Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Farrell

I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.

Wesley Clark

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

Elizabeth Warren

There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces.

Elizabeth Warren

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

David A. Bednar

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

David Byrne

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

Philip Baggaley

The pilots are the last major labor group to reach a preliminary agreement (except for striking mechanics who have been replaced) and the largest source of labor savings being sought by the airline.

Alfred Marcus

The pilots are key. This is critical. If they don't reach an agreement, it could be the end.

William Reynolds

The Pentagon has agreed to make five witnesses available. Although there was no talk at the time when they made that offer, the assumption was that it would be in an open committee hearing.

Elizabeth Warren

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

Craig Dawson

We played a hard match tonight, but things just did not go our way. Tonight's match was a good tune-up for us in our preparation for the College Squash Association Team Championship.

Michael Johnson

We play a schedule of 30 to 35 games, and we've been told we're comparable to some small colleges and community colleges. We have to make cuts because so many players turn out. All of our guys have solid backgrounds in high school or community college ball.

Ban Ki-moon

Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

Derek Bok

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

Leslie Huntington

When a player makes that transition from high school to college, you never know what to expect from them.

Roger Morris

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

Jane McGonigal

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

Claire Danes

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

Will Yun Lee

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

Colm Meaney

Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it's fun. When the show was on, I couldn't have handled it. I didn't want that direct connection.

Colm Meaney

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

Gabriela Mistral

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

Ellen Key

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

Eva Marie Saint

It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

Eric Ueland

The political will is there. The need is very real. And the urge to help constituents directly and quickly is omnipresent.

Elizabeth Hill

The overall plan moves the state in the wrong direction in terms of reaching its longer-term goal of getting its fiscal house in order.

Brooke Adams

As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role.

Tom Golisano

Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.

Marianne Williamson

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

Blanche Lincoln

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Martin O'Malley

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

Osama Attawiya

The electoral process... was as good as could have been envisioned.

Osama Attawiya

The electoral process until 22:00 was as good as could have been envisioned.

Osama Attawiya

The electoral process until 10:00 pm (1900 GMT) was as good as could have been envisioned.

Octavio Paz

The electoral process of July 6 perhaps represents a new era in the history of Mexico.

Ashraf Qazi

The electoral process is a work in progress.

Carly Fiorina

Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

Damien Chazelle

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

Pierce Brosnan

When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.

Teruhisa Ishikawa

The reaction was somewhat muted here. But sentiment looks weak since the market has failed to return to the level where it was before the news.

Mark Kotsay

We had opportunities to score more than two runs, ... and we failed to get it done.

Ozzie Guillen

We have the type of team that executes all the time and that's our game. We failed today at moving the guys over.

Henry Cisneros

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city,

Hugh Miller

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

Rob Mackowiak

We've all failed in different ways and, now, it's up to us. Obviously, the organization is looking to move into a better direction, so this should be a sign. We need to improve. All Mac could do was prepare us. He couldn't play for us. I wouldn't wish what happened to him on anybody, but you can't fire all of us.

Wayne McCants

We have membership in all of the surrounding counties. Our participation is growing.

Buzz Hargrove

It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just exhilarating.

Pranab Mukherjee

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

Joe Mullins

This allows us to customize our services to the membership base.

Jim Repace

The membership has had a lot of questions on how this buyout may work.

Mike Skarr

Quantity in membership is important, but it's more important to have quality members.

Michelle Sommers

The split in the membership coincided with the split in the board.

Chris Patten

I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States

Mark Blondin

I'm so proud of our members. The overwhelming unity and solidarity of the machinist union membership won this strike.

Frank Gillett

The pay-for-use model is an innovation, but there is a very unflinching standardization.

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

Alan Alda

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Nils-Axel Morner

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Andie MacDowell

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

Corin Nemec

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

Steve Young

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

Laura Bush

Roberts' nomination was the result of surprise, not consultation,

Jerry Seinfeld

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

Charles Krauthammer

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

Michael Caine

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

Jim Bunning

I will not be able to support his nomination on the Senate floor.

Frankie Muniz

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

Howard Dean

probably the most mismanaged nomination I've ever seen by the White House.

Roger Ebert

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

Gore Vidal

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

Paula McCartney

We are not in party politics anyway, because if we do stand we will be standing as independents.

Dennis Prager

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party

Walter Benjamin

As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

Daniel Hannan

When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.

Ludwig von Mises

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

Ludwig von Mises

The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

Ludwig von Mises

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

Ludwig von Mises

The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.