Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meditation is coming into the workplace as stress management. Stress acts directly on productivity. Stressed workers don't function very well. They don't turn up to work on Monday mornings.

John Taylor

Music City is Music City wherever you are in the city. The Nashville Palace gives us a place to take the young acts we develop downtown and take them to a bigger stage.

Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.

John Jones

Natural disaster is caused by the sin in the world. The acts of God are what happens afterwards ... all the good that happens.

Obsessions are repetitive thoughts which resemble worry and are accompanied by anxiety. Compulsions are behavioral acts designed to eliminate the obsessions. And sometimes if your mind becomes so cluttered with obsessions, and your day so filled with compulsions, life as you know becomes completely taken over by anxiety and counterproductive rituals.

Kofi Annan

No cause can justify such acts of terror,

Eric Hoffer

The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion- it is an evil government.

The plaintiffs want to blame the Port Authority for the murderous acts of fanatical terrorists who schemed for years and traveled thousands of miles

There are ordinary people throughout our community who perform extraordinary acts of courage and selflessness that save lives.

Peter Travers

She's on the fringes of both films but manages to create indelible impressions in characters the screenplays barely filled in. She's never the same from character to character. Maybe she's too attractive or too much of a chameleon for Oscar voters to realize that a true star - the kind that acts as well as shines - is in our midst.

She's doing well. She acts like she's really on her motor.

O Nanak, false is the speech of one who acts without loving the Lord.

Jools Holland

Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on.

Silver is a market that sort of acts like a freight train. It's really slow-moving, and once it gets started in a direction, you cannot stand in front of it.

Angelina Jolie

Sierra Leone is still scarred by the war, but the people have invested a great deal of courage and hope in the truth and reconciliation process, ... It is vital that the government acts on the (Truth and Reconciliation Commission's) recommendations to ensure that history will not repeat itself.

John Conyers

Since September 11, our nation has engaged in a policy of institutionalized racial and ethnic profiling, ... If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today ... he would tell us we must not allow the horrific acts of terror our nation has endured to slowly and subversively destroy the foundation of our democracy.

She is here every Saturday, helping with services for over 20 years. She passes out prayer books, helps people in wheelchairs. If someone has a problem or acts out, she is there to calm them down.

She is a starter and a sophomore, but acts like an upperclassman on the field. She acts like a leader and is very consistent, which is incredible for her.

Ike Turner

Most times, people have some acts that they really like. I mean, I don't have any in particular that I admire. I admire them all, you know.

Millie desperately wants to be president but never wins the election. Ginger Breadhouse who is Miss Perfect beats her out every time, ... On the outside Millie acts very secure, but on the inside she is a mess - she has an alcohol problem and cant understand why they wont allow alcohol on the (library) premises.

We have just as good a chance to book these acts as anybody else would.

Susan Hill

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

Love is not the big acts of confirmation we make, but the continuous little tasks we do for someone else. True love is where you don't have to be reminded of the promises or commitments you make to a person, but where loving them becomes a piece of you.

Judy Gold

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

Queen Noor

So many of us lost friends but what is coming through the most is the outrage and the disbelief that any group could consider these kind of acts serve larger purposes,

Benji Madden

She's years beyond her age, ... Honestly, she acts older than Joel.

Kevin Hart

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

Sherry Argov

The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: 'I like anything you like.'

Mahmoud Abbas

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

John Fletcher

Man is his own star; and the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man/ Commands all light, all influence, all fate./Nothing to him falls early, or too late./Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,/ Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Madness and evil. It is the work of the devil, ... Such acts cannot be perpetrated by any individual who has a sense of decency or humanity or justice or faith.

We are one of the only country acts tapped into colleges.