Contribution Quotes - page 12

After half a century of co-operation – difficult, at times very difficult – a stage has been reached when both groups [i. e. Afrikaans and English-speaking whites] as never before are faced with a challenge to bury the past, to let it become the combined history of a unified volk/people. Today we are faced with threats for the future of our civilization, for our prosperity, for the contribution of the white man of Africa to the struggle of the white man of Europe and America to retain his hegemony in the world. Also to make Christianity victorious, sacrifices must be made, and nowhere is Christianity more threatened than in Africa. Sacrifices of sentiment is expected of everybody. There must not only be a union of provinces in South Africa. There must also be a union of hearts. (Hendrik Verwoerd)
It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution. View quote
Bill Gurley
My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef. View quote
Bobby Flay
I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society. View quote
Brian Roberts
I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy. View quote
Charles Bass
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none. View quote
Cofer Black
We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel. View quote
Carmen Dell'Orefice
As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue. View quote
David Korten
I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is. View quote
David Miliband
I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps it can take to address the digital divide as it affects local children, and provide a range of opportunities for ICT suppliers, government agencies, charities and other organisations to make a contribution. View quote
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. (Ethel Percy Andrus)
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. View quote
Eleanor Clift
Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts. View quote
George Osborne
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. View quote
Gina McCarthy
The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it. View quote
Grace Zabriskie
Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection. View quote
Hugh Nibley
If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will. View quote
Harold Ford, Jr.
I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution. View quote
Jeff Probst
The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality. View quote
Jeffrey Tucker
Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth. View quote
Jeroen Dijsselbloem
I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world. (Jim Breyer)
As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock. View quote
Jon Landau
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. View quote
Liberty Hyde Bailey
From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America. View quote
Louis Finkelstein
The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one's worth was judged on their take-home salary. View quote
Mariella Frostrup