Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.

Manny Acta

We had a window up until yesterday and it's just been shut. We support his decision, stand behind him - family comes first. And we're going to have to move on with what we have.

Bob Hill

When the minutes behind him aren't what they need to be, I don't have much choice.

Kylie Minogue

The point of my job is to entertain and make it look easy, so I guess it's the parts you don't often see which make me feel proud. All the behind the scenes work, the fears and insecurities I have to face and overcome to improve myself as a person and performer, all of the people who believe in me and encourage me.

Thomas Dolby

Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.

Thomas Dolby

The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.

Tina Brown

The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.

Brad Kullman

We're glad to have it behind us. I hate going through the hearings. We're glad we got it done with Felipe.

David Walker

Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.

David Ricardo

It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

David Ricardo

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

David Ricardo

No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.

David Ricardo

It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported

David Ricardo

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

David Hilbert

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

David Icke

What is interesting to me, as I travel, is that exactly the same agenda is being implemented in every country I travel to. Because people from different countries don't talk to each other and the international media are being used to bring about the changes desired by the global elite, nobody realizes this.

David Hockney

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

Terry Francl

When the Midwest harvest gets into full swing and whether they'll be able to handle grain shipments then, that's going to be the true test.

Scottish Proverb

When the heart is full the tongue will speak

Todd Rundgren

I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.

Kevin Mitnick

Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.

Skip Colcord

We're looking at the full gamut of alternatives.

Rob Manuel

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

Italo Calvino

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

George Santayana

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Brian Greene

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Arianna Huffington

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Tony Fadell

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

John Burke

We've been working with our partners for years to provide them insight. Have we solved this problem? No, but we're getting closer.

Eleanora Duse

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Susan Howarth

Our partners are thrilled because we're providing them with something they can't do on their own.

Bill Gates

Partners need to come in and be the ones who pull together the solution,

Bill Hicks

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

James Montier

Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail,

David Mitchell

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

Bertrand Russell

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

Bruce Lee

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Kim Basinger

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

Donald Curtis

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Dalai Lama

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

Audre Lorde

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Alan Dershowitz

Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Ben Fountain

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

Dave Baseggio

We're just trying a different approach. He wasn't going to play. We'll give him a little more rest and see if that makes the symptoms better.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Renee James

Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.

Alexei Mordashov

We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.

Paul Hill

Having one or two things slow us down isn't particularly unexpected. We are going to have a very robust spacecraft.

Brad Anderson

Our back-to school-season was not as robust as we hoped,

John Carroll

It will be a much more robust system and structure.

David Rockefeller

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

David Brinkley

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

Bear Grylls

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Audre Lorde

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Arthur Rimbaud

What am I doing here?

Arne Jacobsen

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

Denise Levertov

we are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story....

Deborah Moggach

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.