Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

Al Sharpton

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

Joseph Kamotho

We want the President to take action now as the leader of the Government and not a few ministers to defend him.

Cindy Cohn

We want them to pledge not to take action against the paper and all future papers as well, ... It's not appropriate for scientists to have to ask the industry for permission to present research.

Jodie Bernstein

We want them to know that the borderless Internet marketplace is not a free zone. Together with our partners, we are putting get-rich-quick schemes on notice that we're monitoring the Web and that we intend to take law enforcement action against those that continue to make fraudulent or deceptive claims.

Janet Reno

We want to try to apprehend those people and take action against them for the most serious crime for which they are eligible for prosecution,

Jan Egeland

We want to stay as long as we can. As we speak we have had to suspend action in many areas. Tens of thousands of people will not get any assistance because it's too dangerous and it could grow exponentially.

Jesse Greener

We want to see the provincial government play more of a leadership role and not leaving the colleges, and the students especially, out to hang dry, and we need to see that action very quickly.

Chogyam Trungpa

It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.

Charlie Chaplin

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Al Borges

We lacked rhythm. We dropped the ball or we made a bad throw or we had a protection breakdown seemed it was something different every time.

Joe Torre

We know he has ability, but he's inexperienced. So I thought losing Colon was a bad break for them and a good one for us. Mike trusted him right down to the seventh inning, and unfortunately, we couldn't cash in on some of the opportunities we had.

Liz Miller

We know companies are going to tell us they have no visibility ? they don't know when it's going to get better. Everyone knows its bad so it's in the market. The big question mark is still going to be the economy.

Todd McCullough

When I was a kid, you came to the Florida games and it wasn't a matter of if they were going to win. It was a matter of how badly they were going to win. The talent we have on this team and the coaches we have, there's no reason that shouldn't be the expectations here." ()

Robert Garcia

We want to show the company that we are reasonable and are willing to work. But we also expect them to return the favor.

Ken Leonard

We know him in terms of his relationship directly with the company.

Dave Chappelle

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

Christopher Opalinski

The power company shut off the electricity to the mine because the company was in arrears in paying its power bill.

Marjorie Scardino

The potential of this new company is tremendous.

Erich Klemm

We appreciate, in general, if red tape is being addressed and hierarchies are put to test. But this should not lead to centralization ... as it paralyzes the company rather than making it faster and more flexible.

Lauren Fine

We are primarily focused on revenues as this is critical to the well being of the company and the shares.

Steve Sanger

We are pleased with this settlement as a partial recovery of the costs we incurred. It's welcome news to the General Mills people who worked so hard in 1994 to help the company rebound from this event.

Stephen Bollenbach

We are pleased with the court's decision giving shareholders their rightful opportunity to control the fate of their company,

Ted Stevens

We're getting into new substances that might have the potential for contamination or exposure, leading to difficulty. I think it's something we ought to explore.

Benjamin Disraeli

Difficulties melt away under tact.

C. S. Lewis

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

Alain de Botton

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

Arthur Henderson

The real difficulty is to make sure that such treaty obligations will be observed.

Charles Spurgeon

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties

Sam Brownback

Many of us have difficulty keeping up with you. ... You always set a fast pace.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had difficulties with it,

Steve Farese

She's having difficulty staying on point. When you want to discuss an important issue with someone, you need their full attention, and right now we don't feel that she's able to give us her full attention.

Shelden Williams

We knew they were a team that wasn't going to go away. They saw that scoreboard and saw they were only down a few points.

Sara Parson

Very few of my opponents underestimate me. It doesn't matter if I can see them if they're on their back.

Tod Ruhstaller

Very few miners got rich. It was the businessmen who made the money.

Ross Levinsohn

Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

Adam Mansbach

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Kim Rupert

The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.

David Hume

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Denis Waitley

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

Ayn Rand

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Benjamin Disraeli

He who gains time gains everything.

C. S. Lewis

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Craig Smith

We know what to do and what not to do because of last year. That's why we're in this position right now.

Bruce McMiller

We know we made a lot of progress last year, but there is still a lot out there.

Tony Russa

We know him and technically a position player can get here the last two or three weeks and that's plenty of camp. I'm sure he's been working.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

Charles Spurgeon

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Charles Spurgeon

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Alan Watts

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Alan Chadwick

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

Alan Ball

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Al Pacino

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

David Forst

Until they are in the Major Leagues, they are assets.

Lisa Bonet

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bill Bavasi

We'll see if we can fine-tune it. Those are important spots, but we have no major trades (in the works).

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Joe Veltri

We know how important the truck market is.

Sue Schneider

Ultimately, it will be legal, here, but how long it takes is uncertain. This is where the market is.

Henry McVey

We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

Chogyam Trungpa

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

David Shuster

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

David Sedaris

My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Dick Cavett

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Arthur Christiansen

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

Arianna Huffington

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Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jan Egeland

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

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

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

Edgar Mitchell

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

TR Harlan

She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.

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.

Gerry Waldron

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Jeoff Hall

I wouldn't say that's spectacular, but I would say it's on trend, especially considering the shocks like energy-price increases.

Fede Alvarez

It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

Miles Austin

It kind of shocks you a little bit.