Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Immelt

Reinsurance is an industry that has had a difficult time over the past few years, and we're disappointed in our results, ... We are committed to running ERC effectively for our investors. This includes profitability and exploring strategic options.

Dr. Gerberding

Part of the reason why we hoped to have full appropriation committed ... was to warrant to the manufacturers that we are serious.

William Higgins

passionately committed to the success of the exchange.

David Young

passionate and committed to theater and concerned by the lack of public performance found in Taipei.

Ra'anan Gissin

Our only concern, and the concern of those committed to the peace process and the road map, is the performance of this government with regard to the implementation of the security requirements of the road map, which include dismantling of terror organizations and the stopping of incitement as well as completing comprehensive democratic reforms.

Jeff Davidson

Our ministry is committed to the principle that there are no disabled souls in the kingdom of God,

Z. Sheppard

People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies.

Kathleen Kennedy

Steven is extremely committed to DreamWorks, ... He doesn't want it to go away.

Josh Tarrell

Some of these girls don't play a lot (during varsity games). It takes a strong, committed player to a team to do that. They're as important to the team as anybody, especially in practice. Without them, we're not as good as we can be.

John Hutton

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Michael Chapman

Our new 32-bit processors promise to be some of the fastest, smallest, and most energy-efficient available. We researched many options for getting them to market, and are excited about delivering these innovative cores with the proven, well-respected people at CAST.

Patrick Cescau

Our savings programs are delivering well and, together with an improved mix, they have enabled us to fully offset the impact of higher input costs,

Cynthia Carroll

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just to satisfy a particular condition. What you want more than anything is to develop women in the organisation who will, when they get to the top, be fully capable of delivering and doing the job effectively.

Jonathan Schwartz

That's the next wave of innovation not the Web page but delivering services through the Internet. This is not your father's Internet.

David Blunkett

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

Mary Gill

I don't think our school police officers should be delivering mail when it's something that we can receive via the Internet. They have more important things to do.

Maria Cantwell

He's played this leadership role for (Sens.) Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell, delivering for them, slamming down programs that I think would be effective and the people of Washington state want,

Viktor Yushchenko

I have heard a lot of stories and legends on how this poison has been delivered, where it has been produced, which secret services were used for delivering it in Ukraine,

Hu Jintao

Regardless of person or political party and regardless of what he or it has said or done, we are willing to hold talks on developing cross-Strait relations so long as he or it recognizes the 'One China' principle and the 1992 consensus,

Billy Beane

Paul has seen the ups and down of developing young players and trusting the three, four years they've had in the minor leagues and discounting their first few months in the majors. Developing young players can be a lot of fun, but you've got to have the discipline to live with their mistakes and understand their trend line isn't always going to go straight up.

Chris Jones

Our (pitching) coordinator always talks about developing a winning attitude.

Dwane Casey

Our trend the whole year has been developing a rhythm in the first quarter. Then once (Kevin Garnett) comes out we kind of get off kilter.

Dan Glickman

Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future,

Jim Greenwood

Malaysia is an important market with a strong interest in developing its biotechnology industry.

Becky Dyer

We now have peer tutors. They're developing relationships with each other.

Pat Riley

I think they have great respect for New Jersey. They are a very effective team right now and they're developing a lot of confidence.

Gerald Galloway

It is an important part of the U.S. economy, and it's even more important in the developing world. You have to be able to provide water for agriculture.

John Reid

Parties -- and the paramilitary groups -- have to play their part

Michael Fields

Our offensive line is a senior-oriented group that is jelling. They do a heck of a job working together and making adjustments.

Louis Navellier

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Doug Adams

People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000.

Ryan Julison

Some of these groups have legitimate concerns. Some just oppose development.

Jennifer Best

Some groups are worried that, if that happens, they won't have the volunteers they need.

D.J. Owens

Our team is a mixed group of scorers in that on any night six or seven different guys can explode. Tonight was my night, but I'm sure in the next game, it will be someone else. We're going to spread the love around.

Darci Lewis

Our starting group really stepped up tonight. They're such an unselfish team.

Brian Smith

Our first match in the group could not be more difficult,

Alan Foreman

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

Anne Mitchell

Parking limits handicap accessibility to your buses. This is especially true in Old Town.

