Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Osborne

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

Adam Osborne

Adequacy is sufficient.

Albert Bandura

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

Albert Bandura

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

E. Stanley Jones

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

Tang Shuangning

The purpose of engaging strategic investors in the shareholding reform is not to collect funds to raise the capital adequacy ratio of the state-owned commercial banks, but to learn from the expertise of our foreign counterparts in service, management and internal control to improve the competitiveness of China's banking sector.

Sheila Garrard

The operating trend is as I expected, although revenues are of slightly better quality. But it's disappointing that they haven't made progress in dealing with the capital adequacy position at this stage.

John Koskinen

We think the adequacy of health care will be fine. You'll get good treatment wherever you go.

Arlen Specter

Before I can evaluate the adequacy of these changes, I have to know a lot more about the specifics of the problem. It doesn't do a lot of good to move names around on organization charts if there aren't substantive changes. What's going to happen to the next Phoenix memo? Where's it going to end up?

Grace Potter

We want it to be small-time. We're not going for charts here. We're just looking for people in Minnesota to be able to go into a store and find us.

Don Waddell

We're going to do depth charts by team. Every team is going to have guys we're going to watch, some teams are going to have more guys.

Walt Whitman

When I heard the learned astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much a

Greg Kraft

She's really been off the charts and so consistent with it.

Eugene Parker

Richard worked something out and went in. Hines, when you consider where he is in his career, has got to do a deal while he's at the top of his charts with his performance. His risk is greater than that of a 25-year-old.

Anthony Shaffer

I did see the charts and I did handle the charts, but my understanding of them was like a layman, ... We had identified them as terrorists. . . . But even now I do not remember all the names.

Alex Pareene

The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.

Matt Mullenweg

Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.

Bill Wyman

Our record was at 98 in the charts when we went so no-one knew us, so people just didn't come to our shows - we'd be in a 10,000 stadium and there'd be 300 people there.

Carroll McCray

We're going to evaluate whether we moved the right guys. We're not opposed to moving any more. But with the two moves last week, and now with Brandon this week, everybody else should stay in their spots pretty much between now and next Tuesday." ()

Jim Bates

We're going to evaluate every position. We're going to evaluate, see what happened. We'll evaluate as we do after every week.

Mike Babcock

We're going to have to evaluate our team this summer. And if we have to make changes, we will make changes.

Rich Anderson

We know we're the underdogs, we have a young team. We have to come out and play. We're not going to evaluate on wins and losses, we're going to evaluate on our effort.

Rachel Scott

We want to make sure that we do a very thorough investigation and that we evaluate all possibilities.

Pat Summitt

She got a concussion. She was out today. We'll evaluate her to see if she'll be back tomorrow.

Richard Behnke

We hope to eventually be able to predict major events on the sun and to evaluate the impact of magnetic particles hitting the earth.

Mark Snyder

Tomorrow is the last evaluation. We will not evaluate from the spring game. We might get a little evaluation out of it, but tomorrow is our last big evaluation day.

Andy Reid

We'll see as the week goes on. I'll evaluate it and see what we want to do with it.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Catherynne M. Valente

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

Dorothy Allison

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.

Julien Dray

When youths take to the street, you don't know what can happen ....

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

C. L. R. James

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Bryan Clay

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Charles Caleb Colton

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Alan Paton

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Moore

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

Alan Guth

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Alan Bullock

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Sharpton

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Al Jarreau

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

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.

Cab Calloway

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Bess Myerson

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Ann Coulter

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

Mike Butters

Phoenix is a tough team. It'll be a tough game. They're ranked second in the nation, so we're going to have to work.

D. James

I don't know my situation right now. I'll find out when I get to Phoenix or when I get back from Phoenix.

Ambrose Bierce

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Dan Fogelberg

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

Billy Corgan

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Lord Byron

Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.

David Washington

We just wanted to make sure we understand the specifics of what happened. We want to go over everything. We'd like for this thing to be remedied.

Michael Greene

The tone was the right tone but the specifics and the specific commitments, that's for the follow-up,

Michelann Ooten

I don't really know specifics on when it will all be back to normal. It's going to take a while.