Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Staton

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

Aaron Tveit

After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

Alan Shepard

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

Charlie Daniels

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Charles Stanley

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

Richard Mills

The fact that so many more students now want to go to college shows our young people realize the need for higher standards and achievement,

David Elkind

We have so many good colleges. If you're honest, it's not the education they get as much as the connections, the people they meet. And that's where a lot of it's at.

Mike McKenzie

We have six kids that played for us last year but aren't back. We have some kids, we just don't have enough kids with college experience.

Anne Robinson

There are a lot of different ways individuals can earn college credit and get their degrees these days? It's probably one of the better kept secrets.

David Cunliffe

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

Herbert A. Simon

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.

Helen Clark

would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.

Joschka Fischer

When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Barry Goldwater

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

David Hockney

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

Cynthia P. Schneider

Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.

Javier Solana

We want to prove to Lebanon our support in establishing strong relations on political and economic levels between Lebanon and the European Union.

Phil Pantano

We want everyone to understand what we've done and what we plan to do. We're talking about jobs, investment and economic opportunity.

Bruce Elder

We've seen such terrific growth in property values that it's very hard for a person starting out to get a home - and I feel that home ownership is probably the single most important thing in keeping a family together. If you look at economic stability for a family, and being part of a community, home ownership is the number one thing that we should address.

Andy Bryant

We've seen no signs of an economic recovery.

Mark Davis

We've seen an increase of about one and a half trains per year because of economic growth.

Mitchell Cohen

The problem with vaccines is not a new problem, ... For the last decade, we have had reduction in the number of vaccine manufacturers. ...The issue comes down primarily to economics ... Profit margins are small.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Thein Sein

As prime minister, I was able often to meet people, to try to understand their needs and the country's economic situation - but it wasn't as if I was planning or ever expected to become president, so I wasn't thinking back then of what I would do if I was in this position, I was just trying to understand the problems and challenges.

Thomas R. Kelly

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

Karen Hughes

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

Kevin McCloud

Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.

Noah Hawley

Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her whole career for a network partner who truly understands and encourages their vision. For me, the search is over.

Charles Patterson

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Faye Carnes

I have a gentlemen friend who encourages me to play golf too he plays as well. He's just a little older than I, but he's an inspiration to me.

Italo Calvino

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

Andrew Forrest

Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.

Sajan George

There is something symbolic about physically opening a school that encourages people to come back.

Constance Wu

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Carl Forti

We have no knowledge who they are, no affiliation.

Ralph Boyd

We have no knowledge of who they are and who they represent, and we have no relationship to that organization in any way, shape, or form,

Agnes Repplier

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

Agnes Repplier

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

Charles Wagner

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Mark Cuban

Only morons start a business on a loan?

Jerry Thompson

We would put a deposit in to secure the loan. To me, that takes us out of the loan business.

Stuart Pearce

I enquired about getting Shaun back on loan but they said 'no', I don't think they want him to go anywhere.

Kemal Dervis

Turkey could not have obtained loans under better conditions.

Ben Bernanke

All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.

Wesley Hill

We have two options. We could give them the money or we could support or back a loan for them.

Tony Pulis

I wouldn't be surprised if Preston signed somebody this week. They've got the money to go out and spend a loan fee.

Peter Jackson

He is still on loan for another week and we will look to get something sorted out around then.

Thane Bublitz

Over the longer-term, Countrywide is well positioned. There is too much loan production capacity. The servicing portfolio should offset that as originations slow.

Brent Weeks

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Jase Robertson

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

Edmund Hillary

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Edward Ruscha

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

James Goss

They had talked about that possibility. Between publishing and broadcasting and interactive, that provides them with enough to do.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Jasmine Cresswell

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

Andrea Ruedi

We'd especially like to see students from the hospitality program.

Robert Mason

We have a school, ... The students know they have a school.

Jane Jacobs

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Jan Morris

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Jim Henderson

Until now students take the tests and nothing is done with the information.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Babe Ruth

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Calvin Coolidge

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

Charles M. Schwab

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

Bob Brown

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.