Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Richard Curreri

We have requested the leadership of the TWU to take the actions necessary to direct its membership to immediately return to work and they have agreed to take such actions.

Christine Jackson

The fact that parents who smoke can exert a protective anti-smoking effect on their children might seem counter-intuitive. Other research has already found that strong parental attitudes and actions against smoking reduce the odds of children using tobacco. Our study found that the same is true even when the parents themselves are smokers.

Klaus Toepfer

The extraordinary rise in both human populations and consumption levels leaves us no choice but to take innovative and ambitious actions to reverse the widespread destruction of species and ecosystems,

Jim Ross

The fact of the matter is that the Williams family has guarded that property, kept trespassers off of that property, had contracts to maintain Coronet property, and when they joined the lawsuit, these types of retaliatory actions began.

Gary Weiss

The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

Fabian Nunez

There are a lot of areas we can tackle and make a difference for California. The question is, are we going to walk down that path or not? When you are in a relationship and have a falling out, you kiss and make up the first night back together. You say the right things. But then you have to make sure actions are consistent with words. It will take some time for us to figure this out.

David Trimble

The people of Northern Ireland will now judge Sinn Fein on their actions over the coming days, ... An end to the war means the weapons of terrorism must be destroyed and all forms of paramilitary violence must cease for good.

Samuel Smiles

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Robert Kerr

We want to reduce the motoring public's exposure to impaired drivers through aggressive enforcement.

Marc Johnson

We have to get UI to do a really aggressive maintenance program throughout the spring and into the summer, particularly during the breeding season, so the birds aren't allowed to build even a small nest.

Andy Jackson

We have to get a lot better at doubles. Particularly, we have to get more aggressive there.

Jeff Altchech

We have some big, long, thin boys. We probably got away with a few fouls, but it's the aggressive team that gets the calls. Today I thought we earned the calls.

Chris Cichocki

When you see a team several times in a short time span, that can happen. You have two teams who play hard-hitting aggressive hockey.

Donna Proctor

We were being aggressive and trying to make things happen, and it just didn't work out. We talked about being aggressive, and we have a little more speed this year, so we're trying to use that.

Flea

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.

Jay Sparks

We were trying to take it right to them, but we didn't do a very good job of that. We could throw it in there, but we didn't do a very good job of being aggressive once we got there.

Chauncey Billups

We were trying to go to him, inside or outside. He was very aggressive and his shots were falling, so we were going to keep going to him until he tired himself out.

Robert Boone

We wanted very specifically to meet the needs of the people of Bay Saint Louis, not what we thought they might need.

Thomas Francis Meagher

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

Shia LaBeouf

That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.

Kim Coble

What we came to realize is the best way to protect the Bay is to keep a farmer farming. We'd much rather have a farm operating than having a suburban development go in.

Louis Oosthuizen

I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.

Joe Brooks

We want to change the location to make it closer to what it should be, the bay festival.

Kristin Armstrong

As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.

Kennie Sims

We are looking for the next Paula Creamer of the Bay Area.

Rodney Taylor

With this being the only game for us this week, I don't know whether they got comfortable or what. Hats off to Lemon Bay though, they came out ready to play.

Paul Sarbanes

unparalleled experience as a judge and prosecutor, and as director of the FBI and of the CIA makes him a superb choice.

Ronald Kessler

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.

Ronald Kessler

Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or the rest of the intelligence community for keeping us safe since 9/11.

Bob Woodward

I was first contacted by Fitzgerald's office on November 3 after one of these (three) officials went to Fitzgerald to discuss an interview with me in mid-June 2003 during which the person told me Wilson's wife worked for the CIA on weapons of mass destruction as a WMD analyst,

John McCain

I am concerned -- and I think most people are concerned -- about the lack of coordination between agencies, ... The failure to work together to share information -- they're doing that now, in fact. As we know, the CIA director and the FBI director are briefing the president every morning, so there were obviously breakdowns -- particularly in coordinating and sharing information.

Michael Hayden

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.

Ingrid Seward

Neither the CIA nor French intelligence seems to be cooperating.

Barry Eisler

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

Pete Hoekstra

I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen.

Charles Stanley

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Juli Lax

We have reporting capabilities that we never had before. They can have as much detail as they want.

Larry Peck

This was not a house burglary. The items were returned to their rightful owner and she gave police a detailed statement. She has a very sad reason for doing this.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

John Ryding

The plunge in durable goods orders in January is entirely due to volatility in transportation. The underlying details of this report are much stronger than the headline.

Bryan Whitman

We are looking into what information -- and in what detail -- was provided to the commission, but as I understand it, at least some of this information was provided.

Ashwin Sanghi

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

Bjarne Stroustrup

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

Benny Goodman

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Thaksin Shinawatra

We have no involvement at all, ... We don't have any detention or secret jails or whatever.

Carla Ponte

Milosevic has very good doctors in The Hague and all that he needs for his health. He can have it even in the detention unit....

Ike Skelton

Meaningful oversight must include proper scrutiny of all U.S. detention facilities, whether those facilities are located on U.S. or foreign soil.

Michael Howard

We have consistently said that a 28-day period of detention is the maximum period that we would support.

Manfred Nowak

Fact-finding on the spot has to include interviews with detainees. What's the sense of going to a detention facility and doing fact-finding when you can't speak to the detainees? It's just nonsense.

James Rubin

We view his detention for peacefully exercising fundamental freedoms guaranteed by international human rights instruments as a serious step in the wrong direction.

Nolan North

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

Michael Ignatieff

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.

Greg Boyle

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

Hayden Schlossberg

It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device.

Noam Chomsky

Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

Alfonso Cuaron

It's a myth for our times, ... You read about Fudge and the Ministry of Magic -- that's Tony Blair! And Guantanamo is not that different from Azkaban. There are Dementors there, too.

Terry Gilliam

of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.

Charles Nelson

There's two principal myths about shamrock: that it's unique to Ireland, and that it never flowers.

Carlos Castaneda

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Joe Tereshinski

When your number is called, you've got to be ready. I think I'm ready.

Brian Evans

We've still got to find out the status of the vehicle, the number of individuals who were in each vehicle and whether they are all juveniles.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Rachel Lawson

We have played a number of ranked teams, and they are going to be a tough game, but we are not intimidated.

Jeffrey Carpenter

We've seen this worm spread quickly to a significant number of machines.

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

E. Hurley

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

Ian Hart

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

David Brewer

When they are available, they are relatively inexpensive.

Charles Browne

We are going after some relatively strong growth.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

Vance Moss

We saved lives. Every day, we saved lives.

Clay Ginglen

We saved his life. And we probably saved other people's lives.

Coolio

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Bruce Bochy

He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs.

Hines Ward

He saved the year for us with that tackle.

Sheri Mowles

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.

Eddie Jones

Pau has been doing it for us all season and he did it again. He saved us.

Sidney Crosby

Marc-Andre has saved us a lot this year and he did it again.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Kevin Hall

No evacuees are going to be sent here until the threat of Ophelia has passed.

Maureen O'Hara

One time I was taking a little too long in the toilet and Mr. Zanuck sent for me. And he said, what are you doing that takes so long?

Tom Mison

I think I must be one of the only actors I know who has never even auditioned for a small part in 'Eastenders.'

Jim Gibbons

very devastating to communities with a small tax base.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Bob Harper

It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Nikki Sixx

When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young.

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Michael Hayden

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.