Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Chris Patterson

We are proud that, with the introduction of this new truck, we have achieved Sterling's vision of being a full-line provider of vocational trucks. Not only is this a logical next step in the growth of the company, but it also provides a platform for future product introductions.

S. Hughes

We are pleased with the results for the fourth quarter. We achieved record revenue and finished the year by signing an important patent licensing agreement with AMD for which payments will begin in 2006.

Vance Coffman

We are pleased with the progress achieved in the first quarter and believe we have made meaningful strides toward improving value for our customers and shareholders.

Jim Lynch

We are pleased with out performance in the fourth quarter. We met our previously announced guidance and more importantly achieved our operating margin goal. 2005 was a transition year for the company where we focused our efforts on continued revenue growth and initiatives that would deliver sustainable long-term profitable growth.

John Barry

We are pleased to have achieved this important milestone, securing an initial credit facility, for our business. This facility gives us the flexibility to leverage and grow our portfolio in a cost effective way for our shareholders. We expect the size of this facility to increase in the future.

Michael Baker

We are pleased to have achieved our financial objectives for the fourth quarter and fiscal year. We look forward to carrying the strong momentum generated throughout 2005 into our next fiscal year.

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Brent Trout

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Michel Onfray

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Stewart Newnham

The pound's strength is tightening monetary conditions in the U.K., but it's not enough.

Taro Saito

The possibility is high that an improvement in labor and wage conditions will continue to support consumer spending going forward.

Serge Daney

The personal appropriation of clichTs is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

William Paul

We are seeing conditions that are similar to about what we saw in 2002.

Julie Gerberding

We are preparing for the possibility of infectious diseases that could be spread under conditions of crowding in shelters,

Chris Stanton

We are looking into whether Martha Stewart violated the conditions of her release,

Piero Fassino

There are conditions to create a government and to govern, even if the country is divided in two.

Kevin Stephens

There are some conditions we just can't handle here. Like dialysis. We can't do that, and they'll be here three or four days, so they'll need it before then.

Ken Burns

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

C. J. Mahaney

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Rod Bourgeois

We still worry that, at the stock's current valuation, implicit expectations seem somewhat steep relative to the guidance we anticipate.

Kevin Flanagan

We still think the fundamentals will come back and rise from current levels.

Jim Copeland

We're in pretty good shape, considering the current landscape.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

John Thain

We have to focus on the revenue side, we have to focus on the expense side and make sure we can earn to justify the current market value.

Alan Casden

We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.

Howard Davidowitz

The real estate has shrunk by more than 50 percent and is going to be shrunk again,

Luc Despins

To proceed otherwise would result in confusion, duplication and a huge waste of estate resources.

Rick Ross

Many of these proposed Peace Palaces never come to fruition. Much of Maharishi's vast fortune is in real estate investments,

Kazuhiro Takahashi

Shares such as real estate are expected to rise on expectations for land prices.

Jim Amormino

She was involved in nonexistent or fraudulent real estate transactions.

Catherine Dean

We don't have a lot of Henry's personal items because when he died, his family had an estate sale, ... Henry's belongings were dispersed.

Fanny Kemble

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.

Barbara Corcoran

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

David Miliband

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

David Rakoff

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

David Weinberger

How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.

Bob Hill

When you're playing playoff teams, it is more of an indicator of where we are and how we're playing.

Jim Calhoun

I don't have a number, but I have a strong indicator that it will be settled before we play next weekend.

Susan Blake

I think that the more information we have on a student, the better indicator we have of their prospective success.

John Cornyn

The Pew report is another indicator that the immigration system is broken.

Tom Schrader

I think the unemployment report is the main indicator people are waiting for this week.

David Littman

Our leading indicator - the one that's never lied to us like the politicians - suggests only 23 percent probability of recession over the next 12 months, that's very low.

Bill Cheney

Every time you see another indicator that they (consumers) are still spending, that's encouraging.

Adam Ferrara

In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Henry McVey

We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.

Edwin Land

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Bernard Ebbers

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Marianne Williamson

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

Niels Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Charles Spurgeon

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Charles Spurgeon

When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

Alan Greenspan

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

Alan Bennett

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Dan DeRose

We're going to try and be physical with the guards.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Richard P. Feynman

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Tracy Hickman

One of the wonderful things about Batman is that he is just a man. He doesn't have superpowers or extraordinary powers other than his tremendous intellect and physical prowess.

Twyla Tharp

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

Rob Gordon

Since we've been at Eustis, I don't think we've played in a more physical game.

Eric Coleman

Most physical team we'll play all year. In any conference.

John Bromley

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all,

Chris Forster

We have to play strong, you have to give it back. We're not used to being physically pushed around and you have to push back. In the state tournament, when you get pushed you have to push back.

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

Jean Dellios

We look at properties before sending anything out.

Robert Irwin

I always look to see if other properties have turned around, because if you're the first in you may really get hammered,

Jim Simmons

We sell most of our properties in 30 days. What most sellers want is their property sold as quickly as possible.

Barry Sternlicht

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

Pete Erlenbach

We can't tell if it is public or private. So we are going to take those properties out.

Peggy Moriarty

They just don't get to use it as much as they would like. They have properties all over the world.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

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.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Ned Freed

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

Charles Yates

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

Edmund Phelps

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

Paul Wolff

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

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Mark Langan

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

Chase Carey

We have recognized that our churn rate was too high, and we have been monitoring the credit,

John Kline

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

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

John Parsons

The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.

David Fischman

The rate of success is high, under the appropriate circumstances.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Mark Langan

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

John Kline

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

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.

Lawrence Yun

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

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Charles Nelson

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

Russ Jones

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

Max de Pree

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Heather Brooke

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Loretta Lynn

How do you measure your value?

John Hodgman

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'