Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Thorp

Refiners are selling off all supplies of winter grade fuel in advance of next Tuesday's deadline. That has put extra supply on the market, sending prices lower. Motorists can expect to see prices stay near current levels for a couple of weeks. After that, with the extra winter grade supply used up, motorists should expect more upward pressure on retail gas prices.

John Thomasian

Recent technological advances have made the issue of individual privacy increasingly complicated. Governors have a responsibility to balance the benefits of sharing justice information with the need to protect the privacy of citizens in their states.

Sathya Baba

Reason can prevail only when arguments are advanced without the whipping up of sound.

Cathy Nelson

Our partnership with the 2006 Chicago Games will include cross-promotional opportunities, discounts for HRC members to participate as athletes and cultural performers, and cooperative events both in advance and during the Gay Games. We're very excited at this opportunity and encourage others to join us in welcoming the world to Chicago this July.

James Morgan

Our record results reflect customers' investments in expanded capacity to meet increasing semiconductor demand and in advanced technologies to provide more powerful, portable and affordable semiconductors.

Ron Stiver

Particularly in Northern Indiana we see a lot of opportunities in advance manufacturing and health care and all those are becoming much more technology dependent. So it behooves those students to be very technology capable.

Richard Palmer

Payment cards remain powerful tools to streamline costs and reduce purchase cycles. Our survey indicates that average cost per transaction with a purchasing card is only 25 percent of the average cost to complete a traditional, paper-based transaction. Driven by new technologies and advances in electronic and management controls, methods and procedures, the potential for U.S. federal payment cards programs remains great.

Shane Been

Our main goal this year is to advance to the regional final.

Cory Booker

Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.

Wang Yonggan

Related government bodies should come up with more practical targets of China's gas power development.

Cliff Cary

Our main lesson is all about team work. The overall idea is to give kids a fun and safe environment, so they can use their bodies and their minds, instead of watching TV.

Klaus Steinbach

Sports bodies and the state can fight doping together without having to limit the independence of sport.

Rhonda Faehn

Some of their bodies were hanging on there by a thread at the end.

Frank Minyard

Some people are just now getting back to their homes and to the homes of their relatives. The bodies are still coming in.

Jennifer Armintrout

Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.

Joanna Lumley

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

William Shakespeare

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Howard Duvall

Right now some 60 entities in South Carolina have eminent domain powers, and it's been discussed generally (in the General Assembly) to commit it to elected bodies and some others like the Department of Transportation and the Ports Authority.

Rich Irr

Rebounding is all about will. At halftime, I challenged our kids' will.

Curt Fredrickson

Regis has an outstanding three-point shooting team. It will be a real challenge for us to get out to that three-point line and guard their shooters.

Steve Sampson

Our players have had the challenge of, like every other club in the country, to meet the physical challenges of travel and on many occasions, Saturday-Wednesday-Saturday games,

John Schafer

Parking can be a challenge downtown, so we thought why not encourage mass-transit use.

Maribeth Smith

Parking also promises to be a challenge downtown and chances are you'll spend more than $5 a pop.

Butch Buchholz

Part of the problem they had in negotiating this thing was a lot of players wanted unlimited challenges. That would have been a problem. That would take forever to play a match.

Terry Hoeppner

Payton is a guy with great potential. He'll challenge for a spot. He'll give us that quality depth, at least.

Gary Bettman

Our member clubs, our officials, our players and our hockey operations people will face many challenges in the weeks and months ahead. My job is to make sure that everyone stays focused on the objective of fostering competitive NHL hockey that features flow, skill, speed, puck movement and skating.

Duncan Hunter

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Regardless of who will finally win this race between Law and Justice and the Platform, the road to change will be open.

James Browning

Regardless of what time you change or move or do anything, if it's for a positive effort, it's always a good day to do it.

Ali Larijani

Referring Iran's file to the Security Council won't change the Iranian stance about uranium enrichment. It serves no one's interest.

Roger Enrico

Recent changes in the home video market got us and others in our industry by surprise,

Will Whitehorn

Recent acquisitions coupled with further structural changes being made to the group, will provide a good platform from which to generate further growth in the next financial year.

Scott Reed

Regions is a big contributor to this community, and there have been some changes in the community. We just feel like this would be the time to reassert ourselves.

Karen Finney

President Bush's refusal to recognize that it's time to make a change and fire Secretary Rumsfeld is symptomatic of his administration's incompetent and failed leadership.

Frank Degen

Previously, someone like a plumber, who may have run his office from home and had a secretary there, could not take this deduction because he provided goods and services outside the home. Of course, the IRS realized the inequity there and changed the rules.

Liz Boyd

Our position hasn't changed and we would expect her to veto this legislation just as she did before. It's a divisive piece of legislation. The suburban communities and the city need to work together on these issues.

Eric Williams

Originally a one-day event, local schools would identify needy children who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

Suomi Sakai

Organizers of any demonstration or public gathering have a responsibility to ensure that children are out of harm's way, particularly children without family, such as street children who have no-one to look after them and are even more vulnerable.

Christine Jackson

Parents who smoke feel guilty about being role models for smoking; they feel hypocritical about trying to prevent their children from smoking. For these reasons, it's difficult to persuade parents who smoke to become anti-smoking advocates in the home.

Jim Duggan

Parents who send their children to school are entitled to expect that in that environment, at least, they will be protected from predatory sexual behaviour,

Walter Dellinger

Patently offensive material is widely disseminated on the Internet, and computer-literate children ... can easily find and retrieve it.

