Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Wendy Kopp

Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

Vivek Wadhwa

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

Viswanathan Anand

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Ben Carson

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

Brent Scowcroft

The policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which was begun by President Nixon in 1972, was broadly seen by 1975 in bad shape, if not in tatters. In other words, were able to take advantage of the relaxed atmosphere to pursue the same goals they had.

Tom Lynch

The overall mission of Fuel Advantage is to bring technology innovators and government incentive programs together in one place, so fleet operators will finally know where to go and who to talk to about saving money on their fuel costs.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Big Sean

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

Sathya Baba

The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.

Judith Butler

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.

Kelly McKeon

We played with heart tonight. We won't take losing. We left it all on the floor. We were playing for our lives out there.

Earl Boykins

We played with a lot of heart for seven periods.

Gavin Miller

We played with a different level of desire, a different level of passion that I've been trying to preach all year long ... I don't mind turnovers, I don't mind mistakes, as long as we're doing it with as much heart as you can and as intense as you can. That was a big key for us (Saturday).

Le Corbusier

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

Le Corbusier

The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.

Shan Foster

We are not going to quit. We don't worry about the other things. We're going to go out there and lay our hearts on the line.

Armand Salmon

Tolerance for pain and suffering is no measure of strength.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Dick Costolo

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Jo Bonner

In the time since passage of the act, there have been many successes as a result of the measures put into place by the PATRIOT Act.

James Harrington

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

Cary Fukunaga

Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

Solange Knowles

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Luka Sulic

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

Nandan Nilekani

We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.

Dhani Jones

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Larry Coker

We had a little edge, ... We took it a little personal.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.