Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

Dawn Brown

Life in our family changed when we adopted him. It has been challenging, but very rewarding.

Cheryl Crates

Last year there were eight versions of the budget (the ninth version was passed by the board of education) ... This is version four. We'll probably do four or more of these (budgets) until it's adopted in September.

Joseph Estey

Miranda is in theory a very simple concept that has actually become pretty complicated, ... The fallback should be, you should have a form that's been legally adopted through the prosecuting authority.

Carine Roitfeld

Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

Steve Wingfield

My hopes are that people will take some time out to watch this broadcast and see first hand how great the needs are of our adopted city.

John Deane

No president that I can find in the history of our country has really ever adopted a policy of expanding presidential powers for the sake of expanding presidential powers. And I think that's what we have going on.

Allen Boyd

For years, the Blue Dogs have stressed the need for a rainy day fund in the event of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, ... Unfortunately, this concept, which is adopted by most families and businesses, has eluded many members of Congress and the current administration.

Charla Baker

If a county adopts a sewage ordinance, then it is governed by the county and the state doesn't send inspectors in, ... That's why the state doesn't inspect our systems here. ...What our ordinance states is that we adopted the Missouri State Sewage Law.

Bible Bible

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

A. N. Wilson

Leave it to others to be perfect, to be wonderful. Be content with what you are.

Michael Eisner

Many people in technology say the killer app is pirated content, ... Some feel the availability of illegal content sells computers. It's very hard to negotiate with an industry that thinks its short-term growth is dependent on theft.

Jonathan Swift

Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly

Andrew Parker

One reason people are looking at P2P is because it gets them away from CDN - content distribution networks.

Rob Enderle

Online TV is going to make inroads into traditional forms. That can be a threat to the traditional providers of content or it can be an opportunity as well.

William Shakespeare

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.

R. Robinson

My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

William McKinley

More than 20,000 traders are using the Market Toolbox. The recent content additions make it a must-have tool for modern traders.

Source Unknown

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself!

Yanic Perreault

Like I said, I just want to focus on the things I do well creating some offense, winning face-offs and being reliable in my own zone. Overall, I thought things went pretty well.

Kurt Gurley

Making big wind isn't the same as creating a hurricane. The ultimate goal here is to have a full-scale structure immersed in a hurricane.

Gary Winnick

Leo knows how to run large companies, he has current Internet experience and he has a proven record of creating shareholder value.

Regg Simon

Scoring is two things for us - a byproduct of hard work and a byproduct of how we like to play hockey. We like to play up-tempo, puck-pressure hockey. And creating a lot of offense out of that is part of that style of play. It's a lot of (talent) too.

Dan McCarthy

Several factors are expected to come together Friday creating the potential for severe weather.

Dore Gold

Setting them on fire isn't a way of creating a new environment for a hopeful future.

Ian Johnson

Millennium Development Goals are about creating wealth. If we don't measure it right, we won't manage it right,

Jon Alterman

No one really knows what the endgame will be. Our difficulties are creating strong national institutions, and it's a growing problem.

Todd Rundgren

I first started doing some somewhat technology-based shows in the '80s. If you wanted to get real technical about it, back in the '70s I used to open up with Utopia with just me on the stage with a four-track tape recorder. So, technically, I've been using the help of various devices pretty much throughout my career.

John Battelle

Nearly all web publications are driven by the display model, which is in turn driven by page views. But we all know the web is shifting, thanks to mobile devices and the walled gardens they erect. The new landscape of the web is far more complicated, and new products must emerge.

Niklas Savander

On pricing, absolutely, we are going to be competitive. Obviously these are the devices we have high targets for.

Mike Russell

If these devices help keep drivers alert, they're welcome. But if they're mandatory, that's another question.

Ha-Joon Chang

Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.

William Shockley

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

Brian Kernighan

No matter how non-technical your life and work, you're going to have to interact with technology and technical people. If you know something about how devices and systems operate, it's a big advantage.

Daniel Kahneman

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Robert Kiyosaki

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

Larry Schmit

Seton was just a bigger, faster team. And there were a lot of them out there too, so they were able to stay fresh.

Jonathan Gray

much faster growth rate than the number one company.

Ryan Lowmiller

My main goal was to get faster and quicker. It helped a lot with my quickness and overall speed.

Nicholas Garganas

My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace.

Mark Zalewski

I feel stronger, I feel faster and healthier than I've ever felt. It's fun when you feel good.

Shawntae Spencer

I can't lie to you, I was beat. I fell down, and then he (Bruce) fell down. I just got up faster than he did.

Mike Watson

Getting faster and faster and faster isn't necessarily meeting the experience. You can go too fast, and then it's just messy.

Dan Adkins

Frankly it's going a lot faster than I had expected.

Jim Duarte

I don't think he's reached his potential. He'll be faster as he gets stronger.

Mark Cooper

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was a record year for the whole industry and for Airbus in particular.

Michael Callahan

No one industry can tackle this (dictates of a country's government) on its own.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Peter Bell

I don't think we're ever going to have no-one in the whole industry ever involved in it.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Ken Johnson

I work for an industry that's kind of misunderstood.

Esme Bianco

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Srikumar Rao

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

Michael Brown

Having a moon is just inherently cool, and is something that most self-respecting planets have.

Michael Clough

To say that something is not science is not to say that it is inherently wrong or bad.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.

Joe Laszlo

E-mail addresses inherently are tied to the provider in the way that a phone number is not tied to a wireless carrier or phone company.

Park Chan-wook

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

Peter Beck

The very nature of sweeping reforms would be inherently destabilizing to the regime. So it's more likely they would be halting reforms.

David Lodge

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.

Retief Goosen

No, I'm not even thinking about the lightning incident,

Richard Jackson

I was so focused, I let nothing, neither rain nor the lightning stop me,

Harry Harrison

So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

E. F. Benson

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

Avicenna

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Jack Straw

The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent,

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Lisa Ellis

Simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream rapidly and used up quickly.

Anna Akana

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Betsy Beers

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Scott McClellan

The United States is responding rapidly and robustly." ()

Jack Cheevers

We are working rapidly ... to remedy the situation.

Cecilia Zalkind

We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.

Jack Kilby

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

Kenny Harris

The site is rapidly taking shape. We're very excited.

Lynn Coady

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Johnny Knoxville

She threw up from soup on my shoes,

Bill Maher

You can't deny that religion has done some good. It organizes lots of anti-poverty programs and soup kitchens and missionary work. But I would say that, first of all, all those things can be accomplished without religion. You can be ethical, somebody who does the right thing without feeling that he has to in order to get his ass saved in the next life.

Elie Wiesel

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.

Ann Brashares

Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

Dan Harmon

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

Clive James

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

Dylan Moran

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.