Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Jackson

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

Joe Agnello

We have made design adjustments with the intent of avoiding the shrine. We are pretty confident we will be able to avoid it.

Judith Wright

Want to know if a given behavior is a soft addiction? If any of these characteristics apply, chances are it is: zoning out, avoiding feelings, compulsiveness, denial/rationalization, stinking thinking, and hiding or lying about the behavior.

Damien Hirst

I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.

Andy Kopplin

We need to keep working to get our national surrogates to explain the facts - that the federal response was anemic and had been shortchanged by budget cuts and avoiding responsibilities like protecting Louisiana levees and wetlands.

Kurt Karl

We have a housing valuation issue. The time is now for raising interest rates and defusing these problems potentially by slowing down the economy a bit and avoiding a big necessary increase later and a consequential recession.

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Ned Riley

We're back to looking at the fundamentals and, at least temporarily, avoiding gossip and rumors.

Hiroshi Sato

Investors are avoiding large-cap technology shares before Friday's SQ and GDP. Instead, they are picking up individual stocks that offer a special interest, such as biotech stocks.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Barack Obama

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Brad Pitt

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

Charles Soule

I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.

Foster Friess

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.

Ethan Zuckerman

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

Edward Carpenter

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

Cullen Hightower

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Damien Rice

Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

Tony Dungy

The Patriots have been a very, very good team. The last four years they have been the dominant team in the league, and a lot of people are chasing them, including us.

Djimon Hounsou

When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?

Adriana Lima

I try to work out as much as I can and, of course, eat healthily. Drinking a lot of water, sweating during your work out is good for you, and of course, chasing after your kids!

Lennie James

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.

Daniel Clowes

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

Scott Young

Three of our four defensive linemen were chasing the quarterback. Maurice is the one that sniffed things out. He's the only one that smelled a rat and started retracing his steps.

Wally Szczerbiak

We needed this win. That's a big swing game when you're chasing someone in the playoffs. We made it harder on ourselves.

Brian Gionta

We needed the two points regardless if we gave one away. I guess that is the team to do it (against), they're at the top, and not to a team that is chasing you. We got the two points that we needed tonight.

Paul Jewell

We gifted them a goal and from 1-0 down we are left chasing the game. We have made mistakes in the last two matches now. They happen, but we have to cut them out. It's still a learning curve for us at this level.

Wole Soyinka

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.

Sarah Hall

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.

Ansel Elgort

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

David Chang

Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.

Jerry Seinfeld

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them.

Lennie James

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

Lee Whitnum

I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.

Al Jarreau

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.

John Ridley

There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons - the 'below the line' workers - whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled 'below the line' workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever.

Colm Meaney

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Chang-Rae Lee

I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk.

Mark Recchi

We played a pretty decent game and to lose like that at the end is tough. But we got a point. Look at the positives and make sure we stay focused on the right things and move forward from this.

Sebastiao Salgado

It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.

Thomas Mann

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Ben Mendelsohn

If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.

Bruce Rauner

Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

Robert Grimes

We have like a fourth the number of miners as we used to have, and the equipment is doing a lot of the work. And, I think that we are starting to get a lot of the other plants and everything like this, that would exist because, a lot of times when plants want to move into a state, they look at the lifestyle. Are the schools decent? Are the roads decent? Do you have, is there decent recreation? West Virginia has those things, now.

Fergal Smith

We had a pretty decent pull-back in spot gold, so I think there is some profit-taking here.

Pichai Lertsupongkit

The political situation has come to a deadlock that not only hurts investors' confidence, but also is likely to hurt the economy by delaying government infrastructure projects and free trade talks.

Jean-Cyril Spinetta

The pilots are responsible, realistic, qualified people, who know the (state of the) economy,

Michael Jansen

The outlook for the New Zealand economy points to relative weakness.

Walter Isaacson

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

Eric Ripert

Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing.

Arthur C. Brooks

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.

Zac Goldsmith

GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

Justin Trudeau

I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions.

Nina Easton

It's become glib political conventional wisdom in Washington that a massive spending plan will provide a parachute rescue for a cliff-diving economy - landing it safely and with strong enough legs to move toward a healthy future.

Sathya Baba

The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.

Judith Butler

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.

Kelly McKeon

We played with heart tonight. We won't take losing. We left it all on the floor. We were playing for our lives out there.

Earl Boykins

We played with a lot of heart for seven periods.

Gavin Miller

We played with a different level of desire, a different level of passion that I've been trying to preach all year long ... I don't mind turnovers, I don't mind mistakes, as long as we're doing it with as much heart as you can and as intense as you can. That was a big key for us (Saturday).

Le Corbusier

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

Le Corbusier

The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.

Shan Foster

We are not going to quit. We don't worry about the other things. We're going to go out there and lay our hearts on the line.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Brian Koslow

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

Eric Fellner

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

Edward Fitzgerald

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less

Sigourney Weaver

I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.

Rick Warren

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Jerry Falwell

I think pornography is a scourge on society.

Christopher Marlowe

For Tamburlaine, the scourge of God, must die.

Warren Tompkins

They are the scourge of American politics. They are unaccountable and play by a different set of rules.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Meir Soloveichik

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

Gloria Steinem

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

James J. Gibson

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Philip James Bailey

The value of a thought cannot be told.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Kathryn Reith

That was only some coolers, so the value was pretty minimal. That has to be done over again.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

Don Shula

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

David Byrne

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Colonel Sanders

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Brooke Burke

I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.