Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Anne Roberts

We have to get at what's really going on here, what are the underlying causes, why are people committing the crimes?

John Kramer

We have no money, so the committee will have to go out and raise it, period.

Claron McFadden

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

Dennis McDonald

When you say you are going to do something, you get it done. I committed myself to filling them all. I didn't quite make it.

Connie Miller

When you're with this many wonderful, committed people, it just keeps you going,

Rob Fields

We want people to know we take this very seriously. This isn't for us to go out there and play. It's a lifestyle, a commitment you've got to make.

John Luckhardt

We were trying to go hard to get guys in here for competition. Instead of one guy, we may go by committee to try to replace Antoine.

Charlie Daniels

Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

Eric Kandel

I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

Patrick Smith

We've already been discussing that. It will probably go to two shifts a day before it goes to that.

Catherine Peters

We are at the stage now where we're discussing with those individuals.

Dave Tomlin

We're still discussing that with LPGA. In the meantime, they've said that the provision is optional for the Fields, and we've opted out.

Drew Rosenhaus

We're still discussing a few things. But we're very close. It will be a great fit for Duane, and it will be a great fit for New England.

Sean Rooney

We had been speaking about a 51 percent to 49 percent split, but we're open to discussing any percentage,

Dick Hamm

We're meeting and discussing and we really have a lot of things on our plate. We're trying to come to a conclusion.

Bud Selig

We're not discussing contraction at the major league level.

Michael Slattery

Nothing is concrete. We are just discussing issues informally.

Star Trek

word got out on the internet that Trip was not dead, but what can you do?

Bill Gates

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

Bill Gates

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

Azealia Banks

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

Madeleine Albright

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Chaske Spencer

I stay off the Internet.

Ai Weiwei

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

Carlos Ghosn

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

Carlos Ghosn

You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

David Milne

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Suzuki

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Akio Morita

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

Akio Morita

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

Carol Moseley Braun

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

Rob Johnson

We have to go by what the law is and when you're 19, you have to go.

Agnes Repplier

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

Aasif Mandvi

America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse.

Dorothy Stukes

We are here so our voices can be heard, so our lives and our levees can be rebuilt, so we can go home.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Dan Ware

We're here to provide as much protection as possible. We're here to save lives first, and then do as much as we can to protect property.

Matt Blunt

worth it to protect the lives of Missouri children.

Robert Maguire

She has touched more lives personally than all 12 of the disciples.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

George Galloway

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

Chris Collins

Raymond Lara is being prosecuted for who he is, not what he did and why.

Owen Heimer

This exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this state,

Owen Heimer

The scale of theft exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this city,

Aaron Spelling

Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

Charlie Cook

The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Charles Caleb Colton

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

Brian Crozier

A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.

Brent Spiner

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

Darren Shan

You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

Dave Chappelle

Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something," he continued. "But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.