Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. E. Lawrence

Rebellions can be made by 2 percent actively in the striking force and 98 percent passively sympathetic.

Tom Wilson

Our relationship with Sterling Bank & Trust has been active for many years. They have steadily increased their involvement with us and have shared in our successes. This naming rights agreement puts the Sterling name and brand identity on a club that will set the standard for luxurious, upscale hospitality in Detroit and, for that matter, all of professional sports. Sterling has made a substantial investment in our new addition and we are confident that they are going to receive a great return.

Michael Moskow

Participants in the markets are working actively to figure out alternative distribution routes and alternative transportation systems to move their products,

Mark Mershon

Park actively lobbied UN officials to establish the program, while extracting millions of dollars from profiteering Iraqi officials for his efforts.

John Berlin

(Paul) is a great person. She's a great athlete, a great competitor, a very good student. Everybody likes her. She is active in the school. She is just a great kid.

Al DiGuido

Our latest research confirms a major change in consumers? behavior as it relates to the way they choose to interact with the brands they love and trust. For retailers with a credit card offering, this represents an enormous opportunity to craft relevant, timely e-mail communications that not only save costs but generate incremental revenue opportunities and customer satisfaction. The retailers who fail to capitalize on this opportunity will soon find themselves losing market share to those who are more actively offering and promoting this service to their most loyal of customers.

S. Walker

Our last compensation discussion detailed a proposal that on average would have made Nate one of the five highest paid active NBA coaches,

Elizabeth Smith

Our mission and outreach group is very proactive. Rob Ingram was very active and very involved in the affairs of the children. He always wanted to do things for them.

Robin Pearson

Our message is that we not only want the community to be physically active the day of Step Up Florida, but to make physical activity a way of life. Remember 60-a day the Florida way.

Hunter Hillenmeyer

Some of the guys we'll see are the ones who made Bears football what it is. You think about how exciting it is to play for the Chicago Bears, and you know it probably wouldn't be this way if not for those guys and the standard they set.

Scott Hagel

Our goal is to get as many Bears fans as possible to the game.

Dana Johnson

It had little trains and teddy bears on it, ... It was cute.

Chris Bowman

I think Thursday definitely bears watching for us -- especially southeast Kansas.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Lee Hannah

It isn't just polar bears and penguins that we must worry about any more.

Greg Walker

I was here when the Bears won, I know how big they were. Every player had his own restaurant.

Ruth Reichl

I don't have my own garden; we're on shale and in the woods. And if I did have a garden, the deer and chipmunks and squirrels and bears would eat everything anyway.

Ozzie Guillen

I don't care if you're a Cubs fan, a Bulls fan, a Bears fan. I think a lot of people now are Chicago fans,

John Devenanzio

Paula was so effective at what she did. I just thought she was being mean, but she was doing everything in her power she could do to make sure she didn't see me with other girls.

Jim Cain

People need to realize it can't and won't last forever. It's been effective for us and it sets us up well to introduce some new models. At this point, our plan only goes through Labor Day.

John Engler

Susan Schwab is an excellent choice. She will be a strong and effective voice for leveling the international playing field.

Lynn Miller

That could be one reason. We have always been in the top 15 percent of counties. We are very effective getting families into work activities, ... There are others variables that also come into play.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Our goal is to be effective, and the only way to be effective is to work with the Israeli government.

Jia Youling

Our vaccines are the most effective in the world.

Daniel Perez

Right now, that is the only tool that is effective in controlling avian influenza.

Steve Owens

Recycling is one of our most effective tools to protect our environment. We are glad to support efforts to increase recycling in the Nogales community.

Brenda Johnson

We need participation from the residents because this is their neighborhood and they know it better than anyone. We want them to share that knowledge with us so we can be as effective as possible.

Jim Fassel

We never lost that will to win -- the guys just kept on fighting.

Milton Mueller

I think the U.S. realizes in some way that they're picking fights they don't need to have.

Nikolai Valuev

It is not the right time to relax. The following fights will be much harder so it is necessary to train more intensively.

Erik Morales

I was tired because of making weight and I was tired because of all the tough fights I've had.

Marcus Banks

It doesn't look good, but we're going to keep fighting. Anything can happen.

Greg Trent

He likes competing. He works hard. He just keeps fighting. He doesn't give up.

Jami Attenberg

I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.

Ron Stevens

I can't get into all that. Obviously, we don't think it's right for him to be fighting. It's up to other jurisdictions to do what they think is right.

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Jim Easton

I think he's positioning himself for the future. Some of the fury will have subsided, and everyone will be a little more receptive to change. Unless there's a problem they're not addressing, I think all the sports that are in now should stay. For this vote I think the message is, Shape up or ship out.

Cyril Connolly

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Time, a maniac scattering dust,/ And Life, a Fury slinging flame.

Betty Williams

I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.

Dave Goldberg

It's a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.

Mark Almond

For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants.

Sathya Baba

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Franz Humer

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Buzz Hargrove

Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Irish Proverbs

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

E.R. Rock

Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Jim Caviezel

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Bob Walsh

I thought they turned up the pressure defensively in the second half, and we were too passive with the ball. But that's what you get when you are as young as we are.

Brian Posehn

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

Dmitry Oleynikov

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

Phil Jackson

We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.

Brad Adgate

Television viewing has been, for the most part, a passive activity.

Sean Darks

It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever. It's the same thing as a keycard.

Herman Melville

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

Rebecca Loos

Jealousy? Not at all. Sad, if anything, I thought. There is nothing she has that I could possibly want. Not even David.

Michael Young

I think he's doing all he can possibly do, probably.

Deborah Moggach

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Lynn Dooley

I don't know what I could ever possibly say to them, because thank you is not enough.

Danny Ferry

He could possibly be back and participate in the post-season.

Arno Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Marina and the Diamonds

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Herb Vincent

We may have an announcement on that very soon, possibly Friday.

Brandon Orr

He got me started as young as you possibly can.

Ed Goren

Present me a team, and I'll give you a story line.

John Burton

I was actually present when she was examined. She wasn't pregnant. I know she wasn't pregnant.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Carlos Delgado

That's the way it should be. It's not just the present. It's the present and the future.

Shimon Peres

I think this is the end of the present government,

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Sheridan Samuels

I am here to work. I will have to work with the present administration because they are in charge.

Nicole Perrot

The only thing I thought about was: Just stay in the present, ... This is my first win. It's special.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

The Palestinians have voted for the resistance and have shown their loyalty.

Charles Atlas

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Bryant H. McGill

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Bryant H. McGill

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Dennis Quaid

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Walter Benjamin

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Susan B. Anthony

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

Susan B. Anthony

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Vicente Fox

Fortunately, the storm has passed, and now we can get to work,

Gina Morioka

I wouldn't have thought that at all, seriously, because you would think storm water and sewage water -- that's two different things.

Alan Dean Foster

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.

Luis Gomez

We are not going to wait for the storm to hit.

Alfred Marshall

The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

Dick Franti

We were able to weather the storm and stretch it out to 10 or 12 points.

Connie Mack

This storm wasn't what we thought it was.

Anne Mills

This storm did not show any discrimination socio-economically. The water was everywhere.

Pam Thompson

When you have a storm like the storm that went through Sunday, that's not going to make any difference.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.