Meetings Quotes

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.
Frances O'Grady

Happy, Economic, Street

Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.
Robert Shea

Money, May, While

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.
Fredrik Bajer

Greatest, Different, Why

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.
Fredrik Bajer

Peace, Time, Great

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
Macaulay Culkin

Two, Living, Last

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.
Chris Chocola

Daily, Through, Understand

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.
John Conyers

Before, Used, House

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.
Chris Robinson

Work, Business, Decisions

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.
Marvin Olasky

Women, Beautiful, Angry

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit.'
Russ Feingold

Love, Used, Somebody

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.
Linford Christie

Enough, Talent, Athletes

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
Mary Harris Jones

Country, Before, American

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
Paul Keating

Government, Two, Before

Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.
Hu Jintao

Through, Whole, Beginning

I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.
Gary Ackerman

Important, Hear, Dictators

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.
Paul Kantner

Business, Rock, Compared

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.
Martina Hingis

Trying, Talk, Somebody

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
Martina Hingis

Mother, Friends, Wanted

John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
Donald Pleasence

True, Real, Made

We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.
David R. Ellis

Talking, Interested, Line

Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.
Gary Sheffield

Black, Thought, Else

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.
Meg Ryan

Fighting, Big, Interested

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.
Howard Coble

Forward, Looking, Both

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.
Maureen Forrester

Women, Hate, Mother

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
Orson Pratt

Faith, Parents, Themselves

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.
Lee Scott

Saying, Talk, Except

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.
John Woolman

Love, Mind, Friends

I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.
Geena Davis

By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.
Richard Holbrooke

Forward, Job, Career

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
Richard Holbrooke

Government, Important, Nothing

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