Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

Daniel Rosen

Our overwhelming problem is our representatives are voting according to how the moneybag supporters want them to vote.

O. Singh

Peace and happiness shall fill your mind deep within, if you act according to truth and self discipline.

Shaukat Sultan

Our men returned fire after being attacked by the miscreants, and according to our information between 15 to 20 terrorists have been killed in the retaliatory fire.

Robert Maire

Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.

Adam Smith

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

Tim Danson

Steve Moore had no control over the timing of the incident. This was our (legal) limitation period. We had two years from the date, according to our theory of the case.

Ed Epping

Statistics tell us that when you have 10 medical incidents ? then you're going to have a lost-time accident. We're up to 13 or 14 medical incidents, so we're overdue for a lost-time accident, according to statistics. That's why we must be more cautious than ever before, because statistics tell us we're overdue for one.

Katie Hafner

Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company - almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.

Hugh Johnson

That's the situation today, ... Since that's the case, I'd be more inclined to think this will be a negative year than a positive year.

Jessica Biel

I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.

Jim Talent

I don't know why there weren't plans, ... If there had been and they were inadequate, I'd be inclined to say nobody's perfect - but it just seemed like they weren't doing anything.

John Sutton

Maybe he's not as inclined to question the who, what, where, when and how first,

Sivamani

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

John Thune

I think a lot of the co-sponsors of it probably are less inclined because of the commission's actions.

Jacques Rogge

Whoever wins, it's going to be a prestigious city. I'm often questioned who might be the winner and I'm always inclined to say the winner is the IOC.

Tom Rogers

People will be much more inclined to watch broadband-delivered video if it shows up on the TV screen.

Marty Kaplan

People are inclined to have buyer's remorse about him. Most people are going to show up with a mood, and they're going to vote their mood, which is anti-Schwarzenegger.

Sathya Baba

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Franz Humer

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Buzz Hargrove

Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Irish Proverbs

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

E.R. Rock

Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Rousas John Rushdoony

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Barry Lopez

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Berthe Morisot

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Peace; come away: we do him wrong/ To sing so wildly: let us go.

B. B. King

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Bernadette Peters

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Tom Lewis

I think it will be a lot like our first match, where Nos. 2-3 singles will be critical,

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Elbert Hubbard

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Alphonsus Liguori

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

Fulton J. Sheen

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

Jose Marti

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Moses

Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Livy

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

Pearl S. Buck

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

Voltaire

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

William Sloane Coffin

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.