Shinzo Abe

Surveys like this are also conducted by other countries. We should handle this calmly under international law.

Louis Hinnant

Surprised? Maybe. But not upset. This is the NCAA tournament. You don't get to hand pick where you go or who your opponent will be. For us, it's a privilege to be in Utah. It's a new experience.

Chad Campbell

Sure, it's going to be a long day, but I think it will be more mental than physical. We don't have to run around there tomorrow. So, while it's going to be tough walking around this course, we'll handle it.

Kyle Deines

Stay back, stay tall, throw your hands at it and try to take it to right field.

Dick Bennett

Stanford used their inside people well. The big kid, we were simply unable to handle him.

Michael Brown

Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.

Jose Vicente

Some low-ranking officers were passing information to the Pentagon . . . handing over secrets of the state.

James Davis

Our profits would increase, gosh, a lot, ... Of course, we?d lower our prices.

Sgt. Delaney

I wish that the numbers were lower for this neighborhood.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

Ronald Allen

I would think that (61/2 years) would be the lower limit. After all, Ryan is more responsible for this than Fawell is.

Laurie Berger

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Mark Begich

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Janet Reno

I think he had a responsibility to see that the processes were in place that could make this system work as it should work in a democracy.

John Felmy

What you've got are a whole series of requirements and processes and that takes days, if not weeks.

Rick Anthony

There were processes that had to be improved.

Todd Pratt

I think Ryan's proven everything he can prove.

Dave Martin

I think GamesRadar.com still has a lot to prove. IGN and GameSpot.com have proven traffic and a successful format.

Jason Taylor

I don't know that we've proven anything yet. I think we took a step in the right direction.

Jose Fernandez

If other schools question why they didn't make it and we did, they should schedule differently. We've proven we belong.

Travis Ramsey

He has made a point. he has proven what he can do.

Danielle Brian

No one has proven themselves strong enough to tackle it.

George Smitherman

We need to look in those jurisdictions that have taken that step (to see) whether it's proven to be effective.

Ron Cosner

She has proven she can probably steal on anybody.

Doug Young

To be safe and soon we have to go with proven methods.

Beck

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

Barry Lopez

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Robert Dunn

We now know, he didn't have anything to do with the device. He didn't have anything to do with the attack. So what does that say about the quality of whatever the polygrapher was doing?.

Bill Crawford

Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.

Carrie Fisher

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

Arsene Wenger

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Igor Shpilband

I think they just ran out of steam. I think they have the same quality of skating that the Russians do, and that it's totally comparable, but they just made some mistakes.

Bill Burr

When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there.

David Waller

That would have been a water quality nightmare.

Rick Springfield

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

Daren Kagasoff

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

Kevin Jackson

I think there were strained relationships in years past.

Sonia Braga

I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow.

Larry Ellison

Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

Katrina Kaif

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

Joan Van Ark

Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.

Rhonda Britten

Is what I am saying loving, compassionate, kind, empowering, or insightful?

S. E. Hinton

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Jonathan Safran Foer

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Jim Kerr

She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players.

Dion Harris

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

Peter Agre

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

Donald Trump

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

Michael Carty

They're going to be upwards, ... But it's only going to be in select sectors.

John Davies

But the way it happened, after it was all over, it was unanimous that we select Erskine.

Leon Mbangwa

He is still under our observation. But he is still stable and still in hospital.

Chris Presson

Financially, we're more stable than we've been in many, many years.

Mark Zuckerberg

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Peter Banko

It's not critical. It's not serious. It's just stable at this time.

Al Stadler

It's been stable since. We've had no issues.

John Heywood

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

Carrie Underwood

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

Derek Jeter

He can play. He has an approach, and he sticks to it. He can pretty much do it all.

Seth MacFarlane

If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.

Ben Fountain

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Dave Ramsey

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

Natalie Gulbis

She grinds. She just sticks to her routine.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Dennis Quaid

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

David Smith

I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy,

David Strow

That was the attraction. It was a tremendously strategic location.

David Satcher

We have to be more strategic in the distribution,

Navtej Sarna

The visit is significant in view of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

John McDonough

Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,

Stephen Kinzer

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.