Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jin Canrong

Verification is definitely a problem. But to reach a new agreement they need progress, and today's statement is progress.

David Allen

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

Dave Barry

Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements ...

David Talbot

EFR entered into an agreement to sell some noncore assets for $2.05M.

David Suzuki

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

Anita Plessis

The powerful prayers of the righteous which moves mountains are determined by the power of agreement and not whether we're in the same place!

Trey Davis

The possibility of a settlement with Arthur Andersen presented many complicated and interconnected issues that required the agreement of numerous parties. Despite our extensive efforts, in the end these simply could not be worked out. Without their resolution, any settlement would have worked to the detriment of the class.

Navtej Sarna

The position that India will take on this issue at the IAEA will be based on India's independent judgment, and we categorically reject any attempt to link this to the proposed India-U.S. agreement on civil nuclear energy cooperation.

John Rogers

The plea agreement was extensive and is clear. Mr. Rasch and I discussed it thoroughly, and it's my understanding that he had a clear understanding of the contents of the agreement.

Geoff Salmon

We want them to get caught up in it. It's something they'll never be able to do again, for the seniors. We'll get after them in practice and go hard like we have all year, but we also want them to appreciate what they're doing.

Chris Colfer

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Kandys Killough

We know everyone doesn't have room for another pet, but we certainly appreciate those who help us out in other ways.

David Mitchell

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

Russ Johnson

We appreciate the concern they have and them coming by, and I know C.R. would appreciate it, too. But now is just a real critical time. His brain has a lot of healing to do.

Brian Hutchinson

We appreciate the commitment of Kyle and his staff to Morehead State and the Eagle basketball program. There is no question that many facets of our program improved under his direction. We will immediately begin the process of a national search to fill this void in our athletics program.

Linda Newman

We appreciate the break, it gives us a little more leeway.

Tubby Smith

We appreciate the Big Blue faithful. The faith they have in us is remarkable.

Brian Sullivan

We appreciate that this has put some stress on waiting lists, It really comes down to the fact that these people have lost everything. You can't get around that.

Charles de Lint

My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.

Charles de Lint

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.

Charles de Lint

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

Charles de Lint

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

Charles de Lint

I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

Charles Dickens

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

Charles Dickens

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Charles Dickens

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dunstone

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

Charles de Gaulle

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Al Sharpton

But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Chris Daly

The performances of the different offices are on opposite ends of the spectrum. In Fresno County we have what seems to be a near abdication of their responsibilities, whereas in Alameda County we see an office committed to protecting all residents in the county.

G. H. Hardy

We are praying we don't have an earthquake, ... This is money we've committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

Dane Moody

We've all committed ourselves to having a good team, and we have a lot of individual talent. I think one-on-one, individually, we're better than any team in the country.

Joey Lott

We started slow out of the gate last week, and had some turnovers early. We also committed a lot of penalties and we know we can't do that this week. I've told our guys that Bowman is good enough as it is, and we don't need to help them by playing sloppy.

Patricia Smith

We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling. We remain committed to sharing a great selection of toys at great prices for our Web site.

Patti Smith

We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling in this case. Regardless of today's decision, Amazon.com is still committed to providing a great selection of toys at great prices for our customers.

Doug Oliver

We still remain committed to the development of an import terminal. It's not that the project is not occurring, it's just that these specific negotiations have ended.

Doug Oliver

We still remain committed to the development of an import terminal.

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!

Keith Miller

We know what we can do. This team has plenty of talent and potential; now it's up to us to just go out there and continue to make a name for ourselves.

Ray Brown

We know we've got to play better offensively to continue in this tournament.

Levance Fields

We know he's going to be all right and we've just got to continue our game plan. We're a little sick right now. That's all it is. Hopefully, it doesn't turn out any worse than it is. But we can't just stop.

Hilary Clinton

Very calmly, we went out to the sidewalk in front of our office and continued our discussion.

