Famous Quotes & Sayings

Viktor Yushchenko

recognition, but not only recognition of my work, but actually the efforts that were made by my people in the course of many, many centuries in their attempts to get their freedom. Independence cost a lot for Ukraine, and probably freedom cost even more than that.

Robert Ward

Pay us a certain amount, pay us every month, make an attempt to pay this, but they say no.

Kenneth Posner

Payment associations have market power because they are owned and controlled by groups of banks. The public MasterCard would have independent directors and a governance system that would make it clear that it would not be attempting to collude in setting an interchange fee.

Tom Benson

Our main concern is with the people of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region who have experienced the recent tragedy. We are attempting to carry on in these difficult times and are looking out for the best interest of our coaches, staff, players and their families. My prayers are with each of those who have been adversely impacted.

David Gilmour

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I don't claim responsibility and don't hold any great truck with.

Bill Thomas

People inside the house have stated she was banging on the door, attempting to regain entry.

Kehlog Albran

Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.

Kevin Honea

State Route 160 is not a new problem with the Highway Patrol. It's been our deadliest beat for the last three or four years, at least. This is an attempt on cutting down on the accident-causing violations.

Mark Souder

Springfield's attempt to eliminate our base totally failed,

Lydia Lunch

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

Stephen Collins

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

Russ Diamond

Part of the beauty of freedom is that freedom is chaotic.

Kat Imhoff

People in Virginia and elsewhere come because they want to see the beauty of the house, or they're interested in architecture. But we have other people come because they're interested in how to compose a declaration of independence, or how to set up a government.

Zwelinzima Vavi

States are now being forced to join an international beauty contest to compete for foreign investment.

Tim Nelson

Our state's beauty and talent pool won't be enough in the future, ... Utah will be left behind unless we unite in a call of support.

Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Sara Tervo

Our Victoria's Secret retail stores sell lingerie and beauty products only.

Rich Brion

Outside of the Olympics, swimming seems to disappear from public view and there's a drop-off in participation. Young kids are drawn to what will get their name in the paper. But those who stay realize the beauty of the sport.

Rousas John Rushdoony

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Barry Lopez

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Berthe Morisot

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).