Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Edwards

We want to scale this across the community of users in a systematic approach to ensure we keep in mind the users' needs and requirements.

Adam Mackillop

We have seen buying across products and client types. But clearly they're being overwhelmed by the selling in New York.

David Allen

We have seen bears in the trees across from Signal Hill Elementary. Some fruit-bearing trees don't attract bears such as cherry trees because the fruit is quite small.

David Sandor

We have seen across all genders a very healthy increase in home improvement projects, particularly those geared toward the inside of the home.

Shaukat Aziz

We have as of last night opened relief centers on various proposed points of movement across the Line of Control,

Ian Shepherdson

We have no real idea what the number next week will be, but we can be pretty sure that for the next few weeks the data will tell us next to nothing about the state of the economy across the country outside the areas hit by the storm.

Gary Sheffer

We have no layoff targets and no company-wide numbers. We never announce overall layoffs because we don't plan for them across GE. We leave it up to individual businesses to decide what actions are necessary to meet their objectives. However, it's clear we'll need fewer jobs at GE because of redundancies from the Honeywell acquisition, the Montgomery Ward bankruptcy, modest volume-related reductions and GE's digitization activities.

Alastair Reynolds

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

Jay Remy

We want parents to talk to kids. It's free speech. We can't stop students from participating. But if they do this, first of all, it's skipping school. And second, talk to them about safety. If you're walking across town, be careful.

Richard Geist

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

Ai Sugiyama

Whenever we have the Olympics or the Fed Cup, our schedule becomes very tight and I couldn't play the last couple of years. Everything is fine with me this year.

Bhagavad Gita

When your mind becomes fixed on Me, you shall overcome all difficulties by My grace. But, if you do not listen to Me due to ego, you shall perish.

Eric Goldstein

When folks find out the garbage is from New York, all of a sudden it becomes even more of a political issue.

Tony Smith

We have plenty of cover on the wing. Ideally, I would like a three-quarter but, until he becomes available, I will bide my time. There are not many English players available.

Bill Bruins

The real estate becomes so horrendously expensive that, from an economic standpoint, it doesn't make sense to farm it anymore. We're still losing over a farm a day, but the remaining farms are getting larger.

Kate Saunders

There is a long way before it becomes substantive and meaningful.

Tia Carrere

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.

Aasif Mandvi

You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.

Rob Stillwell

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can.

Chad Cassel

We have to have another good week of practice and continue to get better. It's a tough place to play and the winner of that series is going to end up with the No.2-seed in the conference tournament so it's big for both teams.

Paul Spiegel

We have no problem with this project because both Helge Schneider and Dani Levy are capable of approaching this work with the necessary sensitivity.

Henry Hyde

We have no precedent to follow on the involvement of the independent counsel in our proceedings. However, it seems both useful and instructive that we should hear from him since he is the person most familiar with the complicated matters the House has directed us to review.

Brian Lucas

We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.

David Dulkys

We have more time to study and play basketball. You can't do both at the same time.

Anthony Crabtree

We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team.

Paul Pierce

Whenever you get two all-stars on the court at the same time, you always have that sense of pride. We both have the utmost respect for one another and I think our competitive juices come out. What can I say? It was just a great night for both of us.

Marc Guggenheim

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

Jakaya Kikwete

We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

Phillip Daniels

We've got find someone to complement Santana. Once we put it all together, there's going to be some great things here for the Redskins.

Brian Sabean

Matt will be a perfect complement to the top of the rotation.

Justin Timberlake

The right scent can make you feel a little more stylish, but it should never eclipse who you are. It should complement who you are.

Philippe Perrin

There are two types of training: swimming pool and virtual reality. Each one has its limits, but they complement each other well.

John McCaul

My goal is to make it city-wide, in each sector, to complement the police so residents help by being eyes and ears for police.

Mary Cleave

New Horizons will study a unique world, and we can only imagine what we may learn. This is a prime example of scientific missions that complement the Vision for Space Exploration.

Scott Niedermayer

Obviously, on the ice I feel very comfortable with him. I didn't know we'd complement each other when he got here, but after playing with him for a while I think we fit together pretty well.

Carlos Delgado

I don't know much about how it was before I got here, but I can tell you we have a real good team and that creates a buzz. I feel pretty good about our chances. I'm not good at predicting anything, and after you spend a little time in the game you realize expectations don't mean nothing. I want to go to Spring Training and get in the winning mode. I want to meet some of the guys I've never met and try to see what we can do as a team and what we can't do and find a way we can complement each other.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Rodell Mollineau

The fact is that per-capita income in Iowa continues to grow.

Parris Glendening

The fact is, if water consumption continues at the current rate, there is only a 35-day supply in these reservoirs.

Michael Carty

There are a lot of good things happening right now, but the market continues to focus on Iraq, interest rates, the presidential election, and particularly right now, the high-profile earnings misses.

Aaron Swartz

Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

Claes Fornell

The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.

Elon Musk

I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

Kara Swisher

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

Stephen Baker

The powerful collaboration of industry leaders HP and AMD continues to yield successful results, as demonstrated by the HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC. With its rich feature set and distinctive branding, this notebook has proven to be extremely popular throughout the North American retail market.

Raymond Moore

We have assembled one of the most powerful strategic tennis partnerships possible, and this will ensure that the event stays here for many years to come. We look forward to working with them to improve and enhance this already terrific tournament.

