Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liu Zhengrong

Major U.S. companies do this and it is regarded as normal. So why should China not be entitled to do so?

Evan Osnos

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

Jamie Smith

Secretary Albright was in China with government officials and people in the private sector to help them better understand DP World's interests in China.

Sha Zukang

So it is in that connection I can tell you China will not sit on one hand.

Herbert Lau

Momentum in the two China telecom stocks is slowing because all the good news is in the price now, ... In the near term they will follow the trend in the telecom sector, where there is still some weakness.

Daniel Basse

Much of the run-up this year has to do with a smaller-than-expected crop in China due to excessive rains.

John Snow

Moving to a truly flexible exchange rate requires a lot of preparatory steps. China is seriously engaged in taking these preparatory steps,

Fernando Alonso

McLaren have the pressure to be perfect until China (the season's finale), and if they are not, we will be there to punish them.

Alex Wong

Net interest margins in Hong Kong remain under pressure and Standard Chartered Bank's performance here in 2005 would likely not be as strong as in China and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific where it has expanded aggressively.

Isabella Rossellini

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

Rick Perlstein

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

Janet Prust

Mandatory reporting simply means more scrutiny in all of the practices around reducing infection. Sterilization is considered a sentinel event around surgical site infections. So for a facility to be able to document and prove that they did all of those things the right way via an electronic record keeping system is a tremendous value for a facility.

Caroline DeWaal

Many more of these plants should be considered failures.

Stephen Harper

Mr. Martin is campaigning in Montreal, which was considered not too long ago the strongest set of Liberal ridings in the country. That's an encouraging sign. Indications on the ground are good everywhere.

James Rubin

Mr. Dahoumane is considered to be a potentially dangerous terrorist and is still at large.

Ken Dychtwald

No one considered whether a life without work would be satisfying or sustainable.

Neal McCarthy

My epiphany happened in Guatemala. I was looking to do some volunteer work and considered taking a job planting trees. But then I thought if I was serious about this I could go to London, get an IT contract and pay them to get 200 people to plant trees.

Cecily Strong

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

Mike McCue

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

David Mellem

Lower taxes are great, but if its going to cost you money, it's not worth it. If a stock hits your sell range after 3 months, do you really want to risk 9 more months of fluctuation to get a lower tax rate?

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Kumi Naidoo

Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.

Mike Kelly

Last year we reached 355 fifth-graders, at a cost of $6 a student, ... We did this with the help and sponsorship of SFA, Nacogdoches ISD, Coca-Cola, Nacogdoches Safe and Drug Free and others. People stepped up throughout the year, and we received very positive feedback. It was a great adventure, and we will do it again.

David Hudson

Many, many farmers have made significant inroads into their cost structure and we have seen a very significant surge in diversification.

Joe Baca

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Kurt Barnard

Sears is on the way back to health. They're doing a good job (of cost cutting) and they are offering customers a good, recognizable value and customers are responding.

Stephanie Marquis

So far, we have 382 claims. We're estimating the cost to the state has been about $64,000.

Alfred de Vigny

Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for good or for evil; that does us good.

Don Norman

Legislators in each state must determine whether or not regulation is necessary to protect their constituents.

Adoniram Judson

Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination is the greatest virtue of the will.Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.

Terry Adams

Last year was the first one where I really struggled. I'm determined to make it back.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

Let's display our determination that was lacking in Buenos Aires.

Rich Thompson

Many races were determined by less than half a second in another exciting, full-house meet.

Mike Singletary

So I understand that you have to set goals and maybe when you start out, you're not as good as you're going to be, but if you really work, you can get better and you determine that. So ... I'm never going to quit on a player.

Daniel Costa

Much of the world's weather is determined by what happens in the Antarctic, so understanding the Southern Ocean is a key to understanding global climate.

Alexandra Adornetto

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

Sam Baker

My knee brace is falling everywhere. My shorts, everything is falling around. It's not fun.

Dennis Wilson

The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

Debra Winger

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

Edsger Dijkstra

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

Medea Benjamin

I feel like this is the time when the American public understands something is wrong. When we are awash in money and we can't provide universal health care. School systems are falling apart.

Teruhisa Tsuji

Given the market's weak-dollar bias, there's a risk of the U.S. unit falling further on a wider-than-expected trade deficit.

Art Russell

From a purely technical standpoint, we could see the Nasdaq falling to 2,500 levels in the near term.

Elizabeth Bishop

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

Giri Cherukuri

Many of the large-cap tech stocks, including Intel, are undervalued. Any move strengthening their position in the market, makes their stocks more attractive.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it, ... But we're trying to work with it, to do something with it.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it,

Dana Perino

Security measures were thoroughly reviewed, including intelligence matters.

Jim Hendry

None of us, including Dr. Kremchek, are anticipating anything significant, but it is a shoulder.

Igor Ivanov

must be searched for through dialogue, including with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Yossi Alpher

We've never encountered this situation before. Everyone, including the U.S., is playing this by ear.

Tom Lochner

She took over. She took the team on her back and made some tough shots, including that three. I thought she was the difference.

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Tom DeLay

Let me be very, very clear, ... I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House. I have done nothing unlawful, unethical or, I might add, unprecedented.

