Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Jenkins

We want to take the components and plug them into best-of-breed solutions, such as ratings engines. And whatever we choose has to be scalable, because, like other companies, we look at acquisitions as a viable way to grow.

Joseph Carroll

The perfect home is your home ... whatever it is and however you choose to make it so. You are surrounded by the things you like ... things that make you comfortable. It's as simple as that.

McKayla Maroney

For our team leotards, we get about ten to choose from to actually compete in at the Olympics.

Gretchen Rubin

I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, and enthusiastic - but very often, the things we choose as 'treats' aren't good for us. The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, loss of control, and other negative consequences just deepen the lousiness of the day.

Dan Mclaughlin

What the Senate did today is choose partisan politics over the people and the senior citizens.

Nitin Gupta

We want people to kind of help us choose what to listen to. This device kind of fills that role.

Mbhazima Shilowa

We want our townships to be places in which people take pride, where people live, not because they have no alternative, but because they choose to live there.

Jamie Pollard

We want kids that want to be here. If they choose that they want to be at another place, then that's better for them, and that's better for us. We made the decision a long time ago that we're running a marathon, we're not running a sprint.

Liu Bolin

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Jose Cruz

We want to show Congress that we're not criminals, we are hard-working people.

Carter Canada

The point is, am I going to let Mary Smith and these other nice, older women be sent out of here thinking they'll have a voucher for the rest of their lives, when Congress is looking to cut the program? They're going to be in Miami somewhere, and they'll be homeless. That's why the fight is going on.

Alex Conant

We have no problem notifying Congress and sharing information with the Hill.

Al Gore

What the United States Congress does on this issue will have an enormous impact on the prospects of peace and prosperity in the far East,

Tamar Jacoby

What the public wants, and what Congress will focus on, is getting control of our border.

Bill Clinton

When first graders shoot first graders, it's time for Congress to do what's right for America's families.

Martin Frost

While many members of Congress have some reservations, members of Congress by and large have decided this is the right thing to do at the right time. But now he must take this to the public,

Sherwin B. Nuland

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

David Lewis

Whether it's the courts or regional offices of executive agencies, members of Congress want some control over how things are done in their states or districts. As long as they have some influence over the picks, they like the patronage system.

Byron Katie

My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Joel Sawyer

We're going to have to go to some kind of Plan B. The funding we have for this is totally dependent on the federal government.

Ehren Kruger

I've worked on some movies that get put in the horror shelf on the video stores, but they're really structurally like mysteries, and not so dependent on the gore factor, so they really don't need to be R-rated movies.

Bill Richardson

We're here to try to find ways to, perhaps, encourage utilities to switch to natural gas so that we're not so dependent on home heating oil in this region,

John Lott

Many people found for the first time what it is like to totally dependent on themselves for protection. People put up signs that said 'Shotguns Inside' and that kept the gangs and violence away.

Charles Koch

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

Walter McCormick

The promise of the next-generation Internet is dependent upon there being investment in next-generation networks. If you're going to expand these networks, how are you going to earn a return on that investment?" ()

Yotam Ottolenghi

The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.

Carlotta Harrell

We don't have to reinvent the wheel. The principal and teachers literally went door to door inviting parents to participate. They found most parents had no idea the school was so dependent on them.

David Suzuki

Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

Matthew Smith

The perception that the U.S. economy is a runaway freight train is mistaken -- things are slowing.

John Davidson

The ongoing issues are the strength of the economy and whether or not the pace of the recovery is in fact slowing down. One of the important things this week will be to see the extent of the damage.

Sidney Taurel

We are seeing a very resilient economy and one that seems to be growing in every part of the world. Just about every region is growing and it's very encouraging.

Shahab Jalinoos

There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.

George Rose

We're in a global wine economy now. If you're out of grapes, you're out of grapes.

David Rosenberg

When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story.

Helen Sharman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Patricia Russo

We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements,

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Ivan Radenovic

Whenever we played them, we played well in either the first half or the second half. This time we've got to put it together for 40 minutes if we want to win.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ed Beattie

We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little worse, and it made it a little worse tonight.

Brian Norberg

We were an all-zone team early, but we've gone back to a man-to-man late in the season. I feel we can play either one. In the post-season it's nice to be able to fall back on a zone if the man isn't working.

Will Muschamp

We were trying to improve fundamentally. You either take a step forward or a step back every day. You've got 15 opportunities, and we need to get better all 15 times out.

Natasha Trethewey

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Brian Moehler

We're going to make mistakes. That's just the way it is. Hopefully you learn from those mistakes and don't make them as frequently as the year goes on.

David A. Bednar

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

Clint Eastwood

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Charles Francis Richter

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'

Bill Owens

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Ben Carson

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

We don't know how frequently this kind of mutation can appear,

Gary Sheffield

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

John Barton

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

Leos Carax

I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.

Leos Carax

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

Gordon Campbell

We know from the past that when these solutions are imposed from the outside they have failed,

Frederick M. Vinson

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

Walid Jumblatt

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Roger Toussaint

We're not talking about a new strike. We're saying that we want a negotiated settlement, not one imposed through arbitration.

Vladimir Putin

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Daniel Everett

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Lee Quillen

The plants that are going to be the largest 10 years from now should be the largest ones you put in the ground.

Joe Becker

We sheltered about 3.5 million people. The largest night was about 150,000.

Suzanne Fields

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.

Patch Adams

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Zac Goldsmith

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Craig Anderson

People were so moved by the power of what Sara and Yvonne have done, and it's the largest response I've had for any movie that I've done.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Scott Smith

When you think about it, 'Siskel and Ebert' is reachable by 95 percent of televisions in U.S.,

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Thomas Doll

We've been in similar situations often this season.

Steve McNamara

We work out of a similar structure but all tinker about with it in different ways.

Oliver Luck

My sense is that we're going to have a similar crowd.

Gwendoline Christie

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Wang Guoliang

His voice and tone were similar to the secretary-general.

Ladell Betts

Hopefully, we can get something similar like we had in the first game, when we had a 1-2 punch,

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.

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.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

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.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Jack Toney

Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.

Harry Triguboff

We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.

Albert J. Nock

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

P. Chidambaram

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

Thorstein Veblen

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Donald Trump

We're going to renegotiate trade deals.

Donald Trump

We're going to make great trade deals.

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.