Famous Quotes & Sayings

King Abdullah

We want to strengthen the link between India and Saudi Arabia with regards to energy, and the ability to provide energy to India over a long term.

John Furlong

We want to send the message that our focus is on ability rather than disability. It is our turn to step to the Olympic stage.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very clear and unequivocal message that after attacks like this it's not business as usual. We expect them to follow through on their promises -- that these armed gangs be disarmed. Our entire ability to move forward is based on that promise.

Craig Cochran

The power of a focus group lies in its ability to leverage multiple channels of communication and thought. When you buckle down and really explore the many facets of a possible innovation to the organization, you are more able to make well thought-out decisions.

Theodore Roosevelt

The potential for damage is much larger than we've seen in the past, ... The markets are a little spooked about our refining capacity and our ability to pump for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jonathan Spira

The possibilities of that tie-in are endless if one contemplates the possibility of software and tools delivered over the Internet and paid for by online adverts. This also gives Microsoft the ability to control its own destiny and eliminate the service that Yahoo is providing selling the ads.

Doug Aitken

The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

Rosabeth Kanter

The point of new venturing is to stimulate a range of ideas that build corporate resilience -- the ability to keep enriching core businesses by incorporating new modes (whether products, distribution channels, or markets) while discovering potential new directions that might not only be internal ventures but also an acquisition or an alliance.

Gavin Rossdale

The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit.

Carl Icahn

Yellen’s comments suggest, and I agree, that we are in an asset bubble.

Norma Moss

The potential for growth at Harrah's Cherokee as an employer, contributor to the local economy and a business asset for the Eastern Band is tremendous.

Brad Hintz

We are probably at the point where the trading cycle is slowing, at least in North America, and it's tough to say investment banking will get better. But the retail and asset management businesses look really good. That's what's exciting to investors.

Amy Domini

We believe that the Fund's strong investment performance and growth in assets clearly indicate that the era of socially responsible investing is beginning to dawn,

Leonard Asper

There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we have at a reasonably high multiple.

Peter Hillyard

We're in a different mindset now, where gold is seen as a fireball asset and the funds are switching money into it.

John Battelle

When you use Facebook, you're always logged in, and your identity and relationships - to others, to content, to apps and services - are assets Facebook can use to customize your experience (oh, and your ads).

Tomi Taterka

When you think in dollar terms, there are plenty of cheap assets out there to be bought, and that's exactly what's happening.

Mark Cuban

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

Eric Sorensen

We are seeing a lot of success in the ski/wakeboard segment in attracting new boaters, while pontoons have declined substantially in this area.

Steven Smith

We always have a harder time attracting women to this kind of a career vs. men, ... A lot more guys are interested in this job.

Ned Riley

Whether the catalyst was the cessation of tax selling or just a rally from a truly depressed area, the Nasdaq is attracting some bargain hunting. I would suggest stocks were over discounting shorter-term problems that have already been announced.

Bill Bryan

Ultimately, retaining and attracting businesses means saving and creating jobs. That's good for our customers and the Southern California economy.

Tom Gallagher

We're a state of opportunity that is attracting about 1,100 people a day into our state.

Bradley Chicho

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

John Mahoney

Today, prospective students see a strong African-American student presence on our campus. I think our students are extremely instrumental in attracting prospective African-American students to consider Boston College.

David Goldberg

We are convinced that our effort will contribute to economic development by decreasing vacancies and attracting business downtown. In short, downtown will grow and prosper.

Eric Schmidt

We're attracting a lot more business from Fortune 500 companies,

Rep. Caruso

We want to see what he was thinking at the time. He's the one who received the employment. Was it something that he sought? Was it something that the companies offered to him?

Louis Navellier

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

Michael Specter

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

John Nolan

The other thing the Internet and overall technology are enabling us to do, quite honestly, is streamline our internal costs, and that's a big deal. We're using the Internet just like a lot of companies to try and drive down costs administratively and then leverage that infrastructure to enhance our core products and offer Internet-related products outside our mainstream.

Ron Carey

The Post Office and the other companies can't manage the volume, ... They shouldn't be dictating; they should be negotiating.

Jim Keyes

We are pleased to join the global companies listed on the world's most prestigious stock exchange, ... Our NYSE listing marks an important milestone for 7-Eleven and will raise our visibility with the financial community.

Ryan Thompson

There are companies that will rent furniture for houses on sale.

Harvey Eisen

There are companies that in my mind are obvious takeover candidates,

Victor Lazarovici

There are companies making money consistently, even at lower gold prices. Panic is the last thing you want to do.

Jonathan Ive

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

George H. W. Bush

Lynne is an incredibly important member of this team.

Timm Sharp

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

Susan Wojcicki

Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be.

Gerald Scarfe

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.

Marco Muller

So far, the results have been incredibly positive.

Kim Adams

So I am incredibly worried tonight about him and his safety.

Keith Flood

She's an outside shooter who can penetrate. She's incredibly athletic.

John Gatins

She's incredibly professional when she's working, and when she's not, she's a 10-year-old girl.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Sgt. Devine

She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.

Bobbi Koppel

We're able to provide a lot of opportunity. These are the things that students see the most.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Brent Liskai

We tried everything we had and they had a solution to everything we had.

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Roy Moore

I don't have a solution right now. I haven't studied that.

Heather Fiorentino

I think they're trying to come up with a solution that works.

Jerry Grey

I think Griffins team has come up with a truly workable solution that really does make sense.

Andy Miller

We'll see. We are trying to find a solution that works for all parties' interests.

Claude LeBas

We need to work out a solution here.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.

Dave Barry

I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

David Stockman

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries....