Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irish Sayings

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

Juan Somavia

The real challenge is to make sure that these provisions will be applied and enforced worldwide, just like the international provisions designed to secure safety at sea.

Andy Zircher

When I was an undergraduate, I don't think I applied (for graduation) in time.

Lev Vygotsky

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Karen Finerman

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

Tim O'Reilly

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

John Hall

We applied in response to a request put out by FEMA for two-man teams to help on the Gulf Coast. At this point we don't know where we will be assigned, but we know it's going to be in the Gulf Coast region somewhere,

H. Hunt

We applied for food stamps and we've gotten it. We have no money.

Chris Horner

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

James Blumenthal

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

Steve Brown

When (former Gov. George Ryan's) administration tried to roll back the sales tax, it just went into the pockets of refiners and retailers and had no effect on prices,

Bill Cowher

The extra day won't have any effect on it. We're going to have to weather the flurry that will be involved with the emotions, the speed of the game and playing a high-quality football team.

Larry Hale

We have six or seven kids who have scored more than 100 points this year. It's been pretty effective for us. We like it because you look at our scorebook, and we've had probably eight different people who have led us in scoring.

Mark Richardson

The population is increasing out here but it will have an effect on traffic that would normally come through here.

Dick Thompson

We know from experience with this drug that it is most effective very shortly after symptoms develop.

Charles Turner

Ultimately, they want a stable, a more effective relationship with their child. A lot of fathers don't know how to have that.

Ross Rubin

Ultimately, nothing is as effective as having someone on site to be able to troubleshoot.

David Brooks

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

Adam Wainwright

Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth inning, or I could be going in there seventh or eighth inning. Nobody's said anything to me. I'll just be ready.

Agnes Repplier

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

Alan Kay

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

Alan Keyes

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

Melissa McCarthy

There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.

Larry Robinson

The reality is that we have eight new guys in our lineup. We have to get them on the same page as everyone else.

Eric Hamilton

The people in Washington were very impressed with the eight different municipalities all working together on this.

Sue Monk Kidd

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.

Taylor Lautner

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Nong Duc Manh

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Antoine Predock

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.

Antonin Scalia

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

Alexander Hamilton

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Alan Rickman

The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Mary Radmacher

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

Rafi Pitts

I wanted to say that (the characters) are alive, but that they're being governed by winter.

Solon

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law

Carole Bouquet

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Carol Leifer

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Moseley Braun

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carlos Ghosn

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

Carlos Ghosn

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

Shannon Miller

We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.

Dan Webster

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Agnes Macphail

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Tom Jones

So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.

Jose Serrano

The poor were just left to fend for themselves.

Brian Cox

There is so much left of it to explore.

Logan Mankins

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

Jeremy Luke

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

Janis Joplin

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Ted Cruz

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Louie Schwartzberg

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Stephen F. Lynch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Jennifer Hampton

She is going to make her first million by the time she is 20,

Kara Swisher

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

Lynn Jurich

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.

Eiichi Katayama

We still see no prospect of a return to net profits.

Tom Bittman

Where I do my word processing, how I collaborate, maintaining my social network . . . those things are shifting away from Microsoft.

Roland Nash

When it comes down to it, it is a net positive. But there are so many more important things.

Jack McKeon

We're going to get a net so he can't go through the dugout.

Donna Shalala

She actually started the women's network in this town,

Joe Barton

Let's wait and see how this all turns out. I don't think we are quite ready to say what Net neutrality is.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Jane Addams

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Barbara Hepworth

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

Ashley Montagu

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

Charles Dickens

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

David Sedaris

At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

Alan Watts

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

Edmund Spenser

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

James Whistler

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Juvenal

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

Bill Watterson

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Alexei Navalny

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

C. S. Lewis

Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

Bret Michaels

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Dewitt Bodeen

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

Janet Yellen

The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported in the 1989 survey. Their share rose to 61% in 2010 and reached 63% in 2013. By contrast, the rest of those in the top half of the wealth distribution —families that in 2013 had a net worth between $81,000 and $1.9 million —held 43% of wealth in 1989 and only 36% in 2013.

Chogyam Trungpa

meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.

Lord Byron

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.

Brian Grazer

I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

What a lovely thing a rose is!

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.