Vanessa Redgrave

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

Laura Fisher

So far, the law is working as intended.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Lisa Gross

One reason the waiver was refused was because it's state law. And because they didn't want to set a precedent.

William Blake

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

Charles Potter

No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regular enforcement of the problem. Now, using the littering law is a stretch.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Rig Veda

Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Henry Charles Carey

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

Anacharsis Anacharsis

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Kevin Connors

If it's a photo-centric project, you can do the layout in Photoshop, but if it's illustration-centric, use something like Illustrator.

Carol Lang

We have space planning consultants working with us that have been looking at the layout of Paley and where it sits on the campus.

Albert Schweitzer

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Albert Schweitzer

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

François Chateaubriand

One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light

Joanne Davis

My hat's off to them for doing their process in the light of day.

David Burks

Maybe everything's on the up and up. But in light of what's happened, people are just going to be naturally suspicious when these names come up.

Retief Goosen

No, I'm not even thinking about the lightning incident,

Keenan McCardell

When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,

Charles R. Swindoll

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Denis Hayes

An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.

Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Shay Cox

Megan had a big game. She had two big shots, and she really needed them.

Bill Belichick

Obviously, we're disappointed. We weren't able to make the plays we needed to make to win, that's why we didn't win.

Charles Seaton

One trip cock on each end was redundant. We only needed one trip cock per car.

Michael Turner

More observations are needed to find out what is going on here.

Andy Serkis

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

John Fuller

Now we are being told to stay put, because there is the possibility that our resources will be needed here.

Olympia Snowe

needed to offer a personal, passionate and sincere renunciation of racism and segregation in all its forms, and he did that.

Tallia Cahoon

When I got to Ruby, I needed to know more.

Jerry Nelson

Of all the times you get a wrong number or a prank call, I was wishing it was a prank.

David Macdonald

No one has any idea where they are getting their numbers from.

Telyshia Adams

No, no, I thought it was going to take me a while. I said that I wanted to score the number on my jersey, but I didn't think I was going to be able to do it tonight. Not at all.

Nathan Brookwood

Multi-core is the new megahertz. If you want more performance rather than ramping up the megahertz, now it's all about ramping up the number of cores.

Diane Glossman

Morgan's numbers were outstanding. It was all trading.

Ben Edwards

Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,

Bud Selig

Number one, let me say that the program we have is working, ... There's no question about that.

Rick Burch

Number one is we don't have day jobs. And something that stems from that is we're able to get together more often.

Russ Howard

Number one by a mile, baby. No question.

Tom Poti

Obviously, we took way too many penalties tonight.

Stu Barnes

Work ethic, turnovers, penalties ... that sums it up.

Greg Thomas

There are no retrospective penalties in the game's regulations.

Lane Donati

We took too many penalties and that took us out of our game.

Mickey Andrews

But we're still having too many penalties and getting too many people out of position.

Jay Pelkey

Penalties have been a problem for us all season long.

Evgeni Nabokov

Penalties got us into trouble in the second period and they capitalized on that.

Joe Philbin

I think from a penalty standpoint, he had more penalties than he's ever had and that's something he wants to get right. I think there are some things he probably didn't do as well as he has in the past.

Cynthia Lowery

There's so much pressure; the penalties are so great.

Rig Veda

May the truth protect me in all ways.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Daniele Audetto

We are only trying to protect our investments.

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Thom McDaniels

We had three different protection schemes because they give you three different fronts,

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

John Eberle

The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Robin Weigert

I remember when 'Deadwood' had first come out, there was this whole deer-in-the-headlights sense of feeling really uncomfortable with being recognized in public.

Warner Johnston

Our city's playgrounds are nationally recognized for safety.

Dean Rusk

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Eduardo Galeano

Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ...

Edith Wharton

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Deborah Fallows

Web surfing has kind of taken its rightful place as a routine activity. It's not necessarily a time killer, but a time filler.

Don Franklin

We spotted them their runs. We were not sharp, not making the routine plays.

Jamie Moyer

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Daniel Goleman

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

Brittany Snow

I'm pretty minimal when it comes to my beauty routine and always have been.

Dominique McElligott

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Barbara Turner

We kind of have a routine going and it's actually worked out pretty well for us.

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Elizabeth Bowen

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Abraham Lincoln

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Grace Young

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

David Hamilton

She's his own daughter. He (his father) is in recovery, but at the very least, she has shortened his life.

Rachelle Lemieux

She?s been sick and she can only play in short spurts because she has trouble breathing.

Winston Churchill

Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better

Alan Woods

Short term, this is going to be bad. Long term, this may be good.

Tom Parker

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.

Jose Pertierra

If they are set free, it would be a violation of international laws.

Fred Eckhard

We know that the violations can be controlled.

Ban Ki-moon

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Kevin Murphy

Respondent's violations are willful, continuing, and egregious and warrant a substantial penalty.

Hillary Clinton

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

Randeep Hooda

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Jack Hooper

That makes them widely consumable all over the world.

Jeffrey Berger

Aspirin is a drug that has been used for many years - it is well-understood, effective, inexpensive and widely available.

Dr. Berger

Aspirin has been used for many years, it is well-understood, effective, inexpensive and widely available.