Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Harris

We have seen a huge gain in our (Illinois Standards Achievement Test) scores just because of these kids who have role models and good behaviors skills. Overall the students have helped the whole building.

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Alan Bleasdale

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Andrew Wiles

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

Timothy Ferriss

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Jim Young

We are honored to have been named America's most admired railroad. The spotlight for this accomplishment shines directly on our 50,000 employees who are truly the heroes in our company's success. In light of unprecedented business demands, we are successfully maintaining focus to stay on track.

Lynda Resnick

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

Kate Becker

We are not an all-ages dance club. We are a skills-building youth music and arts program that also does concerts.

Edward Gibbon

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Liane Balaban

Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.

Mark Helprin

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Heather Watts

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

Heather Watts

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.

Bill Hartley

We're happy to end our participation in this season of' Arts Nights, City Lights' with an evening of music and fun for the whole family.

Kurt Angle

I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.

E. O. Wilson

work closely with other arts organizations, civic and community groups, and local businesses to form alliances and supportive networks.

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Edward Brooke

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

Jessie J

I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

Peter Power

We are at a loss to understand why Norway has chosen to go down this particular route.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.

Kate Winslet

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

Tod Nielsen

Therefore, Borland has chosen to focus wholly on its ALM business.

Carlton Greene

She has chosen to concentrate on basketball, and she has given it 110 percent of her interest, effort and intensity 24/7, and that's really what has made her such a great player.

Michael Specter

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Lorne Calvert

We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world.

Brian Tracy

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Al Davis

We've got labor peace and it's intelligent. It makes sense. We do have the greatest league in the world.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Jack McConnell

Sir Tom is one of today's greatest Scots." ()

Mary Wittenberg

Monday is the start of two races. One of the races will be over in 2? hours. The other race to be the world's greatest marathoner won't be over for 18 months.

Justin Gatlin

Maurice is one of the greatest competitors in the world. However this is a new era, the young guys are coming.

Aristotle

The greatest victory is over self.

Pia Zadora

I'd like to keep going, to keep exploring. It's like anything else there's no way you can reach any kind heights or potential in your first film.

Charlie Rowe

Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.

Lon Carter

It always comes down to times, heights and distances.

Nathan Lump

Queens is a part of New York that a lot of people don't go to and really should. Walking down the streets in Jackson Heights is in many ways like taking a world tour.

Jeff Pyle

We've reached heights that people in this town have never seen.

Robert G. Allen

I'd rather see new heights when I'm 65.

Carol Mann

A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

Carlos Ghosn

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

Carlos Ghosn

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Charlie Gonzalez

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Charles de Gaulle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Bill Maher

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Alex Pareene

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

J. C. Watts

I'm a strong Liberal. I've voted Liberal all my life. I probably will again. But not this time. It's time for a change.

Clint Eastwood

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

P. J. O'Rourke

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

Ben Shapiro

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

David Mamet

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

Muriel Humphrey

There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.

Joseph Mercurio

He is firming up his support from liberal women.

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Michael Robinson

The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day.

Ricky Gervais

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Bram Cohen

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Susan B. Anthony

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

Susan B. Anthony

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Bill Richardson

very disappointed in what the president said on energy.

Dick Armey

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

David Mitchell

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Kay

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

David Greenberg

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

David Powers

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Carolina Herrera

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

Carlos Mencia

Here, let's go to my dressing room, and I promise, I'll only put it in for a second.

Charles Caleb Colton

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Charles Dickens

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Stanley

God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you.

Charles Spurgeon

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

Mike Singletary

We've set out to win the division. We're going to win the division, I promise you. Remember me when we do.

Dmitry Medvedev

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

Kourtney Kardashian

After my daughter was born, I made a promise to myself to live in the moment.

Jane Yolen

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Jason Aldean

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Cheryl Strayed

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Eckhart Tolle

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

Bruce Springsteen

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

C. L. R. James

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Bruno Tonioli

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Bjork

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.