Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen G. White

Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.

Veton Surroi

The political negotiations ... should be within a framework in which there is active international facilitation and participation.

John Winters

The overnight rain will be absorbed by the dry ground and lessen the intensity of the active fire, but is not enough to extinguish the fires.

Tim Curley

The Penn State family wants to be actively involved in helping the people of the Gulf Coast. Many people have contacted us and we expect a good response from our loyal fans.

Bob O'Donnell

The outlook in the United States remains fairly strong despite the impact of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma and rising fuel costs on consumer confidence. Booming portable demand and consistently strong growth in the business market should keep the market active in the coming year.

Ben Macintyre

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

David Walton

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

Deborah Eisenberg

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.

Victoria Moran

I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.

Warren Bennis

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

William Billings

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

Vivek Wadhwa

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Virginia Postrel

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.

Venus Williams

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Abraham Lincoln

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Colin Angle

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Connie Mack

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

Clive Thompson

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

Vivek Wadhwa

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

Michael Carty

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

Sherwood Boehlert

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

Don Blatchford

We are going to withhold the portion of the rent increase that we feel is unfair and unreasonable.

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.

Lee Raymond

to minimize the increase in price while at the same time recognizing if we kept the price too low we would quickly run out (of fuel) at the service stations.

Chuck Brown

We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Ron Artest

We play like a team, ... Sometimes I may not score. I was not looking to score. The buckets came.

Ansel Elgort

I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.

Charles Foley

We are not looking for a repeat of anything of the magnitude of this weekend.

David Taylor

we are not in the market to be looking for a manager.

Jeff Ross

If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere.

Ramon Ang

We're looking at $ 300 million. That's our target.

Wayne Carl

We're looking at 10-hour days, every day, from the contractors.

David Axelrod

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

Simon Cowell

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Freddy Rodriguez

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Kathy Nevill

We need to know what we're up against. We're going to probably have to look at something between $3 million and $6 million.

Ernest Hollings

We can't keep spending $100 million on embassies,

Malala Yousafzai

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Colleen Reitan

What is the total percentage of premium we spent in administrative expense? And we are under 10 percent of the premiums we spend on administrative expense.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Jonathan Lethem

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Cate Blanchett

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

Joan Rivers

A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'

Mike Jones

When they are on their best, any running back can go in there and do their thing.

Eric Schmidt

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

Dick Cheney

Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.

Walter Benjamin

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

Walter Benjamin

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

Walter Benjamin

The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Anderson

You've got spending going on. Overcapacity is actually going to be going away.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

John Faso

I would look to put state spending on a diet.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Harry Friedman

We know our visitors like to see us in different cities,

Dennece Knight

Most of our visitors will be here to have fun.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Jeff Kinney

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

Jack Kelly

Visitors may want (the vendors), but it's not all about the visitors.

Jeremy Paxman

Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there?

John Corbett

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

Hattie McDaniel

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

Charles C. Mann

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Craig Venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Nathan Rosane

In U.S. ways so that when we leave, we don't have to come back.

Stacey Koerner

You could say in many ways it is a breakout,

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.