Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Evans

Let me tell you the basic fundamental principle by which we sit down and negotiate agreements with our friends: nobody wins unless we all win.

Jeffrey Vanderbeek

Let this definitive and final agreement leave no doubt that the New Jersey Devils will start the '07-'08 season at this world-class, state-of-the-art facility. This means the Devils are satisfied that the city of Newark will fulfill its obligations.

Gerry Adams

make it very very clear there is no way forward except the Good Friday agreement.

Rich Levin

Major League Baseball looks forward to signing a lease so that Washington's baseball fans can enjoy watching their team in a new, state-of-the art stadium. We believe it is important for all parties to honor the terms of the agreements that were made.

Rich Levin

Major League Baseball has not yet been provided with the filings made by the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Commission with the City Council last Friday, nor the text of the legislation passed by the Council last night. We are very concerned about what we heard during the debate, and we need to read the materials and the legislative language so we can determine whether they are consistent with the agreements between Major League Baseball and the city.

Jay Foley

Make them prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they actually had an agreement and a contract with this individual.

Bob Stec

Lexington and Bob Timberlake have a long-term agreement for the future to design, market and produce furniture. There is no plan to discontinue the original line from production and offering to the consumer.

Pope Benedict

Let us pray that the Holy Spirit illuminates, inspires and guides the work of the synod and pushes us to charity, agreement and the service of the truth.

David Rice

Let's put it this way: The billboard exceeds the allowable height and area for an on-premise sign, and there are probably other issues that will keep it from being approved. We'll see what the NCC and Cooper work out, but it'll probably be disapproved if they don't come to an agreement of some kind.

Isabella Rossellini

I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.

Robert Teeter

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

Sathya Baba

LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

Mark Erickson

Life is great. The miracles I've experienced. The sharing of experiences with friends, family, like I've never seen before. These are things that I avoided my whole life, not choosing to be a part of, but today I cherish them.

Jason Martin

Lunch is time sensitive, so I pick a venue that I can get in and out of quickly to avoid being late.

Joe Durkin

Make your plans early. Choose a designated driver so you get home safely and avoid the possibility of injuring yourself or others.

Steven Heighton

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

Gary Sharpe

Let me give you a bit of history. Two years ago, Andover came in here and Bam! Andover beat Kimball and shocked some people. Last year they came in here and Bam! Andover beat Kimball again. We were trying to avoid a three-peat.

Risa Stewart

Loud, excessive grunting and throwing your weights around on the floor usually go together, so we try to avoid it.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Koji Endo

Mazda is gaining on new models that are selling really well, lower production costs from platforms shared with Ford, and the weaker yen,

Tina Lange

Medical costs are rising significantly, so the fact that we offered a zero percent increase was substantial.

Sen. Bray

My impression from what has happened in other states is that student-loan costs have definitely gone up.

Robert Steidl

Nestlings probably suffered the highest energetic costs from disturbances because of their dependence on adults for food.

Pat Burns

One incentive is that energy costs are pretty low up here.

Scott Matthews

No one knows what the environmental costs of messing up the existing infrastructure will be.

Tim Jackson

Now the overhead for running dealerships has grown so much, it costs a lot more to operate all those franchises. If you're lucky, you're making a 1.5 percent to 3 percent profit.

John Conway

We had a very solid first quarter and are pleased with our performance. This is particularly true given the rapid increase in raw material prices and costs that we experienced.

A. E. Housman

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

Bible Bible

And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

Mr Howard

I ... understand that as a result of this issue, the status of that presidential decree is now being reviewed,

Harold Greene

Antitrust decrees are not written unlike leases for apartments, on a month-to-month basis. They are written for a long, long time, typically, particularly a big decree like this.

Tom Florczak

Once the decree is issued, we'll take our place in the priority system.

Susilo Yudhoyono

not to issue an (emergency) decree in this kind of situation.

Bible Bible

Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.

Jim Beaver

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.

Shere Hite

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

Peter Scobie

Minority governments can find it more difficult to pass policy. There is the possibility of delays in implementing anything.

Terry Riley

Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.

Rick Renzi

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

John Conley

We know it's a dynamic situation, but it's totally premature to talk about delays or postponement. Runners need to be prepared and dress for the weather.

Chris Riley

With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity for travel to all destinations from Decatur.

Boris Yeltsin

We lack rubles, and that's where the delays come from,

David Gordon

Historically, packaging has been one of the major delays for us in getting product out the door.

Leclerc Buffon

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Gordon Patterson

I said I could but with rain delays and stuff, I told them their parents would get tired of that drive every week.

Tony Ciriello

Majority rules -- and this is the vast majority. It's not fair to people who are standing in a line 10 tables back.

Bob Gammage

Let's put the wealth of the state as a whole on the table. Let's put every conceivable source of revenue on the table and forge a plan where every person in Texas pays their fair share.

Norma Martinez

Many of us own our trailers, but they aren't movable. We are low-income families, and this is not fair to us.

Bob DuPuy

MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.

