Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We were having a discussion about language barriers and how we could eliminate them. We decided that this would be a good way to help with that barrier.

Travel has high barriers to entry, ... This is more a classic bet on China as an emerging market.

We need for you to just let us go. Lower the barriers on access, ... We're not going to get it from FEMA, and the real entrepreneurs won't want to wait for it anyway.

Hillary Clinton

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

We're breaking down the barriers between designers and developers.

We are trying to figure out the obstacles and barriers to greater cooperation. Long term, regionalism is the way to go. And we're closer to it than we were five years ago.

George W. Bush

We must work together in the Doha (WTO) negotiations to eliminate agricultural subsidies that distort trade and stunt development, and to eliminate tariffs and other barriers to open markets for farmers around the world,

Those are significant barriers for us. But ... we're taking a long-term perspective. We're going take our time to build our brand, build our customers. We still believe this market has a great potential.

People would use each other in their works. The barriers were breaking down; everyone brought in special qualities.

One of the great strong points of this university is the lack of institutional barriers to this kind of thing. In some very top-down universities, it's very hard to collaborate with people outside your departments, if not impossible. But here, it's quite open and has been for quite some time.

Peter Roskam

Small business owners are fighting every day to create and innovate, but continue to face government barriers to job creation.

We'll meet those children, we'll hear their music and do an honest musical exchange and get to know them, learn how they live and what they believe. Therefore we're not just coming as tourists but as people that are open for as much learning and sharing as possible and breaking down barriers whether those are real or just preconceived notions.

We don't have barriers like buildings or hills or trees, so we can really paint our race track in whatever design we want.

Eric Schmidt

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

Pennsylvania's state-specific rule removes unfair economic barriers to preserve the marketplace for Pennsylvania's coal industry. It puts in place standards that are more protective of public health and the environment than the federal (mercury) rule.

David Armstrong

Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and families from filling out the form. College today, of course, is the passport to the American dream for so many students.

My primary goal is to help remove the barriers to the implementation of information technology in the practice of medicine locally.