Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Liu Jianchao

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. ... We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can solve the question properly through dialogue and diplomacy.

Maurice Hinchey

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions, ... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts.

John Hamre

Recent events where criminals were able to become customers have led us to take this strong action in order to regain the trust of consumers that their information is being used only for their benefit, or the benefit of society at large.

Kristen Kinley

Recall numbers vary from year to year, and they don't necessarily rise consecutively year after year, and they aren't in the case of Ford. This was a hit to our recall volumes, but the number of actions was down.

LeBron James

Record-wise and going into the playoffs, we can't improve. I'm trying to get as much rest as I can. I don't want to try to force the action by playing on an ankle that's not 100 percent.

Adrian Foster

Recent price action suggests the dollar-yuan is more loosely following the dollar.

Gary Chase

Recent price action in airline shares has created some price disparities that we believe investors should exploit.

Charles Holliday

Recent movements in long-leading economic indicators and in raw material prices offer hope that an end to the spreading global downturn is in sight, ... Despite that, we continue to take actions necessary to emerge from these difficult times as a much stronger company.

Alan Wright

Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effected, and power has not been restored to those refineries.

Richard Preston

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Mike Shockley

Recommendations included changes in several areas of energy expenses.

Gerry Fleming

Reggie has done a lot of things away from the play as far as his defensive play and his play without the puck. He's been in areas and made some big plays without the puck as well.

Bob Noun

President Bush's proposed budget will not have an impact this year. The current situation is we still have to lay off between 30 to 40 employees. But we are encouraged by the areas that were covered by the president.

Stephanie Williams

Preserving farmland and preserving the farming enterprise must go hand-in-hand. By working with Cumberland County Economic Development, we are able to help ensure that area farms become preserved, and remain competitive, for generations to come.

Irene Toner

Our policy is to call for a general evacuation in areas that might be prone to Category 3 impacts.

Hassan Nasrallah

Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.

Mike Ruddock

Our passing, tackling, lineout and tackle area play all need to be improved,

Jacques Chirac

reflection, which I shall devote to explaining to my fellow citizens what my feelings are on this crisis and the means to remedy it.

Bob Taft

Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizens are demanding, if not complete answers, at least some rational justification for this dramatic price increase.

Randall Terry

Our policies are immoral. This has nothing to do with helping the citizens of China. This has to do with fattening the wallets of American big business.

Wayne Gray

Our quality of life of our citizens is impacted by the tourism economy that we have,

Jim Turner

Ordinary citizens have to look at their income as opposed to their expenses and determine where they're going to make cutbacks, ... They just decided they needed more money and raised taxes.

Charles Albert Gobat

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Sam Veda

Peace and prosperity prevails when citizens are law abiding.

Robert Stewart

Our only intent was the safety of the survivors and the citizens of this state.

Bertie Ahern

Such a proposal would show citizens the EU was working in their interests.

Peter Selley

Relatively complete copies of the Folio in contemporary or near contemporary bindings very rarely come to the market. This sale will be a truly exceptional event.

Jacques Chirac

Our relationship is going to be long and no doubt fruitful. As far as our views on the France-German relationship and the demands of European construction are concerned, we were in complete agreement,

Eric Wicks

Patterson tries to complete the pass instead of running the ball. So I was depending on him to throw the pass. It was a big read.

Michael McKean

Part of it is what it's always been -- the vicarious thrill of seeing people who are much richer and more famous live lives that are wonderful, even if they are complete fakes. I think people simultaneously worship and despise celebrities.

Rachel Miner

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

Larry Ellison

Oracle applications are ideally suited for rapid implementations because our e-business suite is complete and integrated -- no application customizations are required,

Robert Mayer

Some of the questions to determine you are who you say you are make it tedious to complete. The program also has crashed on some consumers before they could complete it.

Michael Leavitt

Our preparations are not yet complete nor are they adequate,

Stephen Jones

Our goal is to complete it (jury selection) sometime this month, to start evidence and opening statements by the end of the month -- that's the judge's goal and we are all working toward that.

Marlon Manuel

President Arroyo is not the State by itself. This could only be exercised pursuant to a law enacted by Congress.

E. P. Thompson

Our push for more federal funds is not predicated on one meeting. It's a sustained effort that includes outreach to Congress as well as the administration.

David Walker

Part of the problem is that when Congress considers legislation, and the administration proposes it, they only consider a one-year, five-year, or maybe 10-year time horizon.

Mary Boyle

Part of what the K Street Project was about was making lobbyists indispensable to Congress because of the money they were raising.

Bill Young

Our nation's needy families would be better served if Mr. Cuomo spent less time holding press conferences and more time working with Congress to ensure his programs have the maximum impact for those who depend on them,

Ben Bernanke

Our mission as set forth by the Congress is a critical one.

Ralph Hellman

Our message to the president and Congress is simple--let's work together to get a program done this year.

Tom DeLay

orchestrate a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives.

Donald Rumsfeld

People have been moving together, talking, discussing things, ... You can always find someone who's going to try to be a dead-ender and say, 'If you don't do this, I won't do that.' But that's part of negotiation. We see that in the Congress and we see it in democratic systems all over the world.

Mina Tadros

Success is that feeling that comes after overcoming a failure, you will not feel it as long as you are not failing, so be proud of your failures, they are the path to your success

David Knapp

some great outdoor party songs, some big hits that will encourage in listeners a little nostalgia when the summer has passed, and the kind of tribal energy tracks that make people move!

Dave Rose

Our players are really engaged and encourage each other. When someone makes a mistake, they're right there encouraging them to move on and get better.

