Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wiles

Major shifts in transportation priorities are essential to achieving energy independence and maintaining national security, ... A serious commitment to rail and transit has been a missing element in the U.S. strategy to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil.

Milton Pedraza

Lexus won by a wide margin, achieving a rating of 88 versus 83 for Porsche and 82 for Acura. Lexus customers rated it the most worthy of a price premium by a five-point margin. Lexus also posted the highest ratings in the critical Customer Retention and Customer Referral indices.

John Mack

Morgan Stanley has tremendous strengths as a global financial services firm, but it is clear that our current level of profitability is unacceptable and we need to improve our performance, ... Our overriding goal for Morgan Stanley is to be the clear leader in offering premier, innovative financial services to our clients, while delivering superior returns to our shareholders. The decisions to keep Discover, divest the aircraft leasing business and strengthen our retail business are our first steps toward achieving that goal.

Keith Kressin

Memory power is becoming increasingly important to overall system performance; TS-on-DIMM is a significant step toward achieving close-loop memory thermal management while optimizing thermal performance.

Mike Barnett

Now we're really seeing even the byproduct of the style that he's comfortable with and the confidence that comes from winning. We're achieving the success as a team that comes from 23 guys paying attention to team defense. We're not taking anything from what Brian has remarkably been able to accomplish, because it's extraordinarily hard to get a shutout, period, let alone to think of four in a row. But it really is an entire roster sacrificing anything and everything needed to get in front of pucks or deflect pucks or controlling positions defensively to be aware of taking away scoring opportunities.

John McHale

I can think of no one more appropriate or compelling than Colonel Madden to keynote the conference this year. This year's conference highlights the technological challenges facing the U.S. military services and Colonel Madden will address these challenges of achieving a net-centric environment.

Irfan Pathan

Getting Test wickets is not easy so achieving a hat-trick has to be up there. It's quite a good feeling to have done something special.

Will Carling

Top performance in both depends on two key elements: maximizing potential and overcoming the barriers to achieving goals.

Sam Veda

Only those, who work hard can think of achieving something. Sitting idle or hoping for results without making any effort is nothing but foolishness.

Robert Hass

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

Robert Walpole

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

Ted Roof

We're not deep enough, but we're deeper than we were last year. We've just got to keep addressing depth in recruiting and the development of the players that we have.

John Douglas

Mandate has very grave doubts as to whether the social partnership process, with its current restrictive agenda and parameters can truly address the income needs of those on middle and lower incomes, given the very narrow focus on competitiveness and wage restraint being applied to the talks by both the government and employers in terms of wages in particular.

Gordon Brown

Let us move the IMF forward from its old role for an old world of sheltered national economies -- of addressing balance of payments problems -- to a new role in a world of global capital flows.

Bob Bone

Let's have a meeting where I can address everybody's concerns. If at the end of that meeting they still think it's unsafe to go and the majority of people don't want to do it - fine.

David Silva

Let us turn these notions of ordinances into programs for services that will actually address the problem that every American city has.

Hu Jintao

Let me address this question in a very brief way,

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down. But we all need to take a breath and fashion solutions to address the real problem, which is how much information kids are putting online and who are they communicating with online.

Bill Coleman

Scott has the depth of knowledge, experience, and expertise to help the department and our community through the public safety challenges that lie ahead, ... Scott's leadership abilities coupled with his collaborative style are a good fit for this organization.

Robert Barry

Severe operating challenges still confront GM, including mix, pricing and market-share pressures plus a tough macro outlook as consumers face rising interest rates and energy costs.

Caroline Chantry

Most women experience difficulties when they leave the hospital. These challenges often lead to premature weaning.

Robyn Rose

One of our challenges, of course, with the print medium, is that once it's printed, it's there for a year.

Bryan Whitman

One of the big challenges that's in front of the Iraqi people is seating a government that reflects and respects the views of all the Iraqi people, and doing it in a way in which all Iraqis can feel included in the political process.

Louis Navellier

One of our big challenges with the newsletter is that everyone thinks big stocks are safe. That's not true at all. They're only safe if the money is flowing there.

Julian McMahon

Morally, the show challenges itself consistently. To be honest, sometimes I don't know where the morals stand. But at some point in time, usually at the end of each episode, you come up with some kind of message and some kind of moralistic virtue in some kind of way.

Joanne McCallie

Obviously they're very, very good. These kids have worked hard. They're getting better, but the challenges are huge.

Mark Tushnet

When you put the memo together with his voting registration challenges and with his opposition to a local antidiscrimination ordinance in Phoenix, ... you get a picture of somebody for whom issues of racial justice and nondiscrimination were not a high priority.

Donald Trump

Colonel Jack Jacobs is a good guy. And I see him on occasion.

