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convention direction force key members nice pleased process proximity setting thanks turned weather
We're pleased to see that SDCA members have turned out in force thanks to nice weather and the proximity of the convention this year. Having our members participate in the policy-development process is key to setting the direction we want for NCBA. Scott Jones
convention
I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to. Thayer David
convention divide issues safe talk
This was a safe speech. You don't go into a convention to talk about the issues that divide us. Jon Fleischman
convention due fact nice oil passed primarily relief
We had a very nice rally, primarily due to the fact that we had oil down, and there was some relief that the convention passed without incident.
convention entirely free governing hands including process
This process has to be entirely in the hands of Iraqis, and it has to be done by a constitutional convention that is completely free of all other institutions in Iraq, including the governing council. Ahmed Chalabi
convention festival folk kept later listened national night ran running
We ran into him later that night at the convention and he listened to us again. We just kept running into him at shows. We also ran into him at the National Folk Festival in Richmond.
convention steered
We've steered to the idea that the Contemporary is a convention resort. Kevin Myers
convention happy republican talk wrong
Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan. Barack Obama
convention extent phenomenon
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it. George Takei
daughters few leading men rich wives women
With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men. Kavita Ramdas
daughters distant foreign lands lives people sending sons transform trying
Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations. Ted Cruz
daughters involved sports volunteers
She volunteers all the time. Even sports her daughters are not involved in, she's the first to help.
daughters efforts family husband meet soon wants
She told me that she would like to meet with her family as soon as possible. She wants us to make efforts so that she can meet with her husband and daughters in Japan, Shinzo Abe
daughters strongly
Body-shaming is something I feel really strongly about. I think about my niece, I think about my friends who have daughters being on the Internet and reading these things, and it just makes me furious. It makes me so angry. Allison Tolman
daughters desk education four head physical primary school secondary sitting taught until youngest
I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. Amanda Burton
daughters dreams full homeland joke left pursue reach
My parents wanted their daughters to reach their full potential. I joke that they said, 'We left our homeland so you could pursue your dreams - as long as you're a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer.' Dina Powell
daughters island jewish
My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway. Idina Menzel
daughters parts relationships
I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special. Vanessa Williams
differences rome atheism
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong. Charles Caleb Colton
differences law grace
Relationship is the difference between grace and law. Charles Stanley
differences galaxy
Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being. Alan Watts
differences anxiety amount
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
differences numbers life-and-death
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned? Alan Moore
differences empowerment want
You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.
differences leisure tvs
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. Alan Ball
differences climbing perspective
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. Al Neuharth
differences done jersey
This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at me, say: "Why didn't it get done? Why didn't you do it?" You have to be responsible and accountable. Chris Christie
fathers-day father kids
I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids. Al Roker
fathers-day father eye
My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people. Chief Joseph
fathers-day dad missing
The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion. Dave Barry
fathers-day mother commitment
Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.
fathers-day teenage love-you
Never love anything that can't love you back. Bruce Williams
fathers-day running home
Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on! Louis C. K.
fathers-day kids long
When my kids were younger, I used to avoid them. I used to sit on the toilet 'til my legs fell asleep. You want to know why your father spends so long in the toilet? Because he's not sure he wants to be a father.
fathers-day mistake kids
I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.
fathers-day enemy i-love-my-dad
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all. August Strindberg
men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. Charles Dickens
men hair doors
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
mothers-day mom growing-up
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me. Antonio Villaraigosa
mothers-day mom motherhood
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
mothers-day mom mother
I really learned it all from mothers. Benjamin Spock
mothers-day mom daughter
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. Barbara Kingsolver
mothers-day mean world
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me) Eddy Arnold
mothers-day children eye
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' Adrienne Rich
mothers-day mom daughter
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. Agatha Christie
mothers nurse public risk time
Mothers risk prosecution every time they go out in public and nurse their children.
mothers older people
Occasionally, we'll get teenagers. Most are sewers. Some have mothers who sewed. The older people quilting now are doing it because they always wanted to quilt but never had the time.
notions
We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be, John Doe
notions scientific
A philosopher who adopts scientific notions predetermines his conclusions. Nicolas Davila
notions ridiculous seems
It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls. Ray Allen
notions point starting watch
I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like. Magda Apanowicz
reinforce
Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication. Vint Cerf
reinforce
I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism. Hari Kondabolu
reinforcement mutation behavior
We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement. B. F. Skinner
reinforcement facts behavior
The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
reinforce
Because negotiations are ongoing, we have no comment. I want to reinforce that we are not done.
restoration might revolution
Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.
restoration scar sin
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
rest steve team tired win
We still want to win and see which team we've got to play (in the post-season). We got a little tired because we didn't play with Steve and Raja, and they usually play a lot. Sometimes we get to rest up because Steve is doing all the work. Boris Diaw
rest
We're in inning 2 of the new ballgame. So get in and let it go the rest of the innings.
rest
We're not going to say we're not going to see him for the rest of the year, ... We're going to take it day-by-day.
rest-of-your-life willing ifs
Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make. Daymond John
rest-in-peace children reading
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read. Audre Lorde
rest-in-peace doors passing
Death is only passing through God's other door. Edgar Cayce
rest-in-peace transition died
Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.
separate states united until
The United States Air Force didn't even become a separate service until 1947.
separate stand
Way separate situations, ... I stand by all my guys.
separate
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
separate somebody
I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space. Bruno Tonioli
separates
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. Adlai E. Stevenson
separate work
I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal. Maiwenn
separated survived third
Those who survived are separated for the first third of the season. Damon Lindelof
separated
Those who see Me in everything and see everything in Me, are not separated from Me and I am not separated from them.
separate strung together
You are all separate beads strung together on that one thread, God. Sathya Baba
shifting side twitter version
We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed. Walter Kirn
shifting tides sucker
I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides. John Krasinski
shifting arbitrary truth-is
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon. Ken Wilber
shifting easy planes
I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be. Matthew Rhys
shifting produce consuming
Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it. Saul Berman
shifting
That is death - shifting from "is" to "was. Veronica Roth
steps backing-up steady
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. Alan Bean
step
We want to take a step forward. There's some worries. But you just go in there and play.
steps surprise reader
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself. Dave Gibbons
steps tough push-yourself
You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in. Bryan Clay
steps comfort grows
It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW. Bear Grylls
steps problem illegal
Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in. Antonis Samaras
steps commencement experiments
One failed experiment is one step closer to Success Denzel Washington
steps should
Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
steps looks hard
It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look. Bob Ross
variety whatever
We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.
variety
There is just such a variety of things to see and do here. Jennifer Smith
variety
Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.
variety wear
We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.
variety
Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things. Tom Johnson
variety wide
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations. Randall Kennedy
variety wide
We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.
variety year
This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals.
variety-is-the-spice-of-life pleasant variety
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. Francis Bacon
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
women doe attention
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
women modest bashful
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
women decorum length
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
women said mould
She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!
women want today
You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women. Alan Jay Lerner