Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are especially pleased to have the opportunity to share the experiences of our recent journey through Africa to help raise further awareness for a region that is severely affected by HIV/AIDS.

We are entering a positive, productive stage in our relationship. There is definitely a positive momentum affecting our relationship.

We are encouraged because there is plenty of case law that shows that a large urban city can't make decisions that adversely affect the suburbs.

Unemployment is obviously the biggest problem at the moment. But I'm not sure if the new government can really affect change in that department. Germany is too dependent on the global development.

Two-thirds of snowboard injuries affect the upper extremities, with the most common injuries occurring to the wrist and shoulder.

Two other areas where we utilize GIS are HAZMAT incidents (oil spills and affected areas) and Homeland Security. For example, during the Orange Alert following the London bombings, the county's Homeland Security Office and Emergency Operations Center went on 24-hour operations for all commuter transportation.

Mike Farrell

When somebody meets somebody in that situation, they are often intensely emotionally affected by the hideousness of the situation.

Marcus Samuelsson

Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.

Magic Johnson

I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

Ossie Davis

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Emily Greene Balch

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

Roma Downey

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.

Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

Clarence Thomas

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

Eartha Kitt

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

Hugh Grant

If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

Andrew Jackson

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Geoffrey Zakarian

How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will be noticed, and it will affect everyone's time. I instantly spring on them and treat them as royalty, showing them around and introducing them to everyone so they seem special.

Thalia

As you know, Hurricane Sandy has affected thousands of families, leaving them without electricity, without household goods and, in the worst cases, without a home.

We knew we ran the risk of putting assistance in the hands of potentially unscrupulous individuals not affected by the hurricanes. We concluded that it was a reasonable business risk and mitigated the risks as possible.

We learned of the scanning bug in early December, but because it affected a wide range of our products, we wanted to release a fix for all (of the affected versions) at once.

We learned from last year. Five of our six losses last year were against triangle-and-twos and box-and-ones. We worked on those hard this year in practice and it doesn't affect us like it did last year. It was a total team effort by all of them.

We launched the teddy bear campaign three weeks ago for the children affected in Honduras and Nicaragua. Our goal was a very ambitious one -- 100,000 teddy bears. But in such a short period we've almost reached 200,000.

Ralph Goodale

We launched consultations because of our concern about how the increased use of this type of business vehicle may affect economic growth, ... We have a viable and productive corporate sector that invests, creates jobs and contributes its fair share of tax. I want to make sure that government tax revenues are appropriately safeguarded, but even more importantly I want strong and vibrant Canadian enterprises of all sizes in all sectors contributing to a dynamic and growing economy.

We laid it out on the table for him, what his situation was, and to his credit, he's done everything he possibly could do to get back. He's bigger and stronger. We thought his weight was down last year, and it may have affected his velocity.

Rod Blagojevich

We're trying to martial all of that good will, and martial all of the big hearts the people in Illinois have and try to coordinate that to help the families from New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the other affected areas,

We're trying to get to the national championship game. If we blow this game, oh, it's going to be hard. It wouldn't affect us in the SEC race, but I think you can say our national championships are gone if we don't win this game.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.

Erin Gruwell

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

Gloria Steinem

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

Bill Buford

The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'

Bryce Dallas Howard

Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.