Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn McLaughlin

We want to take these meetings across the city to get as many people involved as possible. We are trying to build a coalition behind this.

Robert Kirby

We want to stimulate demand for physics and encourage young people across the UK to study it whatever their financial or social background.

Luke Bracey

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

Louis Stokes

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

Michael Specter

Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.

David Heim

The performance ranged from excellent or nearly so to very good. There was a very high level of performance across the board.

Jackie Vaughn

The percentage is reduced each year, until after five years the fire department is able to continue on with paid staffing with it's own funding. At a time when volunteer fire departments across the nation are struggling to obtain new volunteers, this cut really hurts. It means fire departments will have to look to the public for even more support.

Tim Ruskell

The people who step across the line and get the job done deserve the credit. They enjoy playing with each other, they have each other's back, and they've really bought into the team concept. You drive down a road and see a road crew, two of them are working and the rest are leaning on their shovels? I lean on a shovel.

Joe Horn

We appreciate it. We welcome it. We love the people across the nation who have poured out their hearts to us. We love you with all of our hearts and we're going to do what we have to do to win football games. We love everybody in the world who has supported this effort and those who sat and watched TV and wanted to support us financially but couldn't.

C. L. R. James

First of all, Bolshevism represents...

Ray Jennings

The perception that the wicket was flat played a part (in the way South Africa bowled),

Kofi Annan

We are pressing ahead with our contingency planning and we hope to be ready to work with the African Union as we move forward to the implementation of the anticipated decision by the (UN) Security Council that we push ahead with the transition.

Rande Gerber

There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project.

Bill Clinton

We stopped thinking about what the world should do for Africa and we started thinking about what we could do with Africans.

Martin Jacques

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Nnedi Okorafor

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

Edward James Olmos

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

John Elderfield

We also took images of what we already owned so he could see them in context with his collection, ... It was a great couple of days. He had really thought about things.

Donna Wing

You don't know who you will see from one room to the next. You may have someone come in and interrupt and take things off-track. There's the element of surprise: You know you will be seeing ghosts, but you don't know in what context you will see them.

Ravi Zacharias

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.

Stefano Tonchi

While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view.

Walter Martin

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

Hubert Burda

We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.

Wynton Marsalis

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

Samantha Power

On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.

Carl Honore

My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

Maajid Nawaz

The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.

Rick Santorum

This shows that extremism in leadership is not rewarded.

David Blunkett

The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs.

Andrew Kohut

Associating Roberts with some kind of extremism would likely backfire because he is unlikely to be seen as extremist.

Pervez Musharraf

The hurdles to our progress are extremism and narrow-mindedness,

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Al Neuharth

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Bryan Ferry

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Carter G. Woodson

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Louis C. K.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can't climb the ladder of success...

Denis Waitley

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Robert Williams

We started increasing power at 8:30 yesterday (Saturday) morning.

Neale Donald Walsch

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

Robert Adams

What's really increasing more than anything is that we're getting more kids to take the SAT. That in and of itself means more kids are considering post-secondary education, which is tremendous. That's what they need to do.

Chris Burns

She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.

Steve Frank

Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility.

Nawal El Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Heather Brooke

You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Charles M. Schwab

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Larry Gagosian

You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

Kate Forsyth

Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.

H. Hunt

Most people have enough money. It's that they don't know how to manage what they have.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Gregory Petsko

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Albert Murray

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

Marie Windsor

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

Michael Foreman

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

Russell Tovey

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

John Ashcroft

These individuals are being restrained and properly so. They are terrorists. They are uniquely dangerous,

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

David Bohm

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole...

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Daryl Kimball

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.