Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Harrington

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

I think Nic definitely has a chance to make it to the finals. It depends on the draw. We don't know what region he'd be playing in the state if he advances that far.

Barry White

I listened to my accountants and lawyers. I signed the contract and put the advance in the bank, but inside my heart I felt something was wrong.

If there's not a major push for the renewal of the Voting Rights Act, many of the advances we've seen in the past two decades will be severely undermined.

Ronda Rousey

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that?

Ronda Rousey

I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.

Giorgio Moroder

I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.

If you can finish in the top half of the SEC ... and get into the tournament then you'll usually advance pretty far into it. Our focus has been that ... we know that there is a formula to getting to the NCAA tournament, and that doesn't mean winning every basketball game.

Sathya Baba

If you approach one step nearer to me, I shall advance three steps towards you. Wherever you walk, I am there. Whomsoever you contact, I am in that person. I am in each. From each, I will respond. You can see Me in one place and miss Me in another.

Mike Beebe

If you do that, you do a number of things. You elevate the chances of those children being successful because they don't enter so far behind and stay so far behind. You also advance the progress of the kids who didn't need it because the entire class moves faster.

If you nominate a guy, he'll be on that list. They're not really considered for the team. That selection process began a year and a half in advance . . . The players think they're being considered but they're not.

John Bolton

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.

James Fenton

In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.

I don't know if students grasp how advanced our society and work force have become. Some of the kids take it for granted, but then a lot of kids don't know what it was like before this.

Andy Roddick

I didn't feel clean with anything I was doing up there in Montreal. Obviously getting here and getting used to the conditions four, five days in advance will make a huge difference.

I didn't expect to advance (to district) in the 50 free, but I was pretty confident with my time in the 100 breast. I guess I favor the 100 breast a little bit, but I really like both events. (Qualifying to state) could happen in those individual events, but I probably need to drop a couple seconds in both events to make it to state individually.

Housing could make it easier to pursue a degree or at least to advance through the system.

Hosting the world championships at Rod Laver Arena last year also provided a boost to our gymnasts as they demonstrated the huge advances they have made over the past four years.

Jack Kilby

How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

He's probably a little advanced right now in terms of scoring the ball as compared to other guys in our backcourt. But he just turned 18 this September and has a lot to learn. We're just looking forward to coaching him.

Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Mandy Patinkin

I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

I'm way more advanced this time. I've got guidance now from someone who's been in the game for 20 years and knows the ropes. I have a support team training partners, sparring partners, and all of the other things that I didn't have before.

In emerging markets, consumers are more likely to own a cell phone than a computer, so they get to the Internet through their phone. Data use is not as advanced in the United States.

In an attempt to bring industrial harmony and peace, the Ministry of Finance was persuaded that it was possible without disrupting the news to our creditors to advance the $1,300 and the Prime Minister agreed,

Anson Carter

I'm hoping for power-play time, but you never know, ... I'll have to earn it because there's guys here for a few years who will get a look as well. Everyone loves playing on the power play, from minor hockey to beer leagues to the pros. The power play is where you can pick up your game. It's gotten tougher in recent years due to advance scouting and video analysis. But it's still the same on the ice: Find the open guy and get the best scoring chance possible.

I like the paper group here (especially Bowater). With the weaker dollar, I think paper is going to be a surprising performer here, ... I particularly like the newsprint sectors. I think pricing is a little more advanced in that part of the industry than it is in some of the others.

John Boyd Orr

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Interconnects and file systems are critical to what we do, the availability of a smaller advanced development system will ensure our users a positive first experience when they get onto the larger production machines.

Innovation continues to be a key driver in the success of our business. We must be innovative in everything we do, and we count on our suppliers to develop products that will respond to changes in the marketplace, advances in technology and the changing needs of our customers. Each year our innovation awards honor our top suppliers for their forward thinking, responsiveness and product development that best serve our customers.

Pete Townshend

I refuse to have my best efforts - already heavily filtered in advance and subjected to the constraints of finance and time - rejected by any criteria whatsoever.

By joining the Advanced Infrastructure Systems Management competency, Microsoft Solutions Partners will receive tools and resources that will help them audit a customer's existing disaster recovery plan to determine if the existing backup strategy is effective, and identify small to mid-market organizations that are a good candidate for DPM. We will also be releasing online Web-based training and a Project Guide in the coming months.