Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Alan Greenspan

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Alan Greenspan

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Jamie Shea

We want them to have the benefit of summer months to help to rebuild their homes and lives. But obviously, we want them not to go back until there is a secure presence, to ensure that the refugee return can be done in an organized way.

James Hood

We want to stay in the port; we feel we have been a good tenant. We provide an economic benefit, a net positive revenue flow, which goes to the general revenue of the state.

Andrew Golden

We want to spend as much of the endowment as possible, subject to two constraints ? preserving purchasing power into perpetuity and assuring that the spending stream is relatively stable. Your great-grandchildren need to get the same economic benefit that you're getting now.

Pat Keliher

We want to see the biggest public benefit come out of this, but we have to take it at step at a time.

Louis Navellier

I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

Kevin Logan

The only reason we wouldn't be able to make it (to the benefit concert) is if Pete got listed and we needed to leave. As soon as they list him then we need to get him down immediately.

Evan Smith

The potential for a weakening dollar is definitely a driver for gold. We could see $700 an ounce in two years.

Jonathan Vilma

We've already been talking about it, how definitely as a unit we're going to step it up another notch. It would be great if we could all stay together and get it rolling for next year.

Greg Rusedski

We usually say it doesn't mean much, but it definitely does.

James Thomas

We are aggressively looking at expanding our coverage. In terms of our distributor and reseller network I would not get into forward projections but what I can share is that we would definitely expand our coverage.

Cathy Keefe

There are definitely more people traveling. And they might not be spending more on each trip, but they are definitely taking more trips.

Jason Rogers

There are definitely high expectations of him, he is saying the right thing, trying to please everybody. But the proof is in the pudding.

Peter Judge

There are definitely going to be lessons we'll be taking away from this,

Pawel Janas

There are definitely going to be a ton of Polish fans there to root us on.

Matt Hasselbeck

There are definitely enough resources of people that have been there. Even guys on our team that have been there and played in this game, and I guess you just have to listen and try to learn what you can from those types of people.

Bruce Braley

The people who know me and know the values I stand for ... know I've always fought to protect the rights of workers.

Lisa Papademetriou

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

Tonya Voeller

We're going to come away learning something from this. I was proud of how the girls fought back.

Marissa Coleman

We knew they were going to go on their runs. The game was a game of runs. We fought back and stayed together as a team and pulled it out.

Tom Hodgkinson

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Ellen McLaughlin

I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.

Gisela Dulko

She fought until the last point. It was a really tight match. And I think yes, it's a really big win for me because I get the opportunity to be in the quarterfinals of this big tournament.

Melanie Hall

She fought hard. It's all about heart. And she's got it. Right then and there I knew she was something special.

Jody Bronson

She fought for every point out there, which is something she always does.

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.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.

Lorraine Toussaint

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

Lorraine Toussaint

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

George Thorogood

The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece.

Earl Butz

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

Karl Dorrell

Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.

Cheryl Strayed

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

Jim Gaylor

Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.

Chip Cook

We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.

Karin Slaughter

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

Patrick Marleau

We want to play them in their end and always have the puck and start making plays in their zone. When we're successful, we get results like this.

Wayne Chrebet

When it comes down to it, everyone is just trying to get their plays and get to the season healthy. I don't think it'll be anything too crazy.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to run some decoys for him. We're not going to run plays for him.

David Gower

Vaughan now plays more on the crease than he did,

Karl Dorrell

Make one or two more plays than they do.

Sarah Snook

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

Edward Hall

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Arthur Clough

Shady in Latin, said Lindsay, but topping in Plays and Aldrich.

Kenny Graham

We started pulling some of the starters even though it was only 2-0 but you have to look at the big picture.

Vince Carter

When you think something can't be done, that's when he pulls off another stunt.

Bill Maher

New polls show that Obama is now pulling away from Mitt Romney. And, of course, what could be more natural than to see Mitt Romney and pull away?

Greg Williams

When we get real rain I'll have to get a tractor and pull them out of the mud.

Wayne Morgan

We're going to have to pull up our bootstraps.

Nick Rodriguez

We're doing better than I was hoping. I didn't think we'd be able to pull off a win until sometime around March.

John W. Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them. We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

John Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them, ... We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

Sherri Shepherd

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.