Famous Quotes & Sayings

G. H. Hardy

The pilot project will provide for the coordination of the lead and cooperating agencies through the permit process. This will provide better coordination and improved use of resources for both the Rawlins and Buffalo offices and the related agencies...

Ban Ki-moon

Messengers of Peace such as Midori - and our Goodwill Ambassadors, who work directly with the UN agencies - are dedicated and well-informed and credible advocates on behalf of the United Nations. They help us educate audiences worldwide and rally support on key issues of the United Nations.

Fran Theos

When he called me that night, he told me it was much more dramatic that I wasn't there. It was just wonderful (receiving the award). In my position as director of agencies I certainly have given volunteer of the year awards, but I'd never received one. So, this was really nice.

Caitlin Kittredge

I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

Thom Berry

We don't have a lot of funds for the tobacco program. I think the feeling around here is that it would certainly be nice (to have more funding), but we understand that we are one of a number of agencies vying for the money.

Bobby Ray Inman

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

Akio Toyoda

With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States because the European situation related primarily to right-hand-drive vehicles. Toyota will increase its outreach to government agencies charged with protecting the safety of motorists and passengers.

John Rader

We are keenly aware of the concerns of all parties and are making every effort to work through the concerns of other agencies and intend to continue to comply with all regulations surrounding this project.

Jim Higgins

We are just hoping to give these people a good start. Most of these agencies are trying to make their life better, so we are trying to give them a good start on that.

Colin Angle

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

Colin Morgan

For me, it's all I've wanted to do. I did local plays and productions, local theater groups and anything that involved it. And then, I went and studied it, attended drama school and got my first lucky break in the theater in London, and just went from there.

Paul Johnson

Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves.

Geoff Hoon

The political connection between India and the UK runs deep and stands stronger than it has ever been. I attend this event for the second consecutive year and reinforce my belief that we have a lot to learn from the world's largest democracy.

Des Browne

The process of establishing the identity of passport applicants needs to be strengthened by introducing a requirement for some applicants to attend a passport office in person.

Ezra Taft Benson

Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.

Steven Rattner

From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.

Katie Hafner

Like the protagonist of her 2006 novel, 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,' Ayelet Waldman is a Jewish redhead who attended Harvard Law School and is madly in love with her husband. But the obvious similarities end there.

Rod Hissong

We are concerned about the current trend and know that things need to change now. Or, only the wealthy will be able to attend college in twenty years which is the exact time that some students now may have children who wish to pursue education.

William Cavendish

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

Ellen G. White

God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

Esther Rolle

I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.

David A. Bednar

We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.

Brian Bell

Truthfully, we don't want my Weezer affiliation to have any bearing on whether someone likes us or not. It's an entirely different thing. The Space Twins have our own chemistry.

John C. Calhoun

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

My wife and I started a program called Bears Without Borders. We raise money and hire local artisans to make stuffed animals and distribute them in their communities.

Radhanath Swami

How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?

Prince Charles

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

Brea Grant

I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.

Bill Hader

I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.

Judith Butler

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

Cassandra Clare

'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

Douglas Coupland

Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

Patrick Stewart

It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

John Patterson

We planned on (the zone) being a wrinkle. It ended up being a whole quarter type of thing.

Stewart Butterfield

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.

Val McDermid

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

Wentworth Miller

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

William J. Mayo

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William John Wills

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Buck Leonard

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.

Nayvadius Cash

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Nate Ruess

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Kurt Vonnegut

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

David Carr

When I go on the field, I feel like I can make every play to put our team in position to win. If I have to make a play to win, that's when I have to step up and use what God's given me.

Art Russell

The PC stocks should do well in the second half of this year.

Anirvan Banerji

The outlook for the second half is shakier -- but we do not see any sign of recession here.

David Remnick

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Pete Seeger

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Scott Cromwell

We played with them for about a half a quarter.

Ron Hop

We played a much better second half than they did.

Mark Oline

We probably won't know how significant their progress is until the second half of the year.

Larry Coker

We probably used him too much. I think we probably should have rested him more in the first half because I thought he got a little tired in the second half.

Meghan Markle

When I get ready to go out, it's half hour and we're out of the door. I don't want to waste time getting ready: I want to go and have fun.

Peter May

The political reality is that seismic safety, like hurricane protection, is not a mass politics issue,

John Brunious

We're not going to let a hurricane stop our music. This music is too important to the musicians and people of New Orleans, and to the people of the world. This music is our treasure and we want to share it.

Michael Olivier

Unless you're shooting a film called Hurricane , you won't want to come to New Orleans, but we have 54 other parishes.

Dan Maloney

We had always known we had to be ready to look after ourselves after a hurricane because the authorities would be looking after the people and all that preparation paid off.

Craig Fugate

We've got roughly 4 to 6 million people right now who are experiencing hurricane or tropical storm-force winds.

Joe Becker

We've learned a lot in the last months. We have taken a large number of steps to be better this hurricane season. We will be more prepared for the worst-case scenario.

Mark Lambert

We're working to make sure we're prepared for the 2006 hurricane season.

Harry White

We have no time to waste. Everything we do is targeting to getting the sinking done before the start of hurricane season.

Alex Penelas

worse than what we experienced last year with Hurricane Irene in that the water has come in a much shorter period of time.