Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Bond

Part of my task is to modernize the institution and to hasten a kind of quickness, instead of this ponderous way we have of dealing with things.

Earl Browder

Such hopes are, however, tempered by years of disillusioning memories, which remind us all that it takes two sides to make a peace.

Eldridge Cleaver

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

David Crane

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

Junius

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

Jim Hightower

I think democracy is under attack in our country. I think it was under attack before September 11th, and now is under rather harsh attack.

Michael Scott

I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.

George Ripley

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

Kathy Acker

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

Scott Faber

Recreation produces better economic benefits than barge traffic.

Katie Bayne

Regardless of which Coca-Cola brand is their favorite, My Coke Rewards will give everyone who loves Coca-Cola the chance to benefit from their passion for the brand in a unique and special way.

Jim Lowe

Regardless of economic conditions, employers should have severance and separation benefits updated to remain competitive.

Bruce Josten

Reform is critical if we are to encourage businesses to offer a pension benefit now, while many workers still have time to build for their retirement. Without reform, more workers will be forced to rely on Social Security, which is already facing financial difficulty.

Thomas Barnett

Price-fixing threatens our free market system and robs consumers of the benefit of competitive prices. We vigorously investigate and prosecute companies and individuals involved in these conspiracies.

Chris Tomlinson

Our research proves, very clearly, that onshore wind will deliver, bringing major benefits to the economy and the environment while securing our energy supplies.

Amr Moussa

Our reform will not come to fruition, regionally and that everyone in this region will benefit from, except if peace prevails,

Eva Obarzanek

Participants in the two intervention groups made greater changes than those in the control group and saw the greatest benefit in blood pressure status. This shows that people at risk for heart disease can successfully and simultaneously make multiple changes in lifestyle, for a substantial benefit.

Allan Smith

Part of the scholarship process is to hopefully encourage students to stay in the region and use the things they learn to benefit our region,

Michael Molligan

Our normal watering restrictions were put in place during the severe water shortage of the early 1990s. But over time we have discovered that to water more than twice a week is wasteful and does no more good for the vegetation. So what once were water-shortage restrictions are now regular and in-place year round.

Brian Baker

Some of our test families didn't think they had a problem and just used the reporting feature, but they discovered they had a real problem.

Steve Squyres

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

Jeff Bezos

Our role is to help people discover music,

Steve Forbert

Rodgers was incredibly heroic, ... I wanted people to discover his music and also to know more about him.

Sathya Baba

Man today is trying to master every kind of knowledge but is unable to discover his own true nature.

Kurt Adams

I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Harold Johnson

Remember I did my part with the life that I had, and though it was short that's not all bad. Each person must live as he believes, and I hope Old Glory still waves in the breeze,

Tim Guter

He is the ultimate team player. He sacrificed the glory for the betterment of the team. Wherever we needed him, he played.

Gerard Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim

Lawrence Horan

If it's done successfully, it will be the quote 'crowning glory' of his 21 years, ... there's a lot of risk for him personally, because if it's mishandled it goes down as something maybe he shouldn't have done. Staying on is something that's probably required on all fronts. Jack wants to make sure that his legacy is not marred by an acquisition that when handed off was not handled that well.

Brian Clark

Had it not been for God's glory and this man's goodness, ... I would not be here.

Omar Wilkes

He never really talks about the glory days.

Blaise Pascal

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Joel Edgerton

The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

Charles R. Swindoll

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Mark Tinker

With the multiple storylines and recurring characters, they took storytelling for the masses and made it into something sophisticated, intelligent and emotionally complicated.

Jack Jennings

Right now, you're not seeing radical restructuring. States are being very cautious.

Dixie Lee Ray

No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We need our radicals.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

Norman Ornstein

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

Alexander Lebed

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Dana Rohrabacher

I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.

Anand Gopal

Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.

Mike Tice

I think the sooner the better for all involved.

J. Horton

I think there is a sense that, sooner or later, this will happen.

Debbie Saslow

I think it's way too soon to talk about a cure.

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Alex Newell

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Leah Gingrich

I was in there as soon as they would let me in.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Tyler, The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Cornel West

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

David Tom

First hole, making birdie, that kind of set the tone for the way the day was going to be.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

Vince Carter

I'm just trying to set the tone for my teammates. I'm not trying to take over the game. It's for my team. I'm just being aggressive. I think that doing that, it frees up a lot of other things.

Aaron Boone

They completely set the tone for us tonight.

Michael Kessler

The tone that they would take in e-mail was pretty astounding.