Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryk

We've always preached winning. Winning is a part of development. We've always preached that. You try not to sacrifice development in order to win.

Barbara Boxer

To my constituents, today's hearing is about shared sacrifices in tough times versus oil company greed, ... Working people struggle with high gas prices and your sacrifices appear to be nothing.

Mary Barretta

What's nice about this is ... most of the major manufacturers participate in the Energy Star program. Which means that you don't have to sacrifice quality to save money or energy.

Wu Bangguo

Work safety incidents, which always involve sacrifice of human lives, attracted wide public attention.

William Shakespeare

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

Al Ries

To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.

Al Ries

The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.

Al Sharpton

It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

Akira Kurosawa

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

Kenny Troutt

That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that.

Houssaye Houssaye

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

John Powell

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

William Shakespeare

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

William Shakespeare

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself

William Shakespeare

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Alan Greenspan

The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.

Alan Greenspan

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms,

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Arthur Holly Compton

For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

Alan Greenspan

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Charlize Theron

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Benjamin Spock

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

Bayard Taylor

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

Brian Tracy

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

Jane Fonda

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

Bill Goldberg

I had never imagined myself doing [wrestling]. Once I came to the realization that it was a possibility, I just tried to concentrate on what I thought people would enjoy.