Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Powell

ways to communicate with the people of Iran to convince them that the policies their leaders have been following are inappropriate.

Michael Dawidziak

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

Norby Williamson

When he expressed to us that he was considering retirement, we repeatedly tried to convince him otherwise, but completely respect his decision.

Alexei Navalny

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

John Culp

Whether or not to proceed down that path, that decision will be made by the representatives of the pilots and it's just another piece of an overall strategy we will use to convince management to negotiate toward a consensual agreement.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Ned Lathrop

We're finding roadblocks because they have a cookie-cutter mentality to producing buildings. How successful we'll be (in convincing them) is still up in the air, and we can't force them to do this, but we hope to convince them through the power of persuasion.

Dean Stanley

There are a lot of good things here, and we've got to convince other people of that,

Alan Watts

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Alan Greenspan

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

Javier Solana

We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody.

Mark Shapiro

We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Amber Magner

We lack experience. We don't have the leadership to make the right decisions at the right times.

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Mitsuo Kinoshita

Getting overseas staff to share our views on management and quality is very difficult. But that task is urgent.

Jack Sebbag

From a management standpoint and a cost-reduction standpoint ... you can now with a single console, with reduced costs, manage all these point products with just one resource and one just one technology.

Mark Horstman

From a management perspective, if it surprises you that someone leaves, it's because you weren't in touch with them.

Steve Perry

We have to go through minefields that we have to negotiate just to reach the listener,

Mike Boyd

Unions don't give in easily. It's going to be ugly, and Parker can't do much about it but negotiate with the winner.

Olusegun Obasanjo

We need to negotiate with other groups, unless our objective is to prevent any decision.

Victor Lazarovici

I think they'll negotiate with antitrust authorities and will come up with a solution.

Robin Cook

It is politically and diplomatically possible to negotiate withdrawal

Joel Tew

I thought that they would negotiate from the Pulte plan.

Billy Hunter

It doesn't work very well when you try to negotiate during a season.

Jack Roush

He said, 'I don't want to negotiate with you for 2007,' ... I said, 'OK,' and he said, 'I want to be released for 2006.' I said 'not OK.'

Lee Miller

People who understand how to negotiate are always going to do better.

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Chere' Moore

We swam some very smart races Thursday and overall I'm pleased with the whole team effort.

Scott Skiles

I thought overall it was one of Kirk's better games.

Tommy Hickox

Overall we've been playing a lot better, especially over the spring break. I really think we're starting to play well.

Tim Moe

Overall we really took it to them and the only time they could get it out of their end was when we were on the penalty kill.

David Cohen

Manufacturing is picking up in the second half. Pharmaceuticals can be enormously volatile, but overall they are on an uptrend.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Eartha Kitt

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

David Hume

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Beatrice Wood

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Audre Lorde

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

Derek Bailey

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

Denzel Washington

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Dave Barry

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Craig Ferguson

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Brandon Jay McLaren

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

Adolf Galland

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

Anna Torv

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

Donal Logue

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

Li Yizhong

With the proceeds from the A share issue, we will be able to fine-tune the integration of the company's upstream and downstream operations.

Rick Jandreau

Unless we get an injunction, we can proceed with the timber sale process.

David Sykes

He has spoken about several opportunities and I am not sure what he will proceed with.

Akira Suzuki

Our case, we used the organometallic compounds. Additionally, we need one important element, that is base. Without base, the acidic coupling reaction using organoboron compounds cannot proceed nicely. So, that is very important point in our cross-coupling reaction.

John Kyl

We recognize to proceed would ... result in a vote that would not be successful.

Steve Serbati

We're not tearing down the old bridge, so traffic will proceed as usual.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Brad Kullman

We haven't had anything to proceed on yet.

Peter Stuyvesant

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Bill Toohey

Our strategy with someone like this is ... surround and talk. And we will talk for a long time.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Charles J. Givens

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Don Frye

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

Donald Trump

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

Sam Bhavnani

One thing that is challenging Dell is its strategy towards higher-end products,

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

George Borjas

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.