Mike Browning

Our team has shown grit all year. We have been down but we haven't been out. We figure out ways to get victories and you have to be encouraged by that.

Dean Hachamovitch

Our goal is to encourage everyone to try the product. We think that free phone support is a good way to encourage a lot of people who might otherwise shy away from trying beta software.

H. Hart

Overall I was very encouraged at the way the kids played.

Michael Tiemann

Overall, I am encouraged by what I am seeing.

Robert Henson

Robert is a reaction guy and as he gets older, he'll have all the other things you need. He has big-play potential. He can do it wrong and still make the play. We don't encourage it, but some people have that ability.

Carl Sagan

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.

B. F. Skinner

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

James Johnston

I think Landco will come up with something that's very palatable in an environmental sense, but to me any form of development is out of the question.

Jose Gasset

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Zac Goldsmith

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

Zhou Shengxian

If in the past, in terms of environmental protection, we were very passive ... now there has been a U-turn.

Gisele Bundchen

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

Michael Town

From an environmental perspective, we should be responsible for our own waste.

Gloria Bergquist

I think it's an overall trend that environmental standards and safety standards are getting tighter and tighter. When you have an event like this (Firestone recall), that raises sensitivity about getting the safest vehicle possible.

Woody Harrelson

Bur I think all the environmental groups have to focus on at least one main issue together. That's the move we need to do right now.

Pete Carroll

Reggie just tried too hard on that play and he'll regret it forever. Reggie was just trying to get a TD.

Linda Ronstadt

Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.

John Berlin

(Paul) is a perfectionist. She works so hard on hurdles and it really shows.

Malik Rose

Part of me thinks Larry likes it, people not knowing what he wants or whatever. All I know is I go as hard as I can when I'm out there. Sometimes, things just don't go your way.

Bertrand Russel

Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor

Dan Rucker

Our motto is play hard to play another day.

Steven Lopez

People in the U.S. didn't know what taekwondo was. But they saw what the Lopezes were able to do with all the love and support and hard work we put in, and what we accomplished. It makes me feel real lucky to be in a position like that.

David Walton

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.

Samantha Morton

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

Mike Schepp

I think the tournament has looked pretty impressive to the NCAA in that regard.

Michael Metz

It is an impressive showing for the market again,

Bruce Bochy

That was an impressive at-bat. He fouled one off his knee and he battled, then he got one he could handle.

Jack McCarthy

It doesn't always look impressive the way we play sometimes but we play with what we have.

Mike Bianco

Lance pitched great. He was very impressive considering it was his first collegiate start. He pitched with a lot of confidence.

John Reid

He's a very impressive young man who can play in various roles, so there is some keen interest there,

John Collins

I don't think I've ever had so many impressive people say so many impressive things.

Mack Brown

I was pleased with the young quarterbacks. They've got a lot of work to do. I thought the most impressive thing was their poise.

Dale Davis

If we make it there, the most impressive thing about that list is that most of those teams went on to win it.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Diana Light

I was influenced, or inspired by, my kindergarten teacher. I wanted to be just like her.

Barry Bonds

He kind of inspired me to get back, ... Things we say to young kids, this young man was saying to me. It motivated me.

Evan Hunter

I can't say which of the writers inspired me the most, but it was probably Hemingway.

Pat Summitt

I think it inspired the team so much. You could feel it in the gym.

Alvin Lee

I lost a big part of me. That's what inspired me to take our music outside.

Joseph Conrad

He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it!

Jaime Nelson

He was inspired by it and wondered why we didn't have anything like it in the States.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Bertrand Russell

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

Lenny Goldberg

I don't think it's out of the ordinary because revenue estimating is always difficult.

Catherine McAuley

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Bernardo Alvarez

Mr. Robertson is no ordinary citizen, ... has been one of the president's staunchest allies.

Barbara Mertz

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.

Edward Abbey

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

Mike Meixler

Volunteers don't have to spend a lot of money. They can just do ordinary things.

Cynthia Ozick

The ordinary is the divine.

Melanie Sloan

Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.

Bertrand Russell

Change is one thing, progress is another.

Bertrand Russell

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

Bertrand Russell

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

John Bolton

I think we are still making progress. I think it is slow but it is steady,

Wayne Inouye

I think things are on track and we're very enthusiastic about the progress we've made to date. We have just started a long journey. I don't think that everything is perfect.

Ty Warren

I think we're more satisfied with the progression, and the progress we've made through the season from where we started to where we are right now. It's a whole other season that's going to start right now.

Sandy Bridgeman

I think we?re making the progress that we want to. It?s not perfect. But there are glimpses of the team we can be.

Scott Sutton

I think we're making some progress but tonight we ran out of steam in the third period,

Thurston Moore

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.

George Burns

Our record doesn't show it, but we are getting better.

Jim Peters

Overall, 2006 will probably come in somewhere between the record sales of 2005 and the very strong sales of 2004.

Wayne Perry

Really, my record is my program's record. That's kind of how I look at it.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Billy Corgan

Most great records really start with the drums.

Bert McCracken

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

Dan Jiron

State wild and scenic designation was not considered.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Mary Parker

Our secretaries really know practically everyone who would need to be buzzed in, and if they didn't know them, they could communicate with them through this system, ... It's really state of the art.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Brian Clodi

I want to win the state championship. That's the ultimate goal.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Clint Burgess

I think we can get another state championship. I think that's reachable. That's our goal. The are a lot of obstacles, but I think we can do it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

M. John Harrison

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Edward Abbey

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Cheryl Strayed

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

John Muir

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

John Bright

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.