Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.

Robert Teeter

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

Sathya Baba

LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

Mark Erickson

Life is great. The miracles I've experienced. The sharing of experiences with friends, family, like I've never seen before. These are things that I avoided my whole life, not choosing to be a part of, but today I cherish them.

Jason Martin

Lunch is time sensitive, so I pick a venue that I can get in and out of quickly to avoid being late.

Joe Durkin

Make your plans early. Choose a designated driver so you get home safely and avoid the possibility of injuring yourself or others.

Steven Heighton

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

Gary Sharpe

Let me give you a bit of history. Two years ago, Andover came in here and Bam! Andover beat Kimball and shocked some people. Last year they came in here and Bam! Andover beat Kimball again. We were trying to avoid a three-peat.

Risa Stewart

Loud, excessive grunting and throwing your weights around on the floor usually go together, so we try to avoid it.

Karen Russell

I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid.

Paul Hawken

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

Lawrence Lindsey

huge economic and ecological repercussions down the road.

Richard Wilkinson

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

Jim Hall

The whole ecological system in the forest here is very much imbalance.

E. Hurley

It's sort of like hearing a rock star is coming. He's not just talking about traditional ecological knowledge. He's actually doing it.

Richard Meritzer

It's a great thing to do. It's ecological and it's healthy.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Alexei Kudrin

Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and we have the means to lower inflation to this level.

John Banks

Losing one day in July is an economic disaster.

Jeff Schappe

Leading economic indicators in general have indicated a slowing for some time.

Stephen Slivinski

Many states are having an unexpected surplus of revenue, and that is because of economic growth. It's mainly because their estimates on economic growth were very low.

Robert Matsui

sensible economic policies that put American families first.

Pankaj Mishra

Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.

Steven Wood

Momentum in the leading indicators has slowed over the past year, suggesting an impending slowdown in economic growth.

John Hostettler

Maybe we are not seeing the full effects today (of SS), but if we look forward unto tomorrow, we can actually avert an economic catastrophe, ... If we delay, hoping the problem will go away, we are simply inviting disaster.

Robert Hass

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Jochen Zeitz

Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.

Bruce Reznik

Lorena really is the environmental candidate. She's somebody I've worked with on environmental issues for the past six years, on state and local issues, and she has proven her leadership.

Jerry Ray

Many of the Florida environmental groups have come to see us, and they wanted this approach.

Beth Zimmerman

Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them to improve the shopping experience and sales potential for all consumers, regardless of gender.

Jostein Gaarder

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Maurice Strong

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Dennis Weaver

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Denis Hayes

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

Joe Cheshire

Let's look at some facts. You know, false accusations are made by people all the time for all different types of reasons.

Theodore Steinberg

Levees are a double-edged sword; they give people a false sense of security.

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

Jerry Parker

My feelings are still that I don't want to give the public a false sense of security by us passing the matrix.

Steve Stanley

No one should have any false hope that the trade gap is going to narrow much or for very long, but at least the speed of the underlying deterioration is less than we thought.

Benjamin Franklin

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

Dawn Powell

Now we have only the escapists, who write of happenings a hundred or three hundred years ago, false to history, false to human nature.

Carlos Rodriguez

I did not come here to give you false hopes, ... But Ill tell you this: Were going to rebuilt St. Bernard.

Jim Keyes

If we have one false positive a month, it gives us concern. So 13 is out of the ordinary. That's outrageously high.

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Melanie Gruer

Mr. Murphy co-operated fully with the RCMP review and is pleased with the outcome.

Gustavo Kuerten

My goal now is to be fully recovered and to be in great shape I need, at least, six weeks of intense work,

Janne Niinimaa

Obviously those names are not at the level of the names we lost, if you look at them on paper, ... But they are fully qualified.

Jeff Bagwell

For so long, it's been, 'OK, he's playing first base. Don't even worry about him in spring training. But it's a different story now, and I fully understand that. That part has been a little weird for me, but that's the way it is right now.

Raymond Kelly

fully executed ... so it's possible there could be more arrests.

Mahmoud Abbas

fully accounted for and used in the way it was intended.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97% back now, ... It is very hard. ... Chemotherapy is so hard on a person. And I would say I'm fully recovered, yeah.

Nancy Walker

Mainly, we just want the green space with the openness,

Ted Purdy

Low scores are going to happen with no wind. There's no rough, and the greens are perfect.

Ian Shepherdson

Mr. Greenspan has all but ruled out a May tightening.

Jim Zorn

Matt was tremendously talented, but wild. He would come in and say, 'This is how we did it in Green Bay,' and wasn't very receptive to change.

Chris Evans

I can't read greens and she won us shots.

Bernard Baumohl

On the other hand, Greenspan seems satisfied that his tightening has had a lasting effect. He's likely to stand pat for the rest of the year.

Patrick Quinn

I would have been less surprised if little green men walked in.

Mike Boles

She's a special player. She's not one-dimensional. She looks for her teammates. Sometimes it's hard to take all those shots but she has the green light. She's very unselfish.

John Markell

I'd like to host one someday. It's a wonderful event. I think they knew the level of support they would get from the people of Green Bay, and to be able to pull something like this off and put hockey at the forefront, for a day at least, is great.

Monica Cruz

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

James Hayes

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.

Greg Zenerovitz

We had been preparing to open up with them so we could measure where we were at.

Willie McGinest

I have a lot (left). I don't measure by years. I take it day by day.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Armand Salmon

Tolerance for pain and suffering is no measure of strength.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Dennis Hastert

She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

Deng Xiaoping

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Eleanor Roosevelt

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.

Edsger Dijkstra

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

Deepak Chopra

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

David Neeleman

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

Aaron Eckhart

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

Paul McNulty

Ms. Lewinsky's testimony has never been more important than it is now,

Colleen Dolan

Now that the tests have been done, we know what it's not. Whatever it was, it was significantly more debilitating yesterday morning.

Steve Segadelli

If anything has tested us this year, it's been a big team.

Elizabeth Blackwell

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

Alex Rodriguez

I got tested a little bit. I'm still a little sore.

Pat Descher

Because of the hurricane, McDonald's said we could be a test market.

Lionel Blue

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

Drew Neitzel

We know they'll try to get after us like that. This is going to be a test of our composure.

Jim Alexander

We'll do the beta testing in June. That will be your ticket.