Evel Knievel

I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

Marquis de Lafayette

It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.

Vance Moss

We were his last resort. And when we evaluated this kid, the colonel cried.

William Odom

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

Robert Culp

The role of the Colonel was not exactly written for me or the role that I wanted to play, but he was written like an imbecile or kind of foolish.

Dan Gorbett

I've only been at two schools, Colonel Crawford and Galion, and the kids have been great.

Minnie Pearl

Colonel Parker said, When we get off the plane, you stay with Elvis. I want you in all the pictures.

John Eisenhower

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Towson Fraser

Obviously, they've got an incredibly compelling story to tell.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Mike Easley

Given the facts and circumstances of this case, I find no compelling reasons to invalidate the sentences recommended by the jury and affirmed by the courts.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Aaron Karo

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Howard Levine

New-store growth is a significant contributor to our goal of making Family Dollar a compelling place to shop and invest. As we have indicated, this year we are focused on improving our new-store opening processes and increasing our new-store productivity to drive better returns to our shareholders.

John Roberts

On the other hand, simple disagreement about whether it's an appropriate issue for the public to see would not strike me as a very compelling governmental interest,

Cameron Bennerman

We're not crazy, we know that teams in this conference are going to fight back tooth-and-nail. They've got good players and they did that.

Ernie Nestor

Like every team, we want to go to the NCAA tournament. Our seeding for the conference tournament is very important, as is the way you're playing. Hopefully, we'll have those in our favor when it counts.

Chris Grinde

Losing that game means if we are going to win a conference championship, we don't have any room for error any more. We probably need to win all of them.

Larry Eustachy

Look, UTEP was 11-3 in the conference for a reason. They had a lot to do in the difference in winning and losing. UTEP is a tournament-type team.

Brent Gentry

Last year, some of the money went toward their conference title rings. They use the money for many things - maybe a meal on the road. It's just a way to help the team.

Bob Scucci

Seattle was expected to win. Pittsburgh went through the one, two, and three seeds, and a lot of people think the AFC from top-to-bottom was a lot better conference than the NFC.

Rick Pitino

Missouri State is a great team. We now know how the Missouri Valley Conference is underrated and probably Creighton and Missouri State should be in (the NCAA Tournament).

Jason Long

One of the things I've done is take our players into the gym where they hang up banners for every sport that wins a conference or section title. I tell the kids, 'Look around. Do you see anything for football?' There's nothing.

Scott Wofford

One of our big goals is to be conference champions. We're going to have to work hard to get where we want to be.

Jonathan Crisp

Let her go home, send her home, ... She will probably in all likelihood be facing this stigma for the rest of her life.

Michael Mori

Mr Hicks is the only one facing a commission,

Terry Holt

Mr. Armey and Mr. Lott are longtime friends and allies, and they will always work hard together on the issues facing Congress,

Adam Sampson

More and more people are facing homelessness and housing problems.

Richie Adubato

Now we're facing a four-game road trip. We have to steal one very shortly.

Dave Duncan

From here on out he's going to start seeing more situations like that and he's going to be facing big lefthanders. And he's going to have to be ready to start getting them out.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

Jim Sinclair

I work for lots of fire protection districts. With some exceptions, everyone is facing the same problem.

Dirk Niebel

Since September 11, 2001, we know we are facing terrorists who are trying to have their way with our constitutional democracies.

Kevin Rudd

The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.

Anthony Cordesman

Obviously every time you get a weakening of the coalition, it highlights the lack of international support for the U.S. mission.

Jean Chatzky

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

Frank Spindler

This, we believe, really highlights the impact that Pentium III-M and 0.13 micron technology from Intel is going to have on the mobile segment,

Harold McAllister

We just went through our season and went through the highlights and thanked everyone who participated this year.

Rick Astley

It's really weird seeing someone impersonating you. But at the same time, Vic Reeves' impersonation of me is one of the highlights of my life.

E. B. White

It highlights our struggles and similarities and how we are very different.

Brandt Jobe

How about that? More crystal. It's fun. I had a rough week, so these are highlights you'll remember, which is nice.

Tim Burns

You should have seen it. It was one of the highlights of our season.

Gerhard Schroeder

Military options can not help. We have experienced it,

Peggy Noonan

More was needed in terms of sending a US military presence into New Orleans.

Denis Healey

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Denis Hayes

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.

Dilma Rousseff

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who does not value the Brazilian democracy.

Edgar Mitchell

I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly.... The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that, and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

Eileen collins

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

Ehud Barak

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Estella Olguin

We're going to try to get him some therapy services right away.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Matt Rosoff

A lot of the Windows Live services are things that had already been in development by MSN,