Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanessa Carlton

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

Nothing in the arguments made by the university should be interpreted as a suggestion that Penn State has abandoned its policy regarding affirmative action and nondiscrimination.

Perceptive souls who have abandoned passion will not feed on flesh abandoned by life.

Charles Thomas

Mrs. Williams agreed to take care of me when all the other teachers abandoned me.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

May it preserve thee from sorcery, from thy equals and thy kin! Undying be, immortal, exceedingly vital; thy spirits shall not abandon thy body!

Media reports often leave the impression that Windows NT is being adopted by organizations of all sizes for every conceivable mission and that organizations are abandoning their investments in other operating environments. However, when IDC shines the light of empirical research on Windows NT usage, a different view emerges.

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

Only after the DPRK implements its commitment to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs in a verifiable manner, may we discuss the issue of a light-water reactor,

Timothy Garton Ash

What we in the community of established liberal democracies should do is not abandon the pursuit of democratisation but refine it.

George W. Bush

The only way the terrorists can win is if we lose our nerve and abandon the mission. For the security of the American people, that is not going to happen on my watch,

Jean-Paul Sartre

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

But when the swan departs, you shall remain behind, like an abandoned woman.

Lajos Kossuth

But the Hungarian nation, although taken by surprise, unarmed and unprepared, did not abandon its future prospects in any agony of despair.

John Doolittle

Bush is our man. We don't have an alternative. I am not going to abandon him over this, but it is a real disappointment.

Because they (NASA) had abandoned the military style of command and gone to a corporate style, they lost the ability to have clear communication. It (Challenger disaster) is a great lesson in organizational structure and how to achieve high-risk goals.

Mary Robinson

must not abandon its core standards and values, even in the face of the serious security threat to its own civilian population.

Morris Kite was the chairman. I remember the first meeting of that committee, out in an abandoned Victorian mansion that was the first location of the Gay Community Services Center in Los Angeles, which Morris helped to found.

Ariel Sharon

Now there is a real chance that new Palestinian leaders will rise -- those who will be elected -- who will truly abandon the path of terror and instead will advance a strategy of reconciliation and negotiation without violence, terror and hatred,

Floyd Abrams

Fox's decision to abandon its efforts at interfering with the sale of Al Franken's new book is welcome, if overdue. The case never should have been brought.

Hale Irwin

(Friday), the putter abandoned me early, and I never got it back. I went to a little different putting style. And I did roll the ball much better. I had more opportunities. I tried to be a little more patient and continue to hit good shots. Eventually, you're going to make a couple even if you don't putt well. That's what I did the last couple of holes.

I had left the music industry at the end of 2001, after 10 years, and had spent three years writing every single day - producing two unpublished novels, one abandoned novel, and three unproduced screenplays. The word 'no' and I were on more than nodding terms. The word 'no' and I were talking about going on holiday together.

Christian Louboutin

I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say: 'Well we're not really in love but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.

W. Averell Harriman

I felt a certain responsibility to help the British, as I had urged the British to abandon their export trade and convert to war production.

I can't separate myself from them; what kind of leader would that be? Also, that's my position. I can't separate myself from that. I'm going to be in everybody's ear from (quarterback) Brad (Smith) to a defensive back or whoever. But my guys who are wide receivers, I'm going to be in their ear the most because that's who I'm with. I'd never abandon those guys.

Rivers Cuomo

I can't imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we're doing, and I think we'll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can't imagine doing anything else!

Abdoulaye Wade

I have decided to suspend this procedure to continue the dialogue with the opposition. That doesn't mean I have abandoned combining the elections,

I don't feel like I'm abandoning the ship. ... We worked for two years getting ready for trial, and Dr. Al-Arian was not convicted of anything.

Ed Gillespie

I don't know that it has to be a judge. I don't think we should abandon the principle that we could put somebody on the bench from off a lower court.

Clinton Portis

I don't know what the deal was, but we abandoned the run. We abandoned the run -- I don't know what it was. I can't sit here and tell you it was because of the fumbles or it wasn't, but for whatever reason it was, we abandoned the run. I think when we get to go out there and execute our game plan it's hard to beat us. Every time we become one-dimensional we end up losing.

Robert Pinsky

I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play.

I am a sacrifice to my True Guru. He shall not abandon me; He shall surely carry me across.

We have a professional market going on right now. The individual has just abandoned it and you've got traders jerking it around. If you're playing in the market, what's your best way to make quick gains? Pick the higher volatility stocks. What are those? Tech stocks.