All Quotes

As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.
‐‐ Rahm Emanuel

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.
‐‐ Scott Ian

As big as my ego may be, I'm really not of the belief that I can't be replaced. I didn't invent the wheel. There's someone else out there who can do what I do, maybe a little differently. I believe that Kiss is bigger than its individual members.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
‐‐ Mark Shields

As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
‐‐ Baruj Benacerraf

As black Americans continue to be insulted and dismissed by protected white liberals, the Black Talented Tenth will continue to benefit from political donations, speaking engagements, national media presence, accolades as the official black leaders, and perpetual gigs on MSNBC and CNN.
‐‐ Burgess Owens

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.
‐‐ Jamie Foxx

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.
‐‐ Dick Morris

As boring as it sounds, I don't feel any different than I did before the 'House of Night.'
‐‐ Kristin Cast

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
‐‐ John Langdon

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
‐‐ Boomer Esiason

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
‐‐ Alan Lightman

As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen Fund believe that investing in entrepreneurs who provide innovative energy solutions is an increasingly critical part of the solution.
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

As brands become larger, the need to reach greater numbers of customers makes them less edgy and dilutes their unique positioning as they try to please everyone. It is therefore not surprising to find such brands go into a few years of decline before they are able to reinvent themselves.
‐‐ Nirmalya Kumar

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.
‐‐ Alex Morrison

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state.
‐‐ Michael T. Flynn

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.
‐‐ Pema Chodron

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.
‐‐ Pema Chodron

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.
‐‐ Mel Torme

As burned as I've been by local churches and by people who call themselves in God's name, Jesus gave us the church. It's supposed to be a community of like-minded people who encourage and strengthen each other. But that's not how it always works.
‐‐ Anne Graham Lotz

As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.
‐‐ Richard DeVos

As business people, we have to remind ourselves that it's up to us to create jobs. It's up to us as business people to drive the economy, and no one else.
‐‐ Greg Brenneman

As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.
‐‐ Peter Criss

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
‐‐ Michael Behe

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.
‐‐ Jenna Morasca

As CEO, I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group.
‐‐ Martin Winterkorn

As CEO, I had a standing 30-minute meeting every Monday to greet and connect with new hires.
‐‐ Scott Weiss

As CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, we used a concept called 'search and reapply,' which meant that if we found better ways of doing something, then we would do it.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

As chair of the CBC, I will do all I can to be supportive of Congressman Conyers.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.
‐‐ Zoe Sugg

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.
‐‐ Jose Andres

As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas.
‐‐ Jose Andres

As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
‐‐ Kate Brown

As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?
‐‐ Ellen Stofan

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
‐‐ Chris Ware

As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.
‐‐ Joanna Scott

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.
‐‐ Judy Biggert

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'
‐‐ Tom Sturridge

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
‐‐ Yehuda Berg

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.
‐‐ Kathryn Stockett