Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Roach

I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.

Jim Calhoun

We may look differently and act differently, but we both share a love for Eastern basketball, a love for the game, a love for people. To go in with Jim is befitting.

John Negroponte

We may find that our self-defense requires further actions with respect to other organizations and other states.

We must go beyond generalized planning and well-intentioned expressions of cooperation. Now is the time to speak and act with specificity.

We must further discuss these positive actions and continue to create spaces for dialogue, discussion and mutual understanding.

We must ensure that mentally ill persons who are prone to violence adhere to the treatment programs they rely on to remain safe and stable members of their communities, ... If they refuse to act responsibly by taking their medication, we must act to protect all New Yorkers.

Steve Forbes

We must encourage American businesses and farmers by weeding out the excessive red tape that Washington has been creating over the past decade. Regulations act as a hidden tax, and if we are not careful, they can begin to suffocate small businesses, destroy jobs, and choke off economic growth.

Olusegun Obasanjo

We must demonstrate the political will and assume the responsibility for the historical wrongs that are owed to the victims of slavery, that an apology be extended by states which actively practiced and benefited themselves from slavery.

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

We must continue with the shortened session since our actual trading capacity hasn't been expanded yet. We plan to expand the system sometime around May or June. We'll make an official announcement on Feb. 21.

We must consider closing those (car parts) operations that are far from being competitive. Or we find a partner that will take over these activities who is in a better position to secure jobs.

We have to be as active again in the return leg.

Ehud Barak

We have to act in such a way that everyone comes out a winner.

We look at a number of different fitness factors. We look at their muscular strength, their muscular endurance, their aerobic capacity and their body composition. This year, we are doing the assessment at the end of the year, whereas we are talking about fitness the entire year, and working on it the entire year. We will get an idea at the end of the year how these activities have worked for us.

We look for the report to confirm that economic activity remains strong. Retail spending will slow later this year but that hasn't shown up yet, and business investment should continue to be pretty strong as companies expand offices and factories.

We look at selective takeovers ... but we won't act as a white knight for anybody.

We look forward to seasonally strong business in the fourth quarter, ... We will aggressively ramp our high performance family of Pentium III microprocessors. At the same time, we are accelerating our new business activities in networking, communications products, and online services, as illustrated by the number of acquisitions made in the third quarter.

We make every best effort to police the activity and try to stop it before we have to take legal action.

Tony Blair

We make a judgment based on the advice of our security services what the appropriate action is to take

We mainly wanted to promote the activities you can do at the parks any day of the year, any time of the year.

Joan Smith

We made some mistakes in our zeal to really make a difference for our community. We need to be more cautious about the kind of activities we pursue.

We made known our differences at that time, and since then, through our determined and thus far successful legal actions against the department's regressive personnel rules.

Kelli Berglund

I would love to get into feature films; I'm willing to do an action flick, I'm willing to do a romantic comedy.

Ken Buck

I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.

Kim Stanley Robinson

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.

Jack Layton

How we vote now will be determined by whether meaningful action can occur on some of the areas that we outlined a few weeks ago,

Hurricane damage to coral reefs is natural. What we need to do is assure that human activity doesn't compromise the long-term health of the Keys reefs.

Hunters play an important role in environmental conservation, but these remote hunting games serve no useful purpose, ... Online hunting is an inappropriate and potentially dangerous activity that does not reflect the true sport of hunting.

Humans should engage in such actions that help in self-improvement by enhancing qualities like radiance, courage, energy, strength and divinity.

Hurricanes have hit downstate New York, and hurricanes will hit downstate New York again. Our very high market share numbers therefore compelled us to take appropriate, measured actions that balance the best interests of customers, shareholders, agency owners, employees and the community at large.

Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.

Casey Wilson

I actually do enjoy the Kardashians' show, and I know that other people do enjoy it, but at the same time, they want to make fun of it. Like, I know that girls are watching that show - I'm just the only one courageous enough to say it. Other people are courageous in acts of war, but I'm courageous in my love for the Kardashians.