Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

Alan Watts

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Lisa Gansky

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Al Rosen

The other speculation would be that there were some documents that were seized in that raid at the Bank of Nova Scotia, that someone may have noticed certain sales or transactions.

Maxim Medvedkov

The position on banks and insurance has not changed. We consider their opening as impossible.

Michael Mayo

The performance of the Bank of New York's retail bank has lagged, the stock value of pure-plays has increased, and Bank of New York stock has lagged. We sense that the time is right for this move.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

The plus reading will definitely pave the way for an end to the Bank of Japan's ultra-easy monetary policy and the market has not factored this in yet.

Don Horner

We are proud to be the only bank servicing the Sand Island community and are pleased to provide an expanded facility to all of the customers in the area.

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Al Sharpton

But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Tim Sanders

We want them to have that local commitment to the community, and that's a big part of our request for proposals. We're not looking for Wells Fargo out of San Francisco.

Frank Hadden

We want to try and pinch some of their ball. Nathan has a long term commitment to playing for Scotland.

Chris Alexander

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

David Mixner

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

Robert Garcia

We want to show the company that we are reasonable and are willing to work. But we also expect them to return the favor.

Dave Chappelle

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

Christopher Opalinski

The power company shut off the electricity to the mine because the company was in arrears in paying its power bill.

Marjorie Scardino

The potential of this new company is tremendous.

Erich Klemm

We appreciate, in general, if red tape is being addressed and hierarchies are put to test. But this should not lead to centralization ... as it paralyzes the company rather than making it faster and more flexible.

Lauren Fine

We are primarily focused on revenues as this is critical to the well being of the company and the shares.

Steve Sanger

We are pleased with this settlement as a partial recovery of the costs we incurred. It's welcome news to the General Mills people who worked so hard in 1994 to help the company rebound from this event.

Stephen Bollenbach

We are pleased with the court's decision giving shareholders their rightful opportunity to control the fate of their company,

John McGonegal

We are pleased to welcome Interleukin Genetics to the American Stock Exchange. We look forward to working with the company and providing them with the value-added resources a growing, innovative company needs to succeed in today's market.

David Henderson

When we're talking about market instruments, then we are much more favorably inclined to emissions trading than we are to taxes and charges.

John Woods

On the face of it, installing new plant to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions is a good thing.

Tom Carper

It is all well and good we want to reduce emissions in 2018 by 70 percent, ... We can do better than that. We ought to do better than that.

Erin Rogers

We are already seeing some of the hottest years on record. It will only get worse if emissions aren't cut.

Caroline Lucas

We're seeing greenhouse gas emissions rise under this government. We're seeing this government now not talking about targets, talking about technology instead.

Ross Pillari

Wide-scale deployment of technology such as hydrogen power can make a significant contribution to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions needed worldwide.

Joe Turner

Environmentally it's a great idea because hybrids have lower emissions and they use less gas.

Terry Doyle

This is a state-of-the-art facility. We will meet all the state and federal standards for emissions and noise.

Gerald Doucet

The role of natural gas role in power generation is not a slam dunk. There are relative price, emissions and security issues to take into account.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Charlie Munger

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

Alan Greenspan

While (Japan) has made some important efforts, it has yet to make significant progress in diversifying the financial system,

Dan Murphy

We're going to have to see what the financial position is once we get through this bidding phase and make adjustments to provide a full service, high quality high school for our students.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,

Brad Dean

We're not anticipating any sustained impact on tourism as long as gas prices come down to a reasonable level.

Sylvia Hatchell

We knew they would give us a good game. We just wanted to keep the tempo up. They had a lot of gas left.

Maryann Keller

We've never been in a market like this, where gasoline prices are cheap. It's a world that's very hostile to small cars.

Industry Idris

There are opinions, no way that our natural gas industry do not support the growth and development of industry at home.

Alexandra Paul

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Steve Carter

Since 9/11, we have been monitoring gas prices.

Charles Dickens

She is come at last - at last - and all is gas and gaiters!

Frank Darabont

Mission Impossible 3 was actually a total gas for me. It was really fun.

Charles Stanley

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

Alan Watts

Courage is the goal of cowards.

Alan Watts

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

David Schwimmer

I'm very goal oriented.

David Rusenko

Whether people want to do business or sell things online, reach new people and be found, showcase their achievements, or communicate with their friends or family, Weebly is the best way for them to create a high-quality site that meets their goals.

David R. Brower

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

Camille Paglia

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

Bryan Robson

Paolo di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored.

Casey Neistat

Without a goal, you can’t score.

Richard Alley

Humans are moving the world out of its natural variability. I don't think there are any serious questions of the scientific credibility that big temperature variations move together with greenhouse gases.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Ted Cruz

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Laura Marano

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Laurie Geigel

We don't know if we're going to be performing on a stage or a classroom.

Tamara Tunie

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

Seinabo Sey

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

Kara Walker

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Wolfgang Schauble

My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wendy E. Long

I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

Kamala Harris

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Craig Venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.