Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Buckingham

Men have the choice to arrange their schedules so they can pick up the kids from school twice a week. And they have the choice not to, and then to feel guilty about this choice.

Jack Straw

We've discussed that, we are hoping very much that a visit can be arranged as soon as convenient but no date has yet been fixed,

Robert Wagner

Jill and I arrange our lives to spend a lot of time together. That makes us both happy.

You can change dynamic elements and layout so not only does one person get a unique offering but it's also arranged differently.

We have a team arranged to go tomorrow (Saturday) or Sunday.

We'll meet from time to time but we didn't discuss any proposals to arrange the meeting of the whole membership. We still need some time to consult.

We were looking for new markets to expand to and I knew about the Bartlesville Community Center so we arranged something, ... It's a beautiful theater. I'm really happy for us to have our show here. And it will be the same show that we have performed in New York, so Bartlesville won't go away disappointed.

Jay Kay

We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.

We are still awaiting the resumption of financial assistance from Fifa. We are confident the money will be coming soon so we can offset some of the debts we have incurred on the boys and girls teams and also arrange for better training facilities for the boys before their next match.

Gordon B. Hinckley

My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.

Graham Greene

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Guru Nanak

The Lord has perfectly arranged this wedding, the Saints have come together as a wedding party.

Bob Peterson

The lots next door have sold for $330,000 and $360,000. But back in 1996 when we bought our place, this cost us just $85,000 and we live on our Social Security. The cost of the condo we were in was going up, and the insurance money was running out. It took us 11 months before we could find someone to demolish the old house, remove the debris, arrange financing, and find a contractor to start construction on our new house.

William Stafford

And all the time it's your own story, even when you think -- "It's all just made up, a trick. What is the author trying to do?" Reader, we are in such a story: all of this is trying to arrange a kind of prayer for you. Pray for me.

He was Mr. Clean; he was every woman's dream. All his glasses were always perfectly arranged and the cabinets were spotless. His son said that if something was used that night, he would have cleaned it.

Our diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning .

Jason Flemyng

A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.

Employers may not want to know the gory details of your illness. What we do want to know is if you'll be reporting for work tomorrow. You need to give an expectation of when you'll be back at work so your supervisor can arrange for someone to temporarily cover for you.

Russia's intention to arrange open relations with the Arab-Islamic world. Russia, which occupies a territory spanning Europe and Asia, is best poised to sponsor a dialogue between civilizations and to ensure a balance of forces in the world.

Tina Brown

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time, displayed foresight and determination to meet our proposals halfway and change our relations for the better, stop the nuclear race, start scrapping nuclear weapons, and arrange normal relations between our countries.

As the direct result of the terrorist attacks, the arranged liquidity facility will not be completed and, under prevailing economic conditions, other private financing alternatives are not available,

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.

They say a humanitarian disaster is looming in the capital unless some kind of cease-fire is arranged and humanitarian supplies can be brought in.

It's essentially a dish with 60 electrodes arranged in a dish at the bottom,

Michael Brown

He told me he was in his hotel, had chest pains, the normal symptoms. The hotel arranged for an ambulance to come.

Rue McClanahan

Some say I arrange for drama in my own life, ... He was sick as a dog with bronchitis and a 102-degree fever.

The skylights are arranged in a way that won't make it difficult for swimmers to see.

Rush Limbaugh

The word 'arrested,' this is semantics. This was all arranged in advance. I was voluntarily processed.

Antoine Lavoisier

The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.

Anne Sebba

When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.

We were probably going to have to go by bus, or whatever alternative means that Via Rail arranged for us, if they were going to.

Bruce Barton

When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.