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Microsoft unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows

Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.

Mondays are just like Sam from Clarissa Explains it All. They just show up through the damn window whenever the hell they feel like it.

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

My favorite...continues to be Kevin Zraly's 'Windows on the World'.

My mother was wonderfully out about her dementia. She would sort of - she would say to me, I came out to the window cleaner about having dementia. You know, I love the way that verb for coming out of the closet has now become so socially useful for all sorts of situations, like when you need to explain to the window cleaner that you don't know if you paid him or not.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

My parents told me they were going to kill me at least a thousand times growing up. "I'm gonna kill you," and then they'd whack me on the side of the head or whatever. And "What's wrong with you?" And "I'm gonna lock you up," and "I'm gonna throw you out the window," and "I'm gonna kill you." You know, all these things that you say in the heat of a normal chaotic household.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

Now I still see those things but I'm completely over it. I threw negativity out the window and just live my life for me and my baby. Hopefully I inspire women to do the same in life, with whatever makes them happy.

No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate, or come to terms with the conundrum of being, this amazing circumstance in which we find ourselves, both individually and collectively.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself.

Part of the failure of the corporate media is that they don't dig out stories anymore. They are looking down from the top floors. Media work used to be something that was down on the ground level. Now they are looking out of the windows in the top suites, and they don't know what's going on out there. And then there are the corporate owners who don't want this stuff reported because if one town learns that the next town has defeated Wal-Mart or stopped sweatshop goods, then other towns are going to want to do the same thing.

People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.

Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

Stop looking in the mirror and start looking out the window.

The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.