Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Brent Trout

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Zadie Smith

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

Jessica Gonzales

I was very reluctant to put her back into any childcare facility, ... When something like this happens, you just feel so guiltylike how could you be so selfish to go right back to work and put your child back into childcare?

Jessica Valenti

I've seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck - as if this cost was just theirs to bear!

Matt Foreman

The idea of providing $5,000 to evacuees for job training, education and for childcare expenses during their job search is exactly the type of program that would be successful in employing the 7.5 million people unemployed every day in this country.

Melissa Fleming

We are awaiting the green light from the U.N. Security Council to tell us what are the next steps,

Dewey Potter

We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that response and then the council will decide whether it wants to proceed or not.

Sulejman Tihic

We feel that our relations have progressed so much that this form of inter-state council is no longer appropriate.

Dan Senor

We're hopeful that the deadline will be met. The Governing Council has given us every indication that it will.

Laura Miller

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

Kierston Wareing

I get a lot of single mum roles - 'It's a Free World' turned out well, so people thought, 'She can be a single mum, Kierston can do that. Or live in a council house - she can do that.'

Jamal Ibrahim

We have proposed at the recent AU Peace and Security Council meeting in Addis Ababa the formation of a joint force.

George Robertson

We're not going away, ... We will go away when he (Hussein) complies with the (U.N.) Security Council resolutions.

John Lucas

The project was underway before council was dealing with the master plan. Until council actually approves a budget, you don't have money to do anything.

Jim Newberry

We've all seen the bickering, divisiveness and the lack of sense of vision for urban county government. That all needs to fundamentally change.

Paul Jacobson

Wayne County and the State of Michigan offer unique opportunities for the creation of the bio-refinery model.

Vic Lawson

We want to put elected representatives in Bradford County and our state representatives on notice that their jobs now depend on property tax relief for the residents of Bradford County, that lip service now is not going to get any of them elected any more.

Steve Smith

We want to provide appropriate education for all students, no matter what the student needs. I think all of the districts in the county are really making a concerted effort to serve kids as much as they can in the regular classroom.

Paul Tesi

We have saved the county millions since its inception.

William Bailey

We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

Al Sevier

Whenever (the county commissioners) see that, they acquiesce and kowtow to the numbers of voters. It's mob democracy.

Larry Hopkins

When you say county farm today people wonder what you are talking about.

Ann Wilson

We want people to gather, have fun and get to know local artists. Young couples and professionals are important to this scene because they know what's cutting edge and spread the word to others. Once people step into our activity, they realize there's a lot of talent here in Polk County that many others haven't yet experienced.

Lisa Jakub

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

Michael Steele

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Ghazi Hamad

The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.

John Brown

the people who create it want the most to protect it.

Aaron Guillen

We've actually tucked the elementary school back with the industrial to create a little more buffer.

Jerome Antone

We started out on a full-court press, but we had to switch to a man all over the floor when the press was not working. We created a lot of turnovers and our defense made opportunities for our offense. That is the greatest defense we have played all year.

Eric Keller

We spread the offense to spread the opposing defenses and that really creates running room.

Omar Vizquel

Wherever he goes, he's probably going to create a lot of controversy. That's why he's one of the greatest.

Art Shell

When you walk out there, when you into that stadium, you walk out there with a presence. Mr. Davis called it a swagger. I just want to get back to the point where when we walk into a stadium, they know the Raiders are in town. And when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. ... We've got to create that attitude, and that's what I expect to do.

Terry Anthony

There are two things you can't coach. It's size and speed. Actually, there's three things -- size, speed and heart. Cruz has all three.

Celia Cruz

Celia Cruz And Friends: A Night Of Salsa,

Edward Burnett Tylor

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

Marisa Miller

I think you're kind of seeing the real me as far as seeing what I post on social media, because I am very much into cooking, and my dogs, and obviously my son, and my lifestyle in Santa Cruz is very laid-back.

Roberto Mancini

I think the strikers did a good job. Cruz scored and Adriano had two good chances.

Luis Valdez

That's been the way the season has gone for us. Laurel, Martinez, Ryan Cruz and Erick Cardenas have come up big the whole season.

Jeff Barnes

Santa Cruz was not so friendly, but Watsonville was.

Gabrielle Castro

Santa Cruz is a great team. Who else do you play that makes 14 3-pointers on you? We switched up defenses. We did everything. It didn't matter.

Grant Baker

Those Santa Cruz guys are better surfers than me, but that's big-wave surfing for you. Everyone's got a chance.

Chris Pelchen

We are looking forward to further developing the list structure through the AFL National Draft and are encouraged by the prospect of having five picks inside the top 22.

Miguel Nicolelis

We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.

Lord Samuel

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

Adam Mansbach

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

Carlos Ghosn

We're going to see at best, stagnation in the market, ... Most of the growth will come from the developing countries.

Robert Zubrin

What they're really developing is equipment to do a rational space station and a Moon programme later,

Richelle Reilly

We're going to have to keep developing our perimeter skills and shooting.

Linda Hall

We're just kind of leaving our options open, ... It's a matter of either developing the land or selling the property.

Tracie Thoms

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Stanley

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Charles Gounod

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Bing Gordon

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Steven Hatfill

Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

Johan Cruyff

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Bruce Allen

We have improved the foundation of this team with young players. It gives you high hopes.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Reuben Jr

We want to keep this project local. There are people locally who will invest.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Keith Cooper

We want to keep it local and we want to keep it Canadian.

Louis Navellier

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

Kim Polese

We have no preset notion of how the model will look.

Deborah Abbott

We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

Thierry Mugler

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.

Tariq Anwar

My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.

Tao Okamoto

I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'

Enrique Pena Nieto

The coalition is a model that has no place in a presidential regime such as in Mexico. It fits in parliamentary models, but Mexico has a presidential regime.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.

Charles Caleb Colton

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

Charles Dickens

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

Alan Greenspan

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

David Morrissey

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

David Morrissey

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

David Greenberg

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

Dave Barry

Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.

William Shakespeare

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

Niki Tsongas

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Benjamin Franklin

Success is the residue of planning.

Abraham Lincoln

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Dorothy Teeter

The planning is complicated. ... But we can't wait any longer.

Dennis Conner

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

Edward Zander

We are planning some more wild products in 2006.

Patrick Leahy

We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington,

Kevin Eastler

We stay in touch pretty regularly, via e-mail or the phone. He'll send me programs and I'll tell him how I'm feeling. He'll give me paces and whenever we have the opportunity, we'll get together.

Rod Williams

We were able to put together a packet of programs and get her into a house.

David Heil

We don't know if any of it's going to be funded at all, and if so, we don't know what programs it will be spent on,

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

Jack Toney

The programs are coupled together by their funding.

Tim Vonville

We don't want to be adversarial but we see these programs that are adversarial to the students.

Chris Mitchell

There is a lot of support for youth programs here.

Eric Cantor

We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Akio Morita

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Camille Paglia

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.

Carl Levin

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably

Julian Baggini

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Arne Jacobsen

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Derek Jacobi

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Enrique Garcia

We're like their Santa Claus. It's kind of special and we make them feel normal.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Ludwig von Mises

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

Joe Nichols

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Alan Parker

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. You find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.

Chogyam Trungpa

When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

David Suzuki

The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Bill Johnson

I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

Edward Hopper

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Edith Wharton

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.