Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Katsuya Okada

We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government,

Andy Roxburgh

We want to stimulate, motivate and encourage the associations by inviting them to join the Charter, and then getting as much out of it as they can. UEFA will help them achieve their grassroots objectives.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Chad Harbach

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

Micky Ward

I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

Andy Gray

The potential savings achieved by moving to the lower-priced Aspen generic would be massive.

Paul Stephenson

The positive part of all this was being able to jointly achieve this outcome and it does give us faith that GSAHS wants to stay on there and is committed to keeping people happy,

Piet Mondrian

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.

David Allen

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

Dave Barry

Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements ...

David Talbot

EFR entered into an agreement to sell some noncore assets for $2.05M.

David Suzuki

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

Cathy Freeman

I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.

Caspar Weinberger

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

Anita Plessis

The powerful prayers of the righteous which moves mountains are determined by the power of agreement and not whether we're in the same place!

Trey Davis

The possibility of a settlement with Arthur Andersen presented many complicated and interconnected issues that required the agreement of numerous parties. Despite our extensive efforts, in the end these simply could not be worked out. Without their resolution, any settlement would have worked to the detriment of the class.

David Tennant

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

Keith Allen

We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.

John Kramer

We have no money, so the committee will have to go out and raise it, period.

John Luckhardt

We were trying to go hard to get guys in here for competition. Instead of one guy, we may go by committee to try to replace Antoine.

Tom Browning

We're going to be working with a community committee, a committee of people from the school district, teachers, support staff, all of them will collaborate to look through the applications, then we will umm whittle it down to a group of 6 we hope sometime toward the end of September.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

Sharad Pawar

When the selection committee took the decision, they conveyed it to me. It was a unanimous decision.... I don't want to interfere in the selection process.

Sen. Leatherman

We want to make sure we do this right and not rush through it. It won't leave my Finance Committee $100 million out of balance.

John Davies

We're just trying to help these offices. All we're interested in is trying to help these offices with their needs. The committee can only make recommendations. But you're either gonna have to buy, lease or build.

Maia Carroll

We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Lucas Papademos

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

Louis Stokes

In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.

David Boies

The only reason for them to collusively not to sell is to try to continue the scarcity that has driven natural gas prices to historic highs.

Rob Judson

The outcome of the game is important for us to continue to play well. Sometimes seeding for a tournament can be deceptive.

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.

Howard Johnson

The potential offensively is pretty good. If we can stay healthy and these guys continue to do what they did all spring, we'll be fine. We're going to be exciting at the top of the lineup.

Justice Theodore

The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.

Charles Caleb Colton

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

Charles Dickens

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

Charles Simmons

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

Charles Simmons

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Alan Bullock

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the worldís parade... We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings...

David McCullough

Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.

Jared Bernstein

You don't need an equitable distribution to have a sustainable recovery.

David Bowles

The fact of the matter is we're going to sit down with the speaker and negotiate a more equitable arrangement, and I think the speaker will be amenable to some accommodation.

Tom LaSorda

We all have to do our part going forward. And we have to do it in a way that is innovative, competitive, equitable and provides a long-term solution.

Dan Lawson

You have to be fair and equitable and, if push comes to shove, you have to hold people accountable.

Tom Joyce

We thought variable was more equitable for students.

Ken Brown

Our plan would be more equitable for everyone,

Randall Dodd

We don't see the losers being compensated by the gainers to make a truly equitable farm policy.

Jim Freeman

Most of the governments don't want a repeat of the past with the Tampa water wars. However, we do want to receive an equitable allocation.

Ernie Banks

After three years in banking, I went into the insurance business. Equitable Life Insurance. I spent two years selling life insurance.

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Lesli Linka Glatter

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

Bob Ferguson

Ultimately, we want to have the executive back in the people's building.

Robert Reich

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.

Kenneth Edmonds

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Stuart Taylor

The fact of the matter is very few appellate judges have had reason to rule on huge executive power issues, so the track record is not that informative.

Tom Courtney

She's not the first very strong executive to leave a dot.com that's had its stock go down.

Bob Phillips

We want the public to know if money is spent to influence executive action.

Guenael Rodier

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

C. Wright Mills

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

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

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.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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.

Confucius

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

Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Mohammad Afzal

We are not confirming it until laboratory tests come out.

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Matt Emmons

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Francis Chan

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

Michael Gray

It would secure ounces that they desperately need to secure.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Margaret DiNinno

Right now that's where it stands to be.

Charles M. Schwab

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

Elinor Wylie

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.

Annika Sorenstam

so I can feel the steel and be more in touch with the workout.

A. E. Housman

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

Andrew Carnegie

Steel is prince or pauper.

Herb Kelleher

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

Geraldine Chaplin

If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang)

Joss Whedon

I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!!

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.

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.

Charlaine Harris

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

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

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.

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.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.

David R. Brower

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

Bob Packwood

I don't trade my vote for money.

Eazy-E

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Bill O'Reilly

Millions of Americans have already convicted Mrs. Clinton on many, many things. They will never vote for her.

Chetan Bhagat

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Bill Maher

Don't vote for Republicans or Democrats until they clean up the open system of bribery that we live under.

Bill Maher

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.