Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark McCutcheon

We're not convinced about the Rentokil story. Even if he comes in, I don't think there's much upside so there's risk to the downside. There's not going to be a full bid for cash at 180p-plus so there's not much upside to it." ()

Jacques Rogge

Madrid had a very good bid and was only two votes short of reaching the final round of voting.

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Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

Larry Walker

Softball Canada wants us to bid on the next one right away,

Allen Smith

MBD has been in business for 16 years. We have bid over 1,000 other jobs, I'm certain, and in all that time, we have only withdrawn one other bid that I know of. We have a history of being a very professional bidder, and we made a mistake.

Robert Herrick

Only a little more / I have to write, / Then I'll give o'er, / And bid the world good-night.

David Vincent

Now we're all working toward putting a solid bid before the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) as soon as possible,

Gary Thayer

Now that we're in a more open economy, and there's a lot more opportunity to get goods from overseas, if manufacturers are operating at full capacity, there's less likelihood that somebody will bid up prices at a domestic producer if they can get it somewhere else.

Charles Bradford

I can't recall, in the 40 years I've been following the steel industry, ever seeing a bid that was raised after already winning.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I think we'll see the coalition forces being able to pare down,

Eyal Arad

No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.

Peter Pace

I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders have and will continue to be that we will treat everyone in our charge with - humanely and with respect.

Robert McKillop

From a symbolic perspective, this is a very important election for Japan as a victory for Koizumi and the coalition would be the most powerful signal yet that the economic model in Japan will change. Ultimately the economic cycle will prove a more significant driver of share prices.

Juergen Trittin

If we get the necessary majority, there will be coalition negotiations very soon.

Hossam Bahgat

Because of the wide coalition of forces supporting the judges, it will only become more difficult for the government to suppress their activism. But whether or not the government will compromise on a draft judiciary law will be seen in the next few days.

David Smith

Sir, we as coalition forces ... have taken a supporting role only as they prepare to execute this referendum.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We have long said we want this coalition and there are no reasons why it shouldn't happen.

Andrew Lansley

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.

Harry Reid

Let's put good people on the independent commission and take politics out. Let's give it real power, and let's go to work,

Jyoti Basu

Let (the) Election Commission do whatever it likes, but we are going to win this time also.

David Swanson

Lee's commission to monitor the treatment of prisoners in US custody? Jane was elsewhere.

Tim Roemer

Many of these recommendations proposed by the 9/11 commission one year ago might have made a difference in saving lives and preventing loss of lives in this hurricane.

Nick Gardner

Many people will also want to commission their own valuations or surveys before proceeding - which will make the packs partly redundant.

Jonathan Todd

Several companies have expressed their concerns to the Commission concerning Microsoft's Vista operating system.

Bill Richardson

My initial view is positive, ... but the Federal Trade Commission does a very good oversight role of ensuring that consumers are protected.

John Breaux

None of us on the commission are running again.

Valentino Castellani

When the IOC co-ordination commission returns, we are confident we will be able to show them that everything is in place.

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Tony Blair

Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism.

Mark Gottfried

LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous.

John Ashcroft

making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants.

Dave Messing

Mainly, we have to look at the demand in the marketplace and have the right number of seats to meet that.

David Brainerd

Madison Marquette is expanding Festival at Waldorf to meet the community's increasing demand for high quality retail destinations.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.

Soichiro Monji

Lenders can make plenty of money as long as there is demand for loans. That's what we are starting to see. Real estate developers are also benefiting as demand increases.

Tracy Mullin

Many retailers are expecting high demand for toys and are recommending that people shop early,

Jerry Starkey

Many communities are refocusing growth back on the urban center. Land is scarce in these locations. High demand drives the price of land through the roof. To be affordable, it forces housing to go vertical. You have a need for 10-, 20- and 30-story high-rises.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Share prices for property stocks are high and it's getting difficult to push them higher. Semiconductor demand is picking up and Japanese chip-related companies, as global players, will benefit.

John Frame

Scripture nowhere divides worship up into a series of independent 'elements', each requiring independent scriptural justification. Scripture nowhere tells us that the regulative principle demands that particular level of specificity, rather than some other.

Hidenori Karaki

Sentiment has not weakened significantly, and there's plenty of demand out there for stocks like Teijin.

Uri Dromi

Sharon won't make any concessions to Abbas, but we will hear a lot of positive rhetoric. Sharon now will play for time because obviously elections are what matters to him and he doesn't want to be perceived as giving in to the Arabs.

Trent Duffy

So far, the views on the elections in Iraq have been positive,both by the United Nations, as well as other observers.

David Wimhurst

Nobody expected (voter turnout) to be higher than the first round, and historically there's not a lot of turnout for legislative elections in Haiti.

