Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hoffman

Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it.

David Hume

No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.

Neil Watkins

We also serve clear notice that this agreement is only a first step on a long journey. We will continue to pressure world leaders to cancel the debts of all impoverished countries in the months and years ahead.

Al Gore

Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.

William Mahoney

We had a very long and protracted negotiation the last time. The parties just want to give it a different approach to see if we can reach an agreement in a quicker fashion.

Lindsey Williams

We're continuing to work towards getting an agreement prior to Friday's deadline.

Dan Christman

We're confident that once Congress has all the facts, they will strongly endorse an agreement that will help cement a new and important strategic partnership between the United States and India.

Salva Kiir Mayardit

It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the States chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so ...

Amanda Miller

We always have a great response from vendors wanting to attend Spring Fling. We hope this year will be bigger and better than ever.

John Krasinski

I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional... waiter, for 3 years.

Julie Mitchell

We had Cathy over from Oahu to read in 2004, and not only was the event well attended but her reading was riveting. After sharing her excellent poetry, she engaged in a very interesting talk-story session with the audience, and then signed books and met audience members one-on-one. It was such a successful event that we knew we wanted to have her back again.

Dustin Moskovitz

When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year.

Douglas Sirk

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

O. R. Melling

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

Twyla Tharp

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.

Tina Brown

Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ.

Ric Keller

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

David Walliams

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

David Walliams

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

David Walliams

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

David Walliams

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

David Walliams

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

David Rockefeller

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

David Riesman

One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

David Riesman

The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

David Henry Hwang

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

David Hume

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

David Burnett

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

David Brooks

When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

Benicio Del Toro

It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.

Bear Grylls

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

Barry Diller

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Barry Bonds

I know when I'm off alignment. I know when my body is out of adjustment. If your body is there, then mentally, you'll be there. If your body feels good, then your mind feels good and your are going to feel better about your game.

Audrey Hepburn

You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive.

Audre Lorde

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

Steven Martin

We presented it to the students and let them know they didn't have to feel obligated to participate.

Chris Evert

I think they will feel obligated to give back,

Joy Pratte

We're not obligated to stay on a person.

Ryan Moats

I'm going to try to find that young guy. That just touched my heart, so I feel obligated to help.

Nick Lampson

That is the right thing to do, whether he is obligated to do so or not.

Lori Reynerson

Students can always come in and talk to us. They're not obligated to take any tests.

Antony Sher

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Tom Waits

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

Karen Traviss

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

Carroll Quigley

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Tim Shea

One of the things I'm trying to do, and we all need to do, is look outside our public schools.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

Vince McMahon

Obviously, we've got some time problems with doing a Pay-Per-View outside the country.

Sergei Bubka

She's a personality, not only for sports. She is very intelligent, and she's a star outside of sports.

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 Vitter

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.

David Walliams

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

David Henry Hwang

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

David Hyde Pierce

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

David Horowitz

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

David Hilbert

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

David Icke

And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in this society, you have to be good at passing exams in school, which are taking in left-brain information overwhelmingly. Then you go to the next level, and so on so that by the time you reach any level of significant influence in society or the institutions of society, you are fundamentally locked into your left brain. Or at least the majority of people are.

David Hume

It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

David Hume

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

Andrea Ruedi

We'd especially like to see students from the hospitality program.

Robert Mason

We have a school, ... The students know they have a school.

Carmen Davis

There are unhappy parents, students and staff. The only ones who are happy are the administration.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Jane Jacobs

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Jan Morris

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Arthur Keith

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Edward Gibbon

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Charles Simic

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Tigua Senclair

I don't think you can undo or get restitution to what he's done to the tribe. Financially, the tribe is surviving, but it's been hard.

John Rader

We see this as a win-win-win for the state, for the tribe and for the city.

Sean Connery

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

Martin Van Buren

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

Ian McDonald

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.