Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Higgins

My feeling is relief ... I'm glad it's over. The members will be free to vote with the assurance that they have proper information.

Thomas Blomberg

Neither the current quality assurance program nor the research systems have served any type of diagnostic function whatsoever. The accountability system is not holding programs accountable, and it's really more damning than that.

Clint Jones

Mortgage brokers have been burned by lead generation companies that don't live up to their promises regarding the quality of leads delivered. Our goal in creating the Quality Assurance Program is to meet broker demand for valid names and numbers from people who have truly expressed interest in a loan product.

Tony Clark

Simplifying rates, making folks who are in similar circumstances pay similar amounts, and doing it in such a way that it seems to be fair to both business and residential customers ... gives me assurance that it's the right thing to do.

Mark Fox

The only assurance we have is, because we won our league, we would be in the NIT. All respect to the NIT, but that's not where these kids want to go.

Lewis Hallam

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.

Bill Watterson

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

John Abell

Next-generation soft-switch technology is in high demand as communications service providers develop and deploy IP networks. The Technology Assurance Labs Shoot Out on the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor will be a great place for service providers to compare the latest soft-switch products from some of the world's most innovative technology companies.

Alanis Morissette

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

Wang Jianlin

I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.

Doug Harvey

I must admit, I was born to officiate; I was made to officiate. I miss it. I knew why I was doing it. God made me to umpire.

O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

Ice Cube's the coolest dad. A lot of parents - a lot of kids do not think their parents are cool. Oh, no. My dad's cool... You know, I was born in 1991. That's when 'Boyz n the Hood' came out. So I've always see him on TV. I don't see everybody else's dad, you know. So I've always had a sense of, you know, he's cool. He's in the light.

Tyra Banks

I don't have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them.

Marc Faber

The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.

Danny Peitz

We're not born to be wild, but we want him to take us on a magic carpet ride.

Bubba Sparxxx

Man, I'll tell you as far as creatively speaking man, there is stuff that is unique and different about every person that is born into this world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension.

Mark Walters

When he is relaxed, it keeps everybody else relaxed. He was kind of cool and calm in the huddles. He wasn't slamming anything down or getting on guys.

Sara Teasdale

When I can look at Life with eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise; Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange - my youth

Sylvester Croom

Let me tell you something. That first game, they're going to be like a deer (in headlights), no matter what you do or how you calm them down. I remember the same way myself when I played. You can talk about it all you want to, but when you run out of that gate and that crowd starts yelling, it ain't high school any more, It's a whole different deal.

Rudi Giuliani

Make yourself calmer than you feel, force yourself to pretend you're calm and you'll be able to figure out how to get out of there if you remain calm. So I kept reminding myself of that. I was in charge, I was the person they were looking to and if I lost it they all would. I would have to say to myself, 'You've got to remain calm, you've got to stay focused.'

Tracy Sutton

Magazine did a great job. For a number four seed, that was a pretty good team. I think truthfully our kids come out a little tight and trying a little too hard instead of playing and letting it happen. Once we calmed down and relaxed we started playing a little bit.

Peter Moores

Loudon looked a really good player today, very simple, calm at the crease. It was a very, very good hundred.

Danny Sullivan

This will probably calm some of this thing down.

Channing Pollock

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed

Javad Vaidi

We are here to find a compromise, which means we have to calm things down.

Blaise Pascal

Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

John Owen

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

Curt Young

Mainly, he puts every pitcher in a comfort zone.

Jacqui Rivait

Let's put our feet in their shoes and think about how embarrassed they must feel going to school without all of the comforts we are so lucky to have.

Doug Higgins

Last year we had a lot of kids on the varsity field for the first time. It can be intimidating. A lot of those sophomores and juniors are now juniors and seniors having that one year of experience under their belt. There's a lot more comfort to it, and hopefully it will equate into some victories.

Kate Reardon

It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.

Georges Bernanos

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

Giselle Davies

We did not have in the past few days any meetings of the coordinating committee as there were no issues on the table and this is a comfort factor for IOC.

Jenna Morasca

There are plenty of easy things that you can do from the comfort of your own home to get you started on the path of giving back.

Jonathan LaPaglia

When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

Rick Astley

When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.

Tamar Braxton

I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.

LeAnn Rimes

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

Rob Manuel

Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.'

Rodel Natividad

Life. You either live with or live without.

George Lucas

Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do.

