Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Liu Jianchao

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. ... We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can solve the question properly through dialogue and diplomacy.

Maurice Hinchey

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions, ... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts.

John Hamre

Recent events where criminals were able to become customers have led us to take this strong action in order to regain the trust of consumers that their information is being used only for their benefit, or the benefit of society at large.

Kristen Kinley

Recall numbers vary from year to year, and they don't necessarily rise consecutively year after year, and they aren't in the case of Ford. This was a hit to our recall volumes, but the number of actions was down.

LeBron James

Record-wise and going into the playoffs, we can't improve. I'm trying to get as much rest as I can. I don't want to try to force the action by playing on an ankle that's not 100 percent.

Adrian Foster

Recent price action suggests the dollar-yuan is more loosely following the dollar.

Gary Chase

Recent price action in airline shares has created some price disparities that we believe investors should exploit.

Charles Holliday

Recent movements in long-leading economic indicators and in raw material prices offer hope that an end to the spreading global downturn is in sight, ... Despite that, we continue to take actions necessary to emerge from these difficult times as a much stronger company.

Andrew Oswald

Recent research suggests that regularly seeing good friends in the local park will bring a greater boost to mental health than having a shiny German automobile parked outside your retirement home. My candid advice to aging Americans would be to use your hard-earned cash to invest much more in friendships than in material items.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason (motherly advice) bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do.

Peter Gregory

Surgery is an option, but the advice we have received from two leading specialists in the field is that the injury may still settle without recourse to an opera-tion,

kim booher

Start with the simple tasks in restoring a relationship. Just communicating is a good first step.

Eliot Spitzer

Restitution I have almost always believed is best handled through individual arbitration or litigation where individual investors, if they believe they have relied upon improper advice rendered by Merrill Lynch or anybody else, can file that claim, ... That is the best forum for those issues to be resolved.

Allan Hoffenblum

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse again. That's my advice to him, which I believe he will do because he's a natural optimist, ... No matter what happens on Election Night, he'll figure out a way to say 'This is fantastic.'

Jim May

People who use the system ought to have some say in decisions of that system. I think they (FAA) certainly look to us for advice and counsel, but I don't thinks we have that kind of input now.

Andrew Peters

I might ask him how his game went, but other than that we don't talk much about hockey. I ask him for advice all the time, and he asks me, but after that it's all jokes.

Rick Greenspan

I will begin to turn my attention to identifying the strongest possible candidates to serve as the next head basketball coach at IU. I will seek the advice and counsel of a great many, scour the country and eventually bring recommended candidates forward to the president.

Gary Williams

Our passing was excellent in the second half and we really executed. I was really proud of our team play, and we have to play that way down the stretch.

Chuck D.

Paul's worked extremely hard and has shown excellent play in practice and in scrimmages. Paul will probably get that opportunity at another time.

Gordon Strachan

Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked. It is the first trophy I have won and the first as a new group so, hopefully, there will be more. When the second goal went away, I knew that was us on the way.

Gordon Strachan

Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked.

Chris Collins

Some of that comes from offseason training. They do an excellent job in the weight room,

Chris Schuster

Our pitching staff has been excellent all year.

Jared Ingersol

Our pitchers did an excellent job of throwing strikes and getting outs when we needed them.

Todd Wilkinson

Our pitchers did an excellent job. I am very pleased. We made several adjustments in trying to pitch to their outstanding hitters. We did a good job of that.

Howard Archer

Our Sunday lunches have been an excellent flagship because that is often many people's first experience of our menus.

Paul Burke

Our leadership has been out in the communities doing what they are supposed to do -- mobilizing, organizing and preventing further roadblocks.

Madeline Albright

Our message to India and Pakistan is that there should be no further nuclear testing, no deployment or testing of missiles, no more inflammatory rhetoric and no more provocative military activity,

Adam Adelman

Optimism in the numbers will be a roadblock for further gains. The upside in tech is limited.

Jim Porter

People have died. Lives have been changed. Property has been destroyed. Yet, a group of trial lawyers are using this disaster, not as a reason to help the people of this state, but instead to further their own personal agenda.

E. B. White

That couldn't be further from the truth, and I say that with emphasis.

Katharina Von

Overall it is satisfactory but we hope that there will be further improvement between now and 2009.

Jim Rees

Our visitors instinctively know that he's great. But they think he's stiff, formal, lackluster, and sometimes they use the word 'boring.' Nothing could be further from the truth.

E. Hurley

Rising oil prices are being looked at as a further weight on global growth as opposed to inflationary,

Jeb Bush

We need a little further wind at the back of this economy,

Jim Calhoun

Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.

Richard Hartley

Previously, I wouldn't have given us a good grade at all. But since we have (business manager Renee Hinton) in place, we're doing a much better job. I don't know if I'd give us a letter grade.

Wang Jian

Our research showed that about one-fourth to one-third of the tickets to a performance are given to government organs without charge.

Jerry Rickrode

Our mental psyche has not been real strong. But I'll say the guys haven't given up on it. We're working hard and trying to make adjustments.

Margaret Keane

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Eric Smith

Some of the requirements had given us very challenging manufacturing tasks.

Chris Klein

Our problem is holding that lead and making Houston or any other team panic when they're a goal down. We've twice now given up that lead too quickly.

Patrick Manteiga

Our staff has given them some break. This is just a group without a lot of money.

Robert Sasaki

Our scenario in 1999 is that 10,000 on the Nikkei is a given - 8,000 is possible. We think that if the market goes to 8,000 it's good. It's not going to stay there for very long.

John Shaw

Our offer is the most valuable and the most straightforward, ... Our record of performance is significantly better than Royal Bank's.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I swear to you, Nora Grey, on this day, from now and forever, to give myself to you. I am yours. My love, my body, my soul—I place in your possession and protection.” He held out the ring, a single offering, a binding promise. ~ Patch + Nora

Jon Brayshaw

I will offer no preconceived solutions. The worst thing in the world is for the first selectman to tell them what to do.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Scott Strasemeier

I think people would feel differently if he didn't feel like he made a mistake. He apologized right away. He offered his resignation.

Prince Charles

I'm shattered and horrified, and the least I can do is to come here and offer my sympathy and support.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Edmund Phelps

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Albert Einstein

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

Frances O'Grady

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Alber Elbaz

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

Makhosini Nkosi

The investigation was also conducted in consultation with the complainant and the relevant witnesses.

David Phillips

Some of the results will be sure to surprise you.

Lee Scott

Our results were not up to Wal-Mart standards,

Takashi Oya

Results were just as strong as we expected.

Mark Hurd

Results have been inconsistent. The stock has been volatile, if not disappointing.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Jason Kenney

I think the result is positive, and the dividend is a real bonus.

Andrew Johnson

I think that's been a really important, big step in the U.S. having more competitive results internationally.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Joe Escobedo

It doesn't take 18 months; it doesn't take 18 days. The results were immediate.

Bergen Evans

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Scott Lewis

I didn't give my trust to my guys,

Chris Duhon

If only we had an answer. Trust me, we don't know.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Jack McConnell

I don't trust him. He has wandering eyes!" ()

John Hill

I'd trust her with my wife and with my life,

Tim Duncan

I got a lot of (grief) for that, too. Trust me, I'm getting my share.

Charles R. Swindoll

We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

Blaise Pascal

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.