Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertolt Brecht

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Charles de Gaulle

Never relinquish the initiative.

The plain legal meaning of (the) ruling is that Kirby Wilbur and I can no longer talk about Initiative 912,

Jaswant Singh

this was not a matter for any international initiative or intervention.

Dan Barker

The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.

We want this initiative to be seen as reasonable and fair. Our initiative treats all property owners the same, and we wanted to pick a reasonable period of time.

On the levy, I personally feel it ought to be a November levy and it ought to be done by initiative petition instead of us standing up here voting for it. You have to get 363 signatures to start the process.

No other teacher has ever taken that kind of initiative with Kevin.

I find it interesting that some people would position the sales tax initiative with this. It's simply not true.

Kim has taken the initiative to thank her fans.

Alan Greenspan

I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective,

Gray Davis

If that initiative were to pass, investment would be withheld, and it would take years and years longer before we had a surplus of power.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we don't make it at this meeting it's not a time to give up. It's a very promising initiative not only for the poorest as such but for the whole development community.

We welcome that Pakistan has responded to the initiative of our prime minister,

Louis Brandeis

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

We know that this initiative is not an overnight thing. It's going to take time.

Brian Johnson

We had people at the luau tell us this initiative was long overdue.

John Dewey

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

Napoleon Hill

What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.

They see the initiative process, quite rightly, as something that suits their needs very well.

This initiative is quite simply historic, and even revolutionary,

This is an initiative of the people, and a lot of times the politicians don't want to do the will of the people.

Gideon Gono

Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies.

Everything has to be done, and every initiative must be put into play to save these two young women,

Definitely, this is a very welcome and commendable initiative. This initiative is gate-opening. It's going to open a lot of people's minds and eyes.

George Zimmer

There's much more to differentiation. That will be a large initiative next year.

It sounds like an initiative that merits consideration.

That is why it?s called people?s initiative ? because such moves emanate from the people.

Frank Herbert

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

It (the GST cut) is their big initiative and it doesn't leave them a lot of room to do other things.

It's his own initiative and I'm sure he'll do the right thing,

Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

Graham Nash

The US presents a new initiative for our team