Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brin

The village is coming back, like it or not.

Barney Frank

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Audre Lorde

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

Armstrong Williams

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

Arnold J. Toynbee

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

Jim Jarmusch

Wayne, New Jersey, ... And shooting in it was very depressing. Because everyone has the same stuff, you know? The same TV, the same cars, their kids dress the same. But then the people in the community were really, really nice to us. Very enthusiastic and kinda lovely. But before that human connection, it was just depressing to me, to be in that kind of hermetically sealed community. I think a lot of people actually live in places like that, more and more.

Linda Lewis

We also want to find out what the community wants here.

Karen Burk

We also understand that it's a competitive marketplace and our customers count on us to have the 'hot' toys at the top of their holiday lists and to be the low-price leader in their community for those toys.

MoliFre

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Moliere

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others

Peter Hain

I take heart in the statements made not just by the IRA leadership but by the president of Sinn Fein in repeatedly condemning criminality and saying it has no part for the future Republicans.

Greg Smith

This is a valid public purpose. We're condemning this so residents have a grocery store within a reasonable distance of their homes.

Franklin Graham

I'm not condemning people. God's going to do that. I just want to be honest with people. I just want to tell them the truth. ... People don't want to know what I have to say. They want to know what God has to say.

Todd Campbell

Nanotech is a burgeoning field, but I want to see a leader come out and exert itself, and we don't have one yet,

Ernie Paragallo

That was nothing more than an open gallop. He didn't really exert himself.

Howard Florey

I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.

Carl Gustav Jung

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible toinfluence.

Kristanna Loken

There's a lot of muscles in your eyes even that you don't ever work, but little human traits like showing signs of exertion while running, you couldn't do that. Blinking when you're shooting a gun, you know. Things that you take for granted every day that had to be eliminated, so it was always interesting.

Travis Bradberry

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

Ken Tower

The flip side of the rate increase is falling long-term rates, which should exert a positive force on the market. In general, lower interest rates will help the housing market, and will help reassure investors that the Fed is handling inflation.

Haruki Murakami

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

David Walker

In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda.

David Ricardo

A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.

David Hewson

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

David Hockney

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

David Hockney

I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.

David Bromstad

I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are

David Burnett

The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.

David Brainerd

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My wife (Maria) is the best reason to come home.

Andrew Forrest

Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.

David Christian

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

Michelle Paver

Indigenous people all over the world take quite a lot of trouble with their hair and their clothes.

Peter Hakim

It will have a tremendous symbolic value that the United States is interested in having relations with the first indigenous president of a very poor country.

Subcomandante Marcos

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.

Mark Lattimer

In every world region, minorities and indigenous peoples have been excluded, repressed and, in many cases, killed by their governments. In war today, the targeting of minorities is no longer the exception, but has become the norm.

Jim Holperin

There also is a lot of interest in indigenous dishes, and seasonal cooking. It's a national interest in, and fascination with, Wisconsin foods.

Barry Commoner

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

Audre Lorde

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

Arne Duncan

No one is mandating merit pay.

Bill Hybels

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Chris Evert

You pay a price for everything in life.

Robert Casey

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Kacy Gott

Making that transition from paycheck to no paycheck scares a lot of people.

Ellen Chenoweth

I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Daniel Inouye

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Mike Leavitt

No one in the world is ready for it, ... But we're more ready today than we were yesterday. And we'll be more prepared tomorrow than we are today.

George Reres

She was prepared to go to prison (Thursday).

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Oprah Winfrey

Nothing I saw on television prepared me for what I experienced on the ground,

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Seth Greenberg

I don't think anything in my training has prepared me for this season. I'm not sure there's ever been another season like this. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Beau Bridges

Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.

Denis Waitley

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

L'Wren Scott

I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

Ben Fountain

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Bret Harte

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Anthony Chan

More and more firms are sticking their toes in the water. The recovery's begun, but it will be fragile.

Dick Bartholdi

She was outstanding. Even the shaft of her stick was outstanding.

Natalie Gulbis

She grinds. She just sticks to her routine.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Ed Silliere

Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.

David Hilbert

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Antony Beevor

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

Antonin Artaud

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.