Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Mitt Romney

Ultimately, legislation may need to be filed to provide an exemption based on religious principles.

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Gary LaGrange

The outcome is not good. Yesterday, I thought the damage could have been worse; but today, I'm not so sure.

Li Bingbing

The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I love the show 'Damages!' I am truly addicted.

Bill Vaughan

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

Charlie Pierce

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Jim Sherman

We've seen where young guys are somewhat already damaged goods when they come out of high school. They've had some problems before, but it really doesn't come to the forefront until they get to college.

Geoff Coulson

We have reports of damage -- tree damage right now fairly significant, also some reports of some vehicles that were overturned, and reports of damage to at least one home in the area.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

David Suzuki

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

Darrell Nichols

We know for a fact that several of the people staying at the motel were habitual burglars.

Michael Bennett

Wait just a minute. They didn't keep us out of the end zone. I was tackled in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter. Get your facts straight, or get a job working for the New York Times .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

John Burness

There are some folks who want us to do a full investigation ourselves. But the fact of the matter is this is a police investigation, and we can't impede it. The more information we have, if the allegations are true, there will be grave consequences.

Norman Reedus

I had fears going into television that it might become boring to me, and I always like to be challenged, push myself. You do a film, and you know where you're going; you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

Todd Clark

Leading indicators were stronger than expected. It may have rekindled fears of rate hikes.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Francis Gannon

I think the productivity numbers you saw this morning lessen the fears in the marketplace about the Fed raising rates.

David Becker

If what everyone fears has happened people stole money I don't think it is going to result in broad, intrusive regulation of hedge funds.

Sheikh Ahmad

He is my brother. I know him. I lived with him for years. I know how much he fears God.

Cisco Codina

Let me put the fears to rest. The plant is going to play a big role in our future success--and in the success of this community.

Joseph Cohen

recession fears are unwarranted for this year and the next.

Jonathan Brandis

I was so young I really didn't have any real fears or hesitations about the business. It's when I got older when I realized how much it all meant.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Al Goldman

The possessed kid in 'The Exorcist,' whose head spins around.

Nicholas Byrne

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Tracy Egeland

We're in a playoff race. There's no time to put your head down and pout. We've got to get ready to get back at it (today).

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Nick Woodman

I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.

Hayley Orrantia

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

David Goodwin

Until they can get that higher rent, they aren't going to build.

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Bill Donabedian

We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival.

Carl von Clausewitz

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Anton Chekhov

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

Paul Johnston

We want people to know we are on schedule, that June 1 (the start of hurricane season) is obtainable and it is our intention to do that.

David Joy

We'll see what impact, if anything, the hurricane had on them, and it may be a harbinger.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Brad Cotter

With the hurricane and all some people wondered if the show was still on,

Robin Kramer

Several major police incidents were not in any 100-day plan. Hurricane Katrina wasn't in any 100-day plan. The DWP power outage was not in any 100-day plan.

Jag Gill

The only time I've seen a problem with trying to find parking there was during Hurricane Rita.

Gene Edwards

If a hurricane starts barreling down on one of our refiners, we have procedures in place, ... and if it looks like we will have a big power failure, we will shut down the refineries.

Noreena Hertz

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Michael Brown

We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.

Ricky Boren

We've taken a lot of applications, ... Since then, out of the 80 applications, we've interviewed six of those. We do not plan to lower our standards for being an officer.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Brett Favre

We're always trying to find ways to lower interceptions and stuff. My nature, I'm aggressive. I'll take shots, I'll take chances; therefore, you have mistakes,

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Demetri Martin

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

David Lange

Death is very, very terminal.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Benjamin Netanyahu

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Billy Bob Thornton

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

Charles Spurgeon

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

Charles Spurgeon

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

Chris Brown

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

Bryan Stevenson

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

Diana Gabaldon

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

Ed Koch

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

Demi Lovato

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

Dean Koontz

the worst happens when you least expect it

William Shakespeare

Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.