Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you threaten its prerogatives.

Michael Collins

There is little empirical evidence on the best approaches to setting goals, and further investigation is critical. However, states can take a number of steps now, drawing on best practices from business, other school improvement strategies, and just plain common sense.

Pauline Neville-Jones

As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.

Dan Doughty

We have two approaches in our research - the empirical model and the mechanistic model. The empirical model generates life prediction from accelerated degradation test data, while the mechanistic model relates life prediction to changes in battery materials. Our approach provides an independent measure of battery life so we don't have to rely on what battery manufacturers tell us.

Todd Wilkinson

Yeah, it was pretty exceptional. Since the NCAA era, to my knowledge, there's nothing that approaches that.

Donald Rumsfeld

We need joint integrated approaches to battlefield challenges. We need weapon systems capable of producing the precise and timely destruction of enemy targets.

Howard Graham Buffett

Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.

Howard Coble

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.

Peter Young

We believe these workshops are timely and necessary to inform government agencies, businesses, landowners, home-owners and community associations on the latest approaches to protecting our precious coastal resources.

Constance Wu

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.

David Hanson

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.

Paramahansa Yogananda

All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

Brevin Knight

We played well and stayed within ourselves. We played the way we did during the three-game winning streak. We gutted it out, we continued to play hard, we rotated on defense and we did the things that we are capable of doing. I'm a lot happier with our effort tonight, and it just leads for better things to come after this All-Star break.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

Jon Voight

Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words.

Lara St. John

Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.

James Houston

When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.

Patrick Sparks

When we're in the spread, it's hard to guard. Joe's a capable player, and he really stepped up tonight and gave us what we needed.

Ricardo Lagos

What we have today is a different kind of enemy - it's not a country, it's not a particular society, it's not a religion. It has an unknown face.

Ozzie Guillen

When your enemy's down, you've got to keep your enemy down. You make some noise and you wake up the monster, you're going to be in trouble.

A.J. Pierzynski

Where aren't I public enemy No. 1? Tell me something that I don't already know.

Walter Benjamin

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Banksy

I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

Lennart Nilsson

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

Mark Cuban

Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.

Patrick Kavanagh

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

Steven Blum

We were going to fight an enemy that was a symmetric threat, and they looked a lot like us -- the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

Karl Nurse

There are a lot of comfortably integrated neighborhoods.

Jerry Yang

Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.

Brian Gammage

Really there is not anything new in application terms. It is just an integrated version of what they've got already.

Arthur Middleton

Herbert's life integrated prayer, study, teaching and pastoral care, embodying his understanding of the priest as a man of God, a teacher and pastor.

Mitch Daniels

is as integrated and interdependent as it has ever been.

Stephanie Haymore

It is movement integrated from ballet, modern and jazz.

Kate Warne

It's not surprising that even though the major integrated oils are making money hand-over-foot, the market hasn't paid much attention.

Adele Fasano

It's still a pilot program not integrated with the passenger vehicle program.

Scott Handy

It's first at this point in time. We haven't had an integrated stack like this before.

Alexander Lebed

The peace process is in motion. The joint patrols are working; local commanders have started to withdraw troops.

Aquilino Pimentel

There are at least two more witnesses ready to testify before the joint committees,

Igor Luksic

Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

Nora Roberts

It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.

Sharon Gillies

If you smoked a joint in the last six months, you're eligible.

Atal Vajpayee

many proposals for verification, of which joint patrolling is one.

Elizabeth Janeway

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Karl Marx

The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

Jamie Rodriguez

I feel good. It was a joint effort.

Giuseppe Gattino

We have a very, very precise project which is related to no waste after the games.

George Bodenheimer

We haven't firmed up precisely how and when we're going to do that.

Al Yankovic

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

Jane Hirshfield

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

Chris Maloney

I thought he was thinking too much, trying to be too precise and just couldn't get it going.

Kenneth Wong

For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.

Ahmed Ressam

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target,

Holger Schmieding

Still, the precise wording of the ECB statement on Thursday could provide some vital clues.

Amit Sharma

Until now we had no close-up view of the precise surface where the two proteins interact.

Kate O'Mara

I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.

Michelle MacLaren

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

Garry Garner

We've been producing those since at least 1969.

Oliver Kahn

I am relaxed about the situation now. If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Marlon Wayans

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

Ed Schafer

You're not producing a whole lot of children.

Damian Lewis

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Tony Robinson

There's some truth to it. We do a lot of talking but we aren't producing anything.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

John Dunn

There's a lot of systems on (boats). They're complicated.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Tina Brown

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

Bob Poole

We just couldn't get timely hitting, very frustrating.

Joe Siciliano

We had our opportunities to score, but we just didn't get the timely hitting.

John Greene

If we had had the timely hit, we were right there. We just didn't get it.

Kathy Gibson

She does have extra-long arms. We know that about her. What timely shot-blocking!

Amanda Voorhis

She always has some timely makes from the perimeter.

Dan DeCarlo

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

Samuel Butler

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Bertie Ahern

We must look to the day when loyalist weapons are removed from the equation,

Greg Hellhake

We have a lot of different weapons out here.

Calista Flockhart

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Paul Davis

We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it.