Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Carey

What the union historically has done is gone in, negotiate a contract, then brought it back to its members when they reached agreement. What the company has been dictating and intimidating and threatening people is that they want to shove this contract down the members' throats. That has never been done in the past,

Honeysuckle Weeks

When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.

Charles Spurgeon

When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through

LaDainian Tomlinson

When he first got here, he said he had some nastiness to him, and that was one thing he was going to bring. He's definitely brought it. ... I mean, the guy has brought a different mindset to the defense.

Kenneth Stethem

We want him to be brought to justice. We want him to be tried in the United States.

Steve Begin

We were already playing good hockey before the Olympic break. We were playing with confidence, and it's that confidence that we brought with us on this trip.

Sam Castree

The fact that maybe he upset some people in prior departments... I don't know that that's surprising as someone who's brought into many of these departments to institute community policing measures.

Mike Massey

When I'm doing it for charity I feel the freest and the best, ... I lived the life of a hustler for quite a few years, but God brought me out of it and made me a champion.

Mary Cimbalnik

We used to have kids brought here through a church, refugees with life-and-death stories.

George Graham

We have schools teaching yoga, rock-climbing, martial arts, fly-fishing, ... If a kid is in a program that hasn't changed from when the parents were in school, it's just not OK.

Richard Jefferson

We were a team that could turn it on and off. People say you can't do it, but we were that team. I'm not saying it was often, but something wasn't clicking. Our chemistry wasn't right. But when things got changed up, things changed a little more.

Bunny Richardson

We have plans in place that can be adapted, changed and modified to respond if we need to do that.

Mitch Bainwol

The creative community always responds to a tragedy. I don't think Katrina changed the instinctive reaction. But the fact that it was New Orleans, which is so important to the music world, did touch a chord in a particularly poignant way. People rallied immediately, within hours. All the labels wanted to play ball.

Mitch Bainwol

The creative community always responds to a tragedy, ... I don't think Katrina changed the instinctive reaction. But the fact that it was New Orleans, which is so important to the music world, did touch a chord in a particularly poignant way. People rallied immediately, within hours. All the labels wanted to play ball.

Ian Brown

The fact is that God instituted human marriage in the Garden of Eden, and it was one man with one woman. God has not changed that.

Uri Savir

The Process: 1,100 Days That Changed the Middle East

Natalie Cole

When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.

Seal

When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.

Alan Morrison

We're just trying to cut every possible expense that we can. Most people just see Ritter Park and don't think about everything else we do. It's very complex and complicated and there's got to be a solution because I can't give up.

Elliott Abrams

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

Jim Yong Kim

Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

Laura Wasser

I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

Jack Jostes

We did most things in one take. We never play a song the same way. We're trying to take our music in a more complex direction without taking ourselves too seriously and not having fun.

Saxby Chambliss

We started this for the right reasons, ... We're on the right track. It is a very, very difficult and complex track. But in order to get there, it is going to require the presence of Americans for probably a long time to come. You'll see us downsize, I hope, immediately. But it is still going require us to be there for a while to come.

Niki Tsongas

Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats.

Bob Lambert

When you take those three complexes alone, you're talking about hundreds of units.

Tom Peters

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

Charlie Trotter

Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

Kim Cattrall

The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog.

Joshua Katcher

When it comes down to a meet like this and you put two equally talented kids out there, it comes down to which one wants it more. Obviously, our little guys wanted to move on.

Nikita Khrushchev

Let us not talk about using force; we are equally strong. In fact, we can swat your ass.

Jonah Goldberg

Liberty has turned into licentiousness, and tolerance for dissenters has become little more than rank relativism and nihilism. All perspectives are equally valid, which means no perspective is truly valid.

Herb Sendek

With their inside prowess, it makes it more challenging to guard them. What makes them so special is their balanced. Stopping that trio of guards is equally challenging.

Mark Richt

We're just rolling them and evaluating them. We're rotating them as equally as we can.

Jim Calhoun

People were watching to see history being made but history wasn't. Albany was magnificent for 30 minutes. But we were equally magnificent for the final 10 minutes.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Kate Bush

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

David Bowers

The reflation trade is back on. We are seeing more optimism about the global economy.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Markus Zusak

I am haunted by humans.

Ben Okri

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

Neil Harbisson

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Edward Abbey

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Carlos Ghosn

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

Tim Tebow

For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives.

George Thomas

The outlook for first quarter 2006 has been steadily improving and we are now seeing less than normal industry seasonality impact in our business.

Brian Eno

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

David Greenberg

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

David Suzuki

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

Carl Bernstein

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

Tommy Amaker

We have no more information on him. He's out indefinitely.

Bryan Whitman

We have no information to suggest they have done so.

Dr. Gerberding

We have no information to suggest any problem with the vaccine.

Dennis Brugos

We have no information that words were exchanged between them . . . or of any prior neighbor dispute. We have no information about what Miller was doing outside. The motive is unknown.

Florence Hartmann

We have no information that something particular has happened.

Bobby Hernandez

We have no information on who did it or why, and (we) are investigating.

Alexandra Milenov

We have no information. He is not in the tribunal.

Aaron Swartz

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Branch Rickey

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

William Shakespeare

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

Aristotle

We work to earn our leisure.

Aristotle

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Bertrand Russell

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

Ben Goldacre

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,

Frank Tyger

When you like your work every day is a holiday.

Rossi Ralenkotter

We looked at it simply from point of reaching leisure travelers.

William Congreve

Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Carl Guardino

The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

Carl Guardino

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

Carl Guardino

High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

Alan Kay

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Charlotte Bronte

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlie Cook

The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.

Charlie Cook

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

Charlie Cook

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Charles de Gaulle

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Andy North

We have had a long-standing relationship with UPS. That's not going to change.

Barry Hyman

The P&G story is a lot more significant than just its relationship to P&G.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Brian Weiss

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Diane von Furstenberg

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

David Sedaris

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

David Thewlis

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going....we have to observe what's going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other

Aaron Swartz

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Alan Kay

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.

Alan Kay

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Alan Kay

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Alan Kay

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Ted Chiang

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

Aaron Edwards

You have customers, you have traffic in the area, you have familiarity.

Jim Struzzi

Fortunately, traffic was stopped, so no one was injured.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

John Cobb

We want to impede traffic as little as possible.

Bob Campbell

(Developers) don't see the traffic because it's not there yet. But it will be.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Paul Morris

Right now, the traffic is all very democratic, ... You want to be able to prioritize.

Dick Martin

It's not like there are wrecks or anything like that. It's just that the traffic is not moving.

Moby

Traffic terrifies me.