Conference Is Quotes

#1. A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Will Rogers

#2. There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

Barbara Pym

#3. The greatest blessings of general conference come to us after the conference is over. Remember the pattern recorded frequently in scripture: we gather to hear the words of the Lord, and we return to our homes to live them.

Robert D. Hales

#4. The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

Helen Thomas

#5. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

#6. So what strikes me most about the Heartland Conference is that I am with people that are in love with weather, climate, and their country, and many of them have loved these longer and stronger than I have.

Joe Bastardi

#7. Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.

Will Rogers

#8. One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.

Gwen Ifill

#9. To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

Malcolm Bradbury

#10. When it comes to training imams, one needs a partner. But if we want the mosques to preach peaceful coexistence, we will have to do something about it. One goal of the conference is to find a partner for the training of imams and teachers of Islam in schools.

Wolfgang Schauble

#11. This conference is like a tour through the various levels of Hell, he thought. The only things missing are a respectable Virgil and hordes of people screaming.

Sylvain Reynard

#12. A missions conference is a business meeting to decide the fate of the heathen.

Dwight L. Moody

#13. Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

Jordan Knight

#14. Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

Maurice Strong

#15. Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

John Kruk

#16. Gianfranco Chicco, a serial conference organizer who has curated numerous innovation and technology events in Europe, is even more romantic in his ambitions. He told me he wants to host a "conference for two" one day. It is sure to be the most exclusive conference ticket on the market.

Tim Leberecht

#17. The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference ...

Audre Lorde

#18. To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Woodrow Wilson

#19. Every day at Skype, I am able to connect with employees from around the world and engage with them on a level that just is not possible through a conference call or email.

Tony Bates

#20. People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul."

Rachel Naomi Remen

#21. There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#22. A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

Norman Vincent Peale

#23. A mysterious character of UFOs is that they are sighted only in the First World,' she said, 'and no alien conquest of Earth begins until the mayor of New York holds an emergency press conference. When Mars attacks, it attacks America.

Manu Joseph

#24. Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.

Tim Scott

#25. In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

P. J. O'Rourke

#26. I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

P. J. O'Rourke

#27. But then I lock back in and I start thinking about how fun it is to compete during the playoffs and the first round, the second round, and Eastern Conference Finals. If I'm lucky enough to get here again, it will be fun to do it.

LeBron James

#28. For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.

Red Smith

#29. If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

Bruce Kent

#30. I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago ...

Audre Lorde

#31. I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

Ted Stevens

#32. Oh, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence.
Love takes the meaning in love's conference. I mean that my heart unto yours is knit
So that but one heart we can make of it.

William Shakespeare

#33. Was Article 370 promised at the time of the signing of the IoA? If Article 370 is repealed, would J&K cease to be a part of India, as the National Conference and some separatist groups are claiming today?

Anonymous

#34. Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.

S.J Perelman

#35. Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Djuna Barnes

#36. BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.

Indra Nooyi

#37. At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Tim O'Reilly

#38. Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#39. Opening the book is a quotation from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops that sums up the Prager-Telushkin view: It was Judaism that brought the concept of a God-given universal moral law into the world ... The Jew carries the burden of God in history [and] for this has never been forgiven.

George Gilder

#40. There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

Cynthia McKinney

#41. People get caught up in wonderful, eye-catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's no good if you don't make the sale. Even if your foot is in the door or you bring someone into a conference room, you don't win the deal unless you actually get them to sign on the dotted line.

Donald Trump

#42. Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I'm either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a script, editing a video, shooting a video.

Lilly Singh

#43. Oh, how we need general conference! Through conferences our faith is fortified and our testimonies deepened. And when we are converted, we strengthen each other to stand strong amid the fiery darts of these last days.

Robert D. Hales

#44. At a press conference yesterday NASA announced that 2005 was the hottest year on record. It is so hot, and global warming is so bad, if the presidential election were held today, Al Gore would still lose.

Jay Leno

#45. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Richard M. Nixon

#46. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

Brian Rock

#47. Let me just say that it is super wierd throwing your own bash at a conference instead of just leaching off everyone else's, but hey, free beer, right?

Rob Malda

#48. What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

Tony Campolo

#49. I was actually sitting on stage at a press conference one day, and I totally lost touch with reality. I just thought to myself: 'Vin Diesel is sitting next to me, and Benicio Del Toro's on the other side. This is weird, man.'

