Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Alan Greenspan

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Alan Greenspan

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Jamie Shea

We want them to have the benefit of summer months to help to rebuild their homes and lives. But obviously, we want them not to go back until there is a secure presence, to ensure that the refugee return can be done in an organized way.

James Hood

We want to stay in the port; we feel we have been a good tenant. We provide an economic benefit, a net positive revenue flow, which goes to the general revenue of the state.

Andrew Golden

We want to spend as much of the endowment as possible, subject to two constraints ? preserving purchasing power into perpetuity and assuring that the spending stream is relatively stable. Your great-grandchildren need to get the same economic benefit that you're getting now.

Pat Keliher

We want to see the biggest public benefit come out of this, but we have to take it at step at a time.

Lesa Cagle

We know we need to eat healthier. We know we need to exercise more, but how do we do that? I think when people think about health, they want to have more energy. When you see the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, sometimes that can be motivating.

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.

Brent Hayes

We've got hopefully a couple of new businesses that will be in the mall by early spring.

Tom Eid

There is no one-size-fits-all approach, because all businesses are not set up to run the same way.

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.

Ken Stein

We'll be counting on the continued generosity of businesses and individuals to hit our fundraising goals, but we can sure promise them a priceless entertainment experience and opportunity to help the community in this time of need.

Michael Alter

We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.

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.

Michael Callahan

Ultimately US companies in China face a choice -- comply with Chinese law or leave.

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

I. Stone

We are looking forward to performing in China for the first time.

Chuck Hagel

We are at a very important and delicate point in our relationship with the People's Republic of China and how this is handled will go a long way as to the future of that relationship,

Alex Wong

There are concerns that new competitors like China Netcom and China Telecom will enter the domestic market once 3G services are introduced next year. The focus now is on such uncertainties.

Mats Olsson

We're in close cooperation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Mats Olsson

We're in close co-operation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Steve Schneider

We actually find it not at all difficult in China -- it is more about how you drive growth; how you utilize technologies and how you train people.

Zhou Xiaochuan

What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.

Charles Dudley Warner

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

Charles de Lint

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Charles Simmons

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

Charles Stanley

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

Alan Autry

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow.

Chris Christie

Remember, this is a binary choice. It's going to be the approach that Donald Trump takes or the approach that Hillary Clinton takes, not some other approach. And the Clinton approach is just a completely unacceptable one, it's an unlawful one.

James Reed

Ultimately, we want consumers to have a comparative choice.

Darren Shan

When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.

Rod Brind'Amour

We know what we're supposed to be doing and you don't magically come up with a new plan. It's execution. At the end of the day, either your goalie stands on his head or you had better execution, and I think we had better execution.

Laith Kubba

We know well that either way, if it is a 'yes' or a 'no,' it is going to be a tough outcome that we need to handle.

Joseph Bologna

When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not.

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Ivan Radenovic

Whenever we played them, we played well in either the first half or the second half. This time we've got to put it together for 40 minutes if we want to win.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Daniel H. Pink

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Atharva Veda

THERE is none to question Me if I do not act; there is nothing I would lose if I do not engage in activity. Nor have I any great urge to be active. But yet, you see Me very active. The reason is, I must be doing something all the time, for your sake, as an example, as an inspiration, as a piece of training.

Michael Deaver

When we were engaged in the intensive parts of the investigation or trial preparation, I did not have time for anything else.

Richard Peddie

What we're missing out on is the single game sales and when you start the season 1-15, that doesn't get the heart racing. People aren't engaged yet.

Al Franken

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

Tom Rath

You can intentionally choose to spend more time with the people you enjoy most and engage your strengths as much as possible.

Ted Cruz

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

Bram Fischer

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

Aristotle

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

Al Jarreau

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

Matt Rosoff

There are some folks who have been there for a long time and who will resent the way things are being run as a bureaucracy. And maybe they were there for the big stock run-up and they're seeing the stock not move now.

Brian Bosma

There are some folks up in northern Indiana who are waiting for public opinion on this matter to be reinforced.

Shelly Grice

There are some folks sitting on the sidelines.

Matt Mullenweg

Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.

Ronald McDonald

We're managing to get by. We're lucky enough. We've got transportation. We can go get something. A lot of these folks can't. They're just stuck in.

Charlie Adam

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

Brian Niceswanger

We're getting a lot of calls. Our folks are staying late and will be here (today) for those who want to verify the information they received.

Gary Peters

There are a lot of folks there waiting for airplanes and a lot of folks going into those establishments looking to relax.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

David Bowers

The reflation trade is back on. We are seeing more optimism about the global economy.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

Ryan Donovan

She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.

Michael Ignatieff

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Charles Dickens

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.

Silvan Shalom

We know what kind of role Syria is taking in letting terror organizations increase their activities, but unfortunately they're not doing anything to prevent it from stopping. More than that, they're encouraging all of this,

Jeremy Siegel

The persistent increase in oil prices is worrying me again.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Krish Krishnan

We have seen a tremendous increase in terms of the interest we are getting here.

Jiang Enzhu

We have no intention, nor the ability, to increase our military armaments substantially.

James Rayner

There is no pay increase between now and June 30, 2007.

Todd Radford

Whether this will increase interest has yet to be seen.

Diane Watson

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

Robert Whiteley

The perimeter is getting more porous. The no-no is to just invest there.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

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.

Bernard Baruch

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Bernard Baruch

In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

Carol Roth

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

Mike Keenan

The position Olli is in had nothing to do with it,

Mike Brey

We're in a position where we're just trying to scratch our way to New York City.

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Marco Trbovich

We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's been our position for several years.

Jim Hillman

When we get runners in scoring position somebody has to step up.

Whitney Watson

We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.

Danny Ferry

We're in the same position now as are a lot of other teams.

Gordon Absher

We've taken a position of maintaining a confidentiality on the project out of respect for the Singapore government.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Rob Spear

It's unbelievable. Our ticket sales are going like hotcakes.

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.