Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

Sandip Gupta

The overwhelming adoption of our solutions worldwide clearly demonstrates the demand for professional caliber software in the hosting market. We expect the significant growth that we experienced in the first quarter to continue its momentum in the remainder of the year.

Bruce Lipton

The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

Eric Betzig

It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.

Todd Park

Catalyzed by the Recovery Act, adoption of electronic health records is increasing dramatically.

Rochelle Nason

We are not going to agree to (Pathway's) adoption unless we have at least what we do now.

Nina Easton

Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church - will respect their choice.

Yves Behar

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

Pieter Knook

We're at the tipping point of seeing exponential growth in this area, with a number of factors coming together to make this happen -- from less costly and more varied devices to wider adoption of mobile data among mobile professionals.

Billy Graham

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Ellen G. White

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

David A. Bednar

I will go where the Lord and the leaders of His Church want me to go, I will do what they want me to do, I will teach what they want me to teach, and I will strive to become what I should and must become.

Source Unknown

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of a church in the country.

E. B. White

The politicians have focused so much on the mega-churches in the county from a land use perspective until they have not looked at the contributions being made by the smaller churches. Our church has a partnership with Longfields Elementary where we provide textbooks, school supplies and even shoes for the children.

Eric Wallace

The pastor at my church says that in everything you say or do you're teaching someone else.

Nancy Gibbs

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

Richard Cecil

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Rick Pitino

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.

Alanis Morissette

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

Caitlin Stasey

Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.

Bill Johnson

Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!

Beyonce Knowles

So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority... We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

Audre Lorde

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .

Ariel Winter

We as women need to empower each other.

Demi Lovato

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

Penny Lancaster

was the most empowering and spiritual experience of my life.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Constance Marie

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

Constance Marie

I'm very supportive of women getting to a place in life when it's right for them to start a family. It's important for women to take their time to come into their own. I only want to say we might not have as much time as we think we have.

Chris Bohjalian

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

Nile Rodgers

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

Nick Park

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

Todd Lowe

Vampires are pretty frightening. Knowing they can 'glamor' you is pretty weird. And you shake hands or hug them and they're cold. I wouldn't like that.

Anne Robinson

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

Charli Turner

We have the mentality and we understand the expectations that have been set. Knowing you can do it and actually doing it are two different things, but for now, I know we can repeat from last year.

Deborah Lewis

We're lost, not knowing what the next day is going to bring.

John Cannon

We have no way of knowing that at this time.

Scott Anderson

We have no way of knowing if someone is a nominee officer or a regular officer.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Akio Toyoda

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.

Walter Isaacson

I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

Catherine Hardwicke

I respect all the teenagers I work with and feel that everything they have to say is just as valuable as anything I have to say.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Henry Cabot Lodge

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

Saina Nehwal

My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Bella Abzug

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Bobbi Brown

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

Ralph Lauren

I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

Tamara Mellon

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.

Nicola Sturgeon

Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on!

Lawrence Durrell

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Nancy Pelosi

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

Nina Easton

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.