All Quotes

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
‐‐ Christopher Columbus

By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.
‐‐ Rusty Schweickart

By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

By providing memorable social media customer service, companies not only create deeper connections with consumers, but they glean valuable insights on how to improve their products or services.
‐‐ Amy Jo Martin

By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.
‐‐ Jon Porter

By providing our young children with opportunities for free, child-directed play, along with proper nutrition, we are setting them up for a lifetime of healthy habits, versus interventions needed later in life.
‐‐ Darell Hammond

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
‐‐ James Forrestal

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
‐‐ Elijah Cummings

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.
‐‐ Richard Branson

By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that's what I'm going after.
‐‐ Rick Scott

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
‐‐ Carol Bellamy

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
‐‐ Nicholas Sparks

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
‐‐ Kenzaburo Oe

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
‐‐ Johannes Stark

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
‐‐ Giacomo Casanova

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years since: that all the truly essential stories are already in the bag.
‐‐ Michel Faber

By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy.
‐‐ Jim Ryun

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.
‐‐ Sal Albanese

By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream.
‐‐ Robert Casey

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
‐‐ James G. Frazer

By relinquishing your obsession with the past and your fantasies about the future, you can tap into the power of the present and feel the force of love that resides inside of you.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.
‐‐ James O'Shaughnessy

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
‐‐ James Madison

By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the military or civilian life, we will be asking for a shared sacrifice from all American citizens.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.
‐‐ Mike Pence

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
‐‐ Howard Fineman

By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
‐‐ O. Henry

By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
‐‐ Joe Torre

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it accumulated over the course of one historical process that has devastated the societies and cultures of four continents.
‐‐ Thomas Pogge

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics.
‐‐ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.
‐‐ Henepola Gunaratana

By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
‐‐ Mahavira

By singing the Guru's hymns, I, the minstrel spread the Lord's glory. Nanak, by praising the True Name, I have obtained the perfect Lord.
‐‐ Guru Nanak

By standing still, we're making the things we don't like about Obamacare even worse, forcing Missourians to bear all the costs of this law - and reap none of the benefits.
‐‐ Jay Nixon

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.
‐‐ Christopher Dodd

By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
‐‐ Mikhail Bakunin