Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

Douglas Coupland

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

Jim Whitehurst

My goal at Delta is to return our service levels to industry leading, which they were for decades until the mid-'90s. If we do that and keep the hearts and minds of our people as we do that, it will ultimately lead to financial success.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Kevin Browne

Four generations of our family have lived and worked here at Shafer Shores. Through the years we have thrived on repeat guests, many of whom measure their time here in decades rather than years.

Sen. Langhorst

What Idaho should be recognized for is a really huge question; that's the kind of thing that develops over decades or generations. I'm not sure that's a decision we want to start making today.

Cathleen Schine

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

Vint Cerf

The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.

Sue Brush

We have literally waited decades -- and I mean decades -- to have a hotel in St. Paul. It is a dream come true for Westin.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

Randy Pausch

Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.

Richard Lamm

He was the embodiment of a master educator who loved kids and had a passion for teaching.

Mark Gertler

He was an educator for most of his life. ... That's the way he approached being a Fed governor.

Anita Hill

I see myself as an educator.

Bill Gates

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

Susan Stewart

We're told by educators that if we don't reach out at the younger grades, we've lost them. So the urgency is to reach them when they're young.

Mary Coleman

Today we welcome the world to our library. As educators we are inspired by the possibility of sharing these important works with people around the globe.

Anant Agarwal

At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.

Patrick Reilly

Lynn is a Mount Mercy girl. Her husband, Tom, who is also here tonight, and I are Timon guys. Incidentally, Kevin and Tom grew up together in South Buffalo. They haven't seen each other in 25 years since they were at Holy Family on Tifft Street together.

Jon Corzine

let his family down and he'll probably let New Jersey down, too.

Camille Moute

Leaving my hometown and my family was very hard.

Matt Doherty

Leaving Florida was hard. At first I didn't want to leave, at first I didn't want to look at another job because we have a lot of work to do there yet...but this was an opportunity here for me professionally and for my family was that was just a great fit. It had 'Matt Doherty' written all over it.

Deborah Chernoff

Many teenagers are supplementing the family income. Connecticut has a high standard of living, and people need more money to live on.

Ben Bernanke

Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.

Gene Nudo

Selfishly, I wanted my family to see our team play and let them know we are doing a good job out here. We put a good show on tonight.

John Boehner

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

John Kierstead

Mountain Pointe always seems to come out and fool people. We make it a family and put it together.

John Benson

Mr Blunkett has also always said he is proud of his working-class background, so we hope that has not been drummed out of him by New Labour and he can find a way of helping working-class people.

Gary Jacobson

One of the ways you do that is by traveling around and helping candidates.

Tom Amstutz

Obviously, there's going to be more than one opinion. It's kind of a controversial situation. But when I look at everything, I think about helping people first. To me, no matter what someone says, it's still worth helping a young man.

Jim Cramer

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Charles Spurgeon

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Dick Van Dyke

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

Dennis Potter

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Ian Paisley

is a hollow gesture, because we don't want words. We want actions.

Dan Hicks

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

Chinese Proverbs

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds

Richard O'Brien

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

David Richard

You never say this is the make or break, but there were a lot of hollow promises last year. You can't go on promising and under-delivering, can you?.

Scott Williams

This is not a hollow gesture. This is an unprecedented release of industry material.

Mark Brazil

I feel better than I did when I was walking around Quail Hollow at the Wachovia Championship in May, but I don't think we're out of the woods.

Thomas Hood

A hollow voice is all I have / But this I tell you plain, / Marry come up! - you marry, Ma'am, / And I'll come up again.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Mark McKinney

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialist society is a society of officials.

Ludwig von Mises

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Ludwig von Mises

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Gary Knowles

We are doing it for their own protection. They are subjected to not just violence, but also social diseases.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Lisa Bonet

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

Source Unknown

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Rachel Boston

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Emilia Fox

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

Isabel Gillies

My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.