Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Thomasian

Recent technological advances have made the issue of individual privacy increasingly complicated. Governors have a responsibility to balance the benefits of sharing justice information with the need to protect the privacy of citizens in their states.

Richard Palmer

Payment cards remain powerful tools to streamline costs and reduce purchase cycles. Our survey indicates that average cost per transaction with a purchasing card is only 25 percent of the average cost to complete a traditional, paper-based transaction. Driven by new technologies and advances in electronic and management controls, methods and procedures, the potential for U.S. federal payment cards programs remains great.

Eiji Dohke

People in the market are staying on guard against advances in Japanese stocks after the rally in the U.S..

Robert Balentine

Our general feeling is that we will see continued moderate advances in equity prices, with earnings being the driving force, offsetting potential increases in short-term interest rates.

Tamara Gaffney

Overall growth in cell phone usage demonstrates a robust consumer demand for newer and better wireless products and services. And the wireless industry is not the only sole beneficiary of the demand. Technological advances and better service offerings have reduced cost per minute charges for consumers over time.

Martin Mackay

We've translated early information from genetic research into valuable medicines for HIV/AIDS, heart disease and the prevention of organ rejection. But these advances have only scratched the surface of possible revolutionary approaches to treat and cure diseases. Pfizer, the NIH and other public/private biomedical research interests have complementary missions greater than the sum of their parts. Our hope is that this public/private initiative will encourage a deeper collective understanding of the genetic factors of disease for major new therapeutic advances.

Martin Mackay

We've translated early information from genetic research into potentially valuable medicines for HIV/AIDS, heart disease, and prevention of organ rejection, but these advances have only scratched the surface of possible revolutionary approaches to treat and cure diseases. Pfizer, the NIH and other public/private biomedical research interests have complementary missions greater than the sum of their parts. Our hope is that this public/private initiative will encourage a deeper collective understanding of the genetic factors of disease, for major new therapeutic advances.

John Dingell

I will examine the details of this proposal to make sure it advances our goals of conserving fuel while preserving U.S. jobs and maintaining the safety of our cars and trucks.

Scott Chasin

Kudos should go the advances in anti-spam technology, not to legislation.

Leslie Sloane

She's written every word and she's directing the video. It will chronicle the last year and a half of her life.

Benjamin Cohen

The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.

John Milton

To chronicle the wars of kites and crows, fighting in the air.

Kenneth Branagh

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.

Bobby Ghosh

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

P. J. Harvey

Cycling continues to be an important part of OLN programming. With Lance Armstrong's retirement, fans are eagerly waiting to see who will emerge as the sport's next star. Through our coverage of the spring classics, we will be able to chronicle the drama leading up to, and including, the Tour de France.

Lester Brown

Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse.

Carl Sagan

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Carl Sagan

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Carl Sagan

For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

Antoine Rivarol

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

Bertrand Russell

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

Bertrand Russell

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Bertrand Russell

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Ingrid Reed

I think to a lot of voters, this kind of thing just reinforces their cynicism. Doug Forrester has campaigned, and is campaigning, in a way to say that 'I'm not like other politicians and I don't do the things they do.' So it cancels out his message.

Mark DiCamillo

Those are pretty rough numbers, the level of cynicism. He just has not communicated with voters in making his case.

Phil Fontaine

I know there are pessimists and cynics who think this process will fail. I disagree.

Michael J. Saylor

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.

Robert Anton Wilson

Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt... idealists regard everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.

Robert Wilson

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.

Gary Bettman

The cynics were predicting that by taking a year off, which obviously is something nobody wanted to do, we would have destroyed our following and our fans would never come back,

Robert Wallace

I dared to lose and I won, ... It was a lot of hard work, and physical training and studying.

Karen Joy Fowler

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

Gianfranco Fini

but have not always dared speak with such brutality.

Robert Browning

I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep

Phyllis Wise

Many of them have been more wonderful than we would have ever dared to hope for. I think that's what the most exciting part is - you just can't tell.

Evel Knievel

I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest.

Theo James

I was in New Zealand and met this girl. Her sister dared me to bungee jump, so I did! It was a spur-of-the-moment decision - I wanted to impress the girl, and it worked! We were in a relationship after that.

