Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Crowley

We have no indication that any of the information's been misused. We went back and monitored activity in accounts since the theft, and we find nothing to indicate there's any unusual or suspicious activity.

Charles Stanley

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

Glenn Haberbush

We've seen some gyrations in expectations due to the whipsaw that we've seen in the economic data. We're looking for two more increases. At that point, the Fed must be a little bit cautious and take into account the lagged effect of previous rate hikes.

Lenny Goldberg

The fact that Hollywood productions use famously creative accounting is no reason to compromise a basic principle of our tax system.

Mark Vitner

The problem with the November employment numbers is hiring for the holiday season. It's hard to get a gauge of what it's going to be. They do a seasonal adjustment to the number to account for that, but the seasonal adjustment causes wider swings. And this year Thanksgiving came later in the month, so hiring might have started after the November data was collected.

John Stumpf

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I look at is the checking account report from the day before. I love checking accounts. I dream about them.

Milton Pedraza

We set out to measure 25 brands in this growing hospitality category. However, in the minds of ultra-wealthy consumers, the Destination Club industry is still in its early stages of development. This is indicated by the dramatically low consumers awareness, rendering a large number of brands unable to be rated for lack of a reliable statistical sample. The category is populated with new brands with highly generic brand names. Many names are quite similar, generating a significant lack of differentiation in the minds of consumers. In this highly fragmented category, few brands have generated sufficient awareness, or differentiation, to make a strong impression on the wealthy. This accounts for the tight variances in scores across most dimensions on luxury status.

Samuel Goldwyn

No agency is better than its account executives.

Terry Hayes

I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.

Carlos Ghosn

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

Ben Howland

We want to recruit the very best players in the country. That's why we're here right now: We have great players.

Anne McLellan

We want to reassure the president and the people of the United States that we are their best friends and their neighbour, and we will be there to help them in a situation that truly is without parallel in our country or theirs,

Jerry Colangelo

We want to quicken the game. We think these changes are the best way of doing it.

Ritchie McKay

We want to put our best players on the floor at any given time. Some teams happen to be guard-oriented like us.

Juergen Klinsmann

We want to push that back. It would be best for us to work with a large group of players for longer. Hopefully, we'll have time until shortly before the tournament.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide the best possible entertainment for our fans and that means creating a winning team and maximizing their chances of success.

Sam Cowart

We have to get to the point where we find out what we do best and execute it to a 'T,'

Parry Aftab

We have to get our kids to utilize the best Internet filter, and that's the one inside their heads.

Carol Moseley Braun

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carlos Castaneda

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Emmeline Pankhurst

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half

Johnny Thomas

We have to find some strong safeties and free safeties.

Beth Young

We were trying to get to the free throw line at the end of the (second) half. We couldn't get there.

Jerry Sloan

We were totally intimidated by the guy to start with because he had such free roam. We never got a hand in his face. He's a terrific player.

Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Alan K. Simpson

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan Kay

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Susan Uhrik

We want people to come, not only to raise funds for this family, but also for them to receive a blessing.

Sergey Galitsky

When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

Louis Navellier

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

Hugh Davies

We are proud to be in a position to offer these funds to the community. Personally, I'm honored to represent this group of vintners who lend a hand whether it be for Hurricane Katrina relief or to help a neighbor in need.

Terry J. Lundgren

When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the funds to pay for college. If I wanted to continue, I would have to do it on my own.

Jim Ritterbusch

What we're seeing now is that some funds had moved to the side making sure there wasn't a bearish surprise and now they are rotating back into the long side,

William Sullivan

We are also in the grips of liquidations by hedge funds and a lot of dealers don't want to see big exposures,

Ron Pearson

Therefore, a portfolio with 10 or even 15 funds is not uncommon.

Thomas Hill

Since then there has been some rethinking and the goal has been raised because we are looking at trying to also generate some operating funds. To get the renovation is one thing, but then once it's renovated, we need funds to operate it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Ben Okri

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

Diane Keaton

We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

David Hobson

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

Chris Johnson

She really grows on people after they get to know her personality.

Bruce Raynor

unless the labor movement grows to increase workers' standard of living, that has got to be our fundamental purpose. We have to put the resources where the words are.

Bear Grylls

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Albert Schweitzer

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Armando Siqueiros

There are things that happen to any young girl. But because she grows up, it doesn't mean she can't be competitive on an international level.

Bill Gates

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

Desiderius Erasmus

Frugality is a handsome income.

Dan Ariely

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

Deborah Smith

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

Elbert Hubbard

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

Ed Pastor

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

Houssaye Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

John Hollyer

From one period to the next, investors could see some income swings.

Larry Bloom

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

Agnes Smedley

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles de Gaulle

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Maribel Lopez

The reality is, this is where the money is at.

Conor McGregor

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Carolyn Beck

We're trying to reduce that and save lives.

Jeff Miller

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Carol Vorderman

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

Charles Caleb Colton

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

Diane Watson

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

David Krumholtz

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

Dave Barry

You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.

Jane Bryant Quinn

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Alan Jackson

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

Al Pacino

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

Jane Goodall

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

Dominik Jakubek

I am shaking right now. Our team battled all day. I made some big saves, and the team made some big saves when I couldn't. We stuck with it, and I am ecstatic.

Ben Quayle

And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode.

John Connors

First and foremost, the chaplain is there to save souls.

Denny Throneburg

The only thing that will save them is we don't have lights.

Ashley Tisdale

I use Kerastase Oleo-Relax when I get out of the shower. It saves my hair. Actually, I've been doing this Brazilian treatment to my hair. It's a lifesaver; I don't even use a straightener anymore.

Vance Moss

We saved lives. Every day, we saved lives.

Clay Ginglen

We saved his life. And we probably saved other people's lives.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Grover Norquist

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.