Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Wolfensohn

One need only look at the cement barriers surrounding these buildings to understand the big difference of the past year.

The only walls and barriers that were present were the ones that they both climbed together.

Manmohan Singh

I believe there is a perception in Indian trade and industry circles that the European market is becoming increasingly difficult to penetrate. As tariff barriers disintegrate, non-tariff barriers suddenly come up,

I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things, which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow.

Barriers aren't going to work. They are going to get around them, they are going to innovate. The next point is to try to safely enable them.

Walking breaks down all the barriers you become part of one common mass of humanity, ... global message of peace and compassion.

By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.

Eartha Kitt

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

What we're trying to do now is really bring politics to a new level. We're doing that via breaking down the barriers between the candidate or an organization and their constituency.

There are still some barriers to some particular jobs that are more high paying jobs like high-level executives, CEOs of companies that women just aren't in the proportion that men are in.

Barbara Bush

Today, I broaden the challenge by making this pledge, ... The United States is ready to eliminate tariffs, subsidies and other barriers to free flow of goods and services as other nations do the same.

John Franklin

. . . Historical facts are all pervasive and cut through the most rigid barriers of race and caste.

Rachel Sklar

What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?

Mel Martinez

Unless we make sure that everyone is participating in this great economic expansion and until we ensure that barriers to home ownership are torn down for everyone, until then, our job is not done.

We have to acknowledge that individuals can face transition costs when trade barriers come down,

If the Hispanic community was more involved with the police and fire programs, it would be better. But in a lot of cases, the cultural barriers are stronger than the language barrier.

We're trying to take down some legal barriers so kids can get involved earlier.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

Tim Schafer

Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to little kids to playing a game, which is the controller. You can't hand a basic video game controller to a child and expect them to understand what a left bumper is and to click in the right stick.

Bat for Lashes

'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.

You become an explainer of certain things. You begin to lower barriers of ignorance for people who were genuinely curious.

We are encouraged by the number of planning teams interested in thinking about their education delivery system in a different way. Far beyond being dependent on our industrial past, we recognize that it is time to move forward in preparing for the information age; we must break down barriers that prevent students from succeeding and create smoother paths to success for our students - ultimately for the benefit of our local and state economies, and our society.

James Ross

There are lots of formal obstacles in terms of the European Union policies, but the real barriers are cultural, ... People who have been basically fighting each other for the past 2,000 years are now expected to merge.

While habits tend to be stable over time, barriers to change in the category are actually very low. It takes very little to get people to try a new restaurant or new food, particularly when prompted by social influences. Likewise, it takes very little for them to reject foods or outlets because of health concerns.

With our robust economy, American workers are finally seeing some improvement in the health benefits they receive. But low-wage employees still face enormous barriers to getting health insurance.

With our focus on upscale, full-service brands in major urban markets, we benefited fully from the continuing growth in transient business demand and the increased competitive strength of our portfolio. We are encouraged that the development pipeline remains conservative, especially in urban markets, where barriers to new competition are the highest.

We believe that with PNTR, we will be better able to do business. What we would expect to see are improvements in trading and distribution rights, safeguards on our investments and the removal of technical barriers to trade.

Dick Cheney

Tom Daschle, unfortunately, has decided, I think in this case, to be more of an obstructionist, ... Philosophical differences are fine. What we're seeing, though, unfortunately, is that efforts are being made here to artificially erect barriers to Senate action.

William Daley

This year we'll be working with businesses and with states and localities to identify barriers in their laws,

We would expect the city business fraternity to take a pro-active role in easing out these barriers in bilateral trade.

When China fails to act, it only strengthens those who want to build protectionist barriers around the U.S. market and that's the last thing we need.

Trey Songz

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

Eric Schmidt

People are moving to video because they can. Over the past several years, technology has diminished the barriers to entry.