Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Bennett

We spent more than the president requested, and we were criticized for pork-barrel spending,

Barbara Sher

Whenever we dream out loud, were criticized for being foolish by people who really have no idea how special we are. As a result, we crush our dreams without giving them half a chance.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

Dave Marsh

Last year, we were criticized for the simplicity of the maps. This is the sort of quality with maps that we demanded when I was with Rand McNally.

Dennis Hastert

We were broadly criticized by some, especially in the Senate, ... We did not back up. We did not wave the white flag. We did not retreat. ... I think this is a good bill.

Joe Stork

Given Bahrain's strategic value, Washington may be reluctant to criticize its ally, but a failure to do so could result in growing anti-U.S. sentiment in the kingdom.

James Klein

From our perspective, all savings is good, and I'm loathe to criticize it until we see detailed plans. But the main question it raises is to what extent does this encourage or discourage long-term savings?

Tony Scott

I was always criticized for style and content, but I enjoy trying to tell stories a different way, particularly with this movie, Man On Fire.

Michael Robinson

Jay has helped me a lot. Those people that criticize him really don't know what they're talking about.

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're going to go see the factories you haven't seen before. You're going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside.

Mark Shapiro

We want him to throw quality strikes, not just hard strikes. He's going to be a contributor for us this year. Maybe not from day one, but at some point this season he'll be a factor for us.

Lisa Foster

We'll be going to the Factory at Franklin on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

Romeo Crennel

Working with the quarterback and being able to handle the offense is a major factor with the GMs throughout the league,

Bob Johnson

We've seen a cross-section of people from the smallest retailers to the largest factories respond. Many, many people are realizing what this program has done, and what it can do.

Anthony Chan

There are a lot of good factors out there.

Travis Buck

There are a lot of factors when it's been raining. You have to be a little cautious.

John Tait

There are a lot of factors to that.

John Cain

We know we've got to have that 20 percent (to be used as the city's match for a federal 80 percent grant).

Joseph Biden

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

Trot Nixon

We started off sluggish. But we fed off our fans.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Ben Bernanke

The Fed is totally open.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Charles de Lint

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Alan Rickman

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Alan Bradley

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

Al Pacino

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

Diane von Furstenberg

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

James Allen

We want to see what's out there and is it worthwhile to take anything to the next level of funding.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Garry South

We know how much we're going to have to spend. This is a (spending) level we think we can sustain.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

David Allen

Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Cary Elwes

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Peter Speicher

We are at the low end of what we were predicting. It was a little better than expected, I guess. It was just so warm and wet. A lot of it was melting.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Ben Affleck

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

William Shakespeare

How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena)

Noreena Hertz

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Scott Davis

When we get it down low to Ryan, we do pretty good.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

Pat Fitterer

When they were sophomores they were pushing the seniors.

Jon Runyan

Just pushing and shoving. That's the way I always play.

John McGary

He is going to be pushing for it.

Bill Sienkiewicz

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

Ron Barber

My staff would probably tell you that I don't want to leave events very quickly, and they're always pushing me to get me out the door.

York State

I was pushing for it from the beginning,

Jamie Hyneman

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Tony Johnson

We shifted because we didn't want them sold off individually. Then we could end up with absentee landlords.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Jamie Russell

You have to give Wisconsin credit. I thought they outworked us shift in, shift out.

Marty Turco

You play it one game, one shift at a time.

David Barber

This is a very significant result, and it's not some sort of trend that's going to shift back the other way.

Riley Nelson

Their whole team works hard, which is tough because you can't take a shift off.

Marcel Dionne

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

Fred Droes

We do not turn signals off and on.

Jennifer Robinson

The signals should smooth out the traffic around the (King of Prussia) mall.

William Dunkelberg

The index signals a solid start to 2006.

Rachel Cohn

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

Joss Whedon

Can't stop the signal

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Bryan Stevenson

There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.