Famous Quotes & Sayings

David A. Bednar

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

Ganesh Subbarayan

The overall philosophy behind the design approach can be extended to enable one to understand the impact of changes in suppliers' components on the performance of a complex system without revealing details of the components or the system. This will enable suppliers to retain their proprietary design knowledge without revealing each other's intellectual property. Such strategies are critical as products are increasingly designed and produced in a globally distributed manner.

Bob Maxwell

The past will be forgotten quickly. The new director has the sound approach to take the zoo to new levels and keep it fresh.

Barbara Kopple

I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.

Chris Ware

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.'

Chris Crutcher

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

Niklaus Wirth

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

Elliott Abrams

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.

Casey Wilson

I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.

Yoko Ono

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Vikram Seth

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Brad Berenson

The overall lesson of the two nominations taken together is that there is considerable safety in drawing from the very small pool of people who are universally considered qualified for appointment.

Brian Bell

When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.

Big Sean

There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.

Bayard Taylor

The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

Desiree Rogers

I don't consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No.

Nina Garcia

I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come.

Francois Cluzet

What's interesting for me is that I generally consider myself to be more of a physical actor, and I'm somebody that doesn't really want to use the dialogue but prefers to act through my body, and then sometimes when I have a script, I look and kind of throw away the dialogue and I just look at how I can expressive it through my body.

Eric Ueland

The political will is there. The need is very real. And the urge to help constituents directly and quickly is omnipresent.

Colum McCann

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.

Lee Smith

I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.

Nancy Cartwright

Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

Chris Jordan

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

Abby Ottenhoff

We are going to work directly with the pharmacies to make sure that people who fall into this situation don't leave a pharmacy without the meds they need or pay more than they need to.

Brian Cox

I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.

Amado Boudou

Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.

Wassily Kandinsky

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

Terry Gilliam

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

William H. O'Connell

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

Charles Spurgeon

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Alan Bennett

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

Randy Teeney

When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut.

Rowan D. Williams

If you think of intersecting circles, holy wisdom is that point at which the realities meet, overlap, intersect, interpenetrate.

Laurence Sterne

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

Martin Luther

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

John Cleese

What have the Romans ever done for us?

Karl Ove Knausgaard

My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.

Alan Cohen

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

Bo Burnham

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Rhonda Britten

We are contributing to the world just by being willing to be ourselves.

George Robertson

We are confronting a regime which is intent on genocide,

Deepak Chopra

EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION

Viviane Reding

We have no intention to regulate the internet,

Meir Sheetrit

We have no intention of starving the Palestinian people.

Nick Saban

We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor .

Ryan Stiles

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.

Alison Moyet

I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I've been invited to very glamorous things, but I never go.

Morihei Ueshiba

Fill yourself with Ki, invite the attack.

Pope Francis

Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.

Charles Farrar Browne

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.

Sri Chinmoy

What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite.

Carine Roitfeld

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

John Cornyn

You have no obligation to tell us how you will rule. Don't take the bait.

James Nicholson

We have an obligation to remember and to pay tribute to those who took up freedom's call,

Dennis Prager

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

Isaac Mizrahi

I have a lot of obligations.

Glen Loyd

You may keep it without any obligation whatsoever.

Bob DuPuy

We will be prepared to select ownership as soon as the lease obligation is done.

Susan Gray

We feel we have an obligation to not only uphold school policy, but also the law,

Richard Harris

I think they have an obligation to be part of the solution.

Ryan Costello

Municipalities have an obligation to step up to the plate.

Glenn McAninch

We operated our offense the way we wanted to and we way out-shot them.

Charlie Whitehurst

When you're playing a running offense like they have, you've got to score as much as you can and as often as you can. We scored early, and they didn't respond for a while.

Adam Kennedy

We didn't play very well. We played well in a couple, but not so well otherwise. Our offense just didn't really get going.

Shane Jones

We served real tough. It made it so they (Box Elder) couldn't get into their offense whole lot.

Dusty Baker

We need his offense and we need his defense, too. We don't usually play as well with him out of the lineup.

Kelly Kennedy

We'll tweak our offense to work with the personnel we have. And we have to work to get the right people shots.

Jerry York

We had trouble getting the puck out of our zone, and also trouble getting the puck into their zone. We never really got our offense set up.

Greg Brochetti

We had tried to scale back our offense and just keep things really simple, but we were so thin.

Drew Pearson

We've got seven returning starters on offense and seven returning on defense,

RL Brown

I think we'll see permits down in February, but I thought we'd see them down in January.

Brian Collins

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and the police that's a lot to get done in three weeks.

Edward Everett

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Lisa Marie Presley

I absolutely refuse to bare midriff.

Plato

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Marissa Mayer

I refuse to be stereotyped.

Alice Walker

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Al Goldstein

I refuse to be silenced.

Dallas Drake

That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.

Gillian Flynn

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

Denis Leary

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nuture.

Charlie Brown

We still have a ways to go, but this says a lot about our kids.

Fred Ray

This says a lot for our offense. We can make plays. We just need to keep it going.

Patrick Chappatte

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

Glenn Wilson

Well, she took the money. It says a lot about her credibility.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Shirley MacLaine

because he says what he actually would do. But he's got no chance.

Bill Bailey

Two solipsists walk into a bar, and one says to the other...

Jeffrey Kessler

When someone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.