Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Byron Katie

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Benjamin Haydon

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

Gail Shearer

Whenever you have confusion like this in the marketplace, it opens up opportunities for fraud. People will really have to make sure they're dealing with reputable entities.

Charles de Lint

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

Charles Ives

An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

Charles Francis Richter

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Gordon Higgins

We're going to see volatile markets for the next little while with all this uncertainty regarding earnings. We need to see a general improvement in the tone of earnings and especially with guidance.

Scotty George

What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.

Russ Koesterich

We're just winding down the year, ending the year with these sort of small, middling gains, which to me makes sense because you've had opposing factors this year. On the one hand you've had good earnings and a robust economy, but on the other hand, you've been fighting the Fed. The two canceled each other out.

Peter Oppenheimer

Year-over-year revenue growth of 34 percent and earnings growth of 41 percent were the second highest in any given quarter in Apple's history.

Heino Ruland

With no major earnings news scheduled and losses in Tokyo, the (U.S.) market is lacking support for further gains.

Euben Paracuelles

We are maintaining our full-year 2005 GDP estimate at 4.8 percent, which implies an improvement in the fourth quarter to 5.1 percent.

Mike Rann

World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected,

Rob Binns

World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.

Samuel Smiles

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

Doug Smith

This was a strong set of numbers -- we had a pretax estimate of 1.184 billion,

Hank McKinnell

On any given day, we estimate that nearly 40 million people around the world are treated with a Pfizer medicine,

James Faucette

Most people's estimates will be going up for the fourth quarter.

Jeff Fletcher

When you can understand how much you're using in those areas, you can estimate a calculation of how much greenhouse gas you're emitting.

Will Whitehorn

Let me be clear, this is an estimate only,

Jim Ledford

Yes it's true. He's headed to Oklahoma State.

Kyle Cooper

Mother Nature is going to be huge in the next several weeks. Long term I think we're headed to $30 to $35, but I don't think we're doing that yet. We have a lot of winter left.

Terry Trippler

If a Northwest plane headed to Minot has to return to Minneapolis-St. Paul and an American plane has to return to Dallas, which one will hit the (local) news? That's the reality Northwest has to handle.

Steve Hofstetter

I don't know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing. Maybe it's because when you're headed somewhere, you don't have to be where you've already been.

Emanuel Celler

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

J. Taylor

We're on the right track and headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, we're out of track.

Mike Costello

I think we're playing pretty well overall. Now that Joe's back and Jeff's healthy, that should help us. I think it's headed in the right direction.

Angelo Wright

He'll come in, sit down with those guys, see where they're headed and if it's a fit.

Dirk Benedict

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Chris Abani

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

Chogyam Trungpa

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Chip Conley

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

David Greenberg

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

David Suzuki

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

David Suzuki

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Christine Walsh

Usually, it's complicated enough just doing a role. But when it's your senior project, there's lots, lots more involved.

Michael Lindell

There are lots of ways for levees to fail. Overtopping is just one of them,

Tom Underwood

There are lots of underlying problems in the whole system.

Jim Silver

There are lots of things that need to be done to revive Barbie.

Steven Vanderburg

There are lots of scattered showers over the ocean.

Kate Winslet

With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Russell Crowe

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

Bob Stull

We are pleased with our progress, but we are nowhere near where we want to be yet.

Rick Pitino

We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.

Eddie Jordan

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap, got a puncture near the end but we got it home,

Seamus Mallon

We are getting near to the stage where hardball will be played.

Richard Peddie

We're getting near the end of the process, but obviously it is not over yet,

James Williams

Yes, he was standing near the trash can.

Todd Rundgren

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

Mike Irwin

Sheldon Park is a little too popular with the geese. KES isn't near water so we don't have the same problem and it seems to work out better for everyone.

George Hecht

We have a number of people we just dispatched all day long to go to the nearest place where the water is problematic.

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Adam Braun

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

Cynda Crawford

We're just going to see this in waves over and over again.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Claude Nicollier

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

Colin Baker

The waves of time wash us all clean.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

John Calvin

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.