Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kirby

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

David Selby

The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.

David Suzuki

It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

Sam Harris

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

Susan Minot

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

Susan Minot

People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.

Tariq Aziz

We discussed our legitimate concerns in a friendly and open manner.

Natalie Jeremijenko

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

Delos Smith

There are parts of the world that are in darkness and that concerns me.

Paul Haggis

The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.

Simon Mainwaring

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

Ed Orgeron

When a recruit comes in or commits, we lay out everything all the do's and don'ts and conditions of that (scholarship offer). We have to protect ourselves. Protect the program.

Kristen Meyer

We have made an effort to get the message out there. But we're not working in ideal conditions here.

Michelle Jensen

We did well on a day where the conditions were not very good.

Bill Owens

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

Orison Swett Marden

The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

Debbie Ford

In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.

Shawne Merriman

We're a team with speed. No matter what the conditions are, we have to go out and get pressure, but it was a little tougher today than it is usually. The footing out there was horrible.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

Katie Granson

We played well. We were consistent and disciplined.

Todd Tiahrt

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'

Virat Kohli

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Bob Cummings

We did what we thought we could do all year long. We did what we've done a lot in practice. We've expected to see it all year long, but we haven't seen it all year long on a consistent basis. We just didn't run it on the field.

Brad Wilkerson

We are not out of it yet. We still have a lot of games to play but we need to start playing day in and day out, having more consistent at-bats and playing more consistently in the field and being overall more consistent as a team.

John Walters

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.

Naima Adedapo

My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

Brad Sherman

My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I'm in a tough re-election race, an easy re-election race, or if it isn't an election year, whether there's a high-profile tragedy in the news or otherwise, my position remains unchanged and on my website.

Maxwell Gaylard

We need external assistance. It is not a dry season or a drought period, it's a drought.

Stan Cliburn

With the talent we have here, that's a real, real good possibility that we're going to end that drought in '97 when the Red Wings won their last championship. I'm the man to do it and I think I can back it up.

B. R. Hayden

We're right on the edge of going into a drought period. If there's no change, we're likely to see a drought this spring.

Don Cameron

With all the drought and no snow up there, it is real bad.

Maria Neira

For the poor people, they might represent the problem in terms of food production, in particular, drought and flooding. And the problem is increasing.

Catherine Pearce

Extreme weather events, drought and rising sea levels threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of people around the world. Negotiators must remember this as they enter these talks.

Robert Shiller

Transferring the risk of drought to international financiers makes sense for insurance companies, because it enables them to expand their portfolios.

Zam Fredrick

We hit a drought in the second period and Buford started hitting its free throws.

Juwan Howard

We hit a big-time drought in the fourth quarter. We kept our poise. We got some stops and rebounded the shots. In the past we folded.

Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

Gavin Friend

The hike... was in line with expectations, but by raising inflation and growth forecasts for 2006/2007, the window of opportunity for further rate hikes remains open.

William Massey

If a storm makes landfall within a 200-mile radius, it's probably a good forecast, ... Eight, 10 years ago, that was a 300-mile radius. So they are improving the forecasts drastically.

Walt McDonald

Considering most forecasts projected mortgage interest rates to gradually rise, this could keep the housing market from taking as much of a breather as we have anticipated,

Tetsuya Miura

Forecasts were too high because the government spent less than expected.

Noreena Hertz

I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.

Richard Behnke

So what we're working on with these models is individual forecasts of particular storms. That would be what we're really pressed to look at now.

Joseph Unsworth

They needed to diversify because ... all the long-term forecasts for DRAM are not bright.

Maury Roos

The forecasts are pretty good ? if we get normal weather henceforth.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Kathy Deck

We are seeing some serious imbalances in the market. When you have price increases with inventory increases, something's got to give.

Martin Mull

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Joe Panetta

The increases we're seeing are not just with 4-year-olds. We're seeing increases throughout the system.

Heidi Perlman

You can't have steady increases every year. At some point, you're going to plateau.

Shari Brill

Moderate successes are good, because if they do better than the shows they replaced, it's still a success for the networks.

Marc Johnson

Moderate strategies in the past had moderate results.

Mike Ross

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

Hanna Rosin

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

Kyle MacLachlan

I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.

Steven Wood

Any slowing in sales will reveal moderate overbuilding.

Carl Tobias

Specter is the key, and then it comes down to moderate Republicans and where we were in May.

John Sebastian

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

Lucy Jones

Northridge was a moderate earthquake, and it wasn't an urban hit; it was a suburban hit.

Tuppence Middleton

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

Michele Lee

In 'Seesaw,' I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I don't get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

Terry Crews

I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say 'No' to parts they should have said 'Yes' to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, 'Maybe you shouldn't do that.' I'll do it all.

Ken Thompson

We're an International truck dealer, sales, parts and service.

Julie Johnson

Our own rendition of the show is made up of parts of three different scripts of the play.

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Erich Merkle

Someone has to make sure Delphi's parts are not interrupted.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

John Shelton Reed

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

John Shelton Reed

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Paula Deen

I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!

Vanessa Williams

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

Banksy

Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When winter came the bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease.

Petrarch

The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.

Greg Skomal

Using tags, we know where they are in the summer and fall, but not in the winter.

William Shakespeare

I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

William Shakespeare

Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

William Shakespeare

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

Tom Anderson

We've got the coolers at 18 degrees. This weather isn't helping.

William Shakespeare

. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.

Charles Dickens

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

Charles Spurgeon

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

David Suzuki

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

Catherine Bell

I love cold, rainy weather.

Carole Lombard

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

Kurt Vonnegut

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

Bear Grylls

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

William Shakespeare

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Carl Jung

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Barney Frank

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

Edward Kennedy

Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.