Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward M. Lerner

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

Nativo Lopez

We are here to make a tough statement right in the bedrock of the anti-immigrant movement.

John Sprague

Now, the railroad is in the top five employers in the city. They pay very good wages for employees, they're stable. When you look at our portfolio of businesses and diverse business activities, this is one of our bedrock companies.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, we're going to head down the hill, looking for bedrock and heading toward Home Plate,

Ivan Seidenberg

From our perspective, our (service) job is never done. Service is our most important issue. It's the bedrock of our company.

Bill Ackman

Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.

Shelley Fabares

There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.

Lynn Flewelling

Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.

Jim Steets

When they blasted the bedrock in the late 1960s to early 1970s for the construction of various facilities, they created seams. Do they know exactly where those seams are? I don't think they do, but the seams created flow paths toward the river.

Todd Croteau

We have recognized that small businesses are people businesses. The types of people we have to have employed here have to want to be a trusted advisor. They have to have a strong value culture around doing the right thing.

Dambisa Moyo

The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.

Don Madden

There is a long history there, when new businesses look to relocate to Zanesville, (they) go through the chamber first, ... It just makes a lot of sense to have someone in the chamber be a part of the Port Authority.

Tom Poorman

We use this less-conservative format to celebrate the successes and to thank businesses for their investment in the economic development of our community.

Tom Rath

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing.

James Zimmerman

This was a solid third quarter for Federated, propelled by strong sales and earnings in our department store segment and a level of performance in our direct-to-customer catalog and e-commerce businesses that was in line with what we had anticipated, ... We are entering the fourth quarter with our inventories in good shape, and we remain optimistic that it will be a good retail Christmas season.

Karen Mills

If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

Karen Mills

We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.

Karen Mills

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

Jeff Burton

The fact is, our sport is not as diverse as it needs to be.

Tracy Morgan

I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

Tracy Hickman

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series.

Timothy Noah

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

Richard Fitzgerald

Since we have such a diverse population, we need diverse programs to keep students interested and keep them in school.

Kendall Schmidt

I'm into Incubus. Growing up, I was a huge Taking Back Sunday fan. I'm still a fan, but I don't listen as much as I used to. When I was 13 or 14, I started getting into emo-pop-rock, so that influenced me. I also love Drake... I have a pretty diverse collection.

David Brin

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

Rick Nielsen

Like all of our records, good or bad, it's a diverse kind of record. It's not a heavy hit-you-over-the-head rock record. It's a dozen good songs.

Phil Powell

New Hope was one of the most diverse towns that I had ever been in.

Nate Hurst

The fact is employers like Wal-Mart are good for working families.

Thomas Perez

Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses. And yet in America, they've traditionally been an undervalued and underutilized tool in our nation's workforce development arsenal.

Dallas Salisbury

Until recently, it was an expensive and complicated thing to do because of the integration of systems that employers had to do. Now, most of these are put together with a Web-based interface and individuals are able to do most of the stuff themselves.

Sal Souto

We've become a 24/7 society and employers are taking it out of the hide of the working people. Employers are paying them less, not paying them for the hours they work.

Michael Farr

Lots of employers don't want people around who aren't loyal,

Mary Long

Many of the employers mentioned that the job seekers seemed more prepared for the event and more qualified for management positions.

Erich Klemm

We're not after a strike, but if the employers don't move, then we will have no other choice.

James P. Hoffa

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

James P. Hoffa

We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.

David Lawson

We have scheduled this every year for about five years. It is a routine thing now.

John Potter

We have music tonight but there are four or five people here. I don't know how much longer we can do this.

Mark Shapiro

We want him to pitch every five days.

Tony Russa

We've seen Roy four or five times this year. They've seen Mulder four times. It's not really going to be stuff, it's going to be command; you know, do you locate your pitches?

Todd Davidson

We've seen in the last year here in the state, visitor expenditures grow 7.5%, which is our strongest rate of growth in the last five years.

Lindy Ruff

We've won three of our last five now. They've kind of turned the corner. Our play, our tempo, our offensive zone play is back.

Ghulam Rasool

We have recovered five bodies. They are in many pieces.

Michael Cheika

We've still got five games left to play in the pool. We've got to win them all, but we are not giving up.

Greg Smith

We have so many different weapons. When you talk about a team, you need to have four or five individuals you can go to. That's what we're good at - we can come at you so many different ways.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

Trai Byers

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

David McCullough

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

David Graeber

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

David Dewhurst

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Byron Katie

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Carlos Slim

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Richard Cripps

The Nasdaq is simply crowding out the rest of the market. If you are a portfolio manager, you have to own some of these (technology) names.

John Carlson

Then, and only then, they should put a small part of their portfolio in this.

Bill Janklow

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

Alan Cayetano

Mr. Chairman, let us not railroad this hearing.

Jim Clarke

We've got the tile like the old tile in the subway, ... It's like it was in the old railroad station.

Anthony Quinn

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Paul Samuelson

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Harriet Tubman

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Mark Twain

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

Peter Dinklage

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

William Shakespeare

Our praises are our wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.