Famous Quotes & Sayings

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When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: ''I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.''

Frank Mastalerz

We were trying to embrace the community on a different level of entertainment and appeal to middle-aged people who could relate to a Las Vegas-type show.

Rhonda Johnson

We have put some nice touches to it making it more appealing and it's all paid for.

Sandro Bondi

We have repeatedly asked the appeals court that the official count of the votes be carried out with full respect for the law, that is with the maximum precision and transparency.

Atul Lele

There is a lot of cash around at the moment, and established infrastructure with stable cash flows is an appealing investment.

John Jacobs

When I feel attracted to a client, what that really means is that there is something appealing about the person; it's a good sign for the patient.

Thomas Mallon

The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion - ought to be powerful.

Sharon Shinn

I'm not sure how writers and artists of other graphic novels join forces, but this is how the process worked for me: First, I produced my final script. Then, Mark Siegel, my editor at First Second, assembled information about 10 or 12 different artists and had me look through their portfolios to see what kind of styles appealed to me.

Anna Kendrick

I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Alan Rudolph

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

David Mitchell

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

David Graeber

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

David Suzuki

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Cesare Pavese

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

James Blumenthal

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

Larry Hale

We have six or seven kids who have scored more than 100 points this year. It's been pretty effective for us. We like it because you look at our scorebook, and we've had probably eight different people who have led us in scoring.

Dick Thompson

We know from experience with this drug that it is most effective very shortly after symptoms develop.

Charles Turner

Ultimately, they want a stable, a more effective relationship with their child. A lot of fathers don't know how to have that.

Ross Rubin

Ultimately, nothing is as effective as having someone on site to be able to troubleshoot.

David Brooks

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

Terri Sewell

I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.

Aravind Adiga

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Brian Tracy

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Jesse Cole

We did not get any response with that either.

Tasneem Ahmed

We are awaiting New Delhi's response on it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Larry Steach

When this all started, I didn't know what to expect. But, the response has been phenomenal.

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Barbara Smith

I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns.

Jeff Koenings

My first response --- shock and awe. It's like, Where did this come from?

Erin Gruwell

I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.