Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Thayer

We were anticipating that we could see a little bit of an improvement in October because the rebuilding after the hurricanes appears to have started and energy prices have stabilized, but it appears that it will take a little longer for consumers to feel better about things.

Mark Rosenker

We've seen fatigue. We don't know why that fatigue appeared. That is what we're trying to determine. This crack appears to extend through a majority of the spar at the location of the separation.

Anthony DiClemente

The reality is that Blockbuster has burned through $267 million in cash through the end of the second quarter and it appears that they are still burning cash to date.

Pat Cash

We usually belt out AC/DC and Bryan Adams numbers. Now, playing the guitar appears more fun ... tennis demands commitment of an entire year on the tour.

Mike Hill

We know at this point that it did come from inside the house. It appears to be his father's handgun that was secured in an office that his father has in that house.

Stephen Chick

Walgreen appears to be gaining share from weaker chains, while 2006 should see benefits from the higher-profit generic transition cycle and potential Medicare traffic.

Elliott Abrams

When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.

Emily Martin

Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!

Charles de Secondat

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Greg Biffle

When your name gets put in a sentence with Jeff Gordon, that's a bid deal. I have a lot of respect for Jeff Gordon.

Pitt elder

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

John Copeland

We are going to make a pretty strong bid to defend our New England title.

Shannon Bennett

We did not get a bid we could accept.

Murli Deora

We are making all efforts, including using our personal contacts, to get U.S. multinationals to bid for our exploration blocks ... so far they have stayed away, but I am sure this time things will be different.

William Mattison

Where the dealers are making a market with a wide spread, but have in their possession an order to buy stocks at a higher price than they're bid, or for a lower price than they're offering, they want the investors and the institutions to see those better bids and offers.

Rob Enderle

When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

Thierry Breton

This process creates an impression that the bid may have been launched hurriedly.

Dominic Guida

We're still looking for donations of items for the auction. We're particularly interested in items that are related to athletics. Anything that people would want to own and bid on.

Pierre Berbizier

We want to play with the same rights of the other team, we cannot play with a handicap.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have said consistently that General Motors cannot shrink itself to prosperity. In fact, shrinking General Motors only exacerbates its problems.

David Murangari

Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed.

Joe Nickel

When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.

Danial Shapiro

When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance.

Tom Segev

We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers.

James Morris

We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds.

Atal Vajpayee

We have proved that India is neither a proliferation threat nor an exporter of sensitive nuclear or missile technology. This cannot be said to be true of all parties to the NPT,

Brigham Young

We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth.

Marian Salzman

There is a straight (heterosexual) man who embraced a mention of femininity. He responded to those marketing messages but ultimately had a reaction that's pushed him back to traditional masculinity.

Chris Cichocki

We set the 20-win mark a week or so ago, and we can still make it if we play well down the stretch. The team has embraced the idea.

Pope John

The pope, in his heart and with his words of encouragement, embraces all who suffer injustice.

Eric Maskin

Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.

Calista Flockhart

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

Kathy Murray

We are a true melting pot, and we made it work. It's really important that Moss Point embrace that idea.

John Barrowman

Wherever I am, I will embrace the life and the lifestyle. I've lived in Hollywood before, and we've moved into the old neighbourhood in West Hollywood. I love California.

Pat Haden

Where some people were bemoaning some of these things that surround the program, I think he has embraced them and turned them into positives.

Gretchen Rubin

Embrace good smells. No cost, no calories, no energy, no time - a quick hit of pleasure.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Charles Tennyson Turner

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

William Shakespeare

And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.

Kurt Vonnegut

Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.

Elie Wiesel

I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.

James Weldon Johnson

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

Carl Jung

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

Dan Stevens

A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

Clark Gable

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.

William Shakespeare

Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after

John Gay

I rage, I melt, I burn, / The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

William James

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Taya Kyle

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

Mike Smith

We wanted to throw a little more tonight, but old man weather wouldn't let us do that.

Ryan Rourke

The Pancake Man went well. We served over 150 people.

Sharon Stone

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

Samuel Smiles

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Selman Waksman

From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.

Sarah Snook

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Mary Daubert

When the first rescuers arrived, he was still conscious. But then he went unconscious and they were unable to revive him.

Mitt Romney

Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.

William Faulkner

Some things you must always be unable to bear.