Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

William O'Neill

The reality is that unrecorded inventories are huge. This is an old argument -- a bogus argument -- that has been presented for many years, but there is no long-term silver shortage.

David McCullough

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams

Carlo LoParo

We are hopeful that the judge will see the merits of our argument.

John Cholakis

We want to see what his line of reasoning was and if it's a valid argument, then perhaps the dollar sells off. If his comments are not as dovish as people might fear, the dollar might rally.

Steve Hall

The Peripheral Canal automatically throws you into a heated argument that doesn't solve the problem.

William Gray

The people who have a bias in favor of the argument that humans are making the globe warmer will push any data that suggests humans are making hurricanes worse, but it just isn't so. These are natural cycles.

Jack Straw

We are at a difficult time, but I believe that by the process of argument we should be able to get to a point where we can get a second resolution,

Kevin McClatchy

There are certain players who I think haven't progressed, and we need those players to grow. Put on top of that that we have a slew of young players coming into this thing, and I think Dave just wanted to make the decision to get the best person we can to help these guys continue to develop and evolve. Some can make the argument we didn't do that this year.

C. S. Lewis

If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.

Jeremy Newberry

When you run, you are delivering the blow instead of receiving it. We like that.

Kevin Hartman

when he (Donovan) came back that quickly, it really didn't even give us the opportunity to get negative. We scored so quickly, we were back up on top, and I'm sure it was a crushing blow to D.C. United.

Charles Dickens

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Charles Dickens

The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

Charles Dickens

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

Charles Spurgeon

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

Sharon Stone

I think when you love a child, it's a different kind of love. You think, 'I love more every day. I love more every day, more every day, I couldn't possibly love any more, I'm going to blow up.' And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much, you think I can't love any more.

David Allen

Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence.

Henry Samueli

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.

Bill Rocco

Most people don't need an emerging market fund, I don't think. That doesn't mean many don't.

Richard Robinson

Mobile are a key revenue-generating service emerging in China.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Monitoring our children's use of emerging technologies is a huge task and the Internet remains the focus of many parent's concerns.

Robert Friedland

Mongolia is the best-kept secret in emerging markets in Asia.

Michael Gomez

More and more investors are comfortable with emerging markets.

Fred Moran

Nextel is focused on the emerging market where wireless penetration is minute and growth potential is still ahead.

Tiesto

I can honestly say that the fans inspire. There's an unexplainable rush that comes when I'm in the middle of a set and the energy from the fans hit me. I also get really inspired through collaborations. I've learned so much from the emerging producers I've worked with just as they've learned from me.

Anna Wintour

Previous first ladies seemed to feel the need to wear a sort of uniform, whereas Michelle Obama likes fashion and is very comfortable in fashion. She's happy to mix high and low, and she loves emerging designers. That will do nothing but good for our industry.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Stewart Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

Dan Hopkins

The process will take as much time as the process needs. CDOT officials and federal officials will run the process as they see fit.

Joseph Biden

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Shamalene Broner

We have a solid defense. There's really no weak line out there. If they make a mistake it's mental, not physical.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Jim Sheridan

We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Brian Eno

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Leroy Hill

We know he has a big job. He's got to get the calls, give them to us and line us up. But we still like to mess with him. Like, after awhile, we get tired and we don't want to huddle anymore. He'll get mad and start fussing at everybody.

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Eric Van Lustbader

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

Paul Tagliabue

I don't think we'll be in litigation or that the union will decertify. But we are not making progress.

Mark Landy

If they do negotiate a lower price, they may open themselves up to litigation by essentially conceding that there has been a problem under management's watch.

Eric Kraus

I think we have resolved the vast majority of the litigation between us.

Michael Quinn

Any specific questions as to the pending litigation we probably won't be able to answer.

Phil Gordon

It's a litigation bonanza, and it will stop business.

Floyd Abrams

Everything is being dropped. There is no more litigation about this.

Jason Bruffy

Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Jamie Bamber

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Al Crellin

Ultimately, we only need one operations center, but for now we will maintain two.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Gretchen Rubin

I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Kate Bush

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

James Lasdun

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Jeong Kim

We have a woman who tied for third place in the national spelling be as a kid, and just really wanted to come back and do this.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Eric Swalwell

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Don Cooper

We did everything we can do with these guys. They're like the National Guard. They're on 24-hour call.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Bill Daly

The responses we are getting in-market have been very strong, virtually without exception.

Francis Fukuyama

These aren't two separate problems. In many instances the responses are the same.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Craig Mathias

If that had not happened, we would probably not have had an 11n standard this year.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Charles J. Givens

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Sam Bhavnani

One thing that is challenging Dell is its strategy towards higher-end products,

Bill Toohey

Our strategy with someone like this is ... surround and talk. And we will talk for a long time.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Don Frye

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

Donald Trump

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.