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.

Mike Williamson

Regardless of the results, we played outstanding in the first. We played at both ends of the ice, shot the puck finally. We didn't get rewarded, but there's not many times you won't if you keep playing like that.

Jim Brandt

Rebecca is within 7 points of qualifying for state and Alyssa is with in 20 points. I see both of them qualifying at GNAC in Hastings.

Tomasz Beer

Reasons for this trend are not really known, but may include a desire to do something rather than do nothing on the part of both physicians and patients. Unfortunately, these men may be enduring significant side effects for an uncertain benefit.

George Washington

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

David Wade

Real strength is telling the truth when troops are being killed, and one year later a lot of Americans realize John Kerry had it both right and consistent about Iraq and this president's still got it dead wrong.

Vinny Testaverde

Really, you just hold your breath and hope that he's okay and that it wasn't a concussion. I kind of had one eye on him and one eye on the field because it was obviously a critical situation for us to win the game there. But I guess you could say that we lost on both ends today - losing Wayne and the game.

Andy Reid

Reggie is well deserving of his Hall of Fame induction. In my mind, he will go down as the greatest defensive end in NFL history. He was a great teammate and a fun player to coach. As good as a player as he was on the field, he was an even better person off the field. He left a lasting legacy, both in the NFL and in the community.

Andrew Yang

President Chen has been constrained by both the opposition parties and factions in his own party. I would say President Chen has done a mediocre job on foreign policy, and an equally mediocre job on domestic policy.

Allan Hoffenblum

President Bush is in California for specific reasons that do not involve Governor Schwarzenegger, and the governor is involved in a special election that has nothing to do with the president. Both are having political problems now, so other than cordiality, there's really no reason for them to be together.

Steve Murdock

Part of what's really extraordinary about that is Hispanics have been a large part of culture forever. Many of them were here before the Anglos were.

Carlos Cardoso

Our people have such a performance culture that they want to get better every day.

Peter Thiel

Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.

Kathryn Xian

Our goal is to influence peer culture so that we can prevent violence from happening in the first place.

Robert Hunter

rock 'n' roll, jazz and traditional folk culture.

Sathya Baba

Respect for women is a sign of real culture.

Romie Littrell

Managers can't manage diverse cultures successfully until they understand what culture is and know their own culture.

C. S. Lewis

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

Bethenny Frankel

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Jay Cooper

People have to be educated to realize they're going to have to pay for music; otherwise there won't be music,

Jerry Misik

Our goal is to enlighten and to educate them and make this place a better place for everybody.

John Callahan

Our goal is to educate people in all services on what other service (departments) do and how important it is to leave everything as virgin as possible.

Matthew Wagner

Our whole goal with this event is to educate entrepreneurs about what is possible in terms of licensing technology.

Vera Franklin

We need more scholarships and vocational training programs. We have to be able to get our kids to school and then not forget about them. We need to do all that we can to get them educated and then keep them here if we are going to thrive as a tribe.

Michelle Dunn

That way we could research this more, maybe get more information, become more educated and try harder to let them know that they?re not welcome here.

Bill Waye

It is not that they are not needed and it is not that they are not valuable. Our legal mission, and what we are required to do, is to educate kids from kindergarten through 12th grade, and when we can go outside that within our financial strengths I think it is OK to do that.

Robert F. Kennedy

I think that all of us have an obligation, we have a responsibility. If we don't do it, nobody's going to do it. If educated people don't do it, nobody's going to do it.

Ryan Hamlin

I won't say spam is dead, but we can say spam is contained. If you use the latest anti-spam technologies and educate yourself on how to use them, you should not have a problem.

Ron Wilson

Patty played a great game. He was taking the puck to the net, and he was a force. I think he got excited when he saw he was going to be on the point on the power play.

Roger Taylor

Paul is not someone trying to be Freddie. He's someone trying to take this somewhere else... I'm very excited about working it all out.

Elizabeth Gabler

People have too many options for their entertainment, and we've got to work to get people excited about movie business.

Billy Boyd

People love the movies and they just get excited when they see someone from them, no matter who it is. It's always positive.

Dwayne Hickman

Suddenly I was on stage.Looking out into the sea of screaming excited teens, I thought for a fleeting moment that maybe I had been too hard on myself, maybe I was just as much a teen singing sensation as this slick Avalon fellow.

Jeff Fried

Steve's excited as can be. He's just excited to get there and perform.

