Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be the most powerful person in the world? The answer is someone with an internal drive that is so dynamic and so determined.

Robert Walpole

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Theodore Tilton

Life is done, but what is death?" Then, in answer to the King, Fell a sunbeam on his ring, Showing by a heavenly ray, "Even this shall pass away

Patricia Fripp

Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is no if you don't ask.

Henry Hyde

Let me be clear about this, ... We are not here today to decide whether or not to impeach Mr. Clinton. We are not here to pass judgment on anyone. We are here to ask and answer this one simple question: based upon what we now know, do we have a duty to look further, or to look away?

Jack Rio

Let me answer that with the words from the hit Steely Dan song 'Do it Again,' ... You go back, Jack, do it again. Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round. You go back, Jack, do it again.

Liam Fox

lied and broke the law and he must answer for that.

Shaun Cassidy

Lost' has changed the climate for shows that don't answer all your questions by the end of every episode.

Douglas Gresham

Many people ask, 'Why are they coming back?' The answer is that these books never went away,

John Whitacre

We are guardedly optimistic concerning our performance over the second half of this year.

Janet Yellen

Transparency concerning the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy is desirable because better public understanding enhances the effectiveness of policy. More important, however, is that transparent communications reflect the Federal Reserve's commitment to accountability within our democratic system of government.

Robert Ehrlich

We needed to know before this was a done deal, given the state of where we are concerning security.

Tommy Amaker

We're going to face a team that has played in the tournament and won in the tournament. That's one of the things that is concerning me.

Yevgeny Primakov

worried by the development of events concerning Iraq.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We're in uncharted territory. This is the first time we've seen mass protests concerning the legitimacy of a person who's been elected.

Lajos Kossuth

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

Alexei Miller

There are no disputes between Russia and Turkmenistan concerning the price or volumes of the Turkmen gas that we import.

Gary Sheffer

There are discussions going on concerning our proposal submitted on June 14. Part of our proposal is related to GECAS.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Alexei Kudrin

Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and we have the means to lower inflation to this level.

John Banks

Losing one day in July is an economic disaster.

Jeff Schappe

Leading economic indicators in general have indicated a slowing for some time.

Stephen Slivinski

Many states are having an unexpected surplus of revenue, and that is because of economic growth. It's mainly because their estimates on economic growth were very low.

Robert Matsui

sensible economic policies that put American families first.

Pankaj Mishra

Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.

Steven Wood

Momentum in the leading indicators has slowed over the past year, suggesting an impending slowdown in economic growth.

John Hostettler

Maybe we are not seeing the full effects today (of SS), but if we look forward unto tomorrow, we can actually avert an economic catastrophe, ... If we delay, hoping the problem will go away, we are simply inviting disaster.

Ed DeChellis

Last year, they knew exactly what they were doing. This year, this guy's starting, that guy's starting, probably because that's just the way it is. They're trying to find the right mixture.

David Cobb

Many people still don't know exactly what Goodwill does for the community. We are trying to pair local faces with our mission.

Ray Allen

Mike would spend the night at the house. We'd stay up late and then get up in the morning and go to practice. Everything he did just emulated exactly what I was doing out there on the floor and you see what he can do now.

John Kelly

Mr. Simpson, isn't this exactly what happened on June 12, 1994?

Emily Oster

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.

Gwen Stefani

(My inspiration) was so strong with 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and it was just like I had such a fire of inspiration.

Ahmed Qurei

Neither the French medical reports, nor the Palestinian reports managed to come to the exact reasons that led to Arafat's death,

Doug Trantham

One of the things I actually learned to some extent from Doc Watson most of us hate amplification anyway, and I think a lot of people tend not to spend a lot of time working with that. He won't start until the sound is right, and that's exactly what he needs to do.

Mike Bonin

No one ever said that they would be there for that exact time frame,

Rick Perlstein

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

Megawati Sukarnoputri

Let's all wait for those results and respect people's sovereignty in accordance to the existing law.

Steve Carr

Machine-to-machine communications is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the industry, and Wavecoms products are recognised for their high quality and technology leadership. Wavecom also complements a number of our existing product ranges, including microsystems, semiconductors and RF products.

Greg Mortenson

Many of these schools and mosques are doing good work to help Pakistan's poor. But some of them seem only to exist to teach militant jihad.

Billy Gardell

'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

Eric Maskin

Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.

Werner Herzog

Only 30 minutes from where I live, there is a completely hidden and forgotten archive. Nobody even knows that this exists here.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Kat Morgan

If one were to strip a person of the layers of outward masks and illusions and place them only in their own skin they would be overwhelmed with fear of the unknown. Know thyself and feed upon it's very existence, everything that needs to be known is within.

Mark Cooper

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was a record year for the whole industry and for Airbus in particular.

Michael Callahan

No one industry can tackle this (dictates of a country's government) on its own.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Peter Bell

I don't think we're ever going to have no-one in the whole industry ever involved in it.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Ken Johnson

I work for an industry that's kind of misunderstood.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Ron Gettelfinger

Make no mistake about it, we will make a big issue out of that in the (bankruptcy) hearings,

Bill Flott

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

E. Hurley

MADD is not the white-hot issue it was in the 1980s, ... But we need to rebuild our organization with even more volunteers and a stronger structure than we had in the past.

Christopher Klaus

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,

Gerardo Copca

Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.

Christopher Richter

Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Matthew Fassler

Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.

Neil Lomax

Mouse's philosophy was, 'Hey, this is what we do. I want my third-stringers to throw. I want my receivers to catch,' ... I just, personally, now have an issue with it. What are you trying to prove after 70-75 points?

Alexandra Paul

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let's get the power back to the people, ... not have the politicians go into a back room and slap each other on the back and smoke a stogie and come up with an agreement, smiling.

Michel Gauthier

Mr. Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

John Humphreys

Now they have a pretty strong portfolio. This is a powerful tech story for the company, and they need that.

Thomas Fuller

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Charles Spurgeon

Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

Diane Lane

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Dennis Prager

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Joe Sims

If they can come up with something that is satisfactory, we'll present it to the DOJ. If they don't, well see them in court.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Ed Parker

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

Dixie Lee Ray

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

Abraham Lincoln

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Dick Cheney

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

Antonio Graves

We need to stick to the principles of our defense.

A. J. Liebling

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Jason Bumblis

We had some jitters in the first quarter. But we settled down. We always win with our defense.

Ned Yost

We want to let Rickie get settled in,

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Tove Lo

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Milwaukee Brewers

He never got settled in. He couldn't find a groove. He never got going,

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Martin Jol

I always like to play with a settled team. If you see my teams I always play with the same if they are fit,

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Paul McNulty

Ms. Lewinsky's testimony has never been more important than it is now,

Colleen Dolan

Now that the tests have been done, we know what it's not. Whatever it was, it was significantly more debilitating yesterday morning.

Steve Segadelli

If anything has tested us this year, it's been a big team.

Elizabeth Blackwell

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

Alex Rodriguez

I got tested a little bit. I'm still a little sore.

Pat Descher

Because of the hurricane, McDonald's said we could be a test market.

Lionel Blue

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

Drew Neitzel

We know they'll try to get after us like that. This is going to be a test of our composure.

Jim Alexander

We'll do the beta testing in June. That will be your ticket.

M. Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting.

Frederick Pollock

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Lee Smolin

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Dean Ornish

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

E. F. Schumacher

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Bo Burnham

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Observation always involves theory.

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.