Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stewart

There is cautious optimism that things are going to work out in a favorable light,

John Clare

We are pleased with the progress of our international operations, whilst we remain cautious about prospects in the UK, where we have experienced the slowdown in consumer expenditure.

Peter Cardillo

We're seeing some cautious trading right now, but the volume is decent, the momentum is on the upside and traditionally, this is a good week for the markets.

Riccardo Marzi

We're seeing a general slowdown in earnings growth. That makes me more cautious on the outlook for stocks this year.

Peter Cardillo

We're seeing a cautious market because of the Fed meeting. There are a lot of events the markets need to sort through, and the most important one is Mr. Greenspan.

Kurt Barnard

Until the unemployment picture improves, consumers will be very cautious about their spending habits. We think the second half of the year could also be difficult for the retail industry unless the job demand improves.

Michael Morpurgo

Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.

Richard Kogan

What they've done is thoughtful, analytically sound and numerically cautious ... but they haven't put in the huge caveat about the range of uncertainty, ... It's so large that we can't know if the problem is twice as great or a quarter as great as what they're saying.

Scott Gottlieb

Maybe we're not being overly cautious but instead trying to be responsive.

Carlos Castaneda

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

Mike James

We have to get that feeling that we have when we're down 20 and take that into the start of the game. We can't be nonchalant.

Ville Nieminen

We have a special feeling in the locker room.

Agnetha Faltskog

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Agnes Varda

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

Alan Sugar

I've got a gut feeling in my stomach. . .

Charlotte Bronte

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

Charles Dickens

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

Carole Bouquet

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Carol Leifer

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Moseley Braun

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carlos Ghosn

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

Carlos Ghosn

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

Shannon Miller

We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.

Dan Webster

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Agnes Macphail

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Carlos Gutierrez

We used to try to see what other work we could grab. Now our mission is to be seen as a high-technology plant.

Richard G. Scott

No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

Carolyn Porco

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,

Billie Joe Armstrong

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

M. Wolfe

There is no mission to Broadway, it's (there) just to make money,

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

David Myers

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Cesar Pelli

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Alan Greenspan

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Alan Greenspan

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

Chogyam Trungpa

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

Madeleine Albright

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

Bob Iger

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Bill Gates

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Juan Carlos

Perhaps we are all suffering from Stockholm syndrome,

David Brown

Perhaps this is the first step on a long road.

Ann Gerhart

Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Irving Kirsch

Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

Andrea Hirata

It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Kris Kristofferson

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Kristin Gore

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

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.