Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

Edwina Currie

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

Egon Schiele

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

Edsger Dijkstra

... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.

Edsger Dijkstra

We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!

Edsger Dijkstra

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

Aren't they great? We've been giving them out to our customers.

Donna Karan

No question about it. I think she's told us that. You know it's not about us dictating, just giving her tools for her to do it.

Northwestern has been scoring a lot of goals, so I think they will be a handful for our defense, but they also have been giving up of a lot of goals. If our backline comes ready to play and our frontline starts scoring some goals this weekend it will be great.

Endowed with purified intellect, subduing the mind with resolve, turning away from sound and other objects of the senses, giving up likes and dislikes.

Russell is one of the most mature, thoughtful, giving teenagers I have ever met. In my 6 1/2 years here, nominating and selecting the individuals, he has to be the most outstanding youth of the year we have selected.

Right now we're worried about practice (today). We have to get better and concentrate on us right now. Giving up 92 points is on us, that's hustle and personal pride.

Ron Gardenhire

Radke is going to be in the rotation, Silva is going to be in the rotation, Lohse is going to be in the rotation and we're just trying to get them through it. We're in the first month of the season, so you've got to keep giving these guys the ball. What they've done around here and how well they've done around here for such a long time, you just have to keep giving them the ball.

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

Elizabeth Morgan

At that point, we got out and tried to coax him into giving us the child. He wouldn't, so we called 911.

At that point, parents need to start giving them tips about how to say 'no' to peer pressure.

Thomas Mitchell

The way you get (approval) is you demonstrate to the public that you are giving a quality product, which is what Medicaid is supposed to be,

They were giving us Brent on the outside zone. I think we got them tired and our kids really played well.

This is a fiasco. I've never seen this many people. You'd think they were giving it away.

They're taking our money and giving it to the principals.

Kim Jones

They've been giving to Project Hope for years. What really sold them was that it will help our patients.

They value education, they are kind, giving people who would do anything for anybody.

They started getting mad at each other and yelling. We knew to keep going at them. They started giving up.

Greg Mortenson

They raised 62,340 pennies. These kids, in all their purity and innocence, were reaching out to kids halfway around the world.

Dave Penney

A lot of the guys are giving me a hard time but a lot of them would do the same thing -- that's what they told me. You need a specific type of mindset, I guess.

Ray Bradbury

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. Its my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, Ive won or lost. At sunrise, Im out again, giving it the old try.

A lot of things happen at the last minute when you don't give up. I think we've sent a signal that we're not giving up.

You're just taking it from the smokers and giving it to the eaters.

Bruce Sutter

You never think that giving up two home runs to the same guy helped you get in the Hall of Fame. But ... that's what might have happened.

Brian Griese

This is a sad, sad day for me, ... Sean Mahan got me. I'm a man of my word, though. I'm going to take it like a man. This thing is already giving me a headache, though.

They had the wind in the second half, but we just made some simple mistakes. We aren't finishing, and we're giving up some simple opportunities.

They had 2 1/2 years to prepare this case. They are giving us just three weeks. What's the hurry? Saddam is not going anywhere.