Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Gabaldon

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

Alain de Botton

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Al Gore

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.

Susan Collins

When help is needed, you are there and you take action, ... Thanks to all of you for the service you provide.

Gillian Armstrong

When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.

Saleem Altaf

We had basically asked the BRG to review his action in three months time instead of keeping him out of the game, which is his livelihood, for a year.

Bob McGehee

We had a very successful year in 2005, with ongoing earnings of $3.33 per share, significantly exceeding our 2005 guidance of $2.90 to $3.20 per share. These positive results reflected the benefit of positive weather as well as actions our management took to manage costs.

Karen Murray

We can no longer ignore heart disease. While awareness is important, it's time for women to take action now -- to love and protect their hearts while maintaining healthier lifestyles. To that end, Go Red encourages women to not only join the movement but also take simple, everyday steps to protect their hearts.

Douglas Fairbanks

Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!

David Walliams

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

David Walliams

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

David Brooks

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.

Beatrice Dalle

But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

Al Yankovic

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

Billy Bob Thornton

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

John Green

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.

Patrick Carrie

When you really pay attention on the recording, you're making sure each drum sounds the way you want it to sound and your guitar is where you want it to be.

Kevin Jones

When you're a little guy, you have an attitude because you get attention that you're too small. Royce has a big heart. He's our leader.

David Icke

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Michael Marr

We're confident given the court's past clear decisions on these types of cases that we will prevail in any future litigation as we have in all previous litigation.

Troy Newman

We're concerned about these statements. But the proof will come when it's time for him to rule on these cases as a justice.

Charles de Secondat

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Carl von Clausewitz

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

Chris Hoofnagle

The problem with privacy cases is that most privacy plaintiffs have to give up their privacy. In order to sue you have to show up in court and show that they used your phone records.

Peter Neufeld

The real issue is not whether one man was in fact guilty or innocent, it's rather that he set the example for what the other 49 governors should do on the hundreds of cases where DNA material still exists from people who have been executed.

Kevin Teale

We used to see about five cases a month. At the tail-end of December we realized we had a situation on our hands.

Tom Rath

We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.

Andy Davidson

When your colleagues put that confidence in you and congratulate you on a job well done ? I'm pretty honored to get it.

Judi Dench

Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own.

Evan Bayh

This proposal emphasizes accountability. That is something that is long overdue. The fragmented structure that my colleagues have mentioned has prevented us from having accountability,

Sarah Galashan

One man did escape without injuries. He described it as very sudden, that he was unconscious briefly, but he was able to escape. All of his colleagues are in hospital.

Steve Ballmer

My industry colleagues and I remain eager to work with the Department to support the homeland security mission. We look forward to working with you to pursue opportunities for technology to make cyberspace, and the homeland, more secure.

Andre Geim

Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

Jim Carroll

Many of her colleagues knew him and it was very emotional in the office. She had that memory in the back of her head while she was being threatened.

Jim Bunning

I and my colleagues will be watching very closely, and if things unravel, we still have tough legislation we can move through Congress.

R. Robinson

I am very shocked, as are all my colleagues ... how much the people have suffering, and how much they will go on suffering.

Wayne Fortenberry

We accomplished a lot of things this year and I am proud of the girls. And we have a lot of talent coming back. There's a lot to look forward to.

Daniel Merideth

We always have concerns about him coming to work but he loved his work so much, he was going to do it until he retired.

Pete Hertler

We always have a good time coming to this tournament. We played well and fought hard in our games. The wind made it tough on the hitters, so pitching and defense took over.

Jerry Green

We always enjoyed the picnic, especially when it was in Bushkill Park and had the rides for the kids. This year we had to hold off because of the disaffiliation situation. With the new officers coming in, we didn't have time. But we'll go back to it next year.

Keeley Hawes

Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.

Lleyton Hewitt

When he keeps coming at you like that he's a tough player to play against,

Daniel Snyder

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

Mark Bradford

When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.

Sean Graskey

We had a young team coming into the year. We didn't expect to win them all.