Quincy Jones

Peace is possible around the world, and children are the answer.

Rocky Watson

Our main concerns right now are the two children,

Barbara Schneider

Our lives are busy, but we have to find time to enjoy our family's company and share experiences. When parents and children do things together, it can relieve stress.

Jonathan Kozol

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

Steve Johnson

Our load factor (the percentage of seats filled in October last year) was only 56% of what they offered. With that as one of the arguments, you'd look at providing fewer seats.

Andy Kopplin

Our No. 1 goal is to get that money out as expeditiously as possible. The limiting factor will be the number of contractors available.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Our German factories must be able produce at prices appropriate for export.

Maurice Cheeks

Our turnovers obviously were a big factor in losing the game. We had 14 turnovers at halftime, but our offense went astray.

Junya Tanase

Rising tension (between Iran and the West) could have an impact on oil prices and that is a negative factor for the dollar.

Eric Nicoli

Piracy in all its forms has been the major factor in this reversal but not the only factor.

Pat Buchanan

Piece by piece, job by job, factory by factory, (American industry) is being carted off to foreign soil,

Gregg Popovich

Malik can play inside and out. He?s versatile. Not having him for Game 1 was a huge factor for us.

Dave Tippett

We needed for him to be good. We knew that fatigue was going to be a factor on our team and we needed him to give us a chance.

Joseph Cohen

recession fears are unwarranted for this year and the next.

John Given

Our record won't strike fear into people. But some of our losses have been to some pretty good teams. We're the kind of team that most don't want to see.

Mark Brown

Part of the reason that I watch hockey is to have a physical game, ... Maybe initially they'll fear a penalty, but sometimes it's worth it to get a good lick in.

Asahi Shimbun

Our fears have come true. To regain our trust, the U.S. must fundamentally review its safety standards.

Lutfullah Mashal

Rescue workers are trying to find survivors feared to have been trapped under the ruins.

John Sherry

Physicians told us that not being able to type quickly is a big fear.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Victoria Jackson

I could teach gymnastics if I didn't have any other profession.

Carrie Burggraf

Gymnastics is not a sport that most people do. It is unique but it helps a lot in other sports with strength, coordination and balance.

Kyle Shewfelt

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

Karla Souza

I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

Ashley Scott

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

Beth Murrin

She's really motivated by the team format, and that makes her so much more valuable on her high school team. I think her gymnastics peak in time for the high school season. She's doing some skills now that she didn't even get to until November last year.

Aristotle

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Amy Chow

When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.

Duncan Chase

We had to start on the beam, and in gymnastics that's tough. There were a lot of butterflies and a lot of nerves, so we knew right away it was going to be a tough meet.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Alan Greenspan

Such an increase in market value is too often viewed by market participants as structural and permanent, ... To some extent, those higher values may be reflecting the increased flexibility and resilience of our economy.

Justin Lane

Some of the higher peaks I would imagine could see 2 1/2 feet.

Satish Kumar

Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.

Karen Johnson

Our prices are 18 percent higher that they were this time last year.

Rhonda Rompola

Our RPI has to get higher for any tournament play.

Bill Cooke

Our attrition rate is not higher than last year but it is higher than we would like.

William Ross

Right there, there is not that much inventory for that kind of property. Because of a lack of availability, what you get is higher prices.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Jim Hall

Stay plugged in. Maintain the strength of the Chamber.

Zhang Qiyue

Our stance is to maintain peace and stability, and to reach settlement through dialogue,

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

David Heyman

It is its own universe. But we try to maintain a real normalcy about it.

Junichiro Koizumi

I will try to maintain the postal network, which is people's important assets, and see to it that no inconvenience will ensue,

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Cate Blanchett

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Jennifer Taylor

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Saeb Erekat

start thinking in the mentality of a partner.

Steve Erickson

Overall I think I'm playing a lot better. I've worked a lot more this year and I'm more confident. I'm mentally stronger.

Nicole Vaidisova

Physically I was well, mentally I was well. I just never got into my rhythm.

Shane Montgomery

Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game.

Aaron Glenn

I think this team is mentally strong enough to overcome it. We have to.

Rafael Benitez

We need a new mentality in the Premier League, especially away from home, and when we have that, things will be much better for sure.

Cameron van der Burgh

I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

Bud Black

That was the nerves of his first major-league start. Everything speeded up on him. The next time, he realized, 'That's not me. That's not who I am.' It was a whole different mentality from the minute he got to the ballpark. He warmed up better, he was focused, he was concentrated.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

Dan Hendricks

I won't take him off for a pound or two.

John Gunter

I would've never thought that 40 pounds would make that much of a difference.

Brian Anderson

He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,

Omar Minaya

He was dominating, pounding the strike zone with velocity over 90. But it wasn't so much the velocity but the command, velocity and the delivery.

Richard Smith

We're pounding on them. We want this thing on the shelf here, as soon as possible.

Billy Bob Thornton

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Stuart Gauthier

One tree can make 300 pounds of fruit.

David Parton

She weighed 16 pounds when we got here when she should have weighed 45.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use

Bob Hayes

That's the strength of our offense, no doubt.

Greg Page

It is a collaborative effort. After 15 years of being together, we know what each other's strengths are and who should write what song.

Thomas Grandi

I would have to say a combination of the two. We've got strength and we've got stamina.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Blaise Pascal

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Tom Rachman

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Ayn Rand

Get the hell out of my way!

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.