Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leila Janah

The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.

Bruce Barbour

We are attempting to offer the program statewide.

Charles Chafer

We are attempting to give the public around the world the opportunity to be involved in very real space missions.

James D'Arc

We are attempting not only to show the great movies of the past, but we are also reproducing the very experience that people saw it in when these films were first released.

Dan Senor

We have no group that's claimed responsibility. It could be any number of groups attempting to operate inside Iraq.

Richard Thompson

We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.

John Read

We believe that gold is attempting to find a range with the recent extremes of $535 and $555 likely to confine the metal for a while.

Rob Gould

We're extremely troubled by the prospect that the legislature is attempting to hold our proposed merger hostage, and to that end we will be considering all options, including the legal route.

Ashwin Sanghi

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

Charles Caleb Colton

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Charles Spurgeon

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

Alan Bishop

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Al Ries

If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Platen

Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.

Hilary Clinton

Where's the goddamn f***ing flag? I want the goddamn f***ing flag up every f***ing morning at f***ing sunrise.

Antonio Villaraigosa

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

John Earl

We hope to have more flags next year.

Sheila Lee

Separating these two legislative initiatives would be like separating the flag from the Pledge of Allegiance,

Ann Coulter

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

Elizabeth Blackburn

If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.

Ken Brown

Those flags tell the whole story. We've taken a stand here. It's not because we're trying to grandstand, there's history involved,

David Ross

Tomorrow the flag will be lowered to half-mast between 7-7:30 a.m..

Neil Young

To protect our freedoms, it seems like we're going to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Ben Shapiro

The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

Ami Bera

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients.

Charles B. Rangel

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

Mohammed Habib

Maybe after the president wins elections, as we're sure he will, the freedoms that we've seen for the Brotherhood over the last year will be taken away.

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Chace Crawford

Really, I'm pretty laid-back, always cracking jokes.

Ed Widdifield

When I was laid off I didn't even know what a resume was.

John Browning

We remain well on track to meet all the new targets laid out in July.

Hassan Adams

We laid it on the line. I have no regrets.

Bart Schouten

She's laid back, but we all know she can step up when she wants to. In the big competitions, she always skates well. She WILL skate well at these Olympics.

Scott Winfrey

She completely laid out. She saved us three runs.

Tim Johnson

So far, we've laid 5,000 tons of rock and about 300 yards of grout.

Pete Rose

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.

A.J. Hawk

Yeah, but I don't think they would respect me if I just laid down and not play hard.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Laura Innes

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Robert Maguire

She has touched more lives personally than all 12 of the disciples.

Dan Ware

We're here to provide as much protection as possible. We're here to save lives first, and then do as much as we can to protect property.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Rafael Benitez

We were trying to protect him and other tired players.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Brandon Sanderson

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Golshifteh Farahani

I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Daniel Healy

It angers me and scares me, ... I remember Vietnam. I remember how the protests started out back then. I'm here to do whatever I can.

Krishna Sitaula

We will intensify the protests until we get rid of the autocratic monarchy.

John Henry Newman

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

George Eliot

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

Shahid Shamsi

The strike is to protest the blasphemous cartoons.

Shahid Shamsi

The shutter down strike was to protest the blasphemous cartoons.

Effi Eitam

We will be there to protest the government's provocations.

Wes Boyd

What was positioned as a safe protest vote has now become a kind of kamikaze vote,

Phil Ochs

The truest protest is beauty.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Catherine Ashton

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Madeleine Albright

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Ai Weiwei

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Bob Menendez

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Jared Leto

We want to play whatever you want to hear. We're here for you, Toledo.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Stephen Graham Jones

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it. I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it, ... I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Alexandra Adornetto

Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Mike Singletary

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

Bill Johnson

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

Cat Deeley

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

Gregg Laskoski

We were as wrong as you could get.

Charles M. Blow

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Bob Parsons

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

Douglas Brinkley

With Nixon, you see the right way to do it and the wrong way to do it.

Anthony Horowitz

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Dean Koontz

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.