Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.

Ken Goldstein

We've seen the trade deficit widen each of the last four years at relatively the same pace. What's going to happen because of Asian flu is it will widen twice as fast this year as it did each of the last four years.

Alan Greenspan

The extent and pace of recovery of Asian economies currently experiencing a severe downturn will have important ramifications for prices of energy and other commodities, the strength of the dollar, and competitive conditions on world product markets,

Paul Wolfowitz

The face of Asia was changed dramatically for the better.

Georg Petersen

The problem with this country, as in many Asian countries is that a large portion of the chickens are raised by farmers in their backyard and even within the cities, people are raising chickens and this is very difficult to control.

Ella Maillart

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.

Suzanne Fields

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Stefan Sagmeister

I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali.

Terry Lanni

The proclivity of Asian people to gamble is pretty staggering. People borrow from loan sharks and gamble with it.

Sen Hanna

We have a serious, serious problem with obesity in our children, and when they're at school they're a captive audience. The issue at hand is about providing our children a healthier choice of snacks.

Chandra Bhushan

Since all limestone mines are captive mines of cement plants and mining regulations are poor, cement industry is not investing in mine management.

Anne Angelelli

I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.

James Hitchcock

We're talking about a very captive audience. And this is one way to grab a guy's undivided attention.

Orhan Pamuk

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

Amy Kudwa

We have to be conscious of the fact that it's a captive audience. There are going to be children. There are going to be customers with sensitivities to violence and strong material.

Koji Kobayashi

Our goal is to strengthen our global risk management through this captive insurance company.

Linda Eder

It gave new meaning to the word captive audience.

Adam Johnson

What good's a captive without her captor?

John Fitzgibbon

We have seen an increase in postponements or cancels due to market conditions. That's now starting to become more commonplace than it was three months ago.

Steve Stallone

We've seen them use technology as a subterfuge to take work away from us. We have to make distinction what jobs will be lost due to new technology and what jobs will be lost because they use the technology to move the work to other people.

Laila Robins

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

Judy Blume

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Mohammed Habib

The others have refused due to personal problems that have to do with home, children, breast-feeding or husbands.

Steve Crawford

We stand for liberty. We stand for due process of law. And yet we're keeping someone locked up and away from his family that has been found not guilty. It's embarrassing. We need to do something about it.

Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Eric Behrens

We are taking this very seriously. The process is cumbersome, but it does provide for due process.

John Horner

We might be due for a pause near-term in the dollar's gains.

Bill Nye

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

Bettie Page

I like being outdoors. I like to go cavorting in the nude in the forests. It is just another world. To take sunbaths in the nude.

William Shakespeare

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

Dawn Powell

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

Vandana Shiva

Everything I need to know I learned in the forest

Doug Hamilton

There aren't models of solar systems or mock rain forests or any other kinds of displays in the classrooms. If it is a subject they have always found to be difficult, they are going to be disinterested in what the teacher is talking about and be more interested in what's on the wall or what's on the ceiling.

Dorothy Stang

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

Darren Clarke

Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!

Daphne Zuniga

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

Aasif Mandvi

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

Charles Eastman

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Charles Eastman

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Asif Ali Zardari

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

Bill Gates

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

Bill Gates

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

Terry Anderson

There is no money to pay any ransom, ... These were three nonpolitical missionaries working in an Indian village when they were taken. This was a mistake.

Jaswant Singh

Military intervention by India in Sri Lanka is ruled out,

Anushka Sharma

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

Demi Lovato

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

Craig Kilborn

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

Chris Evans

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

Dominic Cooper

In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

Steve Case

When I saw it, I really thought it could be more of a lifestyle brand, much like Nike.

Olivia Toca

The quality of work is twice as good. The baseboards remind me of the old baseboards my mother had. In general, the lifestyle here is just much better.

John Paxson

He would have an above-average lifestyle that would put him in a position that most other people aren't in,

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Lydia Lenker

We don't promote one lifestyle over another. It's really pretty simple reasoning.

Kim Polese

We have no preset notion of how the model will look.

Alan King

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Ashwin Sanghi

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Thierry Mugler

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.

David Daniels

The Great Chief also honours modesy.

Tariq Anwar

My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.

Tao Okamoto

I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'

Enrique Pena Nieto

The coalition is a model that has no place in a presidential regime such as in Mexico. It fits in parliamentary models, but Mexico has a presidential regime.

Jessica White

There's so many misconceptions about me and my personality. People think I'm not a nice person, you know, or maybe a diva; not just about me, but the misconceptions of other models as well, or supermodels.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Colleen Barrett

We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

Jerry Bruckheimer

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Vladimir Putin

This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively developing road connection.

David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Cheryl Strayed

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

Edward Abbey

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Brigitte Bardot

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Denis Waitley

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Bryant H. McGill

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.