Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy Kidder

PIH combines idealism and brilliance to a degree I've never witnessed before in the public charity arena,

Gary Neville

I think he's a special talent. I thought there were glimpses of brilliance before Christmas but after that he has shown everyone at United that he's going to be a world-class player.

Tom Rosenstiel

Maybe part of their brilliance is they're not as guilt-ridden about it.

Geoffrey Marcy

I am honored to be included with professor Mayor in this award. His innovative brilliance has been impressive and he has served as a model for young scientists.

Bhagavad Gita

Know Me to be the eternal seed of all creatures. I am the intelligence of the intelligent, and the brilliance of the brilliant.

Eugene Volokh

He is a person of proven legal brilliance and judicial temperament, and he is respected by scholars on the left as well as on the right,

David Vise

He felt like an outsider. He felt angry, and he felt his brilliance was being overlooked. And he felt much smarter than the people around him.

Greg Evans

Mother Nature visualized brilliance in everything; but surly was drunk when she created the liberal.

Kathy Reichs

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

Don Smithburg

Our morgue at Big Charity is full and it is under water.

Sathya Baba

Spend money in charity; be generous and munificent but not extravagant.

Arpad Busson

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

Bertrand Russell

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

Kristen Holloway

I think that's higher than nearly any other charity, even the United Way, which is thought do quite well.

Leila Janah

I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.

Larry Thomas

I'm sitting here looking at a little gold key that the mayor of DeLand gave me in 2004. I enjoyed being there, and I thought the people were really nice, but it's a strange world when a charity stiffs you.

John Congemi

I have been trying to help out in getting charity events and corporate events and try and grow the membership in any way I can.

Will Smith

Having a corporate sponsor for their New Year's Eve party is a preliminary conversation. This is a very premature E-mail that went out. Will and Jada were just looking for some way to have an over-the-top party that benefited their charity . This is how parties get thrown every single day.

John Richardson

Sri Lanka is going to have to take responsibility for its own problems and not look in any large degree for succor from the international community.

Scott Skiles

Some guys play hard, some guys play harder. He's a hard-playing guy. I have never seen him do anything that was out of hand, over the top. In a league where a lot of players feel a degree of entitlement, a guy like him that doesn't feel that can stand out.

David Silvernail

Overall, 75 percent of the graduates in 1997, 1998 and 1999 ended up earning their degree from a Maine institution.

Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Lauren Willig

I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

Michael Sheridan

I think they (commissioners) have the right to examine procurement processes, but I think there is a degree of micromanagment here.

Jeff Burton

I think the responsibility message has been more thorough because they are involved in our sport than if they weren't involved in our sport. And if you think about it, someone was held accountable maybe to a higher degree because they are involved in the marketing of alcohol.

Bertrand Russell

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Terry Robinson

It got down to about 26 degrees here around 5:45 in the morning. I know there's some damage.

Timothy Noah

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

Joe Trippi

He stands for something, he has that idealism and that something that you just don't see in 99.9 percent of today's politicians.

James Carville

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Thomas Carlyle

The actual well seen is ideal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

William Hague

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Yvonne Johnson

I go for public safety ... for public health.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.