Tom Izzo

Whenever you lose a few games, especially when you have a pretty good team, you're concerned about how fast things can slide.

Tom Selleck

I never try to pander to an audience, and I'm really not concerned with my image. I'm far more interested in stretching my abilities as an actor.

Jim Calhoun

We're going backwards. I'm real concerned about that. We've been taking all kinds of time at it, and we're getting worse at it.

Michael Roth

We're looking at several things. We're concerned with the retaining wall, its stability from a water quality perspective, and their drainage controls, which are insufficient.

Colin Devine

We're concerned (the charges) will overshadow what was a very strong quarter.

Eduardo Sanchez

We're concerned that with the increased travel during the holidays, the flu situation could worsen.

Jim Bishop

We're concerned that the same priority won't be given to long-term development as resources are siphoned to support shorter-term diplomatic or military objectives.

Bob McKee

We're concerned that there's no easy answer, but you can't fix the problem simply by giving more away. When you tax one person less, as a consequence you have to tax somebody more.

Matt Snorton

We?re concerned that there?s a lot of hidden back roads that are hard to get to.

Therese of Lisieux

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.

Archer John Porter Martin

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Michael Rubner

Usually, it takes between 10 and 20 layers to get the desired coating,

Gerard Hopkins

I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,

Yasuo Yoshikuni

We want to be able to introduce a desired function into the proteins.

Alan Greenspan

I would strongly suggest that, while there is an obvious strongly desired sense to move rapidly, it's far more important to be right than quick,

H. Hart

I think it's very reflective of (the fact) that the American dream is still what it was 100 years ago. What people wished for and desired is not any different today. (And) no matter where you come from, these desires are shared.

Dennis Ross

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

Nancy Gibbs

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

Kelly Avants

We had been told by other participating districts to expect an initial enrollment of 500 students.

Tony Terry

We're glad to get the district win and move forward.

Woody Smith

Last year we had one senior, and this year we have six. Last year, we learned a lot from the Southeast game (final season loss) and the players want redemption. Our goal is to win districts and put something together in the playoffs.

Peter Erben

Last year, there were a number of districts where the vote did not take place. This year we hope we can do it in all of them,

Jerry McSwords

Last year we took nine to district and got only one to state, so right now I'd like to take at least one, but I think we can get three or four out.

Barry Russell

Lefties have given this district fits for years. Hopefully Brandon can be like those guys.

Judy Biggert

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

Vince Pardo

We want the district to be vibrant, so that it's got more offerings during the day and in the early evening.

Dave Ewing

We've struggled keeping everybody in (the lineup) for one reason or another. It's a good measuring stick for us to get ready for the district tournament.

David Hume

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

Dustin Moskovitz

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Mark Geragos

We're seeking appellate relief to prevent a lawyer who was employed for the briefest of times from capitalizing on that employment and violating his oath as a lawyer.

David Packard

Lew was such a straightforward and honest guy. The employees loved him.

Michael Farr

Lots of employers don't want people around who aren't loyal,

Charles E. Wilson

That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.

Jared Bernstein

The full employment situation reinforces itself.

Terry McAteer

The fact of the matter is, that was a school day because we called our employees to work. Therefore, they were paid for that day of service. So it can't be a snow day at the point because you have your employees at the work place.

Nate Hurst

The fact is employers like Wal-Mart are good for working families.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

Clint Hurdle

Leaving a game in the fifth inning I wouldn't think would make any pitcher happy, ... Sometimes different things will motivate people different ways.

Bobby Cox

Maybe we can slip him in as the fifth starter.

Lamont Bryant

We are going to sit down and re-evaluate his recruiting. Will he visit a fifth school? We aren't sure. But the Indiana situation is very unsettling. We don't want any distractions. We don't want any surprises.

Kristin Gore

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

Steve Peterson

We're still searching for our fifth and sixth man, but we're getting closer.

Jim Grobe

We're just kicking ourselves that we don't have a fifth year for him. We couldn't do it. We had to get him on the field.

