Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Weaver

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Jeff Olson

We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

Noam Chomsky

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

Tony Robbins

Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.

Vince Cable

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

Annie Lennox

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

Charles Krauthammer

The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause a complete fracture of the Republican majority in the house, it will hand him a Congress that he can then manipulate for the next two years at least because the Republicans will be neutered. ... This is entirely a political action, a way to get a surrender from the Republicans.

Dick Cheney

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

Walter Benjamin

Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.

Banksy

It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.

Banksy

Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots

Ludwig von Mises

Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

Dogen

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.

Jimmy Carter

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

William Shakespeare

And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

Luis von Ahn

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Ben Bernanke

If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It was a typical day of suckage and blowage.’ (Chris)

Barbara Mertz

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Bobby Robson

Don't ask me what a typical Brazilian is because I don't know what a typical Brazilian is. But Romario was a typical Brazilian.

Dick Van Patten

My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother.

Beck

I didn't want to do something typical.

Gareth Barry

John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish

Action Bronson

You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.