Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Alan Watts

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Howard Schultz

We want to stay here. We love this city. We raised our kids here. We built our businesses here and we're being forced to accept a set of circumstances that are not acceptable. We can't continue to lose this kind of money.

Chogyam Trungpa

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Jacob Artist

When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

Djuna Barnes

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Diane Wakoski

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Dianna Agron

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

Richard Holbrooke

Ultimately the decision as to what happens will be made by the decisions and actions of the Yugoslav leadership. They have the power to stop this tragedy. They have the power to take action to reverse it.

Sylvester Croom

Ultimately, I am responsible for their actions and I take full responsibility. But I want to stress that these are good kids who come from good families, who made a serious mistake in judgment.

Meg Garlinghouse

The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how individual actions can make any impact. We are hopeful that Yahoo!'s Earth Day campaign will illustrate that if we act as a global community, together we can make a difference. We encourage citizens everywhere to embrace our collective responsibility to protect the earth for future generations.

Vladimir Litvin

The people will not benefit from this. The people's homes will not get warmer. It is nakedly clear that actions by those who are responsible for this sector are neither professional nor competent. Those people have triggered the gas crisis in relations with Russia.

William Dempkowski

The pledge says 'I won't smoke in the high school and I won't smoke on school grounds. The last part says I will try by my actions to be a positive influence and help my friends so they don't smoke.

Raul Gonzalez

We are prepared to defend the EO. We have anticipated these actions by various sectors,

Michael Capellas

We are aggressively taking the appropriate actions to restore the company's growth and financial performance. The realignment of the company is fully underway, our management team is basically in place and we already offer the powerful solutions and range of products customers need to maximize Internet benefits.

Dan Stein

We believe that the actions and rhetoric of the Mexican government constitute an attempt to infringe on the sovereignty of the United States, and we urge an immediate and strong response from the Bush administration.

Alan Lacy

We believe that Sears Canada shareholders should consider the actions of the senior management and the largest independent shareholder when making a decision with respect to whether to tender their Sears Canada common shares.

Linda Shelton

We want them to grow up and have a solid psychological and physiological basis for success. I love to move more than life, and want to empower girls and women to feel the joy of movement.

John Connell

We are seeing certain markets where housing costs and rents are going up on a monthly basis because of limited inventory, especially in developing Eastern European markets and major centers such as London, Paris and Moscow.

Terence Gabriel

We are probably going to see another 75 basis points.

Mike Street

We are pleased to have concluded the basis and substance of a deal with Gate Gourmet. The key to unlocking this dispute now lies firmly in the hands of Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). They must sort out their differences for the good of our customers and the employees of Gate Gourmet.

Wu Bangguo

There are both solid basis and immense potentials for cooperation between China and Morocco. Enhancing cooperation in various fields will definitely bring tangible benefits to the people of the two countries and play an important role in facilitating world peace, stability and development.

David Brown

We still think that the bigger 50 basis points move is the odds on favorite judging by the current strength of the euro,

Scott Snyder

We still see more value in the Asia-Pacific region than in the U.S. market, where people are still panicking over inflation. On a 15- to 20-year basis for a country like Japan, which has had years of market turmoil, there is certainly still room to run.

David Sobel

Where the basis of the request comes from is that the government itself has revealed nothing about these initiatives. The objective here is to move beyond unnamed DOT sources to really make public on an official basis some of the details.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

Louis Stokes

Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

Scott Cowen

Until a commission is sanctioned to sift through all these ideas and coalesce it into a single vision, I don't think people will pay much attention.

Mike Twomey

What these companies give in contributions is just a pennies-on-the-dollar investment compared with what they get from the Legislature and Public Service Commission in terms of favorable legislation and rulings.

David Collins

Until the election commission tells me I'm not a candidate, I consider myself a candidate, and I will continue campaigning like I've always campaigned. Obviously if they tell me I'm off the ballot, then I guess I sort of pack things up and fold in the tent.

