Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community.
~By Mark Lloyd ~
I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.
~By John Conyers ~
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
~By Abbey Lincoln ~
And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.
~By Julian Bond ~
The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
~By Graham Norton ~
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
~By Ted Rall ~
The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.
~By Christian Slater ~
It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's how the story came about. And that was my first time ever meeting, or speaking, to Dr. Goldman.
~By Kelli White ~
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
~By Adam Jones ~
I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.
~By Tyra Banks ~
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.
~By Mordecai Wyatt Johnson ~
I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
~By James Payn ~
With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.
~By Louis Auchincloss ~
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
~By Harvey Cox ~
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
~By Michael Chabon ~
I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
~By Haniel Long ~
And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.
~By Chris Chocola ~
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
~By Dorothy Day ~
Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.
~By John Pople ~
I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
~By Joely Fisher ~
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.
~By Geena Davis ~
With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.
~By John Bright ~
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~
While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended.
~By Ron Schiller ~
Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
~By John Mica ~
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
I was really interested in meeting Peter Coyote.
~By Joel Gretsch ~
And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
~By Frank Gehry ~
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.
~By Rupert Grint ~
I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.
~By Edward Dmytryk ~
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.
~By John George Nicolay ~
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.
~By John Strachan ~
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
~By Jack Welch ~
The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.
~By Art Rooney ~
Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
~By Barack Obama ~
I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen.
~By Audrey Tautou ~
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
~By Kofi Annan ~
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
~By Ugo Betti ~
This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
~By Paul O'Neill ~
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
~By Richard Bach ~
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
~By Arthur Cayley ~
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.
~By Dave Heineman ~
At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?
~By Ulrich Walter ~
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
~By Anais Nin ~
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
~By Jonathan Kellerman ~
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
~By Tecumseh ~
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
~By Simone Weil ~
My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.
~By Robin Hayes ~
We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle.
~By Allan Carr ~
Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
~By Paul Harris ~
We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.
~By Jon Porter ~
One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'.
~By Richard Simmons ~
You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
~By William Faulkner ~
When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
~By Dorothy Day ~
This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.
~By Rick Ross ~
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
~By John McCarthy ~
Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
~By Bess Truman ~
As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.
~By Warren R. Austin ~
And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.
~By Trishelle Cannatella ~
What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.
~By Jensen Ackles ~
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
~By Martha Beck ~
It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon.
~By Michael Ritchie ~
When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
~By Paula Abdul ~
The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.
~By Martina Hingis ~
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
~By Felix Adler ~
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.
~By Suzy Bogguss ~
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
~By William P. Leahy ~
The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
~By Arthur Capper ~
One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.
~By Mark Goddard ~
I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
~By John Woolman ~
We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.
~By Marc Garneau ~
From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.
~By Ronnie Spector ~
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
~By Albert Ellis ~
We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
~By Paul Ryan ~
I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.
~By Lord Robertson ~
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
~By Quintus Tullius Cicero ~
It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.
~By Donal Henahan ~
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