Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

Alan Watts

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

Alan Watts

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

Campbell Newman

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

Beth Givens

The person on the other end of the line is likely to have very sensitive information -- your account number, your Social Security number, the types of accounts you have (and) the way you use your accounts.

Mark Mershon

The pleas entered today are admissions of guilt in one of the largest corporate accounting fraud schemes on record. This apparent but ephemeral performance by the company propped up its stock price, causing investors to suffer untold losses when the scheme collapsed.

Astro Teller

We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.

Robert Peterson

We are pleased to report that all outstanding issues involving the SEC's financial review, as well as the accounting issues related to DFG, have now been resolved, ... Today's earnings release brings this matter to a close and we now look forward to proceeding with the Tyson transaction.

Anne Mulcahy

We are aggressively implementing our cost-reduction plans, which will yield more than $1 billion in savings by the end of 2001, ... Since the third quarter of 2000, we have taken actions that account for more than one-third of this target, including the reduction of approximately 2,000 jobs worldwide in the fourth quarter. This activity will intensify with the reduction of 4,000 jobs in the first quarter and additional reductions through the balance of the year.

Rick George

The Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am is a very strong tournament that got even stronger with today's news. Outback has been very innovative and creative since coming on board as a Champions Tour title sponsor in 2004. We are very excited about this extension through 2010 and adding yet another tournament to our lineup of events on NBC.

Mark Davis

The positives of the expansion are many. Expanding the ICU and ED is vital in terms of adding necessary space, enhancing patient privacy and improving efficiency and quality of health care delivery.

Ken Smith

When you start taking money out of consumers' pockets and adding a bit of worry, it has an effect.

Herbert A. Simon

I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and you didn't have to go through this straitjacket, adding a lot of numbers.

Adam Everett

We want to produce as much as anybody else. It gives us a boost, no doubt about it. When we're hitting, there's a lot more pressure on the pitcher. Plus, we're adding on, which is something that we haven't done as much as we'd like to.

Charles Bickers

We have seen a gradual recovery in our commercial airplane business and we have been adding employees where necessary.

Rod Thorn

We were anticipating adding Shareef to our roster. However, during the course of his normal physical examination, some questions arose that gave us cause for concern. After consulting with several noted specialists, we feel that rescinding the trade is our best course of action. We will now look in other directions for ways to improve our team for the upcoming season.

Lance Cutler

When we find really good ones, we'll post them on our Web site so restaurateurs can consider adding them to their list.

Henry Blodget

We would therefore remain cautious about adding new money to online advertising-driven stocks until the first or second quarter, when we should have better visibility. We continue to believe that the first quarter will be the toughest quarter, with only 10 percent year-over-year growth.

Jorge Mariscal

We are seeing a new appetite for south-of-the-border securities coming from U.S. investors who have started realizing that the extraordinary returns they saw in 1995 and '96 will not be repeated again, so they're looking for opportunities elsewhere.

Louise Gluck

We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of his or her predecessor, especially when they're still unfolding.

Nicolas Chamfort

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

C. S. Lewis

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

Anna Olson

When we went to the representatives and the governor, there was understanding, but there just wasn't the appetite there for it to happen this year. We listened to that and pulled back from that arena.

Jim Allen

The product (in Japan) will be lessened. The local demand will remain, but the teams are just realizing now their monopoly is crumbling because of the major leagues. The major leagues have put a major dent on fans' appetite for Japanese baseball.

Thomas Steinbeck

I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with an unseemly appetite for intellectual and artistic erudition, which, for the sake of balance, I keep well harnessed to a reliable sense of the absurd.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

Takeru Kobayashi

People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

Andrew Gray

We have a spectacular brand in Dunhill, and a very fast-growing brand in Pall Mall, and that balances our portfolio so that we can take real price increases.

Gary Claxton

Unless employers are putting a bunch of money in, I really don't see how these balances are going to get much bigger.

Robert Kazinsky

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

John Johnson

The process is such that if an official's performance starts to wane because of age, there's some natural checks and balances in the system - coaches, partners, local officials associations. Those things will take care of themselves in a natural way.

Keith Ashdown

The fact is, there are not the checks and balances to make sure the money is spent well.

Peter Cardillo

We are optimistic with the technology sector, ... Most of the large technology companies have strong balances and they are likely to increase capital expenditure, which in turn, tends to generate better results.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.

Howard Atkins

The decline may also be the first sign of companies using their cash balances to grow their businesses, which is consistent with the small business loan growth we continued to experience.

Carl Cotman

Basically, it's a huge message to send out to women who are worried about hormone balances to make sure they stay fit. It's going to give women pause to reflect.

Ken Burns

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

C. J. Mahaney

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Rod Bourgeois

We still worry that, at the stock's current valuation, implicit expectations seem somewhat steep relative to the guidance we anticipate.

Kevin Flanagan

We still think the fundamentals will come back and rise from current levels.

Jim Copeland

We're in pretty good shape, considering the current landscape.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

John Thain

We have to focus on the revenue side, we have to focus on the expense side and make sure we can earn to justify the current market value.

Freda Adler

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Eduardo Galeano

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

Peter Clarke

Since July, the pace of investigation, the scale of the threat has not diminished in any way whatsoever.

Pierce Brosnan

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

Ben Gibbard

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

Conrad DeQuadros

While the Fed's rate hike yesterday (Tuesday) may seem to have diminished reaction to today's (Wednesday's) CPI report, it will nonetheless be important,

William Sullivan

We knew the economy slowed down, and there was evidence from some of the monthly price statistics that inflationary pressures diminished during the period.

Rory Stewart

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

Brian Foley

As a practical matter, the options have, for the moment, substantially diminished value, if any.

David Mixner

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

Cal Thomas

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

Carl Icahn

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

Tony Norfield

The potential for the euro to fall is pretty limited from here. The dollar is not going to get the same support we saw last year from rates now, and the euro zone economy is looking more solid.

Clyde Prestowitz

The possibility exists that they would get upset with us at some pint and sell dollars. And if they sold all those dollars right away, the value of the dollar would plummet, interest rates would spike and the U.S. would go into a recession.

Nick Woodman

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

Earl Weaver

Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.

Elizabeth Arden

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

Charles Edison

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

Charles Spurgeon

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

Lee Janzen

The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win.

Sharon Stewart

We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed.

Nicolas Roeg

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Nicolas Roeg

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Edward Gorey

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Sathya Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Bill McKibben

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Lina Wertmuller

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.

Tom Rath

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

James E. Faust

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

Sandy Howard

We need to make sure that this doesn't occur at other sites around the state.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Henry Bonilla

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Michelle Paver

I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Harrison Ford

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

Dale Carnegie

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

Wolfgang Thierse

I see no truly persuasive reasons to overturn this decision.

Allan Hoffenblum

It's a referendum on him and his political team's persuasive abilities.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Chris Cooper

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Bill Johnson

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Dick Cavett

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

Edwin Moses

I overcame size with mechanics.

Chan Gailey

Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier.

Delta Burke

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

Jane Goodall

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders' cocks are the same size as everyone else's.