Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Webb

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Steve Phillips

Our BI system provides information that helps us seek out greater efficiency.

Some of the species, like the pipistrelles, are increasing, and the rarer species, which include the greater horseshoe bat, are actually stable, so we are trying to find ways to increase their populations.

Jerry Brown

My philosophy was one of greater self reliance, a philosophy of decentralization, of more person-to-person contact. That's what I was espousing. That's what I still espouse.

Kevin McCarthy

I think the sooner we get it done the better off we are, the greater trust the public will have,

It is having a much greater impact, I think, then what had been anticipated.

Victor Hugo

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

I think the greater significance of this is that human travel ... obeys some quite simple, independent rules.

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Our market is national. All of us (in the industry) want to live here. We love the outdoors, and what greater place is there to live than the Pacific Northwest?

Steven Anderson

Larry King has been in the paper for a very long time. But we want the news to be trendier, newsier and to have greater impact than it has now.

For most sectors, R&D (research and development) intensity is higher in the U.S. than in the EU. Most strikingly, in office machinery and computers, research intensity in the U.S. is three times greater than in the EU.

Robert Teeter

We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President's programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

I would have you fasten instead of holding it, the rein that comes back to your hand to the pommel of the saddle, because it has the greater force.

Just because Randy wants something doesn't mean it's going to happen. We want to respect his interests, but our greater responsibility is not to him but to our team.

Joe Clark

I think her greater impact will be on younger Canadians,

Rose George

When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation in the previous decade.

Alberto Moravia

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

Albert Camus

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

David O. McKay

Trust is greater than love.

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Gerry Harvey

What I think is that we should be helping people so they can reach an even greater potential.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Kathleen Blanco

The situation is untenable, ... At first light, the devastation is greater than our worst fear. It's just totally overwhelming ... heartbreaking.

Jane Siberry

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Martin Rees

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Bob Wise

And that's just one year (of dropouts). Take 10 years of dropouts and you can see the even greater cost.

Francesco Cossiga

Perhaps, my dear, young Mr. Gates, before putting your new products on the market with so much publicity you should have them tested for longer and with greater care.

Hanan Ashrawi

Rabin had a greater sense of the historical dimension. He was quite willing to take risks which Barak is not willing to take. Barak seems reluctant, begrudging, hesitant in terms of the peace process.