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.

James Barksdale

We know with our speed we can do a lot of things that other teams can't do. If our offense is not driving in many runs, we can get things done on the bases. We have the ability to manufacture a lot of runs.

Dan Cleary

We know what our line has to do. You have to be able to take the pressure off the other guys. And you need that depth scoring to move on in the playoffs. That's been our identity pretty much all year. Our depth and our ability to roll four lines, I think it showed last night.

Jarome Iginla

We know we have to get better. We have the talent and the ability to get a goal. Now the main goal is to get better.

Ellen Johnson

We know expectations are going to be high. The Liberian people have voted for their confidence in my ability to deliver ... very quickly,

David Carter

Ultimately, it boils down to whether an athlete has charisma, believability and the ability to communicate. And Tiger Woods has all of these things.

Greg Schiano

Ultimately, I didn't know which path he would take. I thought Brian did it in a great way. He played a tremendous bowl game, and he had the ability to kind of put it on the shelf until it was time to deal with it.

Meta Minton

We know how our school districts struggle with finances. Obviously if there is greater (financial) support (from the state), they're going to have a better performance as long as they try to work within a budget and framework.

S. Walker

We've actually started the budget hearings tonight, thanks to you folks,

Bob Woodruff

We started out with a package, ... Now we're down to 25 percent of our employees participating in that package. I just cannot get comfortable with 25 percent of the employees helping us with our budget problems. I like a package where everyone can contribute.

Alan Thompson

(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at all, it's a feather in your cap.

Eric Hyman

We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business.

Michael Shermer

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Norman Wisdom

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

William Kovacic

We're going to put some controls in during the budget process.

Robert Morgan

When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we would have to increase taxes 28 percent over four years and we had to look at ways to compromise.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair!

Eddie White

We've finally listened to the cries of women who wanted NFL product.

Donna Norris

He never met Amber, but it's still hard for him. He cries and he has to stop. But he likes to help me, and her.

Nazrul Islam

We can hear noises of cries for help.

Trip Hawkins

Steve never knew his parents. He makes so much noise in life, he cries so loud about everything, that I keep thinking he feels that if he just cries loud enough, his real parents will hear and know that they made a mistake giving him up.

Gerald Galloway

Local land decisions later result in cries for federal help. Does that make sense? No.

Kylie Minogue

I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.

Douglas Carter Beane

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't just do the jokes. I also do the cries.' Jokes and cries, jokes and cries. That's all I'm here for, people.

Sathya Baba

No one will go to the rescue of a drowning man if his cries are feeble. 

Ann Miller

We know what gets cuts first. It's going to be the maintenance of the buildings. It's going to be professional development for teachers, and after that, it's going to go right on down the line to school staffing.

Brian Macy

We started out the game very tentative. They played some good defense to start with ... our cuts were slow, we didn't play very well.

Leslie Mann

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

Marty Parkes

What they're shooting for is what Mike called a visible and playable difference between those two cuts of rough.

Jim Haslett

We'll see. I think we have some tough cuts all the way around. That will be one of the positions.

Parker Gemmell

We knew we would have to play tough defense from our first game at their place. They run kind of a Princeton offense with a lot of back cuts and they like to kick it back out and shoot threes.

Jerry Jones

The expectations are we'll come up with something that will work relative to our economics. But everyone knows this cuts real deep. We're going to have to make this work in the league. We're going to have to run some tighter ships in managing our costs.

Tommy Thompson

Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

John Challenger

Layoffs are still very high, and the economy seems to be showing little sign of pulling out of the doldrums, ... These lower cuts may just mean that we aren't seeing any further dips right now -- that we're just in this kind of steady, low-wattage kind of state.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Charlie Chaplin

The heart and the mind ... what an enigma.

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART"...

Charles W. Chesnutt

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

Charles W. Chesnutt

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Charles Sumner

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

Charles de Lint

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

Charles de Lint

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.

Charles de Lint

Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

Charles de Lint

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

John Clarke

He had said he was FBI, he had a badge, it was phony but I didn't know. I thought he was a police officer.

Dolly Parton

We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

Alan Furst

I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.

Oscar Levant

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Edna Ferber

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Anton Chekhov

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Harland Braun

We want the LAPD to investigate Robert Blake. The more they investigate, the more they'll find out he didn't do it.

Cesar Romero

In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts.

Alexei Mordashov

We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.

Demi Lovato

We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.

Doug Harvey

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

Renee James

Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.

David Nicholls

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

John Grahame

Surely no one thought they were about to rob a bank?

Simon Cowell

I thought it was like the never-ending song. It was so bland. You were like a robot during that performance.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Andrew Zarnett

Plainly said, the (Pennsylvania) tax is too high.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Donald Trump

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

Donald Trump

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.