Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Maduro

I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.

Carl Jung

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Larry Fitzgerald

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

Leymah Gbowee

I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

Denzel Washington

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

Asif Ali Zardari

On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.

Tony Hawk

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

Marilyn Bouldin

There are people out there that started out with a disadvantage in life. They work hard and aspire to own a home. We want to help them with that dream. They need a hand. It's not a handout.

Samantha Shannon

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

Richard Orr

We've always said we had the most compelling numbers.

Henry Hyde

We respect and appreciate the bipartisan agreement established by this Senate, ... We intend to use the time we have been provided to present a compelling case on the serious charges pending against the President.

Peter Adderton

When we began this company, partnering with MTV Networks was our No. 1 goal, not only because of their unrivaled understanding of today's young adults, but also because we share the same goal of delivering the most original and compelling content across the rapidly evolving wireless space.

Michael Dell

We believe we're doing so to a much greater degree than anyone else in our industry, and it is already a compelling difference in winning and retaining customers of all types.

Jon Miller

We're honored to provide exclusive network television coverage again this year for the most unique and compelling big-wave surfing contest in the world.

Jason Hall

The powerful Superman Returns property will be rightfully brought to gamers with a strong creative vision supported by compelling new technology so they can experience The Man of Steel(TM)'s superpowers firsthand,

Wade Henderson

We applaud the five judiciary members who voted their conscience and took a principled position in opposition to the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States. However, we are profoundly disappointed that the committee, as a whole, ignored compelling evidence against his nomination.

Sean Brady

We believe that the poorest nations of the world continue to look to Ireland to set the global standard for commitment to development aid, ... We also believe that there is a substantial support among the Irish people for a compelling and world-leading target, which will express their commitment to a more just and compassionate world.

Juergen Hambrecht

We believe that our all-cash proposal provides a compelling opportunity to achieve significant value for Engelhard's stockholders.

Christian Toksvig

We write with the cooperation of celebrities. We don't just write about them, we talk to them.

Britton Banowsky

We are getting a lot of practice addressing hurricane-related contingencies. Fortunately, we have had excellent communication and we are getting great cooperation from our members.

Lionel Jospin

We expressed the wish that they (the United States) be with us, that we cooperate with them. It is vital that we have international cooperation with them,

Don Harper

Were getting a lot more cooperation with people who initially were afraid to say some things,

Mitch D'Olier

We're hoping and believing that when the right thing is done, the city will work in cooperation (with Schuler) in terms of getting sewer service, which absolutely needs to happen.

Alan Autry

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

Valery Tokarev

We are proud to celebrate an important accomplishment in space. This would not have been possible without the cooperation of the 16 partner nations.

Donald Smithburg

We've almost exhausted local resources, ... We are looking to interstate cooperation on into the next few days to handle this tremendous surge that is exhausting the health care resources and ultimately compromising many hundreds of sick people who are in our hospitals.

Wu Bangguo

There are both solid basis and immense potentials for cooperation between China and Morocco. Enhancing cooperation in various fields will definitely bring tangible benefits to the people of the two countries and play an important role in facilitating world peace, stability and development.

Nicholas Burns

We remind the Burundi government and security forces that respect for human rights and peaceful dialogue should be key elements in their efforts to re-establish security in the country.

Scott Wilson

We're going to take as long as it takes. Our people are very good at human remains recovery and we're having some inclement weather now that we're taking precautions against.

Katie Lowes

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

Katie Lowes

To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.

Eugene Debs

When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. we will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.

Dr. Rodier

When we have a child infected we are giving the virus more chance to adapt to human beings, and giving it this chance could help create conditions for the emergence of a new virus.

Peter Mayhew

When we first put the costume on, you could see the human shape underneath, so the padding gave Chewie his rounded shape, really.

Michael Leunig

What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.

Antonio Villaraigosa

What a great actor and what a committed human being, ... For years, he's used his fame for the purpose of developing new talent and providing positive role models for Latinos.

