Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

Mike Greene

The point is not to lecture. We approach this from the premise that U.S.-China relations are good and we're committed to making them better.

Michael Stern

We are pleased to be able to work so closely with Brian, his team of trainers and coaches, and especially the elite athletes that look to TEST Sports Clubs to improve their performance. Our cutting-edge approach to athlete nutrition matches is a perfect complement to TESTs approach of using science and creativity to open new horizons for elite athletes.

Lawrence Byrd

We are at the beginning of the road. In order to grow we need to change the way we approach the way we do business.

John Kilduff

We are at levels that in the past several years had caused gasoline prices to approach the $1.70-type national average record levels.

Lee Bermejo

As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center.

Nick Woodman

Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.

Terri Laux

We approach each season knowing that it is going to be a long two months and every game in the MAC is important for us. I think that we need to get three or four wins this weekend and focus on taking care of the little things and eliminate the mental errors that we've been having.

Josh Bernstein

We're not going to solve this problem with a patchwork approach at the state level. It's a national problem, and the need is to repair the national system. We're not going to erect barriers between states.

Jay Graham

We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.

Justin Dew

There are certainly plenty of opportunities to put $500 million worth of capital in the hedge fund space. I think by and large Yale is looked upon as a preferred investor, and therefore I think a lot of managers would be open to having discussions with them.

Gary Capaldi

We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.

Megan Schwab

Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.

Matt Ridley

Watching those people on television made it hard to feel sorry for myself, ... That was misery - capital M.

Scott Parker

When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team.

Peter Coolidge

We're going to have to see economic data that suggests capital spending is on the rise and corporate confidence is rising before we can move up significantly. We need to see concrete results.

Mark Wagner

We're going to have to play three complete periods (today). We'll see a better team (today), a team that will capitalize on your mistakes and jump all over you.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see what he was thinking at the time. He's the one who received the employment. Was it something that he sought? Was it something that the companies offered to him?

Louis Navellier

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

Michael Specter

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

John Nolan

The other thing the Internet and overall technology are enabling us to do, quite honestly, is streamline our internal costs, and that's a big deal. We're using the Internet just like a lot of companies to try and drive down costs administratively and then leverage that infrastructure to enhance our core products and offer Internet-related products outside our mainstream.

Ron Carey

The Post Office and the other companies can't manage the volume, ... They shouldn't be dictating; they should be negotiating.

Jim Keyes

We are pleased to join the global companies listed on the world's most prestigious stock exchange, ... Our NYSE listing marks an important milestone for 7-Eleven and will raise our visibility with the financial community.

Ryan Thompson

There are companies that will rent furniture for houses on sale.

Harvey Eisen

There are companies that in my mind are obvious takeover candidates,

Victor Lazarovici

There are companies making money consistently, even at lower gold prices. Panic is the last thing you want to do.

Mark Fogel

We started off the game with the 9-0 run and then the kids were very deliberate and executed everything on offense we had to.

Patricia Bradshaw

We have not, as a Department of Defense, in a deliberate way institutionally tried to manage our Senior Executive Service members. We have operated in a very decentralized way.

Joanna Scott

When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.

Timothy Noah

If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves.

William Stone

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

Robert Grant

The demands of modern living are so exacting that men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.

Karen Rugen

We wanted to be as deliberate as possible and get the numbers right.

Gilbert Ryle

Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as 'the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine'.

Orlando Dominguez

The person is fine, he just drove up to the scene.

Kate Mulgrew

When you turn 50, you realize that the better part of your life is past, ... Mothers usually don't get to spend five weeks with their 21-year-old son. We drove all over the place.

Kurt Backes

When he drove (Woodall) over in that last period, I just felt tingles down my spine and I was looking forward to my match.

Steve Dixon

When he drove there, he went up to the house, spent 12, 13 minutes in the house when no one was home,

Mick Jagger

When we drove up, he was out front, scalping T-shirts and selling a few tickets,

Richard Kovalcheck

When we get the running game going, everything ... just gets in a rhythm. It doesn't even feel like we drove 80 yards down the field, it goes by so quick.

Erica Cerra

I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, and jobs.

Dennis Dinsmore

She drove away from there. That was the last time she was seen. She did not return to her home on Hall Way.

Zach Randolph

When I drove to the hole I couldn't really get off the ground. It's hurting really bad. I ain't got no lift, nothing.

Erin Morgenstern

Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have is a mess.

Harry Reid

If this merger frenzy continues, we could end up with three, two, maybe only one airlines, and I think that we have a tremendous obligation to the American public to make travel more pleasant.

Josh Freed

If this is the frenzy now, what's it going to be like the last week of December?

Jeff Mitchell

The media frenzy of it is incredible. It's a lot of fun. You just have to roll with it. The frenzy of the whole week is crazy, so I think I'll be able to help keep everyone focused.

Janee Briesemeister

This deregulation frenzy was predicated on low gas prices, and when gas prices go up it does not work. In some ways these filings are a good thing because they show that there is no guarantee that prices will not keep going up.

George Herbert

Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.

Terry Palmisano

These e-mails have gotten everyone stirred up into such a frenzy that people think mountain lions are knocking on people's doors, ready to come in.

Bill Gates

I'm not saying we won't participate in this frenzy a little bit,

Mary Jackson

It's not a frenzy like it used to be, but it's a good line.

Daniel Akaka

We have never intended to 'cut into the pie' of funding for Indian programs and services,

Ray Durham

We're just not getting the funding for the legislature to get updated and new equipment.

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Tim Butler

We're looking at several different sources. We haven't secured a particular funding stream yet.

Jan Davis

The only place we have left to turn now is the cities. If we don't get funding from them, I'm not sure what we're going to do at this point.

Russ Williams

We had no money, no funding from the university. We were literally starting from scratch. We had no office. We had no vehicle.

Seth Shostak

The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations.

Camille Paglia

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

Patricia Hewitt

We are monitoring the situation literally day by day, ... We will review the funding in the light of this work.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Jerry Costello

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Kate Bush

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Michael Ignatieff

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

Ryan Donovan

She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Bible Bible

Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Lee Quillen

The plants that are going to be the largest 10 years from now should be the largest ones you put in the ground.

Jack Colley

We're looking at trains as a primary way to move large means of people.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Charles Spurgeon

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Al Pacino

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Byron Katie

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

Ato Essandoh

Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.

Carlos Fuentes

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

Roy Cooper

While many of the projects may have been worthy of consideration, the way they were funded makes them suspect in the public's mind,

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

Christo

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

Andy Goldsworthy

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

Damien Chazelle

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

Jonathan Safran Foer

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.

Duncan Fletcher

They've got to be just more selective sweeping.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Angelo Reyes

We are concerned. We are taking the appropriate measures, but we are not panicking.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

David Ramsey

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Hans Vestberg

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

John Doerr

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

John Doerr

The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Chief Seattle

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Chief Seattle

All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.

Ban Ki-moon

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

Dhani Harrison

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

Donald Miller

If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.

Vandana Shiva

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

Gaylord Nelson

We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

David Karp

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

Paul Thurrott

IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.