Famous Quotes & Sayings

King Abdullah

We want to strengthen the link between India and Saudi Arabia with regards to energy, and the ability to provide energy to India over a long term.

John Furlong

We want to send the message that our focus is on ability rather than disability. It is our turn to step to the Olympic stage.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very clear and unequivocal message that after attacks like this it's not business as usual. We expect them to follow through on their promises -- that these armed gangs be disarmed. Our entire ability to move forward is based on that promise.

Craig Cochran

The power of a focus group lies in its ability to leverage multiple channels of communication and thought. When you buckle down and really explore the many facets of a possible innovation to the organization, you are more able to make well thought-out decisions.

Theodore Roosevelt

The potential for damage is much larger than we've seen in the past, ... The markets are a little spooked about our refining capacity and our ability to pump for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jonathan Spira

The possibilities of that tie-in are endless if one contemplates the possibility of software and tools delivered over the Internet and paid for by online adverts. This also gives Microsoft the ability to control its own destiny and eliminate the service that Yahoo is providing selling the ads.

Doug Aitken

The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

Rosabeth Kanter

The point of new venturing is to stimulate a range of ideas that build corporate resilience -- the ability to keep enriching core businesses by incorporating new modes (whether products, distribution channels, or markets) while discovering potential new directions that might not only be internal ventures but also an acquisition or an alliance.

Gavin Rossdale

The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit.

Robert Bohn

We want to stay ahead of the competitive curve.

Lawrence Summers

The ongoing task of debt management for the federal government will clearly be very different in the years ahead than it has been in the past, when debt was rapidly increasing, ... With $3.6 trillion in debt outstanding, even a 3 basis point (0.03 percentage point) reduction in federal borrowing costs will ultimately produce savings of more than $1 billion per year.

Marv Levy

We appreciate his efforts and wish him well in what lies ahead in his career.

William Paul

We are seeing conditions that are similar to what we saw in 2002, the counts of cases that we're having now are ahead of what we had in 2002, least in the city.

Zina Garrison

We are pretty much considered the underdogs here but I have a lot of confidence in the young women that are here and we are really looking ahead to a good match.

John McDonnell

We are ahead of where I thought we would be by two points. Florida State has a lot of great bullets and Texas and LSU, but we are on line to do what we are capable of doing.

John Sheehan

We are ahead of the curve on this.

Brian Halla

We are ahead of schedule on the return to profits plan we announced on May 5.

Robin Clifford

We are ahead of schedule for Sunday's deadline, and by midnight Sunday, (all) Yugoslav forces will be gone,

Johnny Davis

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

Vikas Khanna

The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

John Johnston

We are pleased to strengthen our relationship with Harris County Hospital District. The hospital district plays a vital role in support of healthcare in the region. Premier brings value and market leadership in supply chain cost effectiveness to support the district as it provides high quality patient care and training for health professionals.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Pasuya Yao

We are looking forward to a bottom-up dynamism that brings out what most people think of Taiwan.

Alexandre Oliveira

We're in a world where the model of the inefficiently run national oil company is virtually gone. It's a new model (for national oil companies) that brings change and with it resistance to change.

Noemie Lenoir

I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Monica Lewinsky

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Scott Long

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

John Bolton

We are preparing a resolution for the full council to adopt. It would impose the sanctions. It's a down payment, and certainly not the end of the sanctions process.

Michael Dell

There are certainly very high-growth markets outside the U.S.. China is the fourth-largest market in the world for Dell to sell its products and we're growing fast there.

Alan Davis

There are certainly some solid growth prospects for Microsoft but it's not going to be the glory days again.

David Hallberg

There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.

Nadine Smith

There are certainly issues that keep people from pursuing hate-crime charges. It's a system that's fraught with challenges because of the under-reporting.

Charles Clark

There are certainly hundreds of individuals who we have been watching very closely and continue to watch extremely closely ... because of the threat they offer,

R. Robinson

There are certainly human rights concerns. Very serious human rights concerns that I would like to have fully clarified,

Kalvin Baker

We want to slow them down and not let them run. We can compete with them if we play good defense.

Darius Kasparaitis

We want to show that we can compete with the good teams and we can be there and we're (in this position) not by accident. I think tonight's game proved it, that we can play at a high level.

