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.

Hiltrud Breyer

We want to show the red card to forced prostitution. It has nothing to do with fair play, it's a crime.

Steve Loucks

The other thing we're doing is making sure the customers pay with credit cards so they can get their money back more easily if the tickets can't be used.

Judy McDonald

We usually just play cards - there's always a card game going on. Or we sit around. Sit around and talk.

Sandy Prince

We are a full service florist with fresh-cut flowers, silk arrangements, balloons, table decorations, cake-a-grams, plush, greeting cards and candy.

Ken Hammond

We are looking for the owners of the cards to find out how they last used them,

Luke Mitchell

I do weights and work out different body parts on different days. I don't do cardio - I did too much in my tennis-playing days!

Dan Casey

When you think of the person who goes to Disneyland and spends $500 and puts it on the credit card and their interest rate is 15 percent (debt) ... the person that puts it in the credit union is getting 4 percent (gain). The difference is close to 20 percent.

Eddie Izzard

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

Lesa Young

We also send cards to acknowledge illnesses, births and deaths in the family. One officer who was out on leave for a while told me how much it meant to him that he got a card from us and that we were thinking of him during that time.

Diana Williams

The other wives would ask, 'What's Charlie doing? How is he? I used to say, 'Charlie's asleep.' He was always so calm.

Charlie Crist

You can trust Charlie Crist.

Ed Wade

We would sit there after games or the next day and talk about different situations, ... and at times we?d invariably get around to the criticism. Charlie would just laugh it off. His feeling was, ?I know what I?m doing and I?m not going to let it get to me.?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

Rob Lowe

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

Mark Whipple

Omar Jacobs is a really talented young man. The only problem we might have with him is in my meeting room. We'll have more MAC updates than any other place in the country. So it will be interesting between Ben, Charlie and Omar.

Michael Redd

Mo is big, Charlie (Bell) is big and Joe is big. To have all three of them healthy at the same time, with the core group we have, is going to take a lot of pressure off all of us.

Lynn Schusterman

Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.

Nathan Lane

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.

Maia Carroll

We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Lucas Papademos

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

Louis Stokes

In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.

David Boies

The only reason for them to collusively not to sell is to try to continue the scarcity that has driven natural gas prices to historic highs.

Rob Judson

The outcome of the game is important for us to continue to play well. Sometimes seeding for a tournament can be deceptive.

Stephen Baker

The powerful collaboration of industry leaders HP and AMD continues to yield successful results, as demonstrated by the HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC. With its rich feature set and distinctive branding, this notebook has proven to be extremely popular throughout the North American retail market.

Howard Johnson

The potential offensively is pretty good. If we can stay healthy and these guys continue to do what they did all spring, we'll be fine. We're going to be exciting at the top of the lineup.

Justice Theodore

The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Danger Mouse

When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.

David Esquer

We've always known that it's gonna happen. We just hoped it would happen while he was here. Because, he's just too skilled.

Dennis Allen

We're mirror images of each other. It's gonna come down to who makes the least mistakes.

Helen Marshall

The place where they're planning to put the stadium is a place that needs rehabilitation and it's gonna be tough for us to get the money to do that, ... This way, we will have something that's positive here.

Kristin Cast

No one in high school wants to be put under the spotlight. You don't want to be that person who stands up for the other people because then the people who are going after those people are gonna come after you.

Simon Cowell

Let me tell you who's gonna be in the finals. The bald-headed kid (Daughtry) and the guy with gray hair (Hicks).

Tom Hanks

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

Kim Carnes

I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

Kate Winslet

I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'

Michael Keaton

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Mike Davis

We're moving more than a grade level a year. That's way more impressive than anything we've done so far.

Kreayshawn

Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Melissa McCarthy

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

Paul Kasriel

We really don't want to give Greenspan a grade yet. You want to wait a year or two to see whether the seeds turn to weeds.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Ferid Murad

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Adam Schultz

We want to make sure things are handled appropriately and fairly.

Davis III

When I looked up and saw his face, I knew he thought he hadn't said it was good, ... It was my fault. That's the way it goes. He handled it real well.

Jerry Clements

She handled small matters. Somebody needed a divorce, somebody needed an adoption.

Frank Penela

Most of the things that people go into an office for can be handled online. You can renew registration, get a title, renew your registration, all without standing in line.

Anne McLellan

were handled in accordance with normal operating procedures.

Alan Thompson

When Thorpe pulled out and he (Monk) went into those two (races), he was thrust into the limelight and I think he has handled that very well.

Doug Johnson

She's handled (not starting) very well. And it's paying off this year.

Abraham Torres

The overall way it is being handled for public relations and for the whole hospital is wrong.

Brooke Shields

I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

David Allan Coe

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

Audrie Pattenn

The plane tickets were $1,100 (each). Right now the hardest part is paying all of that off.

Justin Timberlake

The hardest part about making movies is staying the exact same weight every day and looking the same.

Thomas Jane

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

Michelle Perry

We tried our hardest out here. We know what's on the line, and we want to be able to meet St. Thomas.

Rhonda Smith

We have probably two or three spots open right now. That is mostly with the outfield because the infield is pretty well set. The outfield is pretty much up for grabs so it'll be whoever works the hardest and we feel wants it the most.

Anne Paulk

Leaving homosexuality was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Gene Collins

Sharon Wilson is one of the hardest workers in Ector County. It's a shame what has happened.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who knows himself knows others.

Charles Dickens

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

China Chow

I'm so private and I don't know why!

David Mitchell

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

David Murphy

You will never know your limitations until you find them.

Byron Katie

Ultimately, I am all I can know.

Jane Austen

Know your own happiness.

Scott Ishikawa

When you talk to the crews, everybody's tired, but at the same time everyone knows they rely on us to keep the roads open. I think we're doing our best. We're just going to keep trying.

Bill Joy

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Adam Allen

When you think of all the teams and we're the only two left in 4A, it's unreal. To be one of those two teams ... it's awesome.

Dennis Hopper

For most of my life I wasn't on the left.

Nathan Parsons

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

Robin Williams

What's right is what's left when everything is wrong.

William Mitchell

What's left is his, ... So, the man isn't getting rich.

Chuck D.

We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies.

C. L. R. James

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Bryan Clay

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

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.

Francesco Rutelli

Let those who won be put in the position to govern.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

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

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Sterling Ivey

We would be eliminating their positions at that site.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Mark Foulkes

We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.

Todd France

I was trying to tackle Dante Hall, and that wasn't going to happen.

Ed Brucker

We were fundamentally sound, we tackled better and we had some big plays.

Ryan Clark

I look at him like, hmmm, I just tackled him.

Michelle Monaghan

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.