Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Durkan

We want to see a credible report telling us there is no current or ongoing illegal activity from the IRA.

Andy Brough

We have seen continued bid activity and earnings have been reasonably robust. The market has had a great run in the first quarter.

Dan Dinges

We have secured the rigs necessary to complete our program, a program that focuses on more development activity and less risk. The current forecasted activity level calls for 391 wells, with increased activity in each region including expanded drilling on each of the acquisition plays purchased in 2005.

Wade Estep

We were also receiving a wellness program, sort of a physical activity program. We were going to try to set up some sort of physical activity program, but that didn't really materialize.

Randy Williams

We've seen a sharp decrease in phishing site activity since deploying the TippingPoint anti-phishing filters, and block more than 9,000 phishing attacks per hour.

Niklaus Wirth

The creative activity of programming - to be distinguished from coding - is usually taught by examples serving to exhibit certain techniques.

Jim Craig

There is a lot of activity in Europe at this moment and we are focusing on that.

Vladimir Putin

There is a long-felt need to confer legal status onto the activity of Cossack units, ... Today, the Cossack movement is reviving.

Larry Johnson

There is clear, unmistakable evidence that the level of terrorist activity that has killed and injured people has soared to unprecedented levels since we invaded Iraq.

Richard DeKaser

We have seen and I expect will continue to see a softening of demand for single-family housing that has been unmatched by a decline in construction. Eventually builders get with the program.

Joe Marsh

We have no illusions of grandeur here. It's the situation we want to be in. We want to have to go out there and have to earn every single shift. We'll have to do that in this building (the Kohl Center) for sure.

Samuel Palmisano

We have more work to do, but we are off to a good start this year, building on the momentum of 2005.

John M. Smith

We have some building to do. Building doesn't mean that we're looking at some poor seasons in the future. Building just means we need to build some individuals that don't have a lot of credentials at this point.

Dave Lutz

What these seniors have done is impressive. I told these guys that it used to take, eight, nine, 10 years for T.J. to win 29 games, but these guys have helped build a foundation.

Anthony DeFazio

What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.

Capt. McDonough

Whenever you have a large number of people in a building you want to make sure they can get out very quickly. So they need to know where the exits are and they need to know how to get to them.

Arthur Stein

Whenever you build an institutional use, like a hospital, or a courthouse, there is going to be expansion, and the uses that relate to that institution are going to expand as well,

Marv Levy

When you say you're building for the future, that's an incomplete sentence. You're building for the future coach and general manager, is what you're doing.

Bob Graham

We have no intention to let this incident preclude us from continuing those flights.

Kent Conrad

The fact is, we have worked together effectively as a team for North Dakota, most recently in the fight to save our bases, ... I look forward to continuing to work together to serve the people of our state.

Walter Smith

(Walker) is continuing to eat up Peach County and he's gonna eat up some more - all the way up to (Interstate) 75. And if he can jump over there, he can do that too.

Alexander Medvedev

Ukraine has wasted time in these talks, and now there can be no talk of US$160. The market situation has changed, and it's continuing to change.

Travis Engen

This was a solid performance in the face of continuing stiff headwinds from rising raw material and energy costs and currency movements, and reflects a sharp focus on managing the things within our control and the steady execution of our operating agenda,

Bob DuPuy

We want to stay in Washington. We're very pleased with the reception that people in Washington gave to the team. We're continuing to work with the mayor, we're continuing to work with the council and we're hopeful that we can get it done.

Rich DiPentima

The point of this whole thing is to look at your continuing operations within your infrastructure.

Monte Shaw

We are proud to welcome Corn, LP as the 21st ethanol plant in Iowa. This plant is a showcase of the continuing innovation and improvement in the ethanol industry.

Giles Morgan

We're in continuing dialogue and we're hoping it'll be resolved as soon as possible.

Javier Solana

We want to prove to Lebanon our support in establishing strong relations on political and economic levels between Lebanon and the European Union.

