Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

Audre Lorde

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

Astro Teller

Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World

Casey Todd

We always focus one game at a time.

Steve Makein

We always feel good going into any match. We're focusing on individual match-ups and scoring as many points as we can.

Condoleezza Rice

We are very focused on hoping that these negotiations do succeed,

Denis Waitley

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.

Deborah Harkness

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bertrand Delanoe

More than ever, housing must be a national priority,

Teresa Caffese

She lost her housing because of him. That only deepened the illness in a way that is very sad.

Susan Wachter

Most people were projecting that interest rates would go up and the housing market would be hit,

Bonnie Adams

We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs.

Jeff Jones

Basically, what it means is we have a jobs to housing imbalance in the area,

James Sullivan

I don't think housing is shooting up anymore, but nor is it plunging,

Dean Baker

I wouldn't necessarily predict this would be a trigger, but I wouldn't rule it out either. It wouldn't surprise me if you see money leaving the secondary mortgage market, leading housing prices to fall.

Christopher Thornberg

There are some signs that the housing party is ending.

David Vitter

D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.

David Rockwell

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

David Remnick

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

David Horowitz

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.

David Dinkins

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

David Dinkins

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

David Duke

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

David Duke

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

David Duchovny

My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

Dick Vermeil

Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker.

Kris Carr

When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.

Erin Morgenstern

I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series.

John Hurt

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Henry Blodget

Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved.

Courtney Campbell

With this type of leukemia, he most likely will need a bone-marrow transplant.

William Gerstenmaier

We're going to have to make some modifications to the tank, so that probably puts the September (launch) window into a not very likely possibility.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Cody Acree

Revenues are likely to be down but that's just normal seasonality,

David Ricardo

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

David Hockney

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle. They are eager to roll up their sleeves and go to work, whatever that work might be.

Diana Gabaldon

While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.

Charles Darwin

It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it

Bill Hicks

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Arlen Specter

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

David Brooks

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.

Arthur Ransome

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

Denis Leary

I actually like talking.

Deb Caletti

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.