Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Mann

A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

Carlos Ghosn

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

Carlos Ghosn

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Charlie Gonzalez

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Charles de Gaulle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Kenneth Wong

For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.

Ahmed Ressam

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target,

George Bodenheimer

We haven't firmed up precisely how and when we're going to do that.

Margot Robbie

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

John Cheever

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.

Mahmud Abbas

I'm never going to predict precisely when this is going to come to a conclusion. But I do think they have made a lot of progress.

Susan B. Anthony

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

Susan B. Anthony

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Bill Richardson

very disappointed in what the president said on energy.

Dick Armey

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

David Mitchell

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Kay

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

David Greenberg

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

David Powers

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Carolina Herrera

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

David Lange

Death is very, very terminal.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

Cheryl Strayed

You get to define the terms of your life.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Joe Lhota

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

Billy Bob Thornton

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Michael Barrett

Whenever we lose, he thinks he's going to have cardiac arrest.

Erica Cerra

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Dennis Ross

When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Von Joshua

He's a lot better than he thinks he is.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Jim MacDonald

Whatever (Town Administrator William Keegan) thinks is right,

Shane Warne

I think everyone out there thinks that there's been hundreds and hundreds and thousands of women. That is not actually the case.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.

Edmund Burke

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Edmund Burke

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

Edward Ruscha

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

Brit Hume

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Clarence Day

Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.