Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Leonsis

When you're young and you buy entertainment-oriented businesses, you do it so you can package them in a way that enhances their value. I've always believed that to build the Internet you build a community of interests. Then you supply content to strengthen the sense of community - and a hockey team is content.

James Spader

When I moved there, I completely believed that anything was possible. I believed I could become part of the fabric of the city, and not by portraying someone, but truly.

Adolf Eichmann

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

Jerome Bettis

We set out a long time ago to bring this back home to Pittsburgh. You all believed in us, believed we could get it done. I'm just so thankful for everything that this city has been able to give me. I'm just so happy we were able to give this city the one for the thumb.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.

Trent Lott

The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.

Susan Hill

The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.

Steve Erickson

What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.

Terri Blackstock

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

Jia Qinglin

We shall stick to the policies of 'Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong,' 'Macau people governing Macau' and a high degree of autonomy.

Jia Qinglin

We shall stick to the policies of ' Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong,' ' Macao people governing Macao' and a high degree of autonomy.

Suzanne Collins

When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting.

Sue Monk Kidd

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Eric Balfour

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

Eric Kandel

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

Kathleen Rose Perkins

I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.

Jane Austen

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

David Kim

The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.

Alanis Morissette

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

Eckhart Tolle

Facing facts is always empowering.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

Caitlin Stasey

Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.

Billy Porter

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

Bill Gates

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

Ariel Winter

We as women need to empower each other.

Demi Lovato

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

Eric Nylund

I don't look at it as writing a book in a videogame universe. I look at it as writing for 'Halo', which for me, transcends being just a great video game. It's evolving into a whole new mythology.

Gary Knight

Software is an evolving product. It's not static.

Jesse Plemons

'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series. It was the most time I had with one character, and kind of growing and evolving with the character over that long of a span of time, it just allows you to sort of learn in a completely different way that I had never experienced.

Daniel Boulud

I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.

Ned Yost

We know we are evolving as a team, and we know these kids are going to get better. Anything can happen when you have the type of talent these kids like Prince have.

Matt King

We'll keep evolving and go as far as we can go.

Joseph Domenech

There is still a window of opportunity for substantially reducing the risk of a human pandemic evolving from H5N1 by controlling the virus at its source, in animals.

Yoshinori Ohno

This relationship must and is in fact evolving to remain strong and relevant,

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

Jon Allen

We know how important this is to the individual and we're trying to work with them.

Diane Wakoski

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Boris Vian

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Ashley Jensen

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer.

Ashley Montagu

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

Carl Jung

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Lee H. Hamilton

Reforms are at risk from inertia and complacency. Reforms must be accelerated or they will fail.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

Mental inertia is death.

Lisa Ellis

Simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream rapidly and used up quickly.

Betsy Beers

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Jack Cheevers

We are working rapidly ... to remedy the situation.

Anna Akana

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Cecilia Zalkind

We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.

Kenny Harris

The site is rapidly taking shape. We're very excited.

Lynn Coady

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Richard Flanagan

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

Scott McClellan

The United States is responding rapidly and robustly." ()

Elizabeth Thornton

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Jeb Bush

We've got a response team that is second to none, ... We will get through this storm and respond quickly.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

Jorge Ortiz

Bartlett just seemed to get stronger and stronger. We just couldn't respond to their speed that they had.

Angelo Scola

more simply and efficiently respond to pastoral needs.

Woody Allen

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.

Brandon Roy

I don't think he was sure how we were going to respond to him. He was a little down. He was pretty upset he made that mistake.