Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meg Garlinghouse

The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how individual actions can make any impact. We are hopeful that Yahoo!'s Earth Day campaign will illustrate that if we act as a global community, together we can make a difference. We encourage citizens everywhere to embrace our collective responsibility to protect the earth for future generations.

Vladimir Litvin

The people will not benefit from this. The people's homes will not get warmer. It is nakedly clear that actions by those who are responsible for this sector are neither professional nor competent. Those people have triggered the gas crisis in relations with Russia.

William Dempkowski

The pledge says 'I won't smoke in the high school and I won't smoke on school grounds. The last part says I will try by my actions to be a positive influence and help my friends so they don't smoke.

Raul Gonzalez

We are prepared to defend the EO. We have anticipated these actions by various sectors,

Michael Capellas

We are aggressively taking the appropriate actions to restore the company's growth and financial performance. The realignment of the company is fully underway, our management team is basically in place and we already offer the powerful solutions and range of products customers need to maximize Internet benefits.

Dan Stein

We believe that the actions and rhetoric of the Mexican government constitute an attempt to infringe on the sovereignty of the United States, and we urge an immediate and strong response from the Bush administration.

Alan Lacy

We believe that Sears Canada shareholders should consider the actions of the senior management and the largest independent shareholder when making a decision with respect to whether to tender their Sears Canada common shares.

Chuck D.

We appreciate the length of service and time that Carla had provided to the Art Center, and we also support the actions that were taken (to fire Kelly).

Stefan Pryor

We want people to observe how we protect the old as we build the new. It's critical that people have the opportunity to observe the smaller actions that make a big difference.

Rebecca Goldburg

NOAA has said it wants a $5-billion-a-year U.S. aquaculture industry. What's the cumulative impact of that industry?

John Updike

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

Michael Niemira

Now there's a shock. It's not just a penny this week and two pennies higher the week before. And the shock comes on top of the cumulative effect of all those pennies over all those weeks.

Bruce McGill

There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.

Craig Thomas

We need to do a better job of explaining the potential effects of the cumulative impacts and the harm they cause.

Stephen Toulouse

We're working day and night on development of a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer that addresses the vulnerability.

Atticus Ross

A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then the music needs to be reworked. It's demanding, but when you see the improved cuts, it's always better.

Robbie Deans

It's just flatness basically. He's got no symptoms of head injuries, he just hasn't totally come up from the cumulative effect of the work.

Jenn Davis

We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.

Louise Jameson

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Russell Crowe

The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between.

Dave Rose

We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.

Flip Saunders

We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.

Flip Saunders

We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a little bit. When you're playing well, they try to throw everything at you. From that standpoint, as I say, the more things that are thrown at you, the better prepared you are come playoff time.

Jimmy Garris

We're in favor of (the recommendation); it just doesn't go far enough.

Lodrick Stewart

We're in (a tie for seventh) place, but that's not that far out of a really good spot this year.

Dave Haywood

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Kevin Rochlin

We're in uncharted waters. There has never been anything of this magnitude and this complexity.

Lynn Schusterman

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

Richard Suzman

I was surprised by the magnitude of the effect.

Jim Folkman

I think it's a watershed year just in the magnitude of the increase.

Kathy Stephens

I think people are just now realizing the magnitude of where we are.

Joe Burke

We don't completely understand the rationale for the magnitude of the downgrade.

Tom Johnson

That normally does not happen. Normally, a ticket of this magnitude we recommend people get an attorney.

Eric Rignot

What surprised us was the magnitude of the changes.

Jim Lushine

It's probably going to stand for quite a while because of the magnitude of it there.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Alec Baldwin

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Brian Giles

With my toe tap, I need the at-bats to get ready. It's a timing thing.

Bill Hybels

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

Clara Mamet

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

James Sensenbrenner

should be commended for the timing and thoroughness of these answers.

Armando Navarro

Timing is everything in politics, and the timing is with us right now.

Seth Erwin

Basically, we didn't have the same 15 set for every week. We had different starters, and we just couldn't get our timing down.

Eric Thomas

Now that PNTR (for China) is out of the way, the timing is right.

Carol Burnett

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

Andy Warhol

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.