Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Stanley

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Bean

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Alan Autry

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Keith Bowman

The positive share price reaction is a result of investor perception that the sum of the parts is worth more than the current combined businesses.

David Yen

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

Alan Mulally

We also solidified the transformation of our product line, and the market validated our strategy with every order during the year. Our new portfolio of airplanes from 100 to 450 seats, combined with our global support services, put us in a great position for the long term.

Tanith Belbin

We're so glad to be a part of this generation of ice dancing. It's a combined score.

Harley Shaiken

What's new about the global economy is First World productivity combined with Third World wages. That can create some real downward pressure on high-wage countries.

Duane Campbell

With their combined knowledge, it's just incredible . . . I'm learning something new every day,

Bill Watkins

With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

Ken Davis

Make your trips count too, don't do too many short trips try to combined the trips into one longer trip.

Ted Rogers

When you're able to offer the customer a whole wide range of communications products, it's more attractive, ... The world is moving toward bundles and combined packaging, and not single products.

Tom Lehrer

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

Gordon Sinclair

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Willie McCovey

I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that.

Alfonso Felder

Of all cities, San Francisco should be able to find a way to keep these theaters.

Susan Danly

Here is someone who sits in Maine and works here in Portland, but this show takes you to San Francisco and takes you to Rome through imagination and architecture.

Adam Timmerman

When you hear that date, it just can't help but jog your memory. You hear 9/11, it just makes you think of what happened. Plus, I think we played San Francisco the first game after 9/11.

Danny Meyer

I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.

Robin Williams

Look at us -- we're a San Francisco wedding cake.

John Breaux

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Vicki Warker

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.

Jeff Jordan

With the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones, the time has never been better for the merging of e-commerce and wireless devices.

Edward Zander

Mobile phones today are more like television when I was a kid,

Mark Taylor

Mobile and fixed-line services are also converging as rapidly as the worlds of voice and data.

Gene Miller

The project starts as soon as school is out. We will move them (the mobile units) in when school is out.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. You don't see him as a mobile quarterback. He made some plays today.

Jon Tetzchner

With Opera Mini, most people can start surfing the Web with the mobile phone they have today.

Bruce Tulgan

Today, the most mobile part of the workforce is the most marketable.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Tom Bittman

Where I do my word processing, how I collaborate, maintaining my social network . . . those things are shifting away from Microsoft.

Armstrong Williams

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

Randy Falco

Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

Ralph Nader

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

Donna Shalala

She actually started the women's network in this town,

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Ed Graczyk

We are providing the broadest offering with the most flexibility for our network operators. Each of these services represent something unique to the operator.

Bethany Mota

I really utilize all of my social networking sites.

Karla Homolka

My support network and my friends are here. I like Quebec a lot.

Marcia Wieder

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

Luka Sulic

Don't wait for someone to call you up. You can do anything. You have all the possibilities in the world.

Paul Simon

Time, time, time, See what's become of me, While I look around all my possibilities

Kevin Krueger

Whatever he wants to do with his life...we just want all the possibilities to be there for him.

Gary Russell

The range of possibilities is still pretty vast,

Roger Turner

This route is shorter than any of the possibilities that could be used for I-3.

Steve Letro

We have to wait and see what (Ophelia) is going to do. The possibilities are endless.

Jeff Hennion

We are being presented with different possibilities all day, every day.

Jim Haslett

I haven't talked to Mr. Benson about any of that at all. I haven't talked about those possibilities yet. I would like to know something before the end of the season. But that's up to him.

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

China Mieville

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

David Sedaris

It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.

Caspar David Friedrich

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

Lady Gaga

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Junipero Serra

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

Daniel Handler

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

Geno Auriemma

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Doris Lessing

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

Nancy Brown

What it's going to do is stretch us thin, personnel-wise.

Joshua Bell

I think it's really important to always kind of stretch your boundaries and your limits and get out of your comfort zone. And for me, that's very important.

Lewis Carroll

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

Brian O'Driscoll

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

Brian Martin

We'll be able to stretch it (fuel) out a little.

Raymond Kelly

I don't stretch enough. I know I should do it more, and I'd like to do yoga, but I just don't have time.

Jim Ritterbusch

This thing has tentacles that are going to stretch all over the place,