Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Ward

We have no basis to know whether it's a legitimate expense or not. What do any of us know about accounting? That's what we hire professionals to do.

Tom Gallagher

What these numbers have done this morning is raise a question: Does the Fed have the nerve to raise by 50 basis points (a half percentage point) next week?

Richard Cripps

We've set up a situation where a 25 basis point (a quarter percentage point) cut is good but you're looking at a market that's desperate.

Brett Scallions

The exposure will be great and plus -- it's Aerosmith! ... They're legends. It's going to be really cool. I mean, how cool would it be to be on a first-name basis with Steven Tyler?

Suzanne Collins

There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

Stephan Pastis

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

Tom Hopper

I think I found that when I was doing a show on a regular basis and just acting constantly, that was when I was at my happiest.

Tony Hoare

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.

Sue Trinh

The outlook for rates is to the downside on the basis of the slowing growth environment. Any view that the relatively high nominal interest rate structure will be enough to insulate the New Zealand dollar is dead wrong.

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Alan Rudolph

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

Bill Reynolds

There are a lot of Civil War guys around that nobody knows where they're buried.

Kemal Saiki

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Sue Monk Kidd

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Generoso Senga

We have remained firm in our position that we shall remain united in this stand not to intervene in any of the political undertakings,

Andre Dreicon

The expectations are firm after the U.S. held rates steady.

Brad Pacheco

We are pretty tough on fees. We are not going to pay a firm more because they have some overhead with a placement agent.

Anne Bremner

We still stand firm in our view that there should be two newspapers. It would be a shame if there was arbitration, and only one newspaper left standing after all of this sound and fury.

Timothy Flynn

We regret the past tax practices that were the subject of the investigation. KPMG is a better and stronger firm today, having learned much from this experience.

Kenny Chesney

I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.

Daymond John

Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

Schelley Olhava

The prices for PS3 they are presenting are not necessarily accurate, and there is no firm confirmation from Sony that the launch will be later than this spring.

Andrew Heyward

Leslie has not set a firm timetable. But we're making good progress.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.

Rig Veda

There should be mutual love and co-operation between the guardian and the recipient.

Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

W. S. Gilbert

The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.

Juvenal

But who guards the guardians?

Vicente Fox

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Thom McDaniels

We had three different protection schemes because they give you three different fronts,

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

Jerry Falwell

I think pornography is a scourge on society.

Christopher Marlowe

For Tamburlaine, the scourge of God, must die.

Warren Tompkins

They are the scourge of American politics. They are unaccountable and play by a different set of rules.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Kate Winslet

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

Cindy Morgan

The geeks shall inherit the earth - I've always said that.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Laura Wade

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Brian Aldiss

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Demetri Martin

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

Trevor Carritt

Cedar Rapids Prairie is a solid team with no weak weight classes.

Nic Beaver

We have to be solid between our ears. If we play our game, I'm not worried at all.

Martin Pyykkonen

This seems, on balance, a solid report, with nothing wrong in the quarter,

John Blackburn

We competed well in non-conference play and have had solid practices.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Bryan Sierra

We are not alleging any connections to any terror organization other than the FARC.

Arthur Conan Doyle

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

Bruce Schneier

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Bill Ayers

Terrorists destroy randomly.

Asa Hutchinson

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

Bashar al-Assad

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

Ang Lee

I had to test a new terror in myself.

Foster Friess

We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.