Gian Carlo Menotti

For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.

Tove Jansson

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Rick Cornett

Regardless of who we were going to play against, we were going to play strong and were determined to play well down there.

Robert Mckain

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mark Wilde

Steve Rogel is a very determined individual. He's got a big checkbook and he's not going away.

Mike Klemm

Spirits are up. There's a good feeling out there. We all know this was forced upon us and everyone is determined to see it through.

Jay Marston

Our players have been making things happen. Today it was Kaila Burns. She was determined to keep the inning alive.

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will in large part be determined by how we do right here in the heartland of America,

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will be determined largely by how well we do here,

Mary Wittenberg

Our women showed how gutsy, determined and talented they are,

Larry Sabato

I think they have to do something prior to November 2006, to show they understand they have overspent and are determined to do something about it.

Jerome Charyn

'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'

John Muckler

I think there's a little negativity in this town because they don't look at themselves as winners. It's doom and gloom, there's no doubt about that. They need some sunlight.

Chris Moore

I think that's what we need is the optimism and not all the gloom and doom that can come out of the situation that we have right now.

Kendrick Macdowell

It does get wearisome to hear the prophets of doom say we're on the way out, because it's just not true. It's shallow thinking.

Britt Beemer

I would say that the first quarter of next year probably has already been doomed by this episode,

Jon Johansen

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Anita David

I don't want to be killed, I don't want to be kidnapped, I don't want to be hurt. But I don't have a personal sense of doom every time I exit my house.

Lisa Wathne

Had this little lion lived, he would have been doomed to a life of extreme confinement and boredom.

Philip Rumore

No one in the schools knows what it's all about. It's doomed to failure if you don't involve people and let them know what's going on.

Peter Capaldi

Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Julian Castro

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.

Charlie Villanueva

It felt good to be out there, it's something I've always dreamed about, to be out there. But it would have been better to get the win.

Frank Bennett

It is far more than I dreamed that it would or could be, far more,

Sharon Nichols

I couldn't have thought of anything better than this, I don't think I could have dreamed of anything better than this.

Michael Ende

Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of?

James Langevin

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

Randi Miller

For years I mimicked the 'doors closing' lady because it was funny, but I never dreamed I would be doing this.

Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Steve James

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

Karen Anderson

Krista has big dreams. She's very driven. She wants to be all that she can be.

Constance Zimmer

I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up.

Andrew Wilson

It felt good. This was a must-win for us in order to keep our tournament dreams alive.

Maher Arar

I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams.

Kaley Cuoco

I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.

Katori Hall

Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

Rachel Platten

I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Xinhua Agency

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

Lillian Carter

Regarding Men: When they stop lookin', They ain't worth havin'.

Jesse L. Martin

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Jennifer Taylor

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Saeb Erekat

start thinking in the mentality of a partner.

Raoul Walsh

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.

Steve Erickson

Overall I think I'm playing a lot better. I've worked a lot more this year and I'm more confident. I'm mentally stronger.

Kevin Simpson

Over 20 women have called wanting to be a mentor to a young lady.

Nicole Vaidisova

Physically I was well, mentally I was well. I just never got into my rhythm.

Shane Montgomery

Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game.

Bill Cowher

Some of those games, when we took Jerome out, (Haynes) wasn't too bad.

Michael Cohen

That completely took away the bogeyman of privatization.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Jerry Sloan

That was pretty big for us. It took away their momentum.

Natalie Cole

I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.

Vince Young

I went through all my progressions, so I just took off with it.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Marcus Williams

I think he took that out on them.

Ashley Martin

I think he took that hard, but I don't think it had anything to do with this.

Phil Kessel

I don't have to worry about it right now. I'm just going to go out there and play and whatever happens, happens.

Jon Lovitz

There are some actors who say, 'What do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want,' and that's all they do, ... I kind of go to the other extreme. I say, 'I have an idea. Can I try something?'

Keke Palmer

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He's a very, very important part of whatever we do. We want Melo with us for a long time.

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Gary Brown

Whatever we can do for the kids, it's worth it.