Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. Northcote Parkinson

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Ian Hislop

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.

Gene Sperling

You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.

Earl Blumenauer

We were taking an agency that was maybe 1 percent dealing with homeland security and 99 percent disaster, and folding it into something where it could lose focus and resources, ... And that is what's happened.

Gerry Adams

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.

As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and relevant.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

Donna Brazile

If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'

Carrie Preston

I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this was in the '90s. It was the golden age!

Carla Hall

I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

Darren Criss

I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.

Cindy Morgan

I'm a big supporter of the military simply because I'm the daughter of a Polish immigrant who fled Europe during World War II from Poland and lied about his age to join the Army simply because he was proud to be an American. And who isn't?

Patty Murray

While I was pleased to receive assurances that the agency will, in the coming weeks, deliver a long overdue decision on Plan B, concerns about Dr. Crawford's leadership remain, ... I have been continually concerned during Dr. Crawford's tenure that FDA hasn't shown the independence and adherence to science necessary to inspire public confidence.

Sherman Austin

While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours.

James Morgan

While it may seem objectionable to some that a state official would organize and sponsor a fundraiser, and invite to that fundraiser individuals who do business with the state agency with which the official is associated Wisconsin statutes do not prohibit or restrict those practices.

While it appears that the authorities have determined Sebastian initially made an innocent mistake, he clearly compounded the situation by making the wrong choice by not notifying the team's traveling security agent about his situation immediately. He has apologized profusely, but he knows he must be held accountable for his actions. He will pay the price for his error in judgment for violating both team and league policy.

With the average age of game players now 30, our industry naturally creates content appropriate for a wide range of audiences, just as there are TV shows, films, music, and books for people of all tastes, interests, and values.

With the arrival of Venus Express, ESA is the only space agency to have science operations under way around four planets: Venus, the moon, Mars and Saturn. We are really proud to deliver such a capability to the international science community.

Billy Donovan

With the age limit, I think you're going to continually make college basketball very young. Some kids handle it better than others. ... It makes it very challenging, very, very, very difficult.

Laura Bush

We have many difficult days ahead, especially as we recover those who did not survive the storm, ... I've instructed all agencies to honor their memory by treating the dead with the dignity and respect they deserve.

Rebecca MacKinnon

We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.

Mike DeWine

We moved the president's agenda and have a Supreme Court nominee whom people are happy with,

Ridley Scott

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

When we think of ageing of the face,

We will include the fact that we consider that to be the likely target age in our agreement on a coalition government.

We will have on agenda faster growth perception. The economies are already growing fast and the meeting will discuss how ADB can assist in further accelerating this growth.

We will have concurrent sessions for both age categories but at different tables so there is separation between the sessions.

We've played a month of playoff games. I think for the age of our team, guys have done a pretty good job. We've battled pretty hard and are going to continue to battle. It's unfortunate we couldn't have a little slip-up.

We've not really had a go-to person that can help us navigate ourselves through all these different agencies - that's what this position was for.

We welcome Ben?s expertise and talent to our team. His experience is an asset to the agency and offers our trucking and transportation clients a wealth of knowledge regarding their recruitment marketing needs.

David Allen

We are excited to begin offering the Living Balance Sheet to our field force, which will transform the way our financial representatives do business. It will help our agents distinguish themselves in what has become an increasingly competitive environment.

The portfolio decline was mainly a product of our desire to be opportunistic, and the spreads between mortgage-backed securities and agency debt were not conducive for growth. The tightness of spreads gave us fewer opportunities to grow.