Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Patini

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

Maajid Nawaz

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

Donna Shalala

The possible slowdown of illicit drug use among young people is encouraging, even though rates of use remain unacceptably high. All of us, especially parents and teachers, need to redouble our efforts

Bob Hamilton

The perception of high school golf a number of years back was not the highest, that it wasn't that hard a sport. That has all changed as the game has grown - especially among young people. There is a lot more respect for the players and the sport. People now are aware of how difficult it is to be good at golf.

David Patterson

The perception among high school students and their parents is that the game is over, that all computing jobs are going overseas. It's an extraordinarily widely held misperception.

Mark Foster

The perception among C-suite executives that the global economy is getting stronger should be a hopeful indicator for global business. As optimism for the global economic climate improves, top executives are more apt to focus on improving their own businesses by spending for programs that might have been curtailed or postponed and by hiring new employees to carry out their growth plans.

Dwight Davis

The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.

Patrick Page

The point of 'Othello,' among other points, is that it is impossible to know another human being,

Gary Bauer

We are looking forward to a vibrant competition among politicians for these voters. No one owns them.

Louis MacNeice

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case. Our efforts on behalf of the victims of 9/11 will continue as we pursue the next phase of this trial.

Phil Smith

We believe that the Senate should carefully review this appointment to ensure that this nominee will be the kind of watchdog on behalf of American coal miners that they need.

Don Porter

We're going to have to go out and lobby on behalf of our sport to get the support. We'll continue to do those things that have to be done to get it back in front of the session.

Richard Holbrooke

By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.

Don Aaron

Mr. Overton filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family. He is zealously representing them as their advocate. I think it's best that I don't engage in a debate with him over the lawsuit.

Dewi Anwar

The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?

Chris Grayling

The Prime Minister needs to have proper security. But I'm not at all persuaded that hiring luxury yachts on behalf of the security services to travel with the Prime Minister while he is on a luxury cruise is a good use of taxpayers' money,

Agnes Smedley

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Charles Buxton

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

Axl Rose

Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!

Dave Anderson

With them losing in the first round of the tournament to St. Ignatius, there are definitely some bitter feelings. There are definitely some games in the back of their heads that they'd like to have seen end differently last year. They want to maintain the tradition.

I. Stone

Life is too short to be really bitter about anything for so long. Sometimes, you have to turn the page. After all, he found a great career in Houston, and he made the Hall of Fame. He should get on with his life.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Tim Minear

I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.

Vladimir Putin

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Kristin Gore

I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.

David Suzuki

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

David Roberts

The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

Denis Leary

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

Gene Kitts

We're hoping that the carbon monoxide was just a byproduct of the explosion.

John Hurt

We're not approaching it to make a carbon copy of what we did last time but we've tended to come back to the way we were thinking then. More to the point, I'm creeping up toward being old enough for it now.

Leonard Susskind

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.

Richard Rogers

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

Bill Hayden

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

Francis Bacon

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Brad Wilson

We don't have any details on what caused it,

Toni Atkins

What has caused the damage is Ms. Atkins' misconduct, not the uncovering of Ms. Atkins' misconduct.

Bob Hofman

We gutted it out. We had a poor first half. But we played a lot better in the second half. We really picked up on defense and caused a lot of turnovers.

Mark Davis

Union Pacific apologizes for the inconveniences caused to Texarkana. Our hearts go out to the family that lost a person as a result of the derailment.

William Comanor

U.S. Steel was a continual drag on the economy for the next 50 years and caused substantial harm,

Lisa Therrell

We are processing the overnight permit applications right now, and I haven't counted how many applications but it looks like we've got a thousand.

Curt Schilling

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

John Czwartacki

We're not saying don't fill it out. If that is their personal desire to fill out only some questions, its better to do that than not get counted at all.

Bobby Butler

I was sweating it out when they counted off this morning,

Johnny Weir

I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I'm used to.

Libba Bray

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Kim Cattrall

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

Karen Maitland

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

Joe Tiller

But we didn't do it. On the drive that counted the most.

Alan Greenspan

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

Charlie Munger

To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

Tori Amos

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Jose Ferreira

Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

Tracey Schmitt

newfound interest in science is a derivative of his longing to travel back in time and run a cohesive campaign.

Dan Harmon

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Calista Flockhart

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

Richard Bove

This event highlights, once again, the difficulty in determining earnings for derivative transactions.

David Spear

So much of what contractors use is petroleum derivative stuff.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

Jean Dellios

We look at properties before sending anything out.

Robert Irwin

I always look to see if other properties have turned around, because if you're the first in you may really get hammered,

Jim Simmons

We sell most of our properties in 30 days. What most sellers want is their property sold as quickly as possible.

Barry Sternlicht

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

Pete Erlenbach

We can't tell if it is public or private. So we are going to take those properties out.

Peggy Moriarty

They just don't get to use it as much as they would like. They have properties all over the world.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Charley Pride

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

Bobbi Brown

Beauty is the result of realizing what is special about you and not focusing on the things you don't like.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Luis von Ahn

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Ben Bernanke

If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

Bobby Robson

Don't ask me what a typical Brazilian is because I don't know what a typical Brazilian is. But Romario was a typical Brazilian.

Barbara Mertz

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Adam Sandler

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

Adam Lambert

I don't like to look typical.

Kirk Smith

We don't know what a typical year is. There may never be such a thing.

Amanda Schull

I wouldn't necessarily consider myself the typical sci-fi genre fan. I do have a lot of sci-fi shows that I enjoy, but I wouldn't call it my favorite genre of all.

Maisie Williams

Going out is the typical thing when you turn 18, but it's not really much fun when you have a recognisable face.