Tom Brookes

We can confirm the meeting is taking place and is part of the regular dialogue between Microsoft and the Commission on competition and a wide range of other subjects.

Harry Reid

We're going to have an independent commission to study what went wrong, ... Mark my words, it's going to happen.

Tom Kehoe

Working with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission , we have issued a voluntary recall for the defective notebook batteries.

Bryan Lee

The proceeding has been suspended. It's not at all unusual for the commission to suspend a proceeding with a prospect of a settlement.

Michael Twomey

The real issue: Is the Louisiana Public Service Commission going to make the company wait one or two years to recover these dollars.

Alain Robert

Life has to be dangerous.

Eddie Olczyk

We knew they were a dangerous team, we knew they were in the slide they have been in. We were in a similar slide early in the season.

Bruce Bochy

We know how dangerous he is. And we don't want to make a mistake and find out.

Jim Jordan

Ultimately, voters are going to decide a small-town physician from a small and atypical state is probably not qualified to lead this nation in a dangerous world.

Todd Matthews

We've already had some dangerous situations, and I am really dreading March.

Todd Matthews

We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dread is March.

Steve Manzuik

There are some extremely smart hackers out there using and sharing the tools that find these vulnerabilities. When Microsoft takes a long time to issue fixes, it sets up a dangerous situation,

Craig White

We spread them out and made the extra pass in the second half. The first half was one pass and one shot. You got to at least make them play defense, we didn't do that in the first half. We could have been pretty dangerous tonight if we played all 32 minutes.

Demi Lovato

Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'

Ernestine Fobbs

Given that employers have no legal obligation to thoroughly investigate whether documents presented to them by new employees are valid or not, they often have a de facto defense.

Hilary Shelton

I think the disadvantage is that the Senate is moving as fast as it is. With the White House releasing documents as slowly as it has been doing, we would think that the entire Senate would want to be more circumspect.

Chris Seeger

I think they were much better prepared this time. They knew their documents better and their cross-examinations were better.

Kurmanbek Bakiyev

We can leave him social guarantees and privileges. As for his personal immunity, the immunity of his private and office documents and archives, as well as the provision of him and his family at the expense of the state, these immunity guarantees should be excluded from the Constitution,

Ken Paulson

our reporters publishing this story were kind of proud of the fact that they had identified '60 Minutes' source and gotten the documents from that source rather than the White House.

Carl Goldberg

Our main goal is to understand if, in fact, they still can maintain the construction schedule, and if they can keep to the mix of uses that already is in the documents they've signed. There's no flexibility on that front.

Jarrod Agen

We now have over 8,000 different types of documents that people can use to get into the United States.

Scott McCormack

Most of the documents are going to be false." ()

Arlen Specter

It is imperative that the White House provide expeditiously those documents it intends to release,

Chua Bin

We started the year on a low note and we are ending the year on a high because all sectors bounced back.

Colin Jones

We're going to take it one week and one game at a time. Not getting to play in that game was so tough. It was a frustrating ending to a great season. Now we're healthy and ready to get started. This is going to be our year.

Keir Dullea

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Unless the market can get a firm perception that the US Fed is ending its interest rate hike cycle, the ongoing weakness of the yen may not come to an end.

Martha Grimes

There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Kerry Wilson

She, I hate to say it, uses men to move herself up. It's kind of a rags to riches story, but she was not well-liked by the military or the aristocracy. It's like 'Cinderella,' only the ending is not happy.

Chrissy Mastry

I can't say I'm disappointed. I could not be happier that we got here. Ending my senior season going to state was amazing.

Jeff Sanders

I can't remember a week ever starting and ending with that type of excitement before. It was a great week.

Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Stanley Hauerwas

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Theodor Mommsen

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Condoleezza Rice

Lebanon has to be free of foreign interference. This is an issue of national sovereignty for Lebanon, and Syria has to respect that,

Adam Ereli

sends the wrong signal to foreign investors and could negatively impact Russia's role in the global economy.

