Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Katsuya Okada

We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government,

Andy Roxburgh

We want to stimulate, motivate and encourage the associations by inviting them to join the Charter, and then getting as much out of it as they can. UEFA will help them achieve their grassroots objectives.

Pat Sullivan

We know we're not going to achieve real safe communities until we start to invest more money in the early childhood years of the children we're dealing with,

G. H. Hardy

Versatile was able to achieve revenue growth during that period by concentrating on our core goal of providing mobile solutions that operate in a wired or wireless environment, ... This was especially meaningful as the last few years in the technology sector have been particularly difficult. Our growth is a testament to the commitment of our employees in pursuit of our vision.

Fred Taylor

Venus Express is equipped to peer beneath the thick clouds that encircle the planet and probe the mysteries of Venus with a precision never achieved before, and find out why Venus evolved so differently to Earth.

Gary Thomas

Ultimately, intimacy is more fulfilling than accomplishments. High achievers have an empty spiritual life. I think God made us so that our greatest joy is found in relationship.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Catherine Fisher

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Cary Sherman

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.

Ludovico Ariosto

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Eddie Irvine

The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.

Tammy Cox

We stopped at the edge of town, changed our clothes, and took the decorations off the car.

Theresa Adams

We started out in a 2-3, which wasn't a very good defense ... because they can shoot the 3, and two of them can drive to the goal. So we changed it to a 3-2 and it worked much better.

Faye White

We started off well in the second leg and got a goal, which is what we needed. We can't complain about the first part of the game but it all changed when they got a penalty,

Leos Carax

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

Lauren Worsham

My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.

Mark White

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

Mark White

People who listen to the music for the music and are adventurous in their playing tend to dig it, those who have a narrower perspective don't.

Xun Zi

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

Xun Zi

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

Xun Zi

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

Xun Zi

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Xun Zi

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Xun Zi

A person is born with a liking for profit.

Xun Zi

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

William Shakespeare

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

Baltasar Gracian

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Fat Joe

I feel so safe tonight with all of this police protection courtesy of G-Unit,

Mick Leary

We've given Craig the courtesy of talking to him at a later date.

George Gekas

I will be one of those who will be greeting the president, respecting the office of the presidency, recognizing that the State of the Union message is a normal protocol for the American people, and will extend the courtesy that is necessary,

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Paul Handley

Mutual respect and courtesy is one of the things that holds this vague organization together and that is in short supply.

Saint Basil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Kathy Buthker

You'd think people would have enough courtesy to dry off the equipment without being asked, especially since we hand out towels at the front door. But you'd be surprised.

Marina and the Diamonds

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.

Heath Ledger

Working in Venice was like a four-month guided tour of the city. It was like shooting a film inside a museum.

Gordon Richards

The only way to be here legally is on one of these guided hikes,

Joe Farren

I think we have to look at studies that have been replicated, and there hasn't been one yet. This issue should be guided by science.

Karen Kain

Our marvelous musicians will be ably guided into the magnificent new theatre under David's leadership.

Eleanor Catton

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

Jake Plummer

I didn't do much I just guided them down the field.

Jake Plummer

I didn't do much but just guided them down the field.

Lynda Barry

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

Charles Stanley

You will never go wrong obeying God.

Charles Stanley

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

Stephen Holmes

It did not specifically say in so many words that he was not to be on the premises. It said that he was supposed to obey all laws.

Nancy Pelosi

This isn't about whether you want to protect the American people or not, this is about whether you want to obey the law.

Alex Brown

The teachers here are way cool, ... If you obey the rules and turn in your assignments, you get parties.

Mark Keller

It would also be wise for truckers to obey the posted weight limits.

Moby

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Thomas Jefferson

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

Arthur Eddington

Who will observe the observers?

Jim Struhsaker

I would say that what we observed here was very rare.

Cade Bernsen

I'm here to observe and support the senate.

Salar Kamangar

We observed by talking with our users that there is no reason to think of IM as different from an e-mail message.

Adoniram Judson

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

Hideo Kojima

I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I'll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives... about the day ahead of them.

Ty Cobb

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Chris Wedge

One of the things I've observed since I was a kid, is that if you work on something long enough you'll find I, even if you're lost for a while you'll find it.

Omar Suleiman

But the most important prevention is for people to observe hygiene.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Bill Jenkins

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

David Tudor

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

Athenaeus

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Mayor Baker

My rules are simple. Treat everyone fairly. Treat everyone with respect.

Alan Dooley

We need to put the rules together very, very soon.

Doug McBride

We have to have rules in place before we can do it.