Famous Quotes & Sayings

Len Traubman

We have no illusions about what somebody like Sharon or any government professional can do without citizens deepening and expanding this public peace process of human relationships.

Martina Horvathova

We want respect. We don't feel equal citizens of the Czech Republic. We don't feel free. We fear for our children.

James Nash

We want our citizens of Houston and our citizens from New Orleans to know that we've got to come together as one and we do that by communicating, by sharing.

J. J. Johnson

We were trying so hard not to do something that would upset this man and get one of our citizens killed. ... Everything had to be read from a script.

Ertharin Cousin

The face of hunger doesn't have a particular color, and it doesn't come from a particular neighborhood. They are your neighbors, they are working Americans, they are senior citizens who have worked their entire lives, and they are children.

Steve Tuttle

What we do know is that Taser technology saves lives every day and that medical experts studying Taser devices have concluded that they are a safer means to subdue violent individuals who could harm law enforcement officers, innocent citizens or themselves compared to other use of force options,

Brian Day

The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?

Elliott Abrams

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.

Eula Biss

Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.

Josh Engel

We've spent eight years developing our craft, and now we have a troupe we're really happy with and we want to go further.

John Lasseter

We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.

Stanley A. McChrystal

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.

Stephen Cambone

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.

Tracie Thoms

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

Nancy Parrott

The popularity has really developed on word of mouth, and it lives up to it. It also has that universal appeal.

Mitch Kapor

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

John Rymer

Ultimately it comes down to the market and developers voting with their dollars.

Ted Ligety

I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

Lawrence Korb

The real issue here is that you have a policy that is costing us money, hurting readiness and is really not fulfilling any national security objective.

Marc Faber

I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.

Kevin Adams

Musically and creatively, it's more fulfilling than any thing I've ever done, ... Live From Studio B.

Damian Woetzel

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

Clayton Christensen

I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.

Les Brown

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.

James Nykolay

To be in love with somebody and having a fulfilling life you're not missing out on anything not having penetrative sex.

Victoria Osteen

If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

Linda Lavin

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

Charles Caleb Colton

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Bryan Adams

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Ellen Gilchrist

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

Alan Paton

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Charles Baudelaire

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

Austin O'Malley

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.

Bertrand Piccard

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Diane Ackerman

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

B. C. Forbes

To make headway, improve your head.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Evangeline Lilly

I've had to find my sanity.

Erich Fromm

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Philip Larkin

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Mark Twain

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

George Orwell

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

Studs Terkel

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

Ovid

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

Rudy Giuliani

If [Donald] Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Ed Silliere

Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.

Carre Otis

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

Carol Roth

Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'

Carol Leifer

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Carol Shields

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Carol Shields

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

Carol Moseley Braun

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.