Christopher Low

So far, the refunding has been a mixed bag. The three-year saw little foreign interest and had a low bid-to-cover, but the 10-year went a little better yesterday.

Walter Salles

So I had this idea for the film but I was shooting Foreign Land and I had written 10 pages on it about what the story should be.

Charles de Gaulle

Never relinquish the initiative.

Bertolt Brecht

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

John Carlson

The plain legal meaning of (the) ruling is that Kirby Wilbur and I can no longer talk about Initiative 912,

Dan Barker

The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.

Bob Verbeeck

Kim has taken the initiative to thank her fans.

Alan Greenspan

I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective,

Gray Davis

If that initiative were to pass, investment would be withheld, and it would take years and years longer before we had a surplus of power.

Louis Brandeis

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Jaswant Singh

this was not a matter for any international initiative or intervention.

Atal Vajpayee

many proposals for verification, of which joint patrolling is one.

Elizabeth Janeway

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Cilla Black

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

Aquilino Pimentel

There are at least two more witnesses ready to testify before the joint committees,

Igor Luksic

Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

Alexander Lebed

The peace process is in motion. The joint patrols are working; local commanders have started to withdraw troops.

Jamie Rodriguez

I feel good. It was a joint effort.

Darren Hayes

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant...

Kong Quan

We will push for new progress at these talks. The key is to come up with constructive measures to put the joint statement into action.

Randy Simmons

When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.

Lance Lattin

We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.

Kurt Vonnegut

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

Madeleine Albright

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

Sue Fox

We've sent quilts to Kosovo, the Middle East, any time people have been devastated. They need the basics. They need to be warm and protected.

Bruce Lee

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.

Diane Sawyer

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Aristotle

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Ron Krumer

The Prime Minister is still in a serious but stable condition.

Christopher Shays

Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship,

Edward Seaga

I think the reception that the queen has received says something different than what the prime minister is saying.

Chamlong Srimuang

Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.

Will Ferrell

Whom does the prime minister prefer? Tinky Winkey, Dipsy, Po, or La-La?

Jens Stoltenberg

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Suranand Vejjajiva

When the prime minister sold his shares, people didn't understand it was a private matter. We were quite off-message at first.

Bud Selig

Frankly, there is nothing for me to comment. I'm sure Senator Mitchell and his staff are monitoring everything every closely.

Gideon Meir

What we saw tonight in Tel Aviv was the Palestinian response to the Mitchell report,

Val McDermid

I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.

Otis Rush

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.

Morrie Schwartz

Do you prefer Mitch, or is Mitchell better?

John Brady

You say they took Darrel Mitchell out. We took out Green. That's pretty much a tradeoff.

Eric Christensen

We're officially abnormally dry, but we're not in a drought.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially waive you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation for this particular opportunity. So we're going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Jeff Nettles

I thought I had seen everything. Now I've officially seen everything.

Jenny Frost

We haven't officially split up - we are still together as a band,

Michael Bennett

My injury, ... is officially a thing of the past.

Jeff Foxworthy

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

Tom Swan

For him to officially get in, we're going to need to recruit volunteers from every town.

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.

Cecilia Zalkind

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

Conrad Burns

I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.

Ronald Schmelzer

We see very rapid consolidation in this market.

Adi Godrej

When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of inflation is something that we should take in our stride.

Jack Cheevers

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

Richard Flanagan

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

Jack Kilby

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

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Richard Barnes

Until the IPCC report is published, we are all in the realms of speculation.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Melvin Maddocks

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Chris Collins

I think actually the scouting report was to kind of shoot it low, so I don't know what I was doing.

Upma Chawdhry

It has been indicated that this was reported late.

Phil Hare

Today is really all about Lane. I told a reporter today he has been like my brother.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

Charles Spurgeon

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

Alan Parker

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Alan Perlis

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

Akhmad Kadyrov

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

Chogyam Trungpa

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Chogyam Trungpa

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Chogyam Trungpa

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.