Elliott Stonecipher

On Election Day there is a well-oiled machine that knows how to turn those votes out from specific neighborhoods and in specific ways.

Mark Leonard

No one seriously doubts, especially not the opposition, that the election outcome will be fixed.

Per Stig

Now they (the Palestinians) are having elections and then we will see who will become leader after the election but whoever is leader is the person the European Union will be talking to.

Zoran Djindjic

We won the elections, but a huge job comes afterward.

Hasitha Premaratne

Given the election situation, I don't see a sharp rise in fuel prices, but further interest rate hikes won't be a negative political factor.

Ed Rendell

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

Asa Hutchinson

Obviously this is an adversarial process we are engaged in.

Cory Booker

These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.

Sarah Stevens

The projects get the kids engaged - it is reading and researching and writing and history.

Saint Francis de Sales

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

Christopher Koch

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

Bernie Sanders

Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.

Patricia Schroeder

The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.

Scott Rudin

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

Barbara Kellerman

We need followers who are engaged and supportive, not just resistant.

Tony Ciriello

Majority rules -- and this is the vast majority. It's not fair to people who are standing in a line 10 tables back.

Bob Gammage

Let's put the wealth of the state as a whole on the table. Let's put every conceivable source of revenue on the table and forge a plan where every person in Texas pays their fair share.

Norma Martinez

Many of us own our trailers, but they aren't movable. We are low-income families, and this is not fair to us.

Bob DuPuy

MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.

Pat Harris

Mr. Hale thinks it was a fair deal.

Harry Kemp

Ms. Jackson and the staff at Fair worked so hard to reach Level 4, we just knew they would make it even before the test results, ... I don't think she (Jackson) has stopped smiling since I told her they reached Level 4.

Rhianna Pratchett

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Daniel Stern

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Shawn Ryan

He's going to be a great foil for the guys on the show.

Jim Lee

When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness of it all.

Juliet Rylance

Producing is a wonderful foil to being an actor: acting being largely about getting out of my head, being present, a little irresponsible, whilst producing is the polar opposite. You need other players to act; you can't act in a void, but producing is about making something out of nothing - conjuring a thought or an idea into reality.

Abdur Razzak

They are trying to foil our plans by issuing threats and imposing bans. But we are not cowards.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Alan Trammel

Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This year he has expanded his zone.

Jim Woodring

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Dutch Proverb

Life is a gift, but you do not get it for free

Anthony Smith

Make free throws. I told the girls, 'Let's make some free throws and don't foul.' That's how I felt. Let's make those free throws, and B.T. and Miranda made two of them. Not just one of them, but two of them, and that was great.

Shelly Smith

Lunch is provided, poles are provided; everything is free at this event.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship

Ross Baker

So long as he is a free man, still a member of the House and participating in the conference, his influence is going to remain considerable.

Robert Jenkins

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert Toombs

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Kurt Andersen

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

David Scott

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Linda Tripp

Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.

Hoshyar Zebari

left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq.

Tasnim Aslam

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

David Williams

No one in government is making hard choices,

Jan C. Ting

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Dan Stein

Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages undercut by the phenomenon of mass illegal immigration.

James Altucher

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.

Nada Doumani

Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.

Gough Whitlam

No parliamentarian could tell his electors that he was too ill to be the leader of the party but was well enough to look after their interests in the parliament.

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Dick Van Dyke

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

Elbert Hubbard

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Elbert Hubbard

Time is an illusion-to orators.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

Kit Hale

Sellers may not be able to move quite as quickly with the transaction, but prices still remain solid.

William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

Richard Rosenbaum

move on to the next stage of his life.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Tom Bradley

Obviously, we're going to have to move some personnel around and make some adjustments.

Walt Kuver

Of course, the commissioners need to be reassured that this move will be risk-free for the county.

Dennis Prager

Utopian movements produce dystopias.

Irfan Pathan

The pitch had a lot of moisture on it. There was a lot of movement off the wicket, more than there was in the air.

Julian Bond

She showed the world, not just me but everyone, what one person can do, ... She is one person who sparked a movement whose ripples are still being felt, not just all over the country, but all over the world.

Ashley Lewie

She's a lot better this year. She has a lot more movement on her pitches.

Robert Delaunay

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Satoru Ogasawara

Today's movement is a reaction to news about geopolitical risks.

Robert Barany

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

C. L. R. James

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Tomoko Fujii

He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.

Mike Brey

Let's see if we can put two together. That's the only step we can think about taking right now.

Diane Lane

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

John Roe

Getting united as a team was step one. We know we have to keep working on the skill.

Trey Johnson

Getting 'discovered' is something that made us step up our game.

Deepak Chopra

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Dave Ramsey

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Terry Kukesh

She stepped it up and got them going.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.