Nick Saban

We want to see guys compete so we can know whether they need to be here, we want them to be here and if they are the kind of people we want. The record doesn't really matter, the result doesn't matter and the score in the game doesn't really matter.

Robert Mugabe

We are a democratic country and my party enjoys overwhelming support. The two gentlemen who purported to have withdrawn actually found it very tough to compete with us. We will win this election,

Leslie Jones

We are looking to keep our errors to a minimum this year. We lost to Lone Peak by one run because we had two errors. If we can keep the errors down we feel we can compete with anybody.

Shen Xue

We still love figure skating, and we hope we can compete in the Worlds.

Lucas Black

You know, when you're trying to get better at golf, you're always measuring your game up against other people to see what you've got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.

Istvan Gyulai

We have no problem with that. Whether or not they can compete in the trials, we leave it in the hands of USA Track & Field.

Danielle Kamm

We have NCAA tournament ability. It's disappointing, but we still get to keep playing. We're still going to go out and compete and play the game we love.

Michel Therrien

We started playing in the second period. We started to execute our plan in the second period. When we're doing what we're supposed to do, we're a tough team to play against.

J. Horton

We have to go in there and be tough. Playing an IU team you have to be mentally tough. Those guys play really hard and they take pride in playing at home. We have to go in there and be tough, execute and value the ball.

Joe Grippo

We were a long shot to get to Central. We just didn't play well in the two tournament games. We didn't execute the way we did all season long. I don't know if we ran out of gas. But I'm not going to make excuses.

Ben Roethlisberger

We're going to put together our first game plan and, hopefully, come out and execute it, ... The big thing is, we want to work on the little things. If we can put the little things together, the big picture will come together and, hopefully, it will be pretty nice.

Tony Dungy

When we do what we're supposed to do and execute the play, we've been pretty good on third-and-1 or 2.

Kyle Wright

When we didn't execute this season, it didn't work. At times, inconsistency hurt us. That was a big thing for us.

Kobe Bryant

We botched the play up and didn't execute it right. The spacing was messed up. We had a nice screen and roll situation. ... We just didn't execute if properly.

Smush Parker

Usually, I have big quarters. Tonight, my points were spread out. ... We're finally starting to come together and play team D. We're starting to execute on offense a little more.

Greg Soliz

We're finally just starting to execute on offense. The guys now know when to shoot and when not to.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

Brian Cresta

What we're seeing in Maine is not indicative of what we're seeing nationally.

Betty Wright

'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

Tony Oppegard

I would say that these are indicative of an operator who wasn't going to let safety get in the way of production.

Lisa Greif

I think it's just indicative of my reputation.

Ron Dittemore

It could be indicative of a rough tile or missing tile. We are not sure yet. I don't have a smoking gun. I don't have anything that shows a root cause.

Dennis Kuhl

I think it was kind of indicative of his adventurous soul.

Mark Donahoe

The real players are still not playing in the marketplace and I think the (low) volume is indicative of that.

Martha Burk

I think that's just indicative of two things,

Bob McCooey

The sell-off we saw today was more of a trading sell-off. I don't think this should be indicative of anything going forward." ()

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Peter Ueberroth

We are looking less favorably toward 2016 bidding at this moment,

Mike Scioscia

We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Bear Grylls

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Denis Waitley

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Eliza Haywood

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Charles Caleb Colton

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

Charles Spurgeon

True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.

Alanis Morissette

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

Alanis Morissette

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Alan Watts

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Alan Watts

For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.

Alan Mulally

An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.

Alan Rickman

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Bill Porter

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

Frederic Bastiat

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Michael Kilpatrick

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

Frank Adams

We work off of a back log, ... But that puts us in a real profit squeeze.

D. H. Lawrence

If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Ashton Eaton

My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.

Rosa DeLauro

What we should be is on the people's timetable and not on a congressional timetable.

Sherrod Brown

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

Tom Wright

There really is no timetable for us to do that.

Andrew Friedman

With hamstrings, it's tough. We don't want to put a timetable on it.

Bob Gainey

It'll probably be a day or two before we know the timetable for him.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.