Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christien Meindertsma

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

Des Browne

Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?

Barack Obama

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic.

Valerie Cruz

I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

Tim Hetherington

Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

Ashleigh Banfield

Very few people are fortunate enough to walk through countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and I had seen them all. I had spoken to many on the street.

Nicola Sturgeon

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

Leila Janah

The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.

Zubin Mehta

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

Ellen Key

Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.

Jeff Katz

The overall trend is that prices have flat-lined in the last three to four months because the (housing) inventory has increased. Supply is up, and demand has been relatively constant.

Tim Albrecht

The overall global economy is robust, and there's quite good demand from many end-markets.

Steve Wynn

The pent-up demand for the good life in China is extraordinary.

Brewster Kahle

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Bikram Choudhury

Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.

William Gibson

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.

Erin Rogers

We are already seeing some of the hottest years on record. It will only get worse if emissions aren't cut.

Caroline Lucas

We're seeing greenhouse gas emissions rise under this government. We're seeing this government now not talking about targets, talking about technology instead.

Ross Pillari

Wide-scale deployment of technology such as hydrogen power can make a significant contribution to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions needed worldwide.

Margo Thorning

By 2010, the net reduction in global emissions from Europe meeting the Kyoto Protocol will be only 0.1%,

Tom Carper

It is all well and good we want to reduce emissions in 2018 by 70 percent, ... We can do better than that. We ought to do better than that.

John Woods

On the face of it, installing new plant to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions is a good thing.

David Henderson

When we're talking about market instruments, then we are much more favorably inclined to emissions trading than we are to taxes and charges.

Jerry Martin

They're a huge source of emissions because they tend to be locked in traffic for long periods of time.

Terry Doyle

This is a state-of-the-art facility. We will meet all the state and federal standards for emissions and noise.

Clark Gregg

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

David Suzuki

Geothermal can be a huge source of energy very quickly.

Tim Bankston

We played with no energy today. Our kids did not want this game for whatever reason. And that's what happens when you don't come ready to play in the playoffs.

J. M. Roberts

We played with a lot of energy. We played with a lot of passion.

Bryce Swafford

We played with a lot of energy and a lot of enthusiasm. Then in the fourth quarter we were able to get the future Lady Bulldogs some experience.

Rich Conover

We played with a lot more energy than in the previous games.

Anthony Chan

We produce less than 50 percent of all the energy that we consume.

Jason Terry

We are not going to hang our head. We're going to come out with a lot of energy (Friday vs. Dallas).

Trip Adler

We see ourselves as the world's digital library. That can be a lot more than books. We do want to expand to other types of content: sheet music, magazines, user-generated content.

Bradley Chicho

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

Vijay Kumar

We need to expand the use of surveillance.

David Sandman

We need to expand the home and community-based service spectrum.

Warren Christopher

You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.

Stan Pohmer

To be complete, to be a destination for food rather than just a place to pick up a few staples, Target really has to expand its grocery.

James Blankenship

We had to start expanding our offense. We had been too simple for too long, and we had to open ourselves up. We felt like this was a very important game for us.

Scotty George

We're really testing the patience of investors who have lost substantial sums of money. We're also testing technical levels, with stocks expanding or retracting as we get near key lows.

Seline Skoug

We're really hoping that in the next year or so, we can expand even more.

Michael McNamara

The overall number did perk up at the end of the month. Higher gasoline prices did help a bit.

Red Adair

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

Ferid Murad

I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.

Ron Shaffer

When gas prices hit $5 a gallon, when there's ultimate gridlock, everyone will look to telecommuting.

Laurence Yep

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

Gregg Laskoski

We know that they (motorists) are getting tired of hearing the rationalizations for the way gasoline prices are going higher.

Craig Gibson

We just didn't get after it tonight. I think we're just a little out of gas right now, but we'll get away from here and hopefully regroup Thursday and be ready Friday.

