Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Jacques

The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.

Steven Mintz

We live in a society that extols mobility, autonomy and freedom,

Thomas Harrison

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.

Duncan Clark

China Mobile is actually 31 provinces, and each province has its autonomy and capital expenditures. Often they'll promote their own local brands at the expense of national brands they should be promoting.

Zhou Xiaochuan

Fund surveillance should comply with the objective of promoting exchange and financial stability and respect the autonomy as to exchange-rate systems that is granted to all members.

Kofi Annan

The question of independence has been raised, the question of autonomy has been raised, ... It is important that the discussion begins soon.

Jean Chatzky

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

Grover Norquist

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

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.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Mark Regev

We have never said more than we have said in the case. This issue has been solved in a satisfactory way with the New Zealand government.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Ann Brackbill

We want interoperable systems and that's going to happen. The issue is how we will work together. Without the right coordination, privacy will be at risk in our view.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Stuart Klaskin

The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists.

Jim Coleman

We started on this about two years ago. There?s no question that this has taken a long time.

Rep. Schultheis

We're here to represent our constituents, and there's no question they want this bill.

Meggie Ford

This question may as well be in Chinese.

Tom Jr.

With the wind blowing, (and) shooting 2 under here, you've got to be happy, there's no question about that.

Richard Jaffe

There is no question the stores are prepped and warned.

Phillip Fulmer

There is no question that we're not where we need to be on offense. But I think we can get there.

Carlos Fuentes

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

C. S. Lewis

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

Agnes Repplier

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

Agnes Repplier

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Alan Tudyk

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

Charlotte Bronte

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

Charles de Gaulle

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Charles Dickens

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

Jimmy Johnson

The reception was a lot more than I thought it would be,

Laura Barrett

I've never had this reception before. This is just not the way to treat your constituents.

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.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Rosalind Wiseman

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Glenn Close

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness

Joe Gibbs

It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

Dan Mclaughlin

It's probably the most broached topic we have at our town meetings.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.