Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felipe Alou

We have no control on what's going to happen. He could be acquired by another team or he could just walk away from us. That would be a setback for us, because we know he is capable of pitching well, and he could end up doing it for someone else.

Selman Waksman

In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry.

Hashemi Rafsanjani

We are not bothering anyone, but we have acquired nuclear expertise and we want to benefit from it to improve our life.

David Simons

We are pleased to report another quarter of strong financial and operational results, as well as the completion of several activities that position us well for 2006. During the fourth quarter of 2005 we opened one new development project, entered into a land development joint venture, acquired interests in two regional malls, sold twelve non-core retail real estate assets, issued $1.1 billion of unsecured notes at attractive coupons, and expanded and extended our corporate credit facility on more favorable terms. In addition, our development program continues to proceed with six projects under construction. We are also pleased to announce today an 8.6 % increase in our common stock dividend.

Robert Ecker

We are pleased to have acquired basic cable rights to this significant and important documentary that sheds considerable light upon the often neglected achievements of African-Americans in motor sports.

George Bodenheimer

We've acquired wide-ranging rights to fuel all of the multimedia business of ESPN that today number over a dozen and will continue to grow.

Sean Payton

We've acquired some players because it was an area we felt like we needed to improve and whether or not it's finished there, it's probably too early to say. Some of these guys we've been able to sign we're getting a good look at now and some have more experience than others.

Katharine Graham

When in 1969 I became publisher of the 'Washington Post' as well as president of the company, my plate was fuller than ever. I had partly worked myself into the job but not, except for rare occasions, taken hold. I had acquired some sense of business but still relied on others more than most company presidents did.

Jerry Garcia

Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

Charlize Theron

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

David Dismukes

may end up importing labor from other producing regions.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Ted Ludwig

Maybe it's just symbolic, but to me this is the day for labor and this is the day I'm proud to be a striking member.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Kate Winslet

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

Cindy Morgan

The geeks shall inherit the earth - I've always said that.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Jane Austen

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Jane Austen

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Cherie Lunghi

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Babe Ruth

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Calvin Coolidge

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

Charles M. Schwab

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

Bob Brown

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.