Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Manchester

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Ellen G. White

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

Ellen Key

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Bella Abzug

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

Tom Wychor

To gut our contracts when you don't know what the future fleet plan is going to be is irresponsible.

Bob Bowlsby

Those contracts are usually about the worth of the ink they're written in (though).

Bill Stoneman

Those are some of the players we have discussed offering multiyear contracts to.

Joy Bacon

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

Don Howe

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.

Leigh Steinberg

The Redskins have done an excellent job of restructuring a number of contracts in anticipation of a deal (on the agreement) not being consummated.

Tom Nicholson

In the 15-year history of negotiating contracts with UPS, this is the first time we have requested a release from mediation.

Keith Tkachuk

You can't replace guys like that. We put ourselves in this situation where they're going to get rid of a lot of the old guys who don't have contracts next year and try to rebuild.

Sharon Shinn

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

Stewart Butterfield

Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links.

Sean Booth

I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks.

Sanjay Kumar

Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

William E. Simon

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

Albert Barnes

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

Brad Soderberg

Tommie didn't get a great shot. There's a great player that made a great play. It wasn't a great designed play. He just made it work.

Craig Venter

People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Tom Rooney

Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could reduce loss and, in many cases, save a family's home. For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved.

Daniel Borochoff

When a big disaster happens, it heightens the philanthropic impulse.

Nancy Farmer

I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

Nan Hayworth

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.

Shaukat Sultan

We are handling the worst disaster in Pakistan's history.

Billy Tauzin

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

Gideon Koren

We are just writing ourselves a new disaster.

Octavia E. Butler

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

Clint Eastwood

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Nita Ambani

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

F. Sionil Jose

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

Errol Morris

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

Ethan Zuckerman

On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.

Brian Urlacher

We know we are No. 1. Yards don't equal wins. Yards are big, but points are the main thing that matters.

Troye Sivan

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

Vint Cerf

It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

Gerry Schwartz

Interestingly, a good undergraduate program does a lot of what an MBA does. I think a really good undergraduate program and some work experience is just about the equal of an MBA.

Doug Elmendorf

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Neal Soss

Well, I think the Federal Reserve has pretty much talked itself into another 1/4 point move on the Federal funds rate.

Steve Largent

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?

Christine Ebersole

I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.

Bernie Sanders

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.

Winfield Scott Hancock

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Chris Stewart

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.

Marcia Angell

Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit.

Adam Myers

We didn't see the big increase in Federal Reserve interest rates. I think that surprised a lot of the market.

Henry Hyde

We are not delegates who are sent here to weigh our mail every day and then to vote accordingly. There are issue of transcendent importance that you have to be willing to lose your office over ... I'm willing to lose my seat any day in the week rather than sell out.

Debbie Tower

We recognize the importance of getting the six lanes built.

Ami Bera

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

John Prendergast

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

Maria Cantwell

We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.

Andrew Luck

Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

Jared Borgetti

We know it will be of secondary importance to Brazil-Argentina, but we'll be approaching it with the seriousness it deserves.

Deb Caletti

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

Dave Johnston

We want to recognize the importance of our employees.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Boris Johnson

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

Douglas Conant

You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it.

Tommy Lasorda

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

Tom Rooney

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

Alexa Von Tobel

Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.

Steven Spielberg

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Doug Ewell

We had an opportunity to end it in overtime, but it didn't fall.

Nick Rahall

Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.

Mike Shinoda

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

Roger Short

Typically, we provide at least one, two or three (candidates) that are very strong.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Abdullah Gul

We are ready to provide every sort of help,

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Marissa Mayer

This has been one of the longstanding unfilled user needs. We saw a search need where we weren't providing users with the highest-quality results that we could.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Richard Jay

For now and the rest of 2001, we will be taking a quarter-by-quarter approach, providing periodic updates as the year progresses,

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Jeff Alexander

It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products.

Michael Shannon

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

James Lewis

We spent a lot of time rebuilding the trust of our donors. We had to transform it back to a place of recovery, because we were in recovery as well.

Doug Thornton

I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.

Mark Ambrose

From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year.

Jalen Rose

I don't think it's a total rebuilding situation.

Kim Badley

For us, it is a rebuilding year. I would like to say we are just reloading, but, unfortunately, we are rebuilding.

Kevin Martinez

It's not over for us. Rebuilding will go on for decades.

Brett Favre

This is really a lot like the tsunami on a smaller scale, ... Rebuilding is going to take not weeks, not months, not years. Two years? No. Ten years? Maybe.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Sergei Lavrov

Conversations with my counterparts in Europe have made clear that many of them recognize NATO's limitations and understand the need for reform.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Marc Racicot

We recognize that this is a regional resource, and its development has regional implications.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Larina Kase

To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards successand then take more of them.

Tariq Aziz

We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Kathleen Blanco

There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Liane Moriarty

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

Meg Whitman

In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Ernest Hemingway

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Fiona Shaw

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

Tubby Smith

We're not the same team. We're totally different. Whatever it is, we've got to keep it up.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Nik Rapelje

(Interstate) 70 is usually worse, so (U.S. Highway) 6 is standard. But if 6 is totally clogged you can always go Colfax.

David Schultz

The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Stefano Gabbana

My mum is totally crazy for fashion still.

Adam Ereli

It undermines the right of Kenyans to information.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Al Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

David Hilbert

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Gail Sheehy

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

Nicole Krauss

I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.

Dick Vitale

Oh, it's a vital part of the game,