Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Jon Huntsman

We're interested in making sure we protect middle- and low-income Utah while stimulating economic development, ... we need to make it acceptable to legislators.

Manmohan Singh

We remain hopeful that solutions acceptable to all sides will be found.

Kofi Annan

work this out and come up with an acceptable resolution.

Joel Klein

We requested the opportunity to analyze those suggestions, and there may be a few that are acceptable to us.

Matt Hall

With the real estate property and valuations continually increasing in that area we just can't continue to operate that kind of retail store. We weren't able to secure another lease that was acceptable to us and acceptable to the owners.

Richard Rogers

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

Kevin Mitnick

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

Jeff Cogen

We're not doing anything different, but it's being done in a different atmosphere, an environment in which people are acceptable to our message.

Richard Kelly

We are pleased with the progress toward achieving our earnings growth objective. We are reaffirming our 2006 earnings guidance of $1.25 to $1.35 per share.

J. Taylor

We are pleased with the financial performance and operational improvements that are demonstrated by our first quarter financial results, ... Our eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential revenue growth and net earnings in the quarter of $2.8 million reflect a continuation of the momentum that was generated last fiscal year and put the company on pace to achieving our annual guidance.

Takashi Sensui

We acknowledge that achieving success in Japan will not come easily or quickly for Xbox. But we are confident that because Xbox 360 is the most powerful video game and entertainment system, delivering the best content for Japanese gamers, enabled by the online capability of Xbox Live, we will earn more of their business moving forward. I am excited and honored to take on this role.

Rahul Dravid

We want to put the players under pressure. (But) not in terms of results that come naturally, but in terms of achieving different goals they have been set.

Mike Journee

Whether or not he's going to sit there and outline his entire (State of the State) proposal, he's not going to do that. Achieving consensus is the point of the Legislature. They're here to conduct the business of the people.

Andrew Holland

We feel all the ingredients are in place for (rapid) economic growth. We are confident of India achieving growth of 8-9 per cent in (the year to March 2007).

Jerry Stackhouse

We're just focused on achieving our goals, and that's to continue to get better for the playoffs.

Richard Wiles

Major shifts in transportation priorities are essential to achieving energy independence and maintaining national security, ... A serious commitment to rail and transit has been a missing element in the U.S. strategy to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil.

Milton Pedraza

Lexus won by a wide margin, achieving a rating of 88 versus 83 for Porsche and 82 for Acura. Lexus customers rated it the most worthy of a price premium by a five-point margin. Lexus also posted the highest ratings in the critical Customer Retention and Customer Referral indices.

Alan Mollohan

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Alan Autry

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

Alan Autry

We want them to be productive in the community,

Carmen Garcia

We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant community.

Jim Knight

We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.

David Allen

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community...

Dave Gahan

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

David Korten

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

David Victor

We have no credible emission policy at the federal level.

John Newman

We're making a credible posture and a presence. There's no shortage of volunteers -- it's amazing, the volunteer spirit of our people.

Mark Schneider

Major problems remain in ensuring credible elections. If they're not resolved, the next government's legitimacy will be in question.

Phil Reeker

Should we receive information about a specific and credible threat, that information would be shared with all potentially affected.

Charlie King

She has not yet been able to establish that she can mount any kind of credible candidacy for any public office.

John Harris

She retires sound and could have had a very credible season this year at the track, but she really didn't have much left to prove.

Eric Holdeman

We've seen what happens when the federal government hasn't done much of anything in advance. If you want to be prepared for the maximum credible catastrophic event, you should be thinking seven days, not just the minimum of three days.

Nick Fradiani

There will never be another 'American Idol,' which produced so many credible superstars over the years. It was a phenomenon in pop culture. It changed music.

Goodluck Jonathan

I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

Charles Caleb Colton

The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Charles Dickens

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Charles Simmons

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Charles Simmons

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

Alan Watts

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

Alan Greenspan

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

Alan Greenspan

Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.

Alan Bullock

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

Dick Morris

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

Cheryl Tiegs

We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all.

John Gresham Machen

Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.

Bela Karolyi

What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.

Roger Warren

Through various different methods they've managed to squeeze residential construction.

Robert Sterling

In the off-line world, people use different payment methods in different circumstances,

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

Lara Trifiletti

Tipping the Scales. Neither is a suitable option.

Robert Anthony

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Bennie Thompson

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Livy

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

Emma Watson

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Caitlin Moran

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Aidan Quinn

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Charles Spurgeon

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Alan Watts

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Al Madrigal

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

David Guetta

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

David Graeber

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Cab Calloway

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.