Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cavendish

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

Warren De la Rue

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

Chuck Palahniuk

If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.

David Limbaugh

Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court's decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state's borders.

Donald Norman

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Vidya Balan

I dress according to the requirement of the film, as a true actor. Off the camera, I'm just me. I have my preferences and my personal style. Before I step out, I look into the mirror just to confirm that my style is intact. Beyond this, it doesn't matter.

Ray Comfort

According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.

Charles Bass

According to the committee's findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002.

Eric Topol

If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.

Nabil Nasr

The picture is going to change, it has to change. Definitely there are some healthy areas, but overall the trends are not good. It's time serious attention is given and not just lip service.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.

Richard Daley

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Elliott Abrams

Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government.

Damien Chazelle

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

Patrick Murphy

The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.

Paul Lanclos

We play exceptionally well early on, then we tend to turn our attention elsewhere.

Edouard Michelin

We plan to maintain our 10-15 percent (price) premium over our competitors. We are paying close attention to the rise in raw material prices but the general trend of prices in Europe does not worry us.

John Bachman

We opened it to all groups. We told them they can have any message they want as long as it is pro-animal. We wanted to bring attention to the still unsatisfactory conditions inside the shelter.

Warren Stephens

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

Warren Stephens

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

Warren Stephens

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

William Kirby

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

Zubin Mehta

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

Elizabeth Warren

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

Elizabeth Warren

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Elizabeth Warren

Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico.

Elizabeth Warren

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

Yuri Milner

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

Nelson Mandela

The policy of the People's Republic of China is that there is only one China, which we accept,

Choi Hoon

The outlook on the steel industry is not that positive with increased production from China and price declines.

Elan Lee

We plan to double our sales in China every three years.

Anthony Bourdain

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Virat Kohli

I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK's at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha's rolls. In Mumbai, it's Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

Shashi Tharoor

Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

S. J. Rozan

Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Yehuda Berg

A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

Colm Meaney

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

Etel Adnan

Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.

Don Shula

The 347 wins is the thing I'm most proud of. Nobody's even close to it.

Neal Miller

We plan on starting our clean-up efforts in about three weeks after getting our permits from the county.

Ban Ki-moon

Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Lauren Tarshis

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.

Janet Reno

Unfortunately the Miami relatives rejected our efforts leaving us no other option but the enforcement action,

Nick Russo

We are renewing our efforts to identify and reach people who may not have registered for various reasons and need more time to apply.

Kofi Annan

We must redouble our efforts in working toward a world free of nuclear dangers, and ultimately, of nuclear weapons,

Dave Odom

We've had great efforts that has not been a problem. Finishing games has been. We finished tonight.

Jerry Collins

We're waiting to hear from our people on the ground. Our efforts go to long-term recovery,

Russ Knocke

We are not talking about DOD taking over federal response efforts to a catastrophe from start to finish,

Allan Payne

We are happy with the IRB series in that it guarantees us that we will get the big teams. But now we must also ensure that these teams get the players they want.

Chris Jones

We are going to work very hard to ensure as high a turnout as possible. We're going to try to set up a voting station at O-Hill on Thursday and we're going to stuff mailboxes.

Robert Wallis

We still hope for an orderly process. ... The opportunity to ensure this orderly process rests squarely with the relatives in Miami.

Craig Lewis

Tom knows our solutions and services inside and out, and is the perfect fit for this new role within the company. Working extensively with VARs within this industry for years, he has the leadership experience to ensure we have the right partners to ramp up quickly in these new markets.

Christopher Hill

We are looking for full compliance. We'd like to see full compliance. I don't want to predict when exactly we'll see it, but we are working very hard to ensure it.

Dennis Hastert

It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.

Bill Evans

We have a mandate ... to protect ... the treaties, to ensure that they're there and that we don't give up any of our rights from the treaties,

Bill Richardson

We have worked with refiners to help them with transportation, with numerous other logistical initiatives so that they can get more product into the market, ... I will be meeting next week with refiners, with petroleum executives, with many others -- heating oil suppliers, to ensure that we get this product reserve into the market.

Marquis de Lafayette

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Henry Charles Carey

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have to obey the laws with respect to security classifications,

Rick Hind

Usually the laws are relatively weak and have been written by lobbyists for the industry.

Jeffrey Schneider

We have not been served with a lawsuit and don't have any comment.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

James Walsh

In the meantime, we are operating as previously.

David Cole

If you take too many people out from an operating plant, you can shut it down. This has to be managed very carefully.

Brian Blair

If you went to weekends, you wouldn't have to worry about repaying grants, and you could save some operating dollars.

Vicki Lutz

These are new programs, new dollars, ... They do not pay for operating expenses. Not one dollar, not one cent, is going to (beds in the shelter).

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

Koichi Ogawa

The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Lela Rochon

I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

Jacques Martin

We did some of the little things well and that paid off tonight.

Fabio Barbosa

We have that right and we paid for it. We're not going to give it up without compensation.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

Jason Blum

I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.

Marlene Dietrich

When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.

Tom Smith

The jumpsuits have paid for themselves because I get to ski for free.

Sally Pacheco

This (house) is paid for. (Moving) would be another bill.

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Nick Cave

I've never been interested in being relevant.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Gary Vaynerchuk

If you're not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don't exist.

Noel Gallagher

The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Howard Deutsch

It's a classic, and it's been relevant to three generations of children.