All Quotes

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
‐‐ Oliver North

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
‐‐ Paul Tsongas

A commercial is a commercial.
‐‐ Stephen Stills

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
‐‐ Fred Allen

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
‐‐ Fred Allen

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
‐‐ Milton Berle

A committee is an animal with four back legs.
‐‐ John le Carre

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
‐‐ C. Northcote Parkinson

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
‐‐ Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
‐‐ Karl Marx

A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
‐‐ Harold Hamm

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

A common and highly effective method for challenging a statement is to compare it to the previous statements of the witness for consistency and to compare it with the physical evidence.
‐‐ Robert P. McCulloch

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'
‐‐ Jane Lindskold

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.
‐‐ Gerhard Schroder

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
‐‐ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.
‐‐ Tom Rachman

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.
‐‐ Michael Moore

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
‐‐ Ethan Zuckerman

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.
‐‐ Kid Rock

A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than following from science, engineered things lead it.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
‐‐ Blanche Lincoln

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
‐‐ Sean Bean

A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.
‐‐ Candice Olson

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.
‐‐ Harry Houdini

A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.
‐‐ Alexey Miller

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.
‐‐ Annie Besant

A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name me any genre, and I can give you a list of artists I adore.
‐‐ Adam Rodriguez

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.
‐‐ Nostradamus

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.
‐‐ Hubert Burda

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
‐‐ A. Philip Randolph

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
‐‐ Henrik Ibsen

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
‐‐ James Boswell

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
‐‐ J. A. Konrath

A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.
‐‐ David Packard

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
‐‐ Elon Musk

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
‐‐ Ed Miliband

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
‐‐ Mary Kay Ash

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
‐‐ Herb Kelleher

A company like Adobe, there are dozens of different teams that are using Slack. Each of those elected to use Slack independently.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.
‐‐ Jeffrey Katzenberg

A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
‐‐ Chellie Pingree

A company's commitment to searching out potential blockbusters and then investing in marketing to convert potential to reality attracts and retains top scientists and creatives.
‐‐ John Quelch