Pat Harris

Mr. Hale thinks it was a fair deal.

Harry Kemp

Ms. Jackson and the staff at Fair worked so hard to reach Level 4, we just knew they would make it even before the test results, ... I don't think she (Jackson) has stopped smiling since I told her they reached Level 4.

Rhianna Pratchett

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Daniel Stern

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

John Breeding

So, it's back to practice for us on Monday. The thing I like is that we have three weeks to get things sorted out before sectional. We saw what we need to work on. Now, we just have to focus on it.

Brian Seymore

Momentum is very important heading into the playoffs, and I'm just so proud of our guys right now. I think we get better each and every week, and now we can focus on improving our seeding.

Scott Luster

Moving Lindsay outside forces defenses to honor the left side and that means they can't focus on our middle or the right. Lindsay on the outside gives us the outlet we needed.

Bill Cowher

Maybe we focus better. Maybe there's a sense of urgency. We've been the underdogs and our guys relished that.

Todd Hultquist

Meal times are such a focus for Hispanic families.

Don Cooper

Mac needs to come into spring ready to get a lot of innings. I'm not going to say he's our long guy or our seventh-inning guy or a spot starter, but he is a reliever right now until further notice.

Bruce Springsteen

Let's take the good times as they go, and I'll meet you further on up the road...

Milan Khatri

Low interest rates have really been powering these markets. The ECB is worried it is signaling inflation further down the line, but in the U.K. you have had very strong house-price rises, and no real pickup in general price inflation.

Jia Qinglin

Last year, President Hu Jintao and President Jacques Chirac exchanged visits successfully, which further boosted the development of bilateral ties,

John Edward

So long as he leaves open the prospect of even further rate increases, however, he won't get it.

Paul Tracy

Obviously we've had some run-ins this year and I've come out on the short end of the stick but that only motivates me further for next year,

Mark Regev

No one on the Israeli side has ever said that disengagement goes further than Gaza. Let's be very clear, this was a unilateral Israeli step.

Brian Nelson

More money should come in to the sector in anticipation of further consolidation.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Tony Dungy

Like '94 with Warren Moon and Joe Montana, you'll see two future Hall-of-Famers in Saturday's game.

Alexandra Robbins

...make sure you are still living in the present, rather than for an uncertain future.

Jam Master Jay

Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!

Bernard Kouchner

Let's talk about the future, not about the past. Next time I will be sure that they will not tell me that there is a Serb side and an Albanian side. Here's a hospital that will reach through this bridge.

James Schamus

Look out that window and you see a lot of people, including a lot of young ladies, ... That's the future of our film.

Justin Ossola

Leadership: that's what we learn here at USNA. Our goal is to teach people how to motivate whomever they're leading to do the right thing. Leaders of the future must have a strong moral foundation.

Brian Cashman

Let's get what we can get accomplished and let's concentrate on the future at a more appropriate time, which is after we get through the season.

Alfred McEwen

Learning more about where the water is today and where it was in the past will also guide future studies about whether Mars ever supported life.

Matthew Cooper

Sea level rise is a significant and growing threat to New Jersey, ... Future Sea Level Rise and the New Jersey Coast.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Josh Homme

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

Augie Garrido

Let's not make it anything that it wasn't. I was just hoping he would do what he did. That's all.

David Baker

Last year we had about 160 people. This year, we're hoping for 200.

Jason Williams

Scoring is up around the NHL, so I'm not going to think too much about it. But it's obviously it's a milestone I was hoping to reach.

Tim Nelson

Maybe we did stop something from happening. I was hoping I was wrong, because being right -- we saw what being right was -- 9/11.

Dwight Tankersley

One of the things I'm hoping for next year is that this is a smooth transition.

Paul Giemza

Obviously you're disappointed when you lose to your rival. We're just hoping that our team can rebound (today) and play like we know we're capable.

Michael Hein

No one really wants to step up and tackle this. They're silent on the issue, hoping that it will go away. They're not accountable themselves, but they're enablers.

Alexander Silbiger

One would think that with what little time she had left she would want to do other things. She was hoping to be able to teach this year.

Mark Cooper

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was a record year for the whole industry and for Airbus in particular.

Michael Callahan

No one industry can tackle this (dictates of a country's government) on its own.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Peter Bell

I don't think we're ever going to have no-one in the whole industry ever involved in it.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Ken Johnson

I work for an industry that's kind of misunderstood.

Diane Keaton

Len said, 'I'll give you a tour if you promise to join the L.A. Conservancy,'

Atal Vajpayee

many proposals for verification, of which joint patrolling is one.

Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

Richard Adams

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Michelle Ryan

I was shy and really into my school work and my drama. Then I joined 'EastEnders' at 16, and it was work, work, work. You become very isolated. I rarely went out and so didn't get to meet anyone.

Jamie Rodriguez

I feel good. It was a joint effort.

Bill Campbell

Since she joined us, we haven't lost a match. She really makes a difference.

Greg Boyle

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Max de Pree

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.