Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

Ed Royce

The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

Mandy Moore

When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.

I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

There are other ways diseases move around the world.It could be that wildlife introduced the virus, but through our own activities of commerce, the disease spread.

We separate ourselves from the pack by providing other activities surrounding the event rather than kids just coming in, playing games and leaving.

B. F. Skinner

Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.

Ben Shapiro

President Obama's respect for the Constitution does not extend to freedom of religion - his administration has forced religious businessowners to pay for insurance plans that cover activities in violation of religious precepts.

Traditional retail models like discounts and coupons can no longer meet the increasingly higher expectations of consumers. Activities like international shows and the countdown are something customers can find interest in, thus having more impulsion to come shopping here.

Traditionally it's much harder to get countries to roll back from activities that they have already begun than to persuade countries not to start something.

Olivia Holt

I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

Abdolkarim Soroush

That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?

We want to continue to keep our youth busy so they have more activities than just hanging around the streets and getting in trouble.

Shinzo Abe

We are not in a situation where we can make a decision in advance on the timing of ending the activities of the Self-Defense Forces.

Laura Esquivel

As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

Leland Ryken

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

Lauren Weisberger

I am obsessed with planning travel! Not just traveling, which I love, but the whole planning process and all the details that go into it. I subscribe to all these travel blogs and airline forums and research hotels and activities and destinations for hours on end, and I volunteer to plan trips for everyone I know.

Norman Finkelstein

There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as a quite free society. It's also true to say that the powers that be have so much control over how people think that there are fewer and fewer people who make use of the rights and information available to them.

We are confident that the authorities will fully comply with the regulations and standards of treaties governing cross border investment activities in Korea and the investigations will be conducted in a professional manner befitting the 10th largest economy in the world.

One of my favorite activities when I was a teenager was going riding on the back of a horse with a friend of mine. Because we were rather high up, I could see into peoples' lighted windows as we trotted past. Questions would rise up inside: Who lives there? Are they happy? What are they doing? Any dogs or cats in sight?

Wang Ce is a Chinese citizen, who illegally entered China with a forged passport and engaged in activities endangering national security.

Kailash Kher

Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!

Diana Quick

My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.

Dana Rohrabacher

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

We don't have a plan if a pandemic comes around, we can't turn 53 buildings, 32,000 students and 1,800 teachers into a kind of virtual school. We couldn't even do that in a year. We don't have a plan for sending curriculum by e-mail to students. We'll be doing whatever we can in the best interest of the community. . . . And we would do whatever kind of enrichment activities we could.

Howard Fast

I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.

We are planning on that committee to host a number of activities in that space downtown and to facilitate commercial activities that could come from that.

We are paying very close attention to those who are involved in activities that promote either fraudulent elections or promote violence.

Harlan Coben

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

Yuichiro Miura

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

Ezra Taft Benson

Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

We won't jump right in and spend all of those dollars. But we will redirect crews to fill potholes or to other construction activities like ... curb replacement. This will give us a little head start on that.

The definition of dating has changed. Activities that people would have called dating in the 1950s, '60s and even the '70s, no longer seem like dates for modern daters. People today, especially young people, travel in groups and hang out in groups. They don't call it dating.