Martin Seligman

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

Chogyam Trungpa

Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

China Mieville

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

Chetan Bhagat

I m human, I m not perfect. Although, I make mistakes all the time.

Cheryl Strayed

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

Cheryl Strayed

I remember being absolutely rocked to my core by how profoundly I could love another human being.

Chely Wright

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

James Cameron

We're so scared of piracy right now that we're ready to pimp out our mothers. This whole day-and-date DVD release nonsense? Here's an answer: (Digital cinema is) one of the strongest reasons I've been pushing 3-D for the past few years because it offers a powerful experience which you can only have in the movie theater.

Dick Hoyt

When we got home from that race that night, Rick wrote on the computer, 'Dad, when I run it feels like my disability disappears.' So, that was a very powerful message to me.

Betha Aris

UNIX is basically simple and powerful Operating System, but you have to be a different human to understand the simplicity

Chris Blackwell

Universal is the biggest, most powerful record company by far and a very good company, but they don't sell outside the record stores.

Tom Izzo

Usually, if the head isn't working, the body dies. It doesn't matter how powerful the body is. And a point guard in our system is the head.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

John Patrick

Working with the Internet2 community, we will be building more powerful applications that will be feasible only on a backbone like Abilene. We hope this will lead customers into the next era of e-business as these applications migrate over to the commercial Internet.

Dennis Perry

We're feeling shock and dismay. For her to capitulate like this -- that's not the Pam Goldsmith-Jones that I knew. I can only assume that she's under unbelievable pressure from a far too powerful provincial government.

Rod Blagojevich

We're just not going to sit back and continue to allow the big, powerful pharmaceutical industry to price gouge the senior citizens and working people of our state. People should be able to afford the medicine they need and they should be able to get the best price they can for it.

Rick Souza

We're social animals, we're spiritual and we like to have fun. With my (construction) teams, when we go we do all three.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Kent Beck

We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.

Katie Featherston

I have a lot of good people in my actual life, but I will say that it's a strange time that we live in - it's easy to make friends and to make connections through social media, and if you're a good-hearted person, sometimes you can just assume people are who they say they are, and that isn't always the case, which is why 'Catfish' is successful.

Kathy Bates

Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines.

Lou Dobbs

We would want to allow imports of food at chap prices and other things that would take care of social problems, Fischer said in an appearance on CNN's

Peter Hall

We find in most of Western countries slow economic growth, which means that jobs are being created slowly and that generous social benefits systems developed in the 1960s and 1970s are often unaffordable. So in one way or another, all of these countries face this problem.

Erik Larsen

We brought the girl to social workers, ... I don't know what happened after that.

Cecil Roberts

What's Jerry Kilgore doing? Standing on the stage with somebody who wants to take your Social Security,

Mark Foley

We've avoided any new attack to this date, so obviously the system is working,

Mark Schonfeld

When it came to entering mutual-fund orders, Bear Stearns essentially handed the keys to the system over to the hedge funds.

Hideo Kojima

When I was a child, there really weren't very many video games, but I do have memories of 'Pong.' Maybe it was 'Pong.' It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn't the real 'Pong.' It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to 'Pong.'

John Clippinger

To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.

Chuck Mulloy

We're making changes to our roadmap for processors in 2001 in order to provide some additional memory options for the low-cost platform for Pentium 4-based systems for the mainstream market.

Nikolay Sevastiyanov

We're starting to design this new transportation system to support the International Space Station (ISS) once it's complete.

Sean Hill

We're starting to be within striking distance, we're starting to knock on the door. Guys are learning the way we have to play. They're learning it's not anything special. It's just hard work and playing our system well.

Kelly Green

We're sore, rusty, out of shape and out of sync. We're hoping they'll get that out of their system (today).

David Paulson

We're so impressed with the state we're using it as a model (for future disasters), ... It was something we've not seen in a long time. There was a unified system and the sharing of information.