Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Henry L. Stimson

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Hassan Nasrallah

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

Dorothy Hamill

Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.

Casper Dien

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.

Carrie Preston

Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.

Cary Fowler

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.

With every action there's a consequence and if you're going to break the law, I think it's a valid consequence to withhold federal funding to allow someone to go to school.

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Kurt Russell

With Dakota, you see someone who will act as long as they want to, because she sees things as they are,

While it's imprecise to extrapolate trends from a single distribution center, in our view the activity levels at this facility demonstrate that Amazon is highly likely to meet or exceed our December quarter revenue estimate of $1 billion. Shipment levels appear to be at least on plan, with a very high backlog of orders to be filled.

Ken Giles

While it is a risk, we determined that it didn't meet the legal threshold for regulatory action.

While it is a difficult decision to eliminate positions in our talented and dedicated work force, this move is necessary to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy, ... This is a decisive, yet disciplined, cost-reduction action that balances the need to be fiscally prudent with the need to continually seek growth opportunities and generate long-term profitability in a highly competitive marketplace.

Dylan Lauren

While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as they are always challenging, and I never get bored from all the beautiful scenery.

While I hope you will act responsibly and with reason on this issue, I feel obliged to tell you that your failure to do so would cause me to reevaluate my association with an organization that fails to recognize the role of women in our society. While I have, up to this point, respected your request that this issue not be a subject of discussion either with the public or with other members, I feel that continuing the status quo would cause me to make my views known to a broader audience -- if only to remove any doubt that I approve of the present policy.

Robert Bork

Without adherence to the original understanding, even the actual Bill of Rights could be pared or eliminated. It is asserted nonetheless, and sometimes on high authority, that the judicial philosophy of original understanding is fatally defective in any number of respects.

Paul O'Neill

With our economy slowing, now is the time to boost consumer confidence with quick congressional action,

With or without the proposal, you have to act decisively and you have to begin saving immediately upon hitting the workforce. Not only is the present up to you, so is your future.

Jim Talent

With only 41 percent of the small businesses surveyed by the National Federation of Independent Businesses taking action or planning to take action to address their potential Y2K problems, something must be done to make becoming Y2K compliant more affordable.

David Frost

Without supporting action by the Bank of England and the Chancellor there is danger of renewed relapse.

Daniel Patterson

Without protection of the endangered species act we would have lost hundreds of additional species including the owls and those are all related to our quality of life.

Without knowing it, women act as if they were taking away the stones from the path of the wandering mineralogist in order that he might not strike his foot against them - when he has gone out for the very purpose of striking against them

David Toms

Without immediate action in Newfoundland and Labrador . . . we can expect supply shortages.

Without effective action over several decades, global warming will see ice sheets melting in the north and the spread of deserts from the south. The continent's population could effectively be concentrated in the centre,

Without decisive policy action by the government, the 11,000 will be just a passing point.

Albert Einstein

With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which st

With the activity that I see from buyers, when the spring inventory hits, I think we're going to have a good, strong year. We will see.

With the activities that are scheduled combined with the great lineup of speakers who will be leading the conference, it's shaping up to be an exceptional event.

Jerry Colangelo

We need to change the perception of how the world looks at us as a country and a basketball power and we have to reclaim what we lost. It's a lot about how they look, how they act on and off the court. The only way to change the perception is to have people doing the right thing and that's the goal.

We need to be out of the gym. I'll be more comfortable when we get that done. We'll have more space in the old fieldhouse, we'll have room to put in additional equipment, and it'll be away from any other activities going on in the gym, so you don't have to worry about those things anymore.

We have met the active Army's monthly recruiting goals since June, and we expect to meet it for September, which sends us into fiscal year 2006 on a winning streak,