Terry Lanni

Vegas will continue to grow and it will sustain downward trends.

David Holmes

Ultimately it could mean we end up releasing another record next year and continue to tour well in to 2007.

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.

Christina Ricci

W called me 'the young Delta Burke.' It's so silly. I weigh 105 pounds and wear a size two, but for some reason I'm a heavyweight.

Edward Collins

With the Micron earnings quite a disappointment and the Delta outlook, technically we were very overbought on a short-term basis.

Jim Higgins

I think the Delta Express issue is proving to be intractable, ... ALPA hates the two-tier pay scale. Delta needs that, and needs more of it, if it's going to compete.

Terry Trippler

That Delta attitude, it's been there a long time, it's what made them great, and its what made them hesitant to seek protection long ago.

Nina Easton

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.

John Culp

The pilots are telling us they are extremely disappointed in Delta management and are tired of listening to management?s demands.

Marty Wiseman

The race in the Delta is going to be a legitimate wire-to-wire race. The Espy name is big over there. Thompson will have to run harder than he has in the past.

Karl Smesko

It's tough to think like that because the goal was to win this regional and we thought we had to the team to do that. Delta outplayed us. They were more physical and had a nice run in the second half. They played such good defense, but our kids scrapped and competed the whole game.

Phil Baggaley

It seems that this is rather less than what Delta was hoping for.

Gene Coppola

We want to take the next step forward as any good organization would.

Wes Walz

We know we've got a lot of ground to make up. Guys talking about how many wins we need. We need one win (tonight). That's all we've got to look forward to, and then we'll worry about the next game when it comes.

M. Russell Ballard

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

Ted Mayer

We are pleased with these trial settings and the prospect of things going forward on a rapid basis. By the last part of the second quarter of 2006, we'll know a lot more about the parameters of this litigation.

Bob Foster

We've all been slowly working our way back. I still didn't make any money in 2004, but we're taking good steps forward this summer.

Paula Pearson

We've all been looking forward to this match all season as we do every year.

Kevin Jackson

We started practicing in the spring, planning and looking forward to playing in this game and winning it.

Ross Randall

We struggled this week with the weather. We are looking forward to getting back and practicing to get ready for our next tournament.

Hani Durzy

We are looking forward to Wednesday and having our day in front of the Supreme Court.

Charles Walters

I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

Chris Cleave

It was hard not to be full of hope

Tyrell Thompson

We know Woodlands is going to be hungry. We have to come out and play harder or this will be it for us.

Dave Barry

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Craig Ferguson

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Brandon Jay McLaren

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

Adolf Galland

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

Anna Torv

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

Donal Logue

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've never had a very great public life.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Alan Young

I said ... on Tuesday we are not saying anything on or off the record. That remains the position.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Melissa Fleming

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

Nhat Hanh

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Honore de Balzac

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Rumi

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Swami Vivekananda

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

Gaston Gaudio

He was serving unbelievably and I couldn't do too much.

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Mary Thomason

This is a strong serving team and we have height. But not just height, there's talent there. We should be strong.

Stephen East

They're serving a need much more than a want than say a Toll or a higher-end builder.

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Richard Feinberg

If you're not serving the customer, you better be serving someone who is serving the customer.

Oswald Chambers

God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

Caroline Norton

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

Britney Spears

Traveling around the world is really strenuous for me, being in a different bed every night, flying and everything.

Christy Romano

I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours.

Sara Rue

Traveling Wilburys was always played in my house growing up.

Harrison Ford

Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy.

Conrad Sewell

Traveling a lot and touring, you're in and out of hotels, and you don't have any comforts around.

Peter Uihlein

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

Robert Hathaway

It's traveling very, very fast. It can penetrate you pretty good.

Ray Stevenson

Actors then were just louts, hangabouts and wandering troubadours doing traveling plays,

Donn Walker

We have to do what is right for the traveling public.