Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Greenfield

The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.

Tariq Ramadan

The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.

Elliott Abrams

George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

Eric Balfour

'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.

Joseph Thorndike

When you talk about a tax plan that has to make it through Congress, you can't alienate the blue states, because you need a lot of red votes in blue states to get it passed.

Roy Cervantes

We're handling it as a suspected alien smuggling case.

Alexa Vega

I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.

Rick Oltman

What we're saying is the law needs to be applied. The law needs to be followed and that means the law for everyone, not just the illegal alien Mexicans but people who are here illegally from Europe and from around the world.

Bill Paxton

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

Jeff Montgomery

We have to go out to see what others are doing in order to bring new things back here. We try to give back to our communities.

Thomas Donohue

We have to get over the paranoia and start bringing people to the US.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Brian Nelson

We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but in this case, we are covering largely under-reported stories and bringing them to our audience.

Tommy Amaker

We have no choice and it's going to be a tough game. It's going to be a competitive game and I'll be very disappointed if we don't bring the fight and spirit that we had here tonight.

Scott Hodkinson

Whenever we play Lee you know they are going to bring some intensity with them. I was pleased with our effort.

Bree Larson

Whenever something good happens in the game before, we'll bring it into the next game and carry it through.

Barry Ritholtz

When you see a 250-point spurt like that in less than two months, that's not sustainable. What this pullback is doing, and I think will continue to do, is bring us back to a more sustainable level.

Toba Beta

When you saw a wounded who cry out for help, you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

Ron Carey

What the union historically has done is gone in, negotiate a contract, then brought it back to its members when they reached agreement. What the company has been dictating and intimidating and threatening people is that they want to shove this contract down the members' throats. That has never been done in the past,

Honeysuckle Weeks

When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.

Charles Spurgeon

When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through

LaDainian Tomlinson

When he first got here, he said he had some nastiness to him, and that was one thing he was going to bring. He's definitely brought it. ... I mean, the guy has brought a different mindset to the defense.

Kenneth Stethem

We want him to be brought to justice. We want him to be tried in the United States.

Steve Begin

We were already playing good hockey before the Olympic break. We were playing with confidence, and it's that confidence that we brought with us on this trip.

Sam Castree

The fact that maybe he upset some people in prior departments... I don't know that that's surprising as someone who's brought into many of these departments to institute community policing measures.

Mike Massey

When I'm doing it for charity I feel the freest and the best, ... I lived the life of a hustler for quite a few years, but God brought me out of it and made me a champion.

Mary Cimbalnik

We used to have kids brought here through a church, refugees with life-and-death stories.

Scott Robertson

waiting until the end of the year and crossing our fingers and hoping that our students will pass.

Eric Holder

I actually think that the dotting of the i's and the crossing of the t's is what separates the United States, the United Kingdom, our allies, from those who we are fighting.

Mark Ruffalo

They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.

Denise Tyrrell

She drove around the crossing gates, apparently. The gates were down and everything was functioning as it was supposed to.

John Ferguson

Security trumps trade. Security has become the priority when crossing borders.

Mary Harron

She's sexy, but she's very ladylike. There is something kind of 1950s about her, like she's wearing white gloves or crossing her ankles.

Elli Ochowicz

She's been an inspiration to all of us. We were really crossing our fingers hoping that she would get it.

Tasnim Aslam

Because of the widespread devastation the information about crossing procedures took some time to trickle down.

Jeff Allen

Getting state management is a nice first down, but delisting is crossing the goal line.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Charlie Chaplin

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Apparat

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Tommy Wiseau

I always say that you don't have to like 'The Room', but you will discover something - maybe a tiny little thing - and say, 'Wait a minute, maybe I want to see more.'

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

Scott Hand

We have seen a downturn in nickel prices during the third quarter and into the fourth quarter,

Chris Morris

We have to find out what happened between the first four weeks and the past four weeks. This offense isn't as productive. We have the same people, but we're not clicking.

Bob Cavanagh

We have a solid four to work around.

Ron Ledbetter

We have nine kids who have a solid shot of qualifying. Our other four entries have an outside shot of qualifying.

Daniel Becker

What the president is proposing will only save two weeks of oil over a four year period of time, not very impressive.

Paul DiPietro

When you see a team play together like we did, with four lines, that's how teams win. We have great goaltending and then anything can happen.

Kristy Curry

When you see a team do what they did, win four games in four days, that says a lot about their will to get it done.

Gigi Hadid

When you're two, three, four years old, it's not really modelling. You run around, and they give you toys in a fun place, and they take pictures of you playing.

Graeme Souness

We want more of the same from our back four tomorrow. We know that if we can keep Portsmouth out we have the players who can score goals at the other end,

Lord Mansfield

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Michael Servetus

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.

Isaac Newton

The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

Brian Schmidt

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

William Alger

The moon is a silver pinhead vastThat holds the heavens tent-hangings fast.

William Alger

The moon is a silver pinhead vast That holds the heavens tent-hangings fast.

Chan Gailey

Heavens no. We thought we'd be holding on.

William Shakespeare

The heavens themselves, the planets and this centreObserve degree, priority and place.

John Donne

This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint / My pilgrimage's last mile.

Vauvenargues Marquis

Magnanimity has no need to prove the prudence of its motives

Roger Thompson

Sony's motives are reasonable from their point of view, but it's a terrible security hole.

Craig Moffett

As always with Cablevision, their motives are inscrutable,

Frances Beinecke

Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.

Daniel Pauly

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.

Achim Steiner

The situation in oceans around the world is deteriorating, and at an escalating pace,

Granth Sahib

As the seas and the oceans are overflowing with water, so vast are my own sins.

Paul Watson

If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.

Paul Watson

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

Henry Montherlant

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Jim Watzin

LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.

Michael Crichton

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.