Joseph Jackson

some form of normalcy with all the madness going on. ... It's a different experience for him. We're excited about having him go to a different school and getting a different perspective on learning.

Mohammed Ali

Some people are excited to take it. Others are refusing to touch it.

Royce Chadwick

Our players are very excited to play on TV so all their families can watch. We're down to late February and every game is of the utmost importance. It's nice to be home, and we have a lot of positive things in our favor. We're looking forward to a big crowd.

Randy Carlyle

Our players worked extremely hard. It was a fast-paced game, and it wasn't no-hit hockey. It was a physical game and those are tough ones to play.

Michael Heisley

Pau Gasol is extremely popular in Spain. I don't know how much he sells, but I get nothing in Spain. The money goes to the league, and they use it for whatever they choose to use it for to run the league.

Vincent Charles

Peace is still not assured, and we must remember there are still millions of extremely poor and hungry people who need help.

Budge Pountney

Steve has played in the back row a number of times and every time he has, he has done extremely well,

Patty Murray

States are extremely nervous about what's going to be required of them.

Joseph Murray

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.

Sandra Langley

(Spry) hurt us. We needed to do a better job on her. Their freshman played extremely well.

Dan Armstrong

Some guys don't think Justin lifts hard, then we test and he's extremely strong for his weight. His max has gone up 50 pounds in just about everything.

Gary Galloway

Our plan was to open one lane so ambulance and fire trucks could get through. We had a lot of people out there during the storm, when it was extremely dangerous, making sure this happened.

Richard Ferlauto

That was the first flexing of shareholder muscle and that shareholders were emphasizing the importance of splitting those roles.

Oliver Ivanovic

It is of utmost importance for Kosovo institutions to preserve peace in the province.

Randy Johnson

I think you see not a sense of urgency, but a little more importance on every game. I suspect it will be that way the rest of the year.

Mike Degory

If we're going to take back the Swamp, it's going to start Saturday. We know that and understand the importance of this game. We're not overlooking it.

H. Hunt

If we can take anything away from this, it's that we recognize the importance of flood-control projects that we don't necessarily think about every day.

Jim Litchfield

He was a man tonight. He knew the importance of this game, and to his credit, he stepped up.

Catherine McAuley

A good beginning is of great importance.

Arthur Machen

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Henry Hyde

We are not delegates who are sent here to weigh our mail every day and then to vote accordingly. There are issue of transcendent importance that you have to be willing to lose your office over ... I'm willing to lose my seat any day in the week rather than sell out.

Andy Robinson

People have got lots of opinions and when you're losing those opinions come out even more.

Ryan Kalil

Sure, we're losing some important guys, but we're going to be good.

Robbie Laing

I was just sick of being losing bidder.

Bertrand Russell

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

Jimmy Johnson

That was a lot of fun, but I know how aggravating losing like that can be.

Kevin Pittsnogle

I think that's what we're more sad about than losing the game. We're not going to play again.

Bruce Fein

I think the administration is misreading the Senate and the public, because you end up losing more if your credibility is strained and people think you're playing them for dupes.

Jenna Morasca

My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.

Julian Tavarez

I was the losing pitcher in that game, and it was the same score.

Rousas John Rushdoony

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Barry Lopez

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Berthe Morisot

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Amanda Vanstone

The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success,

Keith Aubry

No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

Lao Tzu

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Derek Jarman

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Alexandra Picavet

We're not going to go fast. We want to preserve him as much as possible. He's pretty intact.

Evan Spiegel

The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.

Carlos Parreira

We want to preserve his health. He's not being dropped.

David Gross

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.

Norm Brunswig

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

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.

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

David Appel

did not have his own sources of funding.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

Kim Edwards

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Edmund Hillary

I am hell-bent for the South Pole-God willing and crevasses permitting.

Dominique McElligott

I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.

Jose Ibarra

I think it's great. We need something on the south side.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Audra McDonald

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Timothy Tyson

Nonviolent, yes. Passive, no. He was nonviolent, but he marched through the South like Sherman through Georgia.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Adrienne Rich

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Estelle

I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.

Simon Schama

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Ciara

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

Colleen Murphy

I think it's going to be great. Unless there's a blizzard.

Luke Waddington

I think it's discounted, unless they do something and do something decisive.

Rod Thorn

Unless we get very fortunate, ... we are not going to be a championship contender.

Robert Farmer

Unless they shrunk up over the years, he must not have been a real big fellow,