Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Reich

Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.

Amy Taylor

The price of admission at the door is $25, so make sure you get your tickets early and save yourself some money.

Tom Newton

One of the risks that Microsoft faces, following its admission to search through all of its legacy code, is that it may have encouraged hackers to join in the search.

Joe Jamail

I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

Paul Rieckhoff

I don't expect an easy solution to the situation in Iraq. I do expect an admission that there are serious problems that need serious solutions. I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.

Thomas Hemingway

I don't consider it an admission that the system was flawed. I've maintained consistently that we would try to make those improvements that were necessary to the process as we moved along.

Jason Brueschke

I'd be surprised if we get tacit admission from the company, but the takeover probably distracted Oracle's front-line sales reps and customers,

Francesca Dominici

This study provides strong evidence that daily hospital admission rates for cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases are higher when the fine particulate matter levels are increased from one day to the next.

M.V. Govindan

We are planning to make the package attractive by offering free admission to the park, maybe once a year, for the families of members.

Evan Bayh

Like all Americans regardless of party, I hope and pray that he will be a great chief justice. Time will tell,

Sathya Baba

Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.

John Cox

Mr. Murdock was the chief lawyer, chief lobbyist -- he was the whole package on this deal.

Arnaldo Otegi

maximum chief of the Spanish army, in other words, the person responsible for the torturers.

Bertrand Russel

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Lord Coe

My job now is to put the team together that will be with it right the way through to 2012 and as soon as I have found a new chief executive I will take a step back,

Walter Dellinger

one of the three most important chief justices in history.

Arlen Specter

One of the things that I talked to her about was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because there are a lot of complicated issues. And I said to her, 'You've got a pretty good road map in what went on with Chief Justice Roberts.

P. Herbert

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, / Like seasoned timber, never gives; / But though the whole world turn to coal, / Then chiefly lives.

Brad Adams

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.

Wesley Clark

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

Harry Reid

We need to hear honesty, humility from the Commander in Chief, not swagger from the campaigner in chief.

General Boonyaratglin

I am their commander and if the commander tells them to stay in their barracks, they should listen.

Jules Verne

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.

Bryan Whitman

We don't want to take unnecessary risk. We do make sure that when we exercise military force we use the right resources, sufficient to get the job done. It is a decision made by the commander on the ground,

Sun Tzu

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

Zell Miller

The Democratic Party today has gone further and further to the left. It's left me, it's left moderates and it's left a lot of people who want to support a strong commander in chief,

Antony Sher

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

David Richard

So it is important to set realistic targets for young drivers. I've seen drivers destroyed by high expectations and fear of failure.

Igor Smirnov

Moldova destroyed this plan with its own hands by imposing an economic blockade.

Douglas Coupland

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

Charles Wald

should have destroyed the remainder of the aircraft, munitions and supplies that were in that tunnel.

Haley Barbour

Six thousand homes were destroyed in Camille, ... I suspect it's going to be higher.

Waylon Jennings

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

Kim Alexis

I was muscular - I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she's not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I'm thinking, 'I'm always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.'

Bayard Rustin

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

George Clooney

I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.

Alfred Reft

Mau was so fired up tonight -- he was a spark plug in the middle. He did a good job, hustling, getting digs. He'll have to take the (libero) jersey.

Billy Donovan

Obviously, something upset him. Whether it was staged or something -- he seemed genuinely upset about it -- I don't know. He's as fired up and enthusiastic as any player out there.

Gerry Hunsicker

I can't honestly tell you there has been a time in recent years where I've been this fired up, this excited. It's like I'm, well, 28 or 29 again,

Rodney Jones

I was fired up, so I just kept shooting. I pulled a three and kept going. I didn't think I could miss. I don't know why I missed that last shot though.

B.J. Ryan

I was fired up. It's Opening Day. Every Opening Day is great. New team. Expectations are high. You want to go out there and prove yourself.

Pat Morelli

I was fired up. I told them to go out and play with intensity and that's what they did.

Shingo Takatsu

I was surprised a little bit, ... But as a player you want to go in that situation. I got fired up.

Wyclef Jean

I would be writing so many songs in my head while I'm making 30 Whoppers and six fries. That's why it never got me down or whatever. Of course, I got fired because the place got stuck up.

Rebecca Lobo

She's just as fired up. She probably still thinks she never commits a foul.

Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

Darcie Vincent

Megan was more patient in the second half. When she forces shots, it's not good for us. She's a great scorer but we need her to be patient.

Charles Sawyer

Of all of the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hope

Peter Pace

only a small number of Iraqi security forces are taking on the insurgents and terrorists by themselves.

Robert Mundell

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

Jaime Suchlicki

Now which way they're going to go ... I don't know. There are too many forces at work and too many people involved in this issue.

Ed Cogswell

Naturally you'll see more (campus police-JTTF partnerships) just because of the number of task forces that are up and running,

Jack Nicklaus

Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

Matt Will

No one is better situated than we are in Indiana to do this.

Richard Sheirer

Giuliani visited Indian Point and said, 'It's a reverse of Marion' high-security prison in upstate New York. It's as secure as Marion, but not in keeping people in but keeping people out.

Larry Brilliant

I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

John Trudell

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

Bodhidharma

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Sundar Pichai

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

Dayananda Saraswati

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

George Pataki

We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.

Tina Brown

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Barbara Ward

This submission also perpetuates the myth that women should submit and be subservient to their husbands,

Paul Di Filippo

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Cassandra Clare

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

Bryan Sykes

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Kate Thompson

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Brigitte Bardot

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Adam Savage

Failure is always an option.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Deepak Chopra

Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful.

Hesham Qandil

We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims.

John C. Reilly

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Ban Ki-moon

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Eckhart Tolle

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Bruce Cockburn

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Carlos Gutierrez

only then will the region be truly reborn.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Antonio Guterres

We are really very concerned. The whole region is very unstable.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

Daniel Andrews

We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Wang Guangya

The region is already complicated, we don't want to make it more complicated. We are not so enthusiastic about more resolutions.

Jared Ingersol

With this region being as strong as it is, it was important for us to get off on the right foot.