Linda Todd

Many of them left in a hurry and either forgot their prescriptions or their prescriptions have run out. No one anticipated they were going to be stranded here this long or that they would be unable to get their medications (through prescription transfers).

Tori Kelly

I really like to rock it natural and let my hair go wild, but when I do style it, I slick all the hair over to one side with pins. It's either that or a messy bun.

David Hockney

When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Arnold J. Toynbee

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Dennis Kucinich

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

Dennis Kucinich

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Blaise Pascal

Faith is a gift of God.

Robert Downey

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Erik Zanen

Life is one big gift you keep on recieving.

Seneca

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy

Jennifer Love Hewitt

When I meet young girls, I'm always like, 'Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because it's the greatest gift I can give.'

Caroline Rhea

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

Caitlyn Jenner

My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

James Bundy

She contributed to the American theater in a lot of other ways than being a gifted playwright.

Anthony Trollope

She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

David Hume

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

David Hume

When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither increases nordiminishes. But as it is certain there is a great difference betwixt the simple conception of the existence of an object, and the belief of it, and as this difference lies not in the parts or composition of the idea which we conceive; it follows, that it must lie in the manner in which we conceive it.

David Hume

There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto just order and proportion. Let speculative reasoners dispute, how far this beneficent being extends his care, and whether he prolongs our existence beyond the grave, in order to bestow on virtue its just reward, and render it fully triumphant.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastlingly.

Dennis Kucinich

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Dennis Miller

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

Dennis Miller

How do we know for sure that no two snowflakes are the same - we haven't got anybody watching.

Dennis Miller

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

Alain de Botton

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

Aimee Mullins

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

Rusty Schweickart

We're sitting in a shooting gallery, with hundreds of thousands of these things whizzing around in the inner solar system. So it's just a matter of time.

Tift Merritt

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Delphine de Girardin

Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

Ellsworth Kelly

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Bud Selig

We deeded something away. I'm very concerned, but I think we're making progress. We are really going to get into the inner cities.

Bud Selig

We deeded something away, ... I'm very concerned, but I think we're making progress. We are really going to get into the inner cities.

Eckhart Tolle

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

Kevin Love

To me, throwback means I'm a smart player. I know how to play the game. I'm very skilled. I do a lot of things that other people don't do.

Taron Egerton

Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

Timothy Noah

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Antonio de Mendoza

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Tim Finchem

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Daniel Barber

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

Maria Sharapova

When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.

Tracey Emin

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

David Hopkins

More people means there is more of an opportunity for crime,

Alain Badiou

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,

Jane Addams

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

Brigham Young

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)

Brendon Burchard

Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power

Dusty Springfield

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

Dirk Benedict

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

Rajneesh

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

John Armstrong

Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

Eva Burrows

Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.

David Hume

Berkeley , Hume, Kant , Fichte , Hegel , James , Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to reinstate man with his high spiritual claims in a place of importance in the cosmic scheme.

David Douglas

Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.

David Duchovny

As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.

David Brainerd

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

David Brainerd

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

Audre Lorde

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .

Arnold J. Toynbee

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

Antonin Artaud

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

David Walker

My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the Iraq war. The difference between BBC, ITV and CNN on the one hand and the channels from Belgium, Germany and France on the other was stark and disturbing. The 'coalition' output, which strongly influences public opinion in Britain, comprises reports from 'embedded' reporters telling us about the mud and dust, press conferences by generals describing the tip of the iceberg they wanted us to see and studio debates among armchair pundits.

David Roberts

It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

David Roberts

When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards-some sort of climate Nuremberg.

David Hoffman

In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.

David Horowitz

My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it to be perfect, which it will be when it becomes a Soviet Communist state'. When the left called for 'liberation' what it really wanted was to erase the human slate and begin again. Like everybody else, I see things that need to be improved. I just am mindful of the fact that they can be made a lot worse.

David Icke

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

David Icke

I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Second World War. This Jewish/non-Jewish Elite used the First World War to secure the Balfour Declaration and the principle of the Jewish State of Israel.

David Icke

We fear the past, present and future. We fear the unknown, we fear not having enough, losing what we have, not having what we want. We fear what will become of us and those that we care for. We fear what others think of us and what they don't think of us. We fear, fear, fear and therefore we are controllable through the manipulation of all that we fear. The present War on Terror is the War of Fear. No Fear, no control.

David Hockney

How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.