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.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

Chris Janowski

The picture that is emerging is very grim. There appears to be a policy of expulsions of ethnic Albanians.

Christo

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

Richard Rohr

I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.

Sanjay Kumar

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

Connor Franta

When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

Vance Packard

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Terry Madden

What we have uncovered appears to be intentional doping of the worst sort,

Yotam Ottolenghi

The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

Warren Bennis

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

William Cavendish

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

Vivienne Westwood

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

Vincent Cassel

I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

Abraham Lincoln

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Abraham Lincoln

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Virginia Postrel

When credit is cheaper to use and easier to arrange, people do use more of it.

Alice Walker

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.

Anne Campbell

The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.

Craig Mathias

There are three reasons to deploy wireless. You can't install wire, for whatever reason. Wireless is cheaper over a given time. Or you need mobility.

Paul Hawken

We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.

Bill Thompson

We'll probably just see a handful of westerners. It's much easier and cheaper to get to Nepal than Tibet.

Bill Thompson

We'll probably just see a handful of westerners, ... It's much easier and cheaper to get to Nepal than Tibet.

Sir King

Transport has never been cheaper and we all want to travel more.

Yuri Milner

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

Nelson Mandela

The policy of the People's Republic of China is that there is only one China, which we accept,

Choi Hoon

The outlook on the steel industry is not that positive with increased production from China and price declines.

Elan Lee

We plan to double our sales in China every three years.

Anthony Bourdain

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Virat Kohli

I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK's at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha's rolls. In Mumbai, it's Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

Shashi Tharoor

Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

S. J. Rozan

Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

Donald Trump

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

John Boyne

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

Sophia Amoruso

A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.

Derek Bok

In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.

Christopher Thornberg

We have lots of new employees. It's just not showing up in the employment statistics.

Larry Craig

I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.

Leila Janah

Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.

Akira Suzuki

Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions employing organoboron compounds and organic electrophiles have recently been recognized as powerful tools for the construction of new organic compounds.

Jill Mackie

We recognize that the arbitration is going to be contentious. If we were negotiating with employees side by side with the P-I, it could make the environment there less positive.

Zubin Mehta

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

Daddy Yankee

'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.

Tamara Tunie

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

Fernando Torres

After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

Valentina Matviyenko

St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

Vaclav Klaus

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Lord Robertson

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

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.

Wesley Clark

China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.

Bodhidharma

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

Narendra Modi

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.

Lindsey McKeon

I was the last person to get high-speed Internet, I was the last person to get an iPod, the last person to get an iPhone... I travel to India for one month out of the year and I don't have a phone there, so I can go without, which is beautiful, too.

Sundar Pichai

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

Dayananda Saraswati

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

Paul Horn

It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound.

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.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Ciaran Hinds

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Anna Kendrick

I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.

Andy Serkis

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

Adam McKay

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

Joe Nathan

We've got our staff back. We've got a better lineup. We're going to be a lot better.

Dusty Baker

We have a support staff here I think that can make a difference.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

Andy Miller

Right now our support staff is really under the gun,

Samuel Dalembert

That would have been a tough decision. If the staff didn't change, it would have been something to think about.

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

Esther Hicks

There isn't anything that I cannot be or do or have, and I have a huge Nonphysical staff that's ready to assist me, and I'm ready.

Alain Rene Le Sage

Plain as a pike-staff.

Ed Fulton

We've got a better infield that we had a year ago. With the staff that we have that should work pretty good.

Nancy Pelosi

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

Mike Rowe

We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.