Phil Pantano

We want everyone to understand what we've done and what we plan to do. We're talking about jobs, investment and economic opportunity.

Bruce Elder

We've seen such terrific growth in property values that it's very hard for a person starting out to get a home - and I feel that home ownership is probably the single most important thing in keeping a family together. If you look at economic stability for a family, and being part of a community, home ownership is the number one thing that we should address.

Andy Bryant

We've seen no signs of an economic recovery.

Mark Davis

We've seen an increase of about one and a half trains per year because of economic growth.

Mitchell Cohen

The problem with vaccines is not a new problem, ... For the last decade, we have had reduction in the number of vaccine manufacturers. ...The issue comes down primarily to economics ... Profit margins are small.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Thein Sein

As prime minister, I was able often to meet people, to try to understand their needs and the country's economic situation - but it wasn't as if I was planning or ever expected to become president, so I wasn't thinking back then of what I would do if I was in this position, I was just trying to understand the problems and challenges.

Thomas R. Kelly

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

Hiroshi Arano

Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.

Bruce Alston

We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.

Michael Blythe

Policymaker's toleration for inflation risks must be lower when the inflation rate is bumping around 3% per annum,

Alice Rivlin

No one's really worried about inflation right now.

Irene Cheung

From March, the year-on-year inflation rate will probably come off quite substantially.

Michael Moskow

If inflation expectations did become unhinged, this might require a stronger response,

Joseph Tan

One to two percent inflation is still very tolerable.

Gordon Brown

We have met our inflation target this year every year since 1997.

Mark Zandi

The overall CPI does not reflect the inflation most seniors face.

Kevin Rochlin

We're in uncharted waters. There has never been anything of this magnitude and this complexity.

Richard Suzman

I was surprised by the magnitude of the effect.

Lynn Schusterman

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

Jim Folkman

I think it's a watershed year just in the magnitude of the increase.

Kathy Stephens

I think people are just now realizing the magnitude of where we are.

Joe Burke

We don't completely understand the rationale for the magnitude of the downgrade.

Scott Hand

It's not unusual for a transaction of the magnitude of ours to move to a second phase.

Tom Johnson

That normally does not happen. Normally, a ticket of this magnitude we recommend people get an attorney.

Eric Rignot

What surprised us was the magnitude of the changes.

Ashwin Sanghi

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

David Daniels

The Great Chief also honours modesy.

Democritus

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

Bobby Flay

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

Christopher Paolini

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

Oscar Wilde

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Ozzy Osbourne

I can't do anything in moderation.

Jenny Eclair

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Frances E. Willard

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Aaron Spelling

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

Charlotte Bronte

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

Charles Stanley

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

Charles Spurgeon

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Bram Stoker

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

David Allen

The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.

Carl Sagan

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

Cesare Pavese

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Jane Austen

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Darren Kimball

When I look at 2006, I see a lot of the same pressures I saw in 2005.

Mark Zandi

My sense is, there will be more inflationary pressures going forward.

Rob Lowe

I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.

Alastair Campbell

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Warren Christopher

not succumb to suggestions or pressures that they leave.

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Nicholas Burns

We're just going to reserve any kind of commendation for the Belgrade government.

Michael Callahan

We always reserve the right to get better.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

Elizabeth Warren

If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.

Carol Kane

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

Carol Vorderman

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

Carol Vorderman

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

Carlos Queiroz

Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

Carlos Mesa

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

Carlos Delgado

I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

Carlos Beltran

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Carl Crawford

Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Tom Perkins

We'll have to find some way around it. There probably is a way...I suspect something will come up.

Marianne Williamson

Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.

Will Tudor

I very much enjoy things like '24,' although I suspect that's run its course.

Geraldine McCaughrean

You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.

Walid Jumblatt

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

Michael Boss

I would suspect we'll go out with a whimper.

Joe Roberts

I suspect we?ll see him in the top 10 for some time to come, and he?ll probably be at the top of the list.

Brad Bankston

I suspect this is something that will work in the future.