Tom Campbell

We were hoping for more RVs -- like 300. But it's tough to get them up north, and the gas prices didn't help, either, ... Last year it was $1.79 and now it's $2.69. You get about 6-8 miles to the gallon.

Alicia Dixon

We had two back-to-back hurricanes and then Wilma happened as well, knocking out much of the Gulf of Mexico's natural gas production.

Richard Alley

Humans are moving the world out of its natural variability. I don't think there are any serious questions of the scientific credibility that big temperature variations move together with greenhouse gases.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Vint Cerf

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

Jerry Howard

We are not just talking about slowing the growth of house prices. We are taking about house prices diminishing.

Alan Cohen

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Stephen Dean

When we rank the stocks, we find more value stocks at the top of the list and more growth names at the bottom.

Stephen Mergler

When growth stocks start paying a dividend it is an indication that there are not a lot of opportunities remaining out there.

Anthony Chan

We're not going to get the 1.5 percent productivity growth necessary to produce all those jobs. Such a fall-off would be out of line with what normally happens.

Doug Hall

We are looking at a lot of growth and a lot of changes.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Greg Goodwin

We played with what we had. The kids really stepped up and played tough. It will only help us in the tournament.

George Rinehart

We played a practice round in the wind yesterday. I think that helped us a lot. We knew where we could hit and where we couldn't hit it.

Paul Wayne

We play a pretty competitive league and non-league schedule which helps prepare us for the tournament.

Theo James

I want diversity in what I do, as that's what helps you in the long term. It's more fulfilling, and you'll have a longer shelf life as an actor.

Clive Thompson

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Peter Kellogg

The only real blemish in the quarter has been the royalty situation, which will improve over the rest of the year,

Marcelo Porto

The political scene has improved in a big way.

Eric Shinseki

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Alain Vigneault

We played with the urgency and desperation that the situation demanded. We scored two and that was an improvement for us.

Jenson Button

We had a positive weekend in Turkey and I'm sure we can improve our pace and have a competitive weekend in Monza.

Steve Johnston

We are going to trial some of the Nortel handsets which are 802.11g handsets, and that will improve the throughput. We're also looking at some D-Link handsets, which are also 802.11g.

Efe Ustundag

We still have to improve our conditioning, strategy and mentality. The improvement really will not stop until the end of the year.

Amanda Hill

We are looking for improvement. All of our swimmers have improved throughout the season.

Tracy Adams

We had an incredible first half. We were up by 10 points.

Lucy Punch

Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it's just one incredible topping himself on every take.

Cynthia Weil

Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.

Blake Lively

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

Ray Winstone

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor.

Idina Menzel

People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

Jane Seymour

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

Michael Campbell

We gelled very well. It was incredible how we putted so well on the back nine.

Mary Lambert

Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Jessy Schram

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Perry Florio

We got production from all of our lines.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Jeff Miller

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Morgan Freeman

We know its a very clean-burning fuel. It's renewable ... all we need to do is make it available.

Al Gore

The will to act is a renewable resource.

P. J. O'Rourke

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Dan Grunfeld

We are just seeing more and more of it.

John Landis

We were just seeing how wacky you can be.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Wayne Brown

We are seeing many gawkers on the interstate bridges,

Scott Ross

We're not seeing it as a new video.

David Levine

You are going to start seeing a lot of squirming and shaking now.

Cheryl Kirkland

Usually, we're kind of seeing what the other team has...but we were overheated in the beginning. It's just a different temperature down here.

Bob Cotton

We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,

Cynthia Kenyon

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Italian Proverb

He that seeks to have many friends never has any

Paulo Coelho

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.

Mariska Hargitay

Speak The Truth. Seek The Truth. Be The Truth.

Melissa Fleming

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

James Long

When the window shattered, you can't see through it.

Ron Zarrella

We could even wind up No. 2 in July.

E. F. Schumacher

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

E. F. Schumacher

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

Dogen

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

William Shakespeare

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

William Shakespeare

Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge