Quotes and Sayings about Vices
"I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Positive, Children)
"Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices."
- Peter Lewis Allen
(Related: Disease, Fathers, Vices)
"National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services."
- Corazon Aquino
(Related: Government, Criticism, Leaders, Media)
"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation."
- Jean Arp
(Related: Life, Contemplation, Day, Humanity, Machines, Meditation, Silence, Will)
"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Vices)
"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."
- Saint Aurelius Augustine
(Related: Vices)
"We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services."
- Joe Baca
(Related: America, Job, Neglect, Training, Workers)
"I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly."
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
(Related: Business, Time, Quality, People, Project, Satisfaction, Want, Will)
"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
- Walter Bagehot
(Related: Exaggeration, Legends, Popular, Vices)
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
- Walter Bagehot
(Related: Temptations, Vices)
"Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Practice, Vices)
"We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: People, Consulting, Economy)
"I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Work, Movies, Difference)
"As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Financial, Committee, Fight, Identity, Protection, Theft)
"I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight."
- Venerable Bede
(Related: Discipline, Church, Delight, Singing, Study, Teaching, Writing)
"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia."
- Ahmed Ben Bella
(Related: Army, Occupations, Years)
"UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Food, Children)
"This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Children, Comfort, Internet, Legislation, Libraries, Parents, Schools)
"I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Vices)
"Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Health, Care, Prevention)
"Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Evil, Taxes, Want)
"I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while."
- Vida Blue
(Related: Baseball, Kids, Media, Press)
"Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services."
- Hassanal Bolkiah
(Related: Finance, Financial, Strength, Objectives)
"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Men, Vices)
"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
(Related: Celebrity, Name, Worth)
"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
(Related: Reality, Vices)
"None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own."
- Anita Borg
(Related: Women, People)
"I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people."
- Ernest Borgnine
(Related: People, Navy, Today)
"The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power."
- James Bovard
(Related: Government, Legal, Power, People, Support)
"In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced."
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
(Related: Shakespeare)
"I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country."
- Robert A. Brady
(Related: Men, Women, Country, Honor, Service)
"If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Trust, Home, Children, Consequences, Kids)
"As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Faith, Errors, Laws, Practice, Vices)
"Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system."
- Corrine Brown
(Related: Money, Giving, Needs, Safety, Security)
"Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs."
- Corrine Brown
(Related: American, Jobs, Public)
"Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed."
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Money, Work, People, Buying)
"The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!"
- John Bruton
(Related: Time, Financial, May, Will, Wrong)
"Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana."
- Conrad Burns
(Related: Life, People, Montana, Rest, State)
"We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat."
- Max Burns
(Related: Class, Congress, Friends, Now)
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Love, Care, Nothing)
"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Abstinence, Vices, World)
"For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods."
- Jane Byrne
(Related: Work)
"Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story."
- Hall Caine
(Related: Life, Church)
"Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive."
- Giraldus Cambrensis
(Related: Evil, Mind, Vices)
"Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you."
- Steve Case
(Related: People, Games, Word)
"Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity."
- Robert Casey
(Related: Women, Opportunity, Abuse, Children, Country, Neglect, Risk, Support, Today)
"Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing."
- Michael N. Castle
(Related: Education, School, Service, State, Teaching)
"I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices."
- Vinton Cerf
"The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services."
- Saxby Chambliss
(Related: Men, Women, Defense, Law, Nation, Will)
"Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Vices)
"Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Medical, Doctors, professionals)
"By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size."
- Steven Chu
(Related: Design, Purpose)
"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Vices)
"I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Technology, Drugs, Free speech, Information, Privacy)
"But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Self)
"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Vices)
"I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama."
- Joan Collins
(Related: America, Drama, England, Order, Queen)
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Health, Company, Disease, Vices)
"And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases."
- George Combe
(Related: Men, Man, Nothing, Support, Will)
"The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Money, Nature, Financial, Revolution)
"Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
(Related: Art, Man, Mind, Pleasure, Vices)
"In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes."
- Jim Costa
(Related: People, Children, Victims)
"I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week."
- Margaret Smith Court
(Related: Life, People, Church, Bible, Community, School, Today)
"So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born."
- Edward Dahlberg
(Related: Time, Truth, Consideration, Man, Vices)
"I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman."
- Claire Danes
(Related: Imagination, Being)
"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."
- Mike Davidson
(Related: Age, Beginning, Content, Internet, Now, Worry)
"Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for."
- Gavyn Davies
(Related: Will, Worth)
"Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat."
- Kristin Davis
(Related: Food, Talk)
"Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services."
- Bill Delahunt
(Related: Education, Choice, Tax, Public, Safety, Tax increases)
"Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Family, Women, Abortion, Planning, State, Will)
"I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Health, Attention, Body, Mental health, Today, Troops)
"Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet."
- Dorothy Denning
(Related: Automobiles, Internet, Terrorism)
"For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices."
- Rick Derringer
(Related: Music, People, Christian, End, Now, Play, Songs, Vices)
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
- Rene Descartes
(Related: Vices)
"Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!"
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Vices)
"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Vices)
"The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry."
- Barry Diller
(Related: Strategy, Will, World)
"The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Peace, Fools)
"You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering."
- John Dykstra
(Related: Travel, Engineering, Traveling)
"We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services."
- Bernard Ebbers
(Related: Growth, Future, Network)
"Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services."
- Bernard Ebbers
(Related: Growth, Performance, Being, Internet)
"Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation."
- Larry Elder
(Related: Benefits, Causes, Creation, Globalization, Job, Manufacturing, Productivity, Unemployment)
"The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy."
- Eliot Engel
(Related: Home, Act, End, Improvement)
"The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known."
- William Falconer
(Related: Health, Consequences, Measure, Numbers, Vices)
"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."
- Chow Yun Fat
(Related: Actor, Workers)
"Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less."
- Diane Feinstein
(Related: Health, Goal, Americans, Doctors, First, Hospitals, Today)
"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Money, Manipulation, Word)
"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Houses, Nothing, Quantity, Windows)
"Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer."
- John Fowler
(Related: Order, Today)
"Today, Web services is really about developing for the server. What it means to developers is any set of systems services that you make a Web service you to access by any kind of device with a highly interactive client, not just a browser."
- John Fowler
(Related: Service, Today)
"I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Time, April, Christmas, Community)
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Peace, War, Man, Neighbors, New year, Vices)
"Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention."
- Malcolm Fraser
(Related: Family, Health, Medical, Generations, Prevention, Problems, Relationships, Struggle, Suicide, Violence, Years)
"Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians."
- Malcolm Fraser
(Related: Health, Care)
"The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Men, Women, Courage, Example, Respect, Valor, World)
"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
(Related: Virtue, Vices)
"In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Health)
"The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation."
- Peter Garrett
(Related: Change, Power, People, Climate, Climate change, Play)
"I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water."
- Susan George
(Related: Time, Goal, Fight, Want, Water)
"All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least."
- Richard Gere
(Related: Sacrifice, Energy, Suffering)
"The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services."
- Paul Getty
(Related: Wealth, Majority)
"Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders."
- Leeza Gibbons
(Related: Community, Day, Help, Memory)
"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Vices)
"Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T."
- Louie Gohmert
(Related: Government, Money, May)
"So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful."
- Jennifer Granholm
(Related: Hope, Will)
"The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment."
- Judd Gregg
(Related: Commitment, Country, Military, Veterans)
"We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: People, Citizenship, Help, March)
"First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them."
- Otto Hahn
(Related: Life, Dying, First, Lying, Poor, Soldiers)
"We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them."
- Chico Hamilton
(Related: Echo, Sound, Trying)
"I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Change, Inspiration, Information)
"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Vices)
"Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull."
- Vance Havner
(Related: Church, End)
"That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age."
- Paul Hawken
(Related: Age, Day, Information, Production)
"Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life."
- Robin Hayes
(Related: Life, Men, Women, Day)
"It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: People, Belief, Class, Man, May)
"It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise."
- Morris Hite
(Related: Talent, Advertising, Clients, May)
"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."
- Horace
(Related: Purpose, Mankind, Pride, Right, Vices, Wrong)
"Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself."
- Johan Huizinga
(Related: Nature, War, Control, Crime, Feet, Human nature, Lies, Psychiatry)
"When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents."
- Jane D. Hull
"Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form."
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
(Related: Legal, Beauty, Actions, Freedom, May, Vices)
"Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality."
- John Hutton
(Related: Technology, Quality, Disease, Illness, Understanding, Will)
"Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services."
- John Hutton
(Related: Travel, Choice, Direction, Efficiency, Public)
"Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?"
- John Hutton
(Related: People, Choice)
"The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend."
- John Hutton
(Related: Excellence, Public, Service)
"My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future."
- John Hutton
(Related: Progress, Future, Past, Public, Will)
"I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world."
- Kazuo Ishiguro
(Related: People, World)
"The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come."
- John Jewel
(Related: Life, God, Knowledge, Correction, End, Grave, Vices, Word)
"The passions of the young are vices in the old."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Old, Vices)
"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."
- Juvenal
(Related: Vices)
"People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level."
- Marcy Kaptur
(Related: Work, People, Day, Economy, Poverty)
"I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled."
- Sue Kelly
(Related: Government, Veterans)
"Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so."
- Henry W. Kendall
(Related: Change, Science, People, Belief)
"I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services."
- Imran Khan
(Related: Government)
"Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort."
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
(Related: Men, Women, Ability, Effect, Effort, Nothing, Temperance, Will)
"It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures."
- Horst Koehler
(Related: Fight, Terrorism)
"My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space."
- Walter Kohn
(Related: Project, Space)
"My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations."
- Fritz Kreisler
(Related: Wife, Being, Hospitals, Order)
"Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries."
- Nicholas D. Kristof
(Related: Politics, Abortion, Care, Countries, Poor)
"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?"
- Peter Kropotkin
(Related: Character, Crime, Force, Man, Vices, Will)
"So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Financial, Customer, Needs, Software)
"We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body."
- Ray Kurzweil
(Related: Beginning, Body, Computer)
"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."
- Nguyen Cao Ky
(Related: America, Fate, Vietnam)
"As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people."
- Rose Wilder Lane
(Related: People)
"We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services."
- John Larson
(Related: Successful, Ability, Investment, Marketing, Order)
"Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist."
- Matthew Lesko
(Related: Health, Care)
"Most every dental school has discount dental services."
- Matthew Lesko
(Related: School)
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
- Abraham Lincoln
(Related: Experience, Vices)
"By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Environmental, Education, Health, Priorities, Protection, Veterans)
"Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: Vices, Will)
"I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services."
- Franz Liszt
"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
- Franz Liszt
(Related: Art, Consciousness, Conviction, Open)
"We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them."
- Titus Livius
(Related: Remedies, Vices)
"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process."
- Seth Lloyd
(Related: Society, Computers, Information)
"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man."
- Konrad Lorenz
(Related: Man, Today, Vices)
"There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that."
- Frank Luntz
(Related: Work, Words)
"People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed."
- Frank Luntz
(Related: Work, People, Discipline, Clients, Corporations, Succeed, Want)
"Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving."
- Elaine MacDonald
(Related: People, Public)
"Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set."
- Harold MacMillan
"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Education, Men, Balance)
"Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society."
- Shirley Manson
(Related: Society, Appearance, Feeling)
"The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Work, Quality, World)
"And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Example, Today)
"In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for their families."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Committee, Help, Stress, Troops)
"I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Nature, Behavior, Extreme, Human nature, Light, Present)
"It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes."
- Angela Merkel
(Related: Sports, Day, End, Europe, Games)
"Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology."
- Jean-Marie Messier
(Related: Technology, Age, Internet, Will)
"For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us."
- Jean-Marie Messier
(Related: Financial, Content, Key, Partnership, Sense)
"In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Health, America, Care, Hospitals)
"It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?"
- Laura Miller
(Related: Tax, Tax increases)
"My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges."
- Merton Miller
(Related: Financial, Options, Problems, Research)
"Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices."
- Merton Miller
(Related: Successful, Information)
"But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets."
- David Milne
(Related: Technology, First)
"Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state."
- Ruth Ann Minner
(Related: Financial, Key, State)
"As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt."
- Moliere
(Related: Men, Purpose, Comedy, Reason, Vices)
"We are demonstrating for services for all the people and not just services for money. It's very important that this message goes to the European Parliament today."
- John Monks
(Related: Money, People, Parliament, Today)
"Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Work)
"One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice."
- Robert Morgan
(Related: Time, Choice, Word)
"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."
- Robert Morgan
(Related: Poetry, Talking)
"My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Government, Focus, Job, Needs, Public)
"If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?"
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Education, Health, Work, Career)
"If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation."
- Gouverneur Morris
(Related: People, Character, Man, Reputation, Will)
"Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent."
- Lucretia Mott
(Related: Education, Men, Women, Boys, Girls, Injustice, Learning, School, Teachers)
"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."
- Paul Muldoon
(Related: Language, Repetition)
"I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with."
- Gerry Mulligan
"Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year."
- Kary Mullis
(Related: Science)
"Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room."
- Tim Murphy
(Related: Health, Money, Care)
"I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Quality, Healthcare, Information, Order, President)
"It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history."
- Gilbert Murray
(Related: History, Truth, Literature)
"Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards."
- John Murray
(Related: Development, Will)
"The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation."
- John George Nicolay
(Related: History, Men, Genius, Careers, Fame, First, Meetings, Nation)
"I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one."
- Oliver North
(Related: America, Order, states, United, Years)
"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Women)
"To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: Men, Women, Benefits, Honor, Military, Promise, Today, Veterans)
"I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: Legislation, March, Prevention, Research)
"We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity."
- Michael Oxley
(Related: Technology, Growth, Information, Order, Productivity)
"What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power."
- William S. Paley
(Related: History, Power, Contention, Disappointments, Public, Quarrels, Vices)
"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices."
- Ivan Pavlov
(Related: canal)
"I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good."
- Cynthia Payne
(Related: Research)
"In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times."
- Sonny Perdue
(Related: Business, Government, World)
"Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat."
- Rick Perry
(Related: Education, Cooperation, Cynicism, Democrats, Property, Public, Republicans, Taxes)
"Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers."
- Charles W. Pickering
(Related: Abuse, Healthcare)
"The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat."
- John Pistole
(Related: Technology, Enemy, Light, Public, Security, Traveling, Trying)
"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues."
- Plutarch
(Related: Vices)
"It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare."
- Lee R. Raymond
(Related: People, Development, Growth, Countries, Healthcare, Potential, Water)
"It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff."
- Rick Renzi
(Related: Hospitals, Order)
"We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population."
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: History, Population, Will, Workers)
"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Habits, Vices)
"We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show."
- Jerome Robbins
"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Virtue, Name, Self, Vices)
"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Interest, Vices)
"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Virtue, Self, Vices, Word)
"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Men, Society, Nothing, Vices)
"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Business, Friendship, Men, Profit, Self)
"When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Vices)
"We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Virtue, Vices)
"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Reality, Vices)
"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Nature, Being, Man, Vices)
"As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality."
- Mike Rogers
(Related: War, Work, Committee, Help, Reality, Will, World, World war)
"Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at."
- Kevin Rollins
(Related: Music, Fun, Now, Right, Talk)
"So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services."
- Kevin Rollins
(Related: Deals, Hardware, Needs, Talk)
"Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army."
- Kevin Rollins
(Related: Army, Corporations)
"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Wealth, Deep, Envy, Harm, Hatred, Vices)
"There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices."
- David Rose
(Related: Will)
"There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second."
- David Rose
(Related: Ability)
"All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee."
- David Rose
(Related: Work)
"Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products."
- David Rose
"Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices."
- David Rose
(Related: Internet)
"Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base."
- David Rose
(Related: Customer, Help)
"We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is."
- Warren Rudman
(Related: Determination, America, Cities, Fire, Police)
"Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services."
- Henry Norris Russell
(Related: Religion, Being)
"While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options."
- Tim Ryan
(Related: Government, Women, Time, Abortion, Debate, Options, Support, Will)
"To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: Knowledge, Energy, Security)
"Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope."
- Mikhail Saakashvili
(Related: Peace, People, Opportunity, Hope, Hunger, Jobs, Public)
"Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes."
- Marquis de Sade
(Related: Character, Man, Vices)
"Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires."
- Marquis de Sade
(Related: Nature, Laws, Now, Vices)
"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."
- Sallust
(Related: State, Words)
"The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others."
- Herbert Samuel
(Related: People, Virtue, Vices)
"A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services."
- Edward Sapir
(Related: Business, Money, Time, Countries, World)
"Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth."
- Ferdinand de Saussure
(Related: Truth, Idea, Language)
"Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Home, Attention, Children, Office, Trying)
"We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide."
- Jan Schakowsky
(Related: Health, Care, Community)
"Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room."
- Jan Schakowsky
(Related: Health, Medical, Care, Community, End)
"Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster."
- Otto Schily
(Related: Medical, Example)
"Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos."
- Bill Scott
(Related: Family, Government, Chaos, Children, State)
"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."
- Walter Scott
(Related: Greatness, Drinking, Vices)
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Virtue, Day, Night, Temptation, Today, Vices, Will)
"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
- Merle Shain
(Related: Clothes, Vices)
"The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services."
- Donna Shalala
(Related: Government)
"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Related: Government, Men, Evil, Vices, Will)
"Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results."
- Hugh Shelton
(Related: War, Cause, Nations, Results, Terrorism, Wrong)
"I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal."
- Clare Short
(Related: Intelligence, People, Lady, Press, Pressure, Promise, Trying)
"Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Family, Health, Women, Help, Planning, Public, Want)
"Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Women, Poor)
"In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Financial, Balance, Budgets, Leaders)
"I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child."
- Tavis Smiley
(Related: Capitalism, Want)
"It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement."
- Olympia Snowe
(Related: Time, Clarity, Drugs, Integrity, Will)
"Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: News, Newspapers)
"Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them."
- Madame de Stael
(Related: Will)
"Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: Health, Canada, Care, Country, Public, World)
"They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again."
- Casey Stengel
(Related: Mistake, Being, Youth)
"So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get."
- Robert Sternberg
(Related: Consequences, Disability, Example, Learning, Will)
"And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me."
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
(Related: Time, Possibility, Day, First, Forget, Project, Sound)
"A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth."
- David A. Stockman
(Related: Truth)
"The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live."
- William Graham Sumner
(Related: Age, Financial, Crime, Fraud, Law, Needs, Unworthy)
"Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors."
- Bob Taft
(Related: Dream, American, Tax, Job, Kids, Pursuit, Schools, Support)
"He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome."
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
(Related: Actions, Darkness, Deep, Evil, Improvement, Ruin, Self, Spirits, Vices)
"On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business."
- Donna Tartt
(Related: Business, Lonely, Writers, Writing)
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
- Elizabeth Taylor
(Related: People, Pretty, Vices)
"Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Nothing)
"We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Opportunity, Security, Space)
"But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Connection, End)
"We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments."
- John Thorn
(Related: Men, Accomplishments, Pride, professionals)
"Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year."
- Dick Thornburgh
"Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters."
- Jean Toomer
(Related: Content)
"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
- Barbara Tuchman
(Related: Power, Diplomacy, Fascism, Influence, Old, World)
"It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men."
- Eamon de Valera
(Related: Men, Duty, Military)
"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."
- Gijs de Vries
(Related: Intelligence, Heart, National security)
"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential."
- Gijs de Vries
(Related: People, Being, Court, Information, Needs, Police, Public, Security)
"Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: Government, Medical, Control, Failure, Schools, Taxes)
"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
- George Washington
(Related: Government, Defense, May, Property, Protection)
"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."
- Thomas J. Watson
(Related: Men, Work, Hard work, Order, Problems, Thinking, Trouble, World)
"For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded."
- Anthony Weiner
(Related: Tax)
"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."
- H. G. Wells
(Related: Engineering, Imperfection, Measure, Nothing, Ugliness, Ugly)
"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
- Morris West
(Related: Corruption, Vices)
"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
- Rebecca West
(Related: Disaster, Vices)
"This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities."
- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
(Related: Service, Value, Will)
"There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years."
- Ron White
(Related: Life, Vices, Years)
"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past."
- Norbert Wiener
(Related: Decisions, Machine, Past)
"I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey."
- Treat Williams
(Related: Company)
"Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me."
- Kevin Williamson
(Related: Character, End, Horror)
"That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living."
- Charles E. Wilson
(Related: Power, Work, Living)
"In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services."
- Kenneth G. Wilson
(Related: Computer)
"Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in."
- Markus Wolf
(Related: Bugs, Importance, Information, May, Results, Service)
"I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service."
- Markus Wolf
(Related: Intelligence, Money, Sex, People, Pressure, Service)
"The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines."
- Orville Wright
(Related: Work, Ability, First, Machine, Machines)