Famous Quotes By Albert Schweitzer

 

1. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
2. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
3. Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
4. By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
5. By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
6. Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
7. Example is leadership.
8. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
9. I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
10. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
11. Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
12. Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
13. Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
14. Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
15. Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
16. One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
17. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
18. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
19. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
20. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
21. The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
22. The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
23. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
24. Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
25. Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Famous Quotes By Danica McKellar

 

1. Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
2. I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
3. I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
4. I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
5. I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
6. I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
7. I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
8. I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
9. If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
10. In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
11. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
12. It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
13. Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
14. My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
15. My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
16. People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
17. Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
18. The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
19. What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
20. When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices.
21. When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

Famous Quotes By Elizabeth Edwards

 

1. A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
2. A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
3. A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
4. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
5. Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
6. Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.
7. I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
8. I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
9. I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
10. I grew up in a Navy family.
11. I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
12. I hope I have important things to say.
13. I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
14. I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
15. I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
16. It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
17. It's just a part of our nature to hope.
18. I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
19. I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
20. Maybe we all change over time.
21. One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
22. Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
23. The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
24. We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
25. What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.
26. You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Famous Quotes By Thomas Aquinas

 

1. As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
2. By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
3. Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
4. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
5. Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.
6. Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
7. How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
8. How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
9. If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
10. If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
11. In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
12. It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
13. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
14. Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
15. Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
16. Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
17. Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
18. That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
19. The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
20. The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
21. The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
22. The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
23. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
24. To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
25. To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
26. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
27. We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
28. Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
29. Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Famous Quotes By Audrey Hepburn

 

1. Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
2. For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
3. I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
4. I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
5. I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
6. I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
7. I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
8. I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
9. I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
10. I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
11. If I get married, I want to be very married.
12. If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
13. I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
14. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
15. Paris is always a good idea.
16. Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
17. Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
18. The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
19. The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
20. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
21. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
22. The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
23. When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

Famous Quotes By Elie Wiesel

 

1. After all, God is God because he remembers.
2. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
3. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
4. Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
5. Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
6. I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
7. I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
8. I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
9. I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
10. I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
11. In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
12. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
13. Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
14. Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
15. Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
16. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
17. Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
18. No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
19. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
20. Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
21. Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
22. Peace is our gift to each other.
23. Some stories are true that never happened.
24. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
25. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
26. What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
27. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
28. Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Famous Quotes By Iain Duncan Smith

 

1. A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
2. All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
3. For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
4. Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.
5. Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
6. If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
7. Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
8. Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
9. My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
10. No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
11. Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
12. Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most.
13. The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
14. The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
15. There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
16. We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.
17. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
18. We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
19. What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
20. When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
21. With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
22. Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

Famous Quotes By Steve Martin

 

1. A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
2. Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
3. Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
4. Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
5. Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.
6. I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
7. I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
8. I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.
9. I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.
10. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
11. I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.
12. I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
13. I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
14. I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
15. I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
16. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
17. There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
18. What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
19. When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
20. When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.
21. You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
22. You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Famous Quotes By Steven Wright

 

1. A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
2. Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'
3. Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
4. Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
5. For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
6. How young can you die of old age?
7. I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.
8. I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.
9. I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
10. I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
11. I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.
12. I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.
13. I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.
14. I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
15. I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.
16. I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
17. I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
18. I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
19. I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.
20. I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.
21. I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
22. I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
23. I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
24. I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
25. I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
26. I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'
27. If God dropped acid, would he see people?
28. I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
29. My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
30. Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
31. There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
32. What's another word for Thesaurus?
33. When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
34. When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

Famous Quotes By Carly Fiorina

 

1. A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
2. Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.
3. Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
4. Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
5. I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.
6. I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
7. I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.
8. I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
9. If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
10. It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
11. Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
12. Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
13. Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
14. My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
15. Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
16. The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
17. The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
18. To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
19. We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
20. Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
21. Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
22. When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
23. You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.
24. You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
25. You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
26. You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Famous Quotes By Friedrich Schiller

 

1. A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
2. Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
3. Art is the daughter of freedom.
4. Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
5. Every true genius is bound to be naive.
6. Freedom can occur only through education.
7. Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
8. Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
9. Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
10. He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
11. In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
12. It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
13. Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
14. Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
15. Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
16. Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
17. No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
18. Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
19. Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
20. Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
21. That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
22. The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
23. The key to education is the experience of beauty.
24. The strong man is strongest when alone.
25. The will of man is his happiness.
26. There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
27. They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
28. Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
29. Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
30. Will it, and set to work briskly.

Famous Quotes By Ron Wyden

 

1. As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
2. Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.
3. Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
4. For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.
5. I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.
6. I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.
7. I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.
8. If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.
9. It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
10. It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
11. Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
12. Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
13. Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
14. Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.
15. Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.
16. The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.
17. Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.
18. When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
19. When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.
20. With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
21. With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
22. Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.

Famous Quotes By John Kenneth Galbraith

 

1. A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
2. All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
3. By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
4. Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
5. Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
6. In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
7. In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
8. In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
9. It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
10. Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
11. Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
12. Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
13. More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
14. Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
15. Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
16. One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
17. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
18. Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
19. Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
20. The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
21. The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
22. The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
23. The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
24. There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
25. There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
26. There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
27. Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
28. War remains the decisive human failure.
29. We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
30. We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
31. Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
32. Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Famous Quotes By Cat Stevens

 

1. I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
2. I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
3. I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
4. I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
5. I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
6. I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
7. I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
8. I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
9. In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
10. In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
11. It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
12. I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
13. I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.
14. Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
15. Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.
16. Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
17. Music is part of God's universe.
18. Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.
19. 'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
20. Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
21. The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
22. The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
23. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
24. There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
25. They have hijacked my religion.
26. This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

Famous Quotes By Cat Cora

 

1. A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.
2. Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
3. I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
4. I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.
5. I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.
6. I think about food all the time. It's my passion it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.
7. I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.
8. I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.
9. If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.
10. It's fun to pick a cuisine and say I'm going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it's all about. You find that there are a lot of similarities in cuisines from around the world and a lot of similar flavors.
11. My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.
12. To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.
13. When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.
14. When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.