Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

David Feider

The overriding issue remains that our grain export activities are at a standstill.

Tamara Gaffney

The overall growth in cell phone data usage is a boon for carriers. The popularity of mobile activities such as text-messaging is a solid revenue driver, with bundled pricing for data packages averaging $20 a month or 10 cents per message on pay-as-you go plans, in addition to the costs consumers already pay for their voice minutes.

Barack Obama

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Charles Vest

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

Norman Finkelstein

There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as a quite free society. It's also true to say that the powers that be have so much control over how people think that there are fewer and fewer people who make use of the rights and information available to them.

Bruce Rauner

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

Ed Royce

The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

Shinzo Abe

We are not in a situation where we can make a decision in advance on the timing of ending the activities of the Self-Defense Forces.

David A. Bednar

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

Kofi Annan

The people and government of Pakistan are faced with an extraordinary challenge and we need to make an extraordinary effort to support them, ... What is needed is an immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort to support the work of the government of Pakistan.

Amelia Earhart

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Clyde Tombaugh

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Darell Hammond

The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

Richard Rogers

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

Buddy Rich

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

Colin Trevorrow

I love the challenge of having one character who is traveling back in time to find someone. Nowadays, the only way we think to find someone is on Facebook.

Sean Bieterman

We played a real lackluster game. It wasn't very good. (We) challenged the kids at practice yesterday (Monday) because we were rained out.

Graham Colditz

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

David Hewson

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.

H. Hart

When are people going to link up the costs of rebuilding New Orleans with the cost of rebuilding Iraq? It's going to equate to, where are we spending our money and what are we doing?

Anthony Wong

What you wear or who you are with or how much your meal costs have nothing to do with the public interest.

David Houghton

We are not likely to get a sudden drop in production because farmers have fixed costs that must be covered, irrespective of whether they produce.

James Fallows

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

Robert Shaw

We are having a delayed response to an improving market because construction and land costs are creating a situation where the new projects can't be underwritten. The rents aren't moving enough to support a lot of new development.

Rick Jackson

This needs a red light, or let us know what it costs for a light. The damage to one person in a wreck versus the cost of a red light, it don't even compare.

Jack Messman

We are just getting warmed up. With the increased software and hardware costs of Microsoft 's Vista , now is the time to give open source a real look.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Vivek Wadhwa

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Bill Hader

Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.

Dennis Crowley

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Vladimir Potanin

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Brittany Murphy

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

Dallas Roberts

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

Steven Sinofsky

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

V. E. Schwab

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

William John Wills

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

Emma Roberts

I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.

Richard Hamilton

The peak of an NBA player is 29, 30? So we're still young. We can go as far as we want to go.

Anita Leveke

The past two seasons have been great successes as far as overall improvement in times and getting kids qualified for state.

Bruce Braley

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

Benicio Del Toro

As far back as I can remember, these are the first movies, the Universal horror movies where I knew the title of the film and I also knew the names of the actors in those films.

Darell Hammond

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.

Judith Butler

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Donald Trump

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Edwards Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Michael Brown

We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Tetsu Emori

In that case, we'll be in the winter season already. If temperatures in winter time are lower than forecast, then that should be a big problem.

J. Taylor

A lowering of tariffs will help. However, it's not the only issue.

Ricky Boren

We've taken a lot of applications, ... Since then, out of the 80 applications, we've interviewed six of those. We do not plan to lower our standards for being an officer.

Louis Tomlinson

For me, Robbie Williams was a massive influence when I was growing up. But also Cheryl Cole. Being in her presence was intimidating, because she's so hot.

Carl Griffith

We could have a massive inundation of Port Arthur.

Margot Robbie

'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.

Holliday Grainger

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

Gabriel Macht

Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

Zara Phillips

My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.

Ruud Lubbers

We are preparing for a massive relief operation,

Graeme Smith

This is massive for him. Life's all about opportunities and he's had a really tough year being up and down but through performances he's worked his way back into the squad.

Judy White

This has been so very massive and different from any other we've had.

Vanessa Hudgens

That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

Justin Gatlin

The Penn Relays is the only meet in the world where, when I walk into the stadium, I get chills.

Chris Jericho

Most people use Twitter to meet girls, and I use it to meet 'American Idol' contestants!

Bob Gibbs

We plan on having a meeting next week with the appropriate people. The problems with the project should be ended.

Mahmoud Zahar

We are not going to meet them just for meeting.

Mitch McConnell

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

Lele Pons

People tell me all the time when they meet me, in comedy, they say 'You have that type like Sofia Vergara; you can be like her.' She's beautiful, but she can be ugly, too; she can make ugly faces. She doesn't care. She's very outgoing.

Ashley Key

We actually had a team meeting at one point (during that stretch). We talked about what we needed to do as a team to get it together. After that team meeting, we got back on the same page and went from there.

Ken Hitchcock

There are times during the season when you have to review. It was very, very productive. We don't have those type of meetings very often, but when we feel like our team isn't playing well, we do.