Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stanton

President Bush needs to stop playing politics with public health. We need a stronger standard dealing with fine particle soot pollution that affects the health of millions of Americans.

Saeb Erekat

President Abbas has reiterated that cutting off fund for infrastructure or the annual budget will spell a humanitarian disaster that affects all people.

Billy Campbell

Our objective is to create a more substantial approach to in-depth journalism. We want audiences to know that when there is a major world event or topic that affects our lives, and they are looking for more context, more depth and more information, Discovery Channel is where they will find it.

Liz Jackson

That decision affects about 500 employees. We're demonstrating because we want to highlight the issue of employee responsibility for healthcare coverage.

Mario Schootman

Our study shows that it's not just who you are or what you do, but where you live that affects your well-being.

Francesca Dominici

Our study is specific to the elderly, but there is epidemiological evidence that air pollution also affects the health of the younger population.

James Wolfensohn

Our focus is on poverty, which is an issue that affects everybody, but there's little doubt that other events of interest will make their way into different discussions,

Errol Alcott

It is a painful condition which is central to all movement so it affects his batting, bowling and running - pretty much everything.

Caroline Espinosa

It is an election-year issue, it is something people are concerned about. It is something they will go to the polls with, because it affects their lives, their jobs.

Karl Benson

Regardless of the number of teams, you are always looking for something that distinguishes one team from another. If there are 15 to 20 teams going into their conference tournaments on that bubble, it probably becomes more important that those teams win a first-round (tournament) game.

Mike Simpson

Religion is also quite different. Each faction has their own gods, and choosing which gods to build temples to becomes a major decision.

Jed Hoyer

Our reports are good. Keith will be ready to go. He had a down year last year and we expect him to bounce back. With the depth that we have in our bullpen, it becomes a pretty exciting proposition putting those guys together.

Gary Bettman

Our players play all year for their NHL teams. We, as an accommodation to the Olympics, take a break. We're going to go, but to the extent players are injured it becomes a very personal decision as to what the right thing to do is. And I don't think people should second-guess them.

David Belle

Parkour is not just linear. There are moments that are intense and some that are lesser, so you have to move from one to another, and that becomes the musicality of Parkour.

Ellis Krauss

Party label and leadership image become more important...and thus who leads the party and what the party stands for, which can be communicated to a large number of people only by media, especially TV, becomes a more important factor.

Cindy Williams

Part of me wants to be married and have everybody around the table for Christmas. But when you're married, your life becomes integrated solely with that person. There are too many characters running around inside me. Maybe they should all be married to somebody different.

Doug Johnson

Our members stress that competition in the world of retail is intense and (they) resolve most problems without burdensome regulation that can be counter-productive. If state regulation becomes too burdensome or punitive, merchants will stop selling them.

James Salter

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

Richard Berthelsen

If the arbitrator rules our way, we're looking at damages that were occurred. Things we would be looking at is the final year of his contract.

Tom LaSorda

Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases.

Michael Robertson

We are going into the damages phase and we feel very confident.

Hisashi Hieda

We will seek compensatory damages at any cost.

Donnell Barton

We did not write any punishment or punitive damages into the policy. Hopefully, we won't have to do that.

Paul Fletcher

We'll be seeking damages in the range of tens of millions of dollars.

Roe Hye

We determined that this is a grave misconduct that damages the foundation of science.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Michael Morris

would be surprised if we couldn't prove damages north of $1 billion.

Carl Rogers

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Carl Sagan

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

Kimberly Elise

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

Chris Evert

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Charles R. Swindoll

In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as having strength under control, being calm and peaceful when surrounded by a heated atmosphere, emitting a soothing effect on those who may be angry or otherwise beside themselves, and possessing tact and gracious courtesy that causes others to retain their self-esteem and dignity. Instead of losing, the gentle gain. Instead of being ripped off and taken advantage of, they come out ahead!

Azar Nafisi

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

Ayn Rand

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

Douglas Brinkley

I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

Chuck Palahniuk

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

Jan Karon

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

Rosemary Shahan

They can kill you with the bacteria, with the toxic mold.

Angela King

We want to get the things that are toxic or flammable out of the house.

Janet Evanovich

The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli

Nicholas Sparks

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

Jimmy Carter

The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.