Milestone Quotes - page 2

Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation. (Des Browne)
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion. View quote
Pat Riley
If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature. View quote
Stephen Rodrick
Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station. View quote
Umberto Guidoni
The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in. View quote
Warren Christopher
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. View quote
Wendell Pierce
All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago. View quote
Edward Snowden
We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community. View quote
Joe Lieberman
The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before. (Jesse Jackson)
The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The vote today is an important milestone. They will have elections in December for a permanent government. Every time the Iraqi people have been given an opportunity to express themselves politically they have taken it. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
"The decision (of the Great Council of Chiefs to endorse the bill) was made in the best interest of the country and a significant milestone in the process of consultation".. View quote
Laisenia Qarase
The ability and the desire to transmit knowhow, intention, and insight to others around us have co-evolved with humanity itself. Mixed reality is a huge milestone in that human project of record keeping, perspective sharing, empathising, and merging with the ‘other', a project that began with the first cave painting, or even earlier. View quote
Anand Gandhi
Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone. View quote
Harvey Mackay
I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into. View quote
Bill Gates
And then '74 as I mentioned and then the 1990 world cup was our team was the team of the reunification you know, so we were the team for both sides of Germany so now, you know throughout the last 16 years, we've melted together. And now comes the next milestone. View quote
Jürgen Klinsmann
I have always considered that the substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind. View quote
Winston Churchill
That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it. View quote
Jon Postel
The first album I ever bought with my own money was Thriller. His performance at the Grammys is a milestone in the history of American music. I watched it on TV and spent the next two weeks in my kitchen trying to learn how to moonwalk. (Michael Jackson)