Mark Mulder

Nobody gets skipped here. Our fifth guy in Oakland had it tough. He didn't know when he was pitching. He didn't know how to go about things. It's great how we've had it going this year.

Manon Perron

From fifth place, there is nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Condoleezza Rice

We are very focused on hoping that these negotiations do succeed,

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Bruce Thompson

The program has been under way for three years now and has focused on the development of equipment-testing techniques, so they may be used for longer periods time safely.

Shanen Boettcher

There is a lot more to providing a biometrics platform than what the consortium is focused on.

Stanley B. Prusiner

From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.

Karl Hobbs

We're just trying to follow our dreams. That's it and that's all we're focused on. We can't tell you about anything in the past.

Diane Tuller

We have as good a shot as anybody. We just have to get focused on the court, not the arena.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Barry Diller

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

Charles Darwin

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Steve Kolenda

We're just forming this on our own. We're just going to give people another voice.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

Isabella Rossellini

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

Horace Horace

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.

Eric Kriss

made representations to us recently they are planning to modify that license, and we believe, if they do so in the way that we understand that they have spoken about...the next iteration of the Open Format standard will include some Microsoft proprietary formats.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Mara Wilson

I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

Lutfullah Mashal

We know that he has been killed, but do not know whether it was because of personal hostility or because he once had joined the Taliban,

Judy Carter

You go, you breathe, and when you come back, whatever hostility has been going on is usually gone.

Paul Saffo

The problem has not been hostility to technology; the problem has been big egos.

Greg Rosenblum

There was shouting. There was hostility during the deliberation. There was adamant disagreement, but ultimately everyone respected everyone else's point of view.

Jon Stewart

I have a lot of hostility.

Elizabeth Kenny

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Benjamin Disraeli

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

DeLaShaun Dean

Most of the time, the messages don't have anything to do with football.

Tom McClintock

sends a powerful message that it is the official policy of this state not to recognize or respect this nation's immigration laws." ()

Mark Phelan

Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Al Gore

Israel has its own right as a nation to defend its national security.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Eric Swalwell

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Don Cooper

We did everything we can do with these guys. They're like the National Guard. They're on 24-hour call.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Charde Houston

She has two national championships under her belt. She has to be like that.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

David Hume

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

Diana Gabaldon

I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.

Alan Dershowitz

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

Charles Darwin

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

Tao Lin

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Arab Proverb

Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you

Karl Lagerfeld

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

Jane Austen

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

David Walker

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

David Viscott

Lists have always implied social order.

David Rockefeller

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis...

David Hockney

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

David Hume

It were better, never to look beyond the present material world. By supposing it to contain the principle of its order within itself, we really assert it to be God; and the sooner we arrive at that divinity, the better.

David Hume

To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

David Brooks

Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders and fitness people have been using, very extensively, chiropractors in order to stay healthy and fit. Whenever I had a little problem with my body, I always ran to one of my dear friends, Dr Franco Columbo, he was always right there with the adjustments. This is how I found out the best way of going, is to use chiropractors, not only after injuries , but also before injury.

August Strindberg

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Evander Holyfield

Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal,

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Nizar Hamdoon

The only way to try to reach out ... is if the American administration sits down and talks with the Iraqis.

Phil Anderton

We are going to take the appropriate time to reach our long-term aspirations.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Bob DuPuy

I think we're doing much better player-wise, but I think we need to reach out to African-American fans.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Ricky Williams

We talk about life, we talk about our philosophies. He always sends me books. It's a different kind of relationship.

John Updike

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

Rachel Leon

In my experience, I would say it's rare, if not unprecedented. I think it sends a strong message.

Andrew McDonald

I mean, when somebody like my grandmother sends me e-mail, I know that it's arrived,

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Boomer Esiason

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Charles Dickens

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.

Lori Sitler

She would be called to the stand by her own attorney.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Jorge Cruz

We want our voices to be heard. Us students, we will take action. We will stand up for what we believe.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Mike Foley

Bluetooth is not a wireless LAN. There are better standards for wireless LANs.