Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gregory

We actually choose the schools that we work with in each location, so basically we evaluate them based on curriculum, facilities, reputation and cost.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.

Scott Aker

We had based all of our defensive game plan on stopping the big guys and neglected to get on him early and he hit like five in a row on us.

Ralph Catalano

We can never use humans to directly test out the theories. We can only make inferences based on natural observation.

Lev Grossman

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

Danielle Schneider

I miss Lisa 'Left Eye' every day. Watched her VH1 special many times. A tragedy. But I didn't see the movie based on her.

Tessanne Chin

I do have very solid reggae roots based on the fact that I'm Jamaican, and so that is a part of myself; even if I never do all reggae, it has to come out in some way because that's who I am.

Uday Kotak

Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

Jack Finn

We're glad to have them, but you can't build up your services based on temporary residents. You need to provide services, but you don't built up a long-term strategy serving the National Guard.

John Silva

We actually enjoy them - their behavior and how they bounce around and stuff. They've always been a pleasure. Now rats, that's a different story.

Jennifer Lerner

We're showing for the first time that incidental emotions from one situation can exert a causal effect on economic behavior in other, ostensibly unrelated situations.

Ken Fields

We're shocked by the allegations of this type of behavior and we're certainly work with the appropriate authorities to provide any information that we might have that might be useful. But our focus will remain on meeting the health needs of inmates.

Peggy Kennelly

Like any large city, they're interested in reducing their traffic and improving their environment. People are changing their behavior.

Alice Bisno

Many of these laws are designed to improve safety for motorists by increasing penalties for unsafe driving behavior.

George A. Sheehan

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

Elizabeth Thornton

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

E. L. Konigsburg

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

Ernst Mayr

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

Kiesza

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

Joe Paterno

We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about.

John Eldredge

The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.

Tullian Tchividjian

The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.

Timothy Noah

An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

Kevin Kelly

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

Robert Falcon Scott

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

Robert Casey

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

David Brock

Responsible news outlets should think twice before providing him a platform from which to peddle his inappropriate and inaccurate claims,

Scott Ritter

There is a lot of inaccurate information and irresponsible speculation today, particularly from the U.S. government.

Brian Roehrkasse

This is an inaccurate and misinformed interpretation of the administration's legal analysis.

Kathleen Vokes

It's a shame that someone would use a tragedy and spread inaccurate information.

Stan Rosenstein

In some cases, Medicare has incomplete or inaccurate data.

Diana Don

It looks like someone we got a (mailing) list from had some inaccurate information. I'm sure we need to get her off the list.

Simon Awde

The issues today remain unchanged. Two years on, Microsoft's technical documentation remains incomplete, inaccurate and unusable.

Laurence Fishburne

It's inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because he's telling stories on the little screen doesn't mean he shouldn't be telling stories on the big screen.

David Icke

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Some information I just keep to myself.

Dee Hock

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Charles K. Kao

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

Martin Tobias

When I look at the next 10 years, the path to the information superhighway is pretty well laid out, but the path is not laid out in energy.

Terry J. Lundgren

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

Kevin Mitnick

A lot of individuals out there carry a lot of proprietary information on their mobile devices, and they're not protected. It's a very target-rich environment.

Ronnie Milsap

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

Major Owens

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Michael Williams

There is a stereotype to the word travel being somewhat of an all-star team. Why else would parents want to do it?

Joyce Haldeman

The outcry from the parents was so terrific. Safety issues.

Erica White

One of the things we always wrestle with is trying to get parents to read to them at home. Time is a factor, and work schedules. A lot of them work at night.

Tom Riley

She was just a victim of her parents' callousness,

John Whiting

We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource.

The Talmud

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

John Banks

Throughout our lives, we were in the system. Our parents weren't stable enough.

Parry Aftab

I have 11,000 volunteers working for me, and I still can't keep up. I don't know how parents would.

Rep. Hogue

I feel real strong that violence should be in (the statute). We need to give parents a tool to protect their children.

Adrian Aucoin

We're not a risky team and we were just a little too risky tonight. They seem to just score with their chances. Defensively we weren't where we wanted to be.

Leslie Williams

We've never separated two vehicles going Mach 5. That's just never happened. It's a very risky thing.

Duncan Fletcher

If you take a risky single and get run out, you would be frustrated.

Darren Criss

I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Julie Myers

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

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.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Joel Klein

the time has come to seek new challenges.

Mariska Hargitay

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

Jasmine Guy

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Barbet Schroeder

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him?

Adrienne Rich

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

Jake Gyllenhaal

My character's the one that kind of initiates these sexual encounters, which to me was, like, totally foreign.

Pat Buckley

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

David Swain

Is it just me, or is there a lot of sexual tension in here?

Francis DeBernardo

That shows the Vatican has no understanding of sexuality or homosexuality.

James Lecesne

All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,

David Icke

Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And teachers complained that "when are the children going to have time to play?" Well, they're not supposed to play, because play is a right-brain, ad-lib, creative pursuit. The idiot politicians who are introducing it don't understand this, but the shadow-people from which it is generated certainly do. They want to stimulate the left brain as early as possible.

David Hockney

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

David Hockney

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

David Hockney

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

David Hume

Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions.

David Dreman

Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.

Ben Vereen

I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

Benazir Bhutto

In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.