Bill Gates

The potential for all these exciting devices, smart objects and services to enrich and enhance the way we live is truly amazing.

William Winkenwerder

We are prepared to provide a significantly enhanced effort, a major effort, if needed,

Nicolas Roeg

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

Carl Icahn

We're happy that value for all shareholders is enhanced through this offer.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Since the period of the threat now seems to be passing, I think over the immediate future we'll slowly be winding down the enhanced security,

Eric Knight

Miles of roads are also being enhanced to support the operations of the new space launch facility.

Bill DeWitt

We felt it was an investment in the franchise, and it would enhance not only 1997 but also future years.

Tommy Hilfiger

review various strategic and financial options to enhance long-term shareholder value.

Lawrence Summers

Ultimately, we're hoping to expand this further (beyond Boston).

Ellen Stofan

As we visit Mars multiple times, we will build up infrastructure on the surface to expand the capabilities and reach of humans on Mars.

Steve Atkins

We did not expand dramatically or extract any service.

Alan Clark

We are looking to expand in Russia but it will probably be through greenfield expansion.

Dick Durbin

Would you restrict freedom in America, or would you expand it?

Jim McFarland

We're still not expanding in the right areas, ... We have a waiting list for nursing and we talk about expanding in other areas.

Neville Isdell

We're looking at where we are most profitable and then expand our offerings there.

Timothy Noah

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

Todd Rundgren

I've become kind of a haven for people who like pop music, but that's not the only thing they like. They also like music in general and want to be able to expand their own horizons. They haven't completely given up on music and are willing to have somebody mediate new things that are happening in music to them.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Bryan Hassler

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Jacques Rogge

We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.

David Leff

This property is a very high priority. We remain open to further discussions.

Kenneth Branagh

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

Sam Stovall

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

Edward Murphy

We won't go any further with the VA until this process comes to some sort of conclusion.

Margaret Chan

Until we see further evidence, we are still at Phase 3 of the pandemic alert,

Tom Rath

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.

Adam Ereli

We respect the Swiss justice system, but we would have greatly preferred that he be extradited here.

Andrew Walker

Luke's been an outstanding editor-in-chief. Throughout the year, he's always been greatly supportive to me.

Bobby Ross

Maggie was a wonderful girl. She will be greatly, greatly missed. Our players have handled this tragic loss well.

John Walko

Returning a small number of high-cost products can greatly increase inventory value.

Koichiro Matsuura

From prehistoric times until today, humanity's dealings with water have greatly influenced the sustainability of societies.

Larry King

If asked, I would be greatly honored to stay on,

Pierre Lafontaine

One of the things that will be greatly missed is Mike's leadership within the national swim team,

Mary Mitchell

To All Who Rest Here, You Are Greatly Loved. In Loving Memory of Don Lewis, July 13, 1969-June 5, 2005.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Charles M. Schwab

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Maggie Erlenbaugh

Megan Nelson was in a new position (libero) and made some stellar plays on defense.

Tina Brown

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Paul Rudd

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

Vic Peters

It is nice to have that. Donnie Nelson was saying he's usually the villain so he thought this was great.

James Best

The movie has four-letter words in it. You've got Willie Nelson playing Uncle Jesse, smoking dope? That's not 'Dukes of Hazzard.' It should have been 'Jackass 2,'

Dan Jenkins

I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Baha'u'llah

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Aristotle

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Ben Jonson

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Richard Cripps

The Nasdaq is simply crowding out the rest of the market. If you are a portfolio manager, you have to own some of these (technology) names.

John Carlson

Then, and only then, they should put a small part of their portfolio in this.

Archibald Cox

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

James Blankenship

We wanted to come out and win the second half. That is an old cliche, but sometimes you've got to resort to that. And that's where we were at halftime.

Barton Gellman

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

Richard Cobden

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

Vanessa Mae

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

Jerry Jones

The development could be virtually anything, from a five- star resort to a vacation-club development.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Matt Hasselbeck

He sets the standards really high, especially at the quarterback position, and he isn't going to settle for anything less.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Scott Mills

The extemporaneous thinking is important. It is a really important skill in life.

Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Jasmine Cresswell

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Carole Bouquet

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain; more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.

Carlos Boozer

Too strong for that Bron Bron.

Carlos Castaneda

Fright is something one can never get over. When a warrior is caught in such a tight spot he would simply turn his back to the ally without thinking twice. A warrior cannot indulge thus he cannot die of fright. A warrior allows the ally to come only when he is good and ready. When he is strong enough to grapple with the ally he opens up his gap and lurches out, grabs the ally, keeps him pinned down and maintains his stare on him for exactly the time he has to, then he moves his eyes away and releases the ally and lets him go. A warrior, my little friend, is the master at all times

Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Agnetha Faltskog

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

Agnes Smedley

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

Agnes Varda

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

Agnes Varda

I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.

Agnes Varda

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Alan Kay

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Carlos Mesa

I want Bolivians to support their president.

Carlos Fuentes

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

Agnes Repplier

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Vandana Shiva

My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

Thomas Collins

We are here to support ECOMIL and we want them to succeed.

Jason Chaffetz

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

Toby Dawson

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

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.

Alain Juppe

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.