Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

A. Hodge

There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.

M. Hardman

We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.

Nick Woodman

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Mike Strecker

When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.

Sung Sohn

What's lacking is confidence, so businesses aren't spending the money they have, ... That's why I don't necessarily think it takes a huge fiscal stimulus package to get the economy moving.

Robert Reich

We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation,

Ron Meyer

Universal City plays an important role in our company and in Los Angeles. Now is the time to shape a vision not only for the continued vitality of our studio and theme park businesses but for the property itself.

Mark Reed

We're doing it at night because there are a lot of businesses on that road, and there are a lot of people who live on that road. We're going to try to be as courteous as we can be.

Jeff Jaffe

With Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell delivered an outstanding solution for transactional and fixed-function desktops. With its successor, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, we are now positioned to serve the sweet spot of the market, the general office worker. This desktop is already generating great interest in businesses of all sizes, and it represents a tremendous new opportunity for Novell.

David Yen

We are pricing our systems very, very competitively, even compared with the x86 standard.

Bill Strathmann

We've already done $3.9 million from December 1 to 27, compared to $2.2 million in the same period last year.

Bruce Rohde

We are seeing a different environment and performance in the second half of the fiscal year compared to the first half, ... Some of the issues that negatively impacted our third quarter will continue to impact the remainder of our fiscal year. We, like many other companies, are watching the effect of a softening economy on our business.

LL Cool J

Let me tell you something - compared to a TV-drama production schedule, touring is not strenuous.

Mark Hopkins

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

John Connors

We also think that the PC market could see growth in the low single digits for fiscal 2003 compared to the low single digit declines we are expecting to see for our full-year fiscal-year with 2002,

John Armstrong

When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It is possible that we could purchase some things from them on a spot basis. But that wouldn't be much compared to the way things were.

John Gay

What he was doing is unrecognizable compared to what I do on a day-to-day basis.

Steve Milunovich

We're expecting a pretty tough first half of the year -- tech profits will be up about 10 percent this year compared to 30 percent last year, ... But by the second half of the year, the economy may brighten, earnings comparisons are easier and we could start to see an easier tech tape.

Scott Walkinshaw

We want to thank the officials organization. We get a really good group of core officials to help with the meet. It would be impossible to host the meet without the support that we have from the community.

Michael Moriarty

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

Robert Stewart

There are definitely items and sections of the core exams that focus on security,

Robert Freedman

There are core industries in Manhattan that are thriving, despite the recession, and publishing is one of them.

Anthony Chan

We still see limited penetration into the rest of the economy. It's too early to say you're seeing pricing power to pass on the energy cost increases just because you saw just a jump in the core PPI number. The world has changed. In the old traditional world, whenever you had mature expansion, you had pricing power. Today with globalization, that's no longer the case.

Dieter Zetsche

We want our divisions to concentrate on the automotive core processes - development, production and sales.

Lisa Vidal

I do a combo of running, weights, and core exercises and try to work out at least three times a week.

Jonathan Mayers

We've always tried to reflect people's diverse music collections. We don't want to dismiss our core in any way, but . . . as great as Widespread Panic has been to us and has been a really big part of what we've done, we can't have Widespread Panic every single year.

Harley Shaiken

What we're looking at in Seattle is a debate over the rules of the game and how the environment and labor will be treated -- whether they will be debated elsewhere or whether they will become part of the core discussions about trade.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Bill Donabedian

We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Ron Dickerson

What we're looking for right now is improvement every week, ... We could go 0-10 or 10-0, as long as our kids get better every week. That's our goal.

Nick Zito

We're getting close. I like that. We usually find a length or two (improvement) when we come to Kentucky. He's got to be first or second. That's what we need.

Andra Davis

We're better. But there's still a lot of room for improvement.

David Williams

We knew this was not an overnight fix. That's not realistic. We're not at all panicky. I have seen improvement.

Brian Tracy

All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.

Patty Vavra

She had a monster throw. It was remarkable improvement in a year's time or less.

Desiderius Erasmus

Frugality is a handsome income.

Houssaye Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

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.

Dan Ariely

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

David DeLong

Older workers are not as motivated by income but by meaning.

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.

Plato

When there is an income tax, the just will pay more and the unjust less

Albert Einstein

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

Albert Einstein

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Austan Goolsbee

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

Dave Munson

With the investment we make in that zoo, it's a large investment. We want to make sure it's managed to it's maximum.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Bill Swank

We're looking at it as an investment on our part.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Michael Giles

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.

George Foster

We'll have to go back and resample all the previous sampled locations.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

M.I.A.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

Ted Cruz

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Henry Mintzberg

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Philip Yancey

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

John Locke

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Dianna Agron

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

Bob Dylan

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Xosha Roquemore

I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily.

Torin Francis

He just has a good, sensitive game. And I think with time he's going to keep getting better and better.

Ben Howland

We were really sensitive to him shooting threes.

Dennis Farina

We keep monitoring ourselves, censoring ourselves, being too sensitive to this, too sensitive to that. We can't keep doing that.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Peter Thomson

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Chris Rock

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Edith Wharton

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

David Ricardo

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

Denis Waitley

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Charles M. Schwab

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

Bob Brown

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

Anthony Trollope

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.