Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Stewart

We have scheduled a mediation session with the firefighter union and its representative for Friday, March 3. It is in the interest of the city and the union to settle the contract to avoid the time and cost of Act 312 Arbitration.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire, and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Stuart Rothenberg

The problem with the big issues, Social Security reform, campaign finance reform, fundamental tax reform, is that they are so politically dangerous that I think both sides want to avoid them.

Therese Fowler

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

A. S. Byatt

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

Thomas Pogge

Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.

Tim Bray

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.

Tim Russert

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

Mike Brown

So it's compound problems, ... Somebody is not in their gap and then you miss the tackle and it turns into big plays.

Dr. McKinlay

There has been increasing concern about the use of mercury-based amalgam for filling teeth, even though we've been using exactly this compound for about 150 years.

Kent Houser

We are playing so different than we were a month ago. When we make a mistake now, we don?t compound it by making another or getting that deer-in-the-headlights look. We just keep playing.

Ferid Murad

What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

Bill Sexton

I think we helped them in the first inning with the double error. That inning is over with no runs if we make the play on that, but then we compound things with the mistake in the outfield as well.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.

Robert Wisner

Delays from here on will further compound the lack of storage.

Neil Herman

Apparently, more Sun servers are sold running Oracle software than anything else. Weak results and guidance from Sun only serve to compound our near-term worries.

Samuel Butler

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.

Bruce Bochy

We have some decisions to make, and we need to get the staff together and talk.

Dawn Ostroff

We have some big decisions walking into our scheduling meetings with as few holes as we have.

Henry Leger

We have some big decisions on our plate.

Jeff Beeman

When you're up by four in overtime, you should win. But in that last minute, we made some very poor decisions with the ball.

Spencer Abraham

We want fewer 'Washington knows best' solutions and more people at the local level making education decisions for America's children,

Christina Sims

We use to discuss decisions. While he was over there I tried to keep him from worrying about what was going on here so he could concentrate on getting home safe.

Yasin Malik

The people of Kashmir should be involved in a process where their destiny is decided. So far, all decisions about our destiny have been made by others and later communicated to us.

Talib Kweli

When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.

Jack Greenberg

We want staff functions to support line decisions and maximize their impact.

Tom Stevens

If we do come out to San Francisco, this (steroid) issue is going to come up. At the same time, to not come could be construed as not being gracious. But do we gloss over (the steroid issue), do we ignore it? I don't know what to do.

Richard Donnell

A resurgent market in London, where prices grew by 1.1 percent, has put something of a gloss on the headline results.

Cate Blanchett

Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'

Carol Shields

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

Carlos Beltran

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Carlos Beltran

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

Carlos Fuentes

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Kane Moix

We have so many things in our playbook that if a team thinks they have us scouted out, we'll just throw something else at them. We have a lot of ways to keep people on their toes. It can be hard to remember sometimes, but it's obvious it works.

Richard Farmer

When everyone knows everything is going right for a company, sentiment is hard to improve.

Janet Yellen

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

Don Madden

When he'd tell you a joke, you'd have to laugh because he was laughing so hard.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

C. S. Lewis

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Richard DeKaser

What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.

Aasif Mandvi

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

John Gibbons

We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Agnes Smedley

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles de Gaulle

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Maribel Lopez

The reality is, this is where the money is at.

Conor McGregor

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Michel Brunache

We have no objection that he travel if ultimately this is what needs to be done for him to get treatment.

Alan McCoy

We have needs for people with specific backgrounds and training." ()

Alan Sugar

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Roy Blunt

The product we had for today wasn't quite where it needs to be yet,

Brian Cox

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Brian Eno

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Boomer Esiason

Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you see is what you get, unlike some other competitive Web-based Website building tools.

Diane Wood

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Michael Buckley

We're scheduled to go (today); no problems with the spacecraft. We'll see how the weather goes.

Manju Warrier

Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one.

Simon Crisford

She had a lot of little problems in the winter and then more in the spring,

Aguri Suzuki

Since we launched the team in a short period, assorted problems are rising and there are many things that should be solved.

M. Thompson

She understands the problems we have up here. I know she doesn't have the solutions, but she's willing to look for them. I'm a supporter - 100 percent. One thousand percent.

Alyce Wiedner

We've never had an argument. We've never had any problems.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Frank Robinson

We did have it, ... for a short while.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Demetri Martin

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Billy Bob Thornton

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Tom DeLay

To all these new spending requests, I say, 'Mr. President, show me the money,

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

David Lange

Death is very, very terminal.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

Cheryl Strayed

You get to define the terms of your life.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Joe Lhota

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

Billy Bob Thornton

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Brad Garlinghouse

Most turnarounds don’t turn.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.