Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Coombs

Light ash can be expected, nothing that would accumulate in any thickness.

Junius

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

Dave Bowen

One of the big concerns consumers have with rewards programs is that they will never accumulate enough points.

Steve Schwartz

Imagine threading a rubber band between two cards, and then twisting the middle. All those twisting stresses accumulate at the points where the rubber band threads through the card to the outside. Keep twisting long enough and you will rip the card.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security - kids you do or don't want, Tiffany silver you never use - that makes life complete.

Lee Krasner

The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met.

Orison Swett Marden

What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.

Andrew Cherng

If you want to do well in life financially, then you have to start with dollars and cents. Those are details. So every penny means something. People who are successful tend to take care of those little things very well. And then they also accumulate credit, resources and do whatever it is that you need in life - that's a preparation for success.

James Buchan

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.

Vint Cerf

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.

Matthew Henson

We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.

Al Zollar

Today's networks are no longer just pipelines of data; customers are incorporating data, voice and video into their business operations at an astounding pace. The proliferation of Internet telephony and video-on-demand is not only changing the way people use information technology, but also how companies manage it.

Zainab Salbi

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

Yale Hirsch

We've always had periods when something came in vogue, ... This is different because of the Internet. It keeps on going and the riches just keep astounding everybody. All the traders that come up today naturally gravitate toward Internet stocks.

James Horner

When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

Lori Cooper

There are new technologies currently under development that are astounding there is always room for this category to grow. One of the big challenges when you deal with proprietary performance fabrics is to ensure that the costs involved with developing and producing the fabrics does not make the garments cost prohibitive to the consumer at the end of the day. We are careful to be sensitive to that for the benefit of our customer and we also understand which benefits our customer values as well.

Roy Strong

What is astounding is the scale of it all, ... Remember it is a very young garden . . . the great thing will be to see how it unfolds and develops.

Steve Duwel

It is somewhat astounding when I think that in over four years, with various combinations of girls, we have taken first place every time in the 200 medley relay. That is a very impressive streak.

Michael Foster

Maintenance is for the unexpected repair, while capital reserve is for future projects. There is a limit done by formula. The problem for districts is having the money to put in those reserves.

John Healy

Machine tool orders for November continued to indicate a steady demand for new capital equipment as we pushed through the last quarter of 2005.

Abdulnabi Macki

Low price of natural gas inputs, provision of world class port services, tax exemption for a renewable period of five years and encouragement of foreign capital in natural gas-based industrial projects led to the implementation of many projects with a total cost of $13 billion.

Phyllis Schlafly

Many people have been fed up with judges for many years and for many different reasons, such as prayer in school, abortion, and capital punishment.

Zhang Qi

Shares rose because the notice promises measures to develop a more stable capital market and resolve some of the problems faced by struggling firms.

Dorsey Farr

One popular explanation is that there is a glut of capital in the world in search of a home, and a lot of it finds its way into relatively risk-free assets, such as Treasury bonds.

Richard J. Roberts

One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.

Larry Flowers

No one knows what the cost of gas or coal is going to be in the future. But once past the capital costs, we can figure what wind-produced electricity will be cost.

Arnie Berman

One week does not a capital markets make.

Virat Kohli

I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord than all the learned minds in all their discussions through all centuries of time.

Andy Pick

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

Neil MacGregor

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.

Aaron Swartz

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

Ramez Naam

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

Eliot Spitzer

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

Anna Lindh

major step forward toward the integration (of Macedonia) into the European Union.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

Peter Power

No new offers were put on the table by the European side.

Ashton Holmes

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.

Scott Dowell

Now that we're seeing it in a place that straddles Europe and Asia, it's different. It's spread so far geographically.

Matthew Buckland

Negative sentiment is expected to weigh on European equities.

Ivo Daalder

NATO's future is very much at stake. NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

Ivo Daalder

NATO's future is very much at stake, ... NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

Jenny Lewis

When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Nadia Boulanger

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Delphine Arnault

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

Pankaj Mishra

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Kim Anderson

Many thanks for your part in our history.

Frank Hadden

Scotland's history has been one or two occasions of tremendous over-achievement, and I am hoping this is the start of one for us.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Guenter Verheugen

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

Grant Fairley

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Lindsay Meggs

One of the things we talked about is it didn't matter about how we won, we just needed to win.

Meryl Thomas

One of the things I've always tried to do as president of the (Penn Hills) PTA is to get everyone moving in the same direction, no matter what the project was.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Sushma Swaraj

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Andrew Barrett

Next week is going to be more normal, when we get back to the real matter at hand, which is earnings.

Yan Xiaohong

What we've investigated may be a very small portion of the problem.

Elizabeth Banks

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

Ross Siragusa

The tomato portion of it still is pretty negligible.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Flula Borg

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

Jim Barnes

A small portion of several things is probably better for you than a big portion of one thing because you get a wider variety of nutrients.

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

David Bositis

For a big portion of the African-Americans, there's not better education.

Muhammad Yunus

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Alain de Botton

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Edwidge Danticat

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Ben Schwartz

When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

Amy Lee

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.

Amos Oz

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

Alexander McCall Smith

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

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.