Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Bruce Babbitt

As deeply as gold or the grizzly bear, wild salmon infuse California's past, ... But through our collective will, today we help ensure that salmon swim on into our future. For they are not merely commodities, or emblems for a flag. Wild salmon are vital members of creation who enrich our landscapes, inspiring us through their upstream journey from sea to Sierra.

Everything is inspired by something. We all see the same movies, read the same books. It's as if there's a collective consciousness.

Right now we're looking at the collective sensibilities of a family product and working to define what it is. Everyone has their own opinion, and what you think would be in a family tier is probably different than what someone else does.

Nelson Mandela

Your collective wisdom and support was not lost on FIFA.

They have a lot of big bullets, we have more smaller mid-sized shots at scoring points. It's going to take a collective effort to have the kind of success we are hoping to have at this tournament.

This ministry runs on a collective use of talent - everyone gives where they can.

There was definitely a time I wasn't 100 percent sure that Collective Soul would be out with another record. Deep down, I felt like we were going to continue on. I felt like we still had things to offer.

There's a lot of disappointment. It was a collective thing. Shoot, the personnel department might have been the worst part of it.

It's kind of a collective decision. It's something we see as protecting home and it's not out of reach.

Jeff Kinney

It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.

Eugene Ionesco

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Everybody gave a tremendous effort. We played with terrific energy and a lot of competitive spirit. This was a collective team effort.

A week's work now is worth four down the collective path. Our plan over the next 18 months will have this in mind.

A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

Norm Coleman

The world will never be able to learn the full extent of the bribes, kickbacks and under-the-table payments that occurred under the U.N.'s collective nose while Annan is in charge.

Robert Newman

There's no real precedent there for collective punishment or commissary funds. Those are going to be a long battle.

Hu Jintao

The United Nations, as the core of the collective security mechanism, plays an irreplaceable role in international cooperation to ensure global security, ... Such a role can only be strengthened and must not in any way be weakened.

Phil Klay

The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.

Then, what you have is the total collective number of cholesterol-raising fat.

Christine Vachon

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.

Charles Elachi

That is what I am delighted about; the fact that they were having a hard time picking one mission and decided to give it to the collective work that we do at this institution.

George H. W. Bush

supported by the collective will of the world.

Eula Biss

There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.

Jeremy Corbyn

I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.

I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.

It really dilutes the efforts of collective bargaining.

I hope the balminess of the morning is the warming of our collective consciousness.

It's mostly women, working in their own homes. The fact that they're wanting to come together and have a collective voice is remarkable. It shows their determination and creativity.

Peter Piot

Every one of these new HIV infections represents a prevention failure -- our collective failure,

Jim Lee

It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel.

This is a vote of confidence in the power of collective bargaining. It was an exercise in persistence.

There's been a huge shock to the collective consciousness. I hope people will be ready on the 24th to sample new shows. But they may not be.