Dave Bautista

#50. Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.

David Eddings

#51. A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.

Edward Coke

#52. Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

Leonid Brezhnev

#53. Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.

Lleyton Hewitt

#54. It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.

David Letterman

#55. The thing about people who work in finance is that they consider their job infinitely more important than anything or anyone, and so it's perfectly legitimate to tell everyone else to fuck off because they have a conference call with Dubai.

Jonathan Tropper

#56. I love the filmmaking process. It can be loud sometimes, and people love having conference calls, so working on a book is the polar opposite. It's very relaxing.

Graham Moore

#57. I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

Klaus Fuchs

#58. It's weird: I was in a conference room, shouting out story ideas in the voices of different characters, and it was something I had to learn because I'd never been in that atmosphere. But I think I had a quick learning curve, because this is the job I was supposed to have.

Mindy Kaling

#59. Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

H.L. Mencken

#60. I think the good news is that our team understands the positon they're in. If they want to win a division or a conference, they're going to have to fix their mistakes.

Les Miles

#61. Let me just say this: You know your campaign is not going well when you open a press conference by saying, 'I told you there would be more lewd photos'.

David Letterman

#62. The workshop is a fresh approach that helps employees increase their productivity while improving their happiness and attitude in the workplace. As you might guess, The Miracle Morning workshop is appropriately done in the morning, usually before the actual conference begins.

Hal Elrod

#63. One of our energy strategies is to increase the CAFE standards to 35 miles per hour..

George W. Bush

#64. Reuters was completely accurate that I am concerned about the level of the market. But I also made it clear on the conference call (and I believe as Reuters reported it), that it is almost impossible to predict what a market will do in the short term. There are too many variables.

Carl Icahn

#65. There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.

Jason Kidd

#66. They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference.

Shaquille O'Neal

#67. Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

Charles Albert Gobat

#68. I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

Eddie Sutton

#69. Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!

Kirsten Dunst

#70. Everyone thought that the Spurs would run through us and everyone is talking about the Spurs vs. the Suns in the conference finals. This team has a lot of heart and a lot of pride.

Marcus Camby

#71. To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

Frances Perkins

#72. A busy office is like a food processor - it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there. Each segment is filled with a conference call, a meeting, another meeting, or some other institutionalized unnecessary interruption.

Jason Fried

#73. My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#74. Edward Snowden gave a little press conference today. He is apparently seeking temporary asylum in Russia. Because, you know, when you're tired of the government snooping into everything you do, Putin's Russia is definitely the place you want to go.

Bill Maher

#75. The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

A.J. Liebling

#76. I can show up at a Goldman Sachs conference wearing a Judas Priest T-shirt - and I have - while everyone else is wearing the same dress.

Sophia Amoruso

#77. Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed that the unit of rate of liquid flow should be called the falstaff.

J.R. Partington

#78. Now, apparently, Im told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance, and a prime-time reality show.

Jodie Foster

#79. This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

Kevin Kelly

#80. This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.

Maya Angelou

#81. And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

William Scranton

#82. Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words: "The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.

Andrew Charlton

#83. During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution.

Ronald Reagan

#84. The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Richard M. Nixon

#85. I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.

Elliott Abrams

#86. Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

Mike Bickle

#87. Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

Natalie Massenet

#88. I have the possibility to watch Messi in training each morning, and because of what he demonstrates he is the best player in the world, he stated during a press conference. It is a pleasure to watch him, and because of the way he plays he is an undisputed leader of the Barcelona team.

Thierry Henry

#89. Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

Walter Martin

#90. To save a girl is to save generations!

Gordon B. Hinckley

#91. The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Fred Allen

#92. A letter today from a Mrs Gladys Freeman, 45 Sebastopol Terrace, Blackpool. 'Sir, reference the room you had here during the party conference season. Well, we know what it is. We know who done it. But for heaven's sake tell us where it is!

Tony Benn

#93. They changed the press conference, they are trying to change the time of the weigh-in. They are trying to mess with me, but what they don't realize is that they are only fueling me to bring more hurt.

David Haye

#94. All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

Charles Barkley

#95. Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

Chris Martin

#96. Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.

Bill Walton

#97. Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.

John Boehner

#98. The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war.

Robert Dallek

#99. Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
[News conference, April 21 1961]

John F. Kennedy

#100. Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Arthur Henderson