

Bruce Tognazzini

The iWatch will fill a gaping hole in the Apple ecosystem. It will facilitate and coordinate not only the activities of all the other computers and devices we use, but a wide array of devices to come.

Aaron Eckhart

I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.

Louie Schwartzberg

I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

Andrea Roth

When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time.

Caitlyn Jenner

I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

Christy Turlington

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Adnan Badran

She (later) went on to Salt because one of her relatives

Dave Bristow

She's by herself, she has no relatives in Manatee.

Shahazad

My destination is at a place where my late-friends and relatives are waiting for me to arrive.

Chen Shui-bian

I got up at 2 a.m. for this trip. I want to see my relatives and I want to see China,

Hankus Netsky

When I was 19 I started pestering my relatives who were willing to teach me.

Francois Fenelon

Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

J. C. Ryle

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

Salvation Army

The relatives don't know they come here every week,

Celine Dion

We need to serve our country, and be there right now to rescue the rest of the people. We need the cash, we need the blood, we need the support, right now we need the prayers.

Tom Ditt

We have 1,500 residents waiting to be rescued from rooftops.

Pavel Felgenhauer

rescue service isn't working, just as it wasn't working back then.

AJ Holloway

We are still in the search and rescue mode.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

Don Hudson

It's a technical rescue that a lot of other departments do not want to do,

Peter Sirois

It's simple. We are the search and rescue because we know the trails, most of us are trained in first aid.

Jeanna Stewart

They rescued my three little kitties. I didn't need a rescue for me, just for them.

Patrick Smith

I don't see it riding to the rescue of Deby.

Anthony Brown

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.

Henry Shelton

Things are worse. The gap's getting wider -- between those who have and those who do not.

John Hawkes

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.

George Curry

It was a way to have a wider community.

Bill Rammell

It will be an important part of wider work into admissions testing,