Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Shorten

We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.

Iqbal Quadir

When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

Freda Adler

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

Christopher Nolan

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Hideo Kojima

With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.

With all these factors in play, scale becomes important in order to compete with these large marketplaces.

The question then becomes how do state utility commissions handle these costs and rate increases? Clearly these fuel costs are beyond the control of utilities.

The question really becomes whether or not the players who can play should get the money.

Chris Hadfield

Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.

Ed Greenwood

When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.

Isabel Allende

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters.

Hill Harper

The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term.

Elaine Pagels

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Fred Wilson

The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before you've finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and becomes your first customer. Usually the customer simply wants the product and nothing more.

We only use them when a confrontation becomes violent,

Jim Morrison

When play dies it becomes the Game When sex dies it becomes Climax.

While public records are generally available, the lines become blurred in cases like this where public records are tied to other information. It can move into a situation where it becomes a direct violation of someone's privacy.

Winning is difficult with so many kids, especially with the pace of play. It becomes such a mental grind, and you have to stay in the shots and in the round. It's impressive that they stayed in there and won it.

Tom Fitzgerald

With a live spiel, language becomes very important. The Jungle Cruise skippers are half the show.

Tom Fitzgerald

With a live spiel, language becomes very important, ... The Jungle Cruise skippers are half the show.

Mark Twain

Wit, by itself, is of little account. It becomes a moment only when grounded on wisdom.

Rose McIver

Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.

Seth Green

'Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy.

Sherwin B. Nuland

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

Shekhar Kapur

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

Sathya Baba

When Love is combined with understanding it becomes Non-violence. Therefore whenever you feel angry, think of love, develop thoughts of love in your heart.

Stanley Hauerwas

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

Filth is removed, and the mind becomes pure, bathing in the sacred shrine, the pool of Ambrosial Nectar.

Mo Ibrahim

Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.

But Mozart has a whole different set of challenges. Mozart requires a particular sense of sound, and getting that sound out of a modern instrument after you have had years of playing Chopin and Liszt and big works like that, then Mozart becomes in a sense harder.

Andrea Bocelli

To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

Alison Gopnik

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

Alan King

As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.