Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. Hodge

There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.

M. Hardman

We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.

Nick Woodman

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Brent Hayes

We've got hopefully a couple of new businesses that will be in the mall by early spring.

Tom Eid

There is no one-size-fits-all approach, because all businesses are not set up to run the same way.

Mike Strecker

When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.

Ken Stein

We'll be counting on the continued generosity of businesses and individuals to hit our fundraising goals, but we can sure promise them a priceless entertainment experience and opportunity to help the community in this time of need.

Michael Alter

We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.

Sung Sohn

What's lacking is confidence, so businesses aren't spending the money they have, ... That's why I don't necessarily think it takes a huge fiscal stimulus package to get the economy moving.

Jay Graham

We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.

Clayton Christensen

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.

Justin Dew

There are certainly plenty of opportunities to put $500 million worth of capital in the hedge fund space. I think by and large Yale is looked upon as a preferred investor, and therefore I think a lot of managers would be open to having discussions with them.

Gary Capaldi

We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.

Barbara Tuchman

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

Flip Saunders

We've won 22 of our last 24. You play 82 games, and you don't like to say you didn't have it, but we didn't have it tonight. We didn't capitalize on our opportunities down the stretch.

Douglas Leone

We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.

Mark Bubriski

The personality is stronger than the policies. These are issues that Democrats are talking about.

Tracey Schmitt

Whether she's a man or a woman is completely irrelevant. If some Democrats want to fall back on the gender card, that's their problem.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to lose Social Security and Medicare if Republicans and Democrats do not come together and find a solution like Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill. I will be the Ronald Reagan if I can find a Tip O'Neill.

Tom Rath

We've seen the enemy, and he is us. We have to get back to the basics. Let's talk about small government and reduced spending, and don't let the Democrats take those issues.

John Hume

The real duty now, if we want to have a totally peaceful and stable country, is for all true democrats to implement the will of the people.

Stewart Udall

I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

Timothy Noah

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

Timothy Noah

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Timothy Noah

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

Martina McBride

Some days I do well and I eat really healthfully. But I don't think we should deprive ourselves of anything, so some days I indulge and give in to cravings.

Patrick Robinson

We express regret at his passing. We also regret his untimely passing has deprived not only him but indeed all the interested parties of a judgement upon the allegations in the indictment.

Ernestine Rose

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.

Anne Bronte

I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

Mahmoud Abbas

Today is a day of joy and happiness that our people were deprived of in the past century.

Suki Waterhouse

I'm active, but I just don't like being hungry or feeling like I've deprived myself. I want to enjoy life.

Laurie Colwin

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.

Rand Paul

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

Terry Belanger

We must not deprive the future of the past.

Amanda Hearst

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Paul Walton

We're going to prove the defendant displayed a wanton and willful disregard for life,

Cynthia Phipps

What has been returned has been recorded. If they turned it in, they can disregard the letter.

Stephen Urban

Seven people (council members) and the mayor (Tom Leighton) seem to disregard the will of the people, ... When is (council's) vote going to take place ... 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010? Is it ever going to take place?

Charles Kennedy

Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some of the younger people in this society in shameful and disturbing disregard for other members of their generation who are not as fortunate as they are in having a job.

Lloyd Carr

I don't think you ever disregard the record. The record is the results of the games. It's an important standard, and we're all disappointed about it. But I'm not disappointed in our players. They fought to the last minute of the last game.

Laura McElroy

He may have been careless, but it doesn't rise to the level of reckless and wanton disregard for human life.

Gary Speed

A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.

Jerry Seinfeld

We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Joel Edgerton

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

Tom Stoppard

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

Stanley Coren

Lots of people make resolutions to try to spend more time with their dog, to try to take them to obedience class, to take them out for sports. It's the canine equivalent of promising that we're going to go out and exercise more ourselves, lose weight and be good and moral.

Michael Moss

Many of the Prego sauces - whether cheesy, chunky or light - have one feature in common: The largest ingredient, after tomatoes, is sugar. A mere half-cup of Prego Traditional, for instance, has the equivalent of more than two teaspoons of sugar: as much as two-plus Oreo cookies.

Chris Jericho

Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo.

Kathleen Hanna

I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.

Don Moore

What we give them is the equivalent of a catered experience of being in a band.

Charles Schalliol

Given the needs of the state and the jobs this creates, how could the state pass this up. As the governor has said, this is the equivalent of winning the lottery. And do we want to tear up the check?

Jacques Chirac

It is now time for our partners to make equivalent proposals in a spirit of give and take, in agriculture as well as in manufacturing and services.

Howard Davidowitz

The real estate has shrunk by more than 50 percent and is going to be shrunk again,

Rick Ross

Many of these proposed Peace Palaces never come to fruition. Much of Maharishi's vast fortune is in real estate investments,

Kazuhiro Takahashi

Shares such as real estate are expected to rise on expectations for land prices.

Jim Amormino

She was involved in nonexistent or fraudulent real estate transactions.

Luc Despins

To proceed otherwise would result in confusion, duplication and a huge waste of estate resources.

Alan Casden

We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.

Kurt Fuller

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.

Steve Erickson

L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility.

Dwight Dively

Last November, we thought that 2004 was going to be the peak year for real estate excise tax, ... We were forecasting that the market would slow down in '05 and then more in '06. What we've seen so far is that 2005 has been, every single month, substantially stronger than in 2004.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

David Miliband

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

David Rakoff

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Byron Katie

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Kim Rupert

The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.

David Hume

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Denis Waitley

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

Ayn Rand

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Benjamin Disraeli

He who gains time gains everything.

C. S. Lewis

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

August Krogh

Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.

August Krogh

The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.

Deb Caletti

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

Bill Moyers

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Bertrand Russell

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal...

Bjork

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

Ben Goldacre

As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.

Bill Hicks

It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung.

Anurag Kashyap

Films are like oxygen for me.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Donald Trump

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

Donald Trump

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

Donald Trump

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Donald Trump

We will have a massive, massive tax increase under Hillary Clinton's plan.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Eliza Haywood

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Benjamin Franklin

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.