Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Doug Painter

The overwhelming bi-partisan support of this bill in both the Senate and House demonstrates Congress's ability to work together when it comes to protecting America's law-abiding businesses, in turn protecting thousands of jobs nationwide. Our industry sincerely thanks Sen. Larry Craig and Rep. Cliff Sterns for introducing this much-needed legislation and President Bush, who has continuously promoted legal reform in order to protect our nation's businesses and economy.

David Stern

I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'

Francois Arnaud

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Tom Shaheen

We're not going to induce people to play. We're not going to promise financial gain by playing the lottery.

Pico Iyer

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Ted Waitt

We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability,

Jim Adams

We have the financial resources to move quickly.

Jim Hill

We need help from this body. We need someone to relieve the huge financial burden.

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the PBGC is not improving,

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the P.B.G.C. is not improving.

Ian Reid

We are saying to the financial institution: we will give you about $25 million every year for the period of the loan and that's really how we plan to repay it.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Clea Duvall

I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.

Connie Mack

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

Amisha Patel

Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.

David Pratt

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

David Eagleman

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

Neil Strauss

There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there's a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It's a shame.

Jo Maso

We prefer to keep managing it (the strain). Frederic wanted to train from Wednesday morning but we prefer to hold him back.

Anthony D'Angelo

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

William Kingdon Clifford

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

Victor Valdes

We are not going to hold back, we want to win the title as quickly as possible.

Jack Straw

The overall result is less than we hoped but more than we expected.

Loretta Lynch

Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11.

Hjalmar Branting

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

Jim Saxton

Today we got everything we could have hoped for.

Phil Brady

We're not seeing the returns that we had hoped to.

Bill Royer

We had hoped to win it, but we rebounded from some tough matches and had three kids on the podium.

Brad Faxon

We had hoped to get one or two of them. They all turned us down.

Pat Smith

We had hoped to get more done, but there were so many obstacles.

Tom Brokaw

We had hoped that he would be here so that we could have a reunion tonight ? a celebration.

Ian Brown

The patients are very disappointed with the outcome this morning.

Ludwig von Mises

The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

Lara Ramsburg

We'll do whatever we can to see they have a positive outcome for the workers involved.

John Wooden

Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.

Catherine Crier

The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

Earl Browder

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

David Mitchell

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

John Rawls

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

Mahatma Gandhi

You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

Ernie Els

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Vanessa Ferlito

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

Creighton Abrams

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

Oliver Goldsmith

Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, / That foundst me poor at first, and keepst me so.

Ron Wilson

We made a poor play on the power play and they took advantage. We could have quit, but we didn't.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Barry Schwartz

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Paul Hubbert

Theoretically, they still have time to do it, but from a practical standpoint, I don't think they are going to let it happen.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Dale Jr

We are going to win six or seven races and be in the top three in the Chase. If we don't win the championship, it won't be by much.

Jimmy Austin

We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.

Richard Childress

We were going to keep the 3, he just wanted to see it winning races and winning championships.

Dan Wheldon

To win six races is something I'll look back on and think that was a strong season.

Ludwig von Mises

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

Baz Luhrmann

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF...

Charles W. Chesnutt

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Charles Edward Merriam

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

Alan Watts

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Pat Roberts

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Thomas Perls

These findings should be regarded as a warning: If you have Alzheimer's in the family, you have to take precautions.

Thomas Nelson Page

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Matthew Devost

Most sites that are doing e-commerce should have some kind of security statement with regard to how your transactions are secured.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Rajneesh

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

E. Hicks

While we would like to have had some resolution today, we are willing to wait,

Hillary Clinton

We need some leverage with the Russians, because they are not going to come to the negotiating table for a diplomatic resolution, unless there is some leverage over them.

Mark Gurwell

We're the first to have the combination of resolution and sensitivity to be able to do this experiment.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...

Rafael Nadal

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

Vincent Schiavelli

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

Santiago Creel

Vote by vote, we are going to win the second and third rounds,

Stephen Jones

We have visited with Mr. McVeigh. We are going to work with him today, tonight and tomorrow for the second stage on Wednesday. I can't say anything more at this time.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Manish Jha

We need to tell a story in 30 seconds or in one minute.

Dave Roy

We were in the second game. We were right there.

J. C. Chandor

To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.