Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Jackson

We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.

Andy Burnham

We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation.

Dr. Fossbender

There are a lot of fixed costs that we are not able to control.

Jack Vance

the reality is it costs a lot of money.

Katelyn Keefe

We use energy every day on campus, with a lot of pollution and a lot of environmental costs with the use. Implementing energy efficiency measures is not only good for the environment but also in turn would be economical.

Jim Awad

The productivity and labor costs reports abated pressures (over) rising interest rates from the Fed, which is giving a kick to the market. Also, the storm in the East wasn't so bad, so oil pressure isn't bad.

Temple Grandin

Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

If your goal is to provide a service at terms your customers can afford, you have to figure out how to offer your services at price points such that your aggregated costs are lower than your aggregated revenues.

Erna Solberg

If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Carol Moseley Braun

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

Carlos Mesa

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Carlos Mencia

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Carlos Mencia

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Carl Andre

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

C. S. Lewis

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

C. S. Lewis

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Chamlong Srimuang

We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not stubborn, we have the interest of the country in mind.

Jeff Moore

We have safely evacuated 1,303 employees and contractors,

Terry McAteer

The fact of the matter is, that was a school day because we called our employees to work. Therefore, they were paid for that day of service. So it can't be a snow day at the point because you have your employees at the work place.

Karen Friedman

There are a lot of employees who are going to be fighting back this year. That's another story -- the employee pension revolution!

Kim Petersen

The people working in these port operations, regardless of who owns them, will be exclusively American ... the same employees working for P&O.

Cathy Mann

Where they're getting those details, we don't know. We did have three employees killed ... not four that they're reporting.

Bill Daly

We rescheduled this game because so many fans and Panthers employees have left the area, and because we want to ensure safe travels into and out of Florida for the teams and the officials. We thank the Senators and Panthers for their cooperation.

Mario Hernandez

We've got a massive operation of vendors. We want to grow this facility to 10,000 employees with Toyota and vendors.

Dustin Moskovitz

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Bob Phillips

We respect the right of our employees to organize,

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.

C. S. Lewis

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

Alan Russell

There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.

Alan K. Simpson

It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

Charles de Lint

Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.

Charles Caleb Colton

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Charles Dickens

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...

Charles Dickens

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Lynda DeLaforgue

There are lots of people who have insurance through their employers, and they inadvertently sign up for these plans. Then, they lose their employers' insurance.

Roy Blunt

This week ... we'll, I think under the suspension calendar, have TRIA (Terrorism Risk Insurance Act).

Bob Enos

We raised $12,000 to get the dog, because insurance doesn't pay for that.

Dr. Raley

While our 'Errors and Omissions' insurance is not terribly expensive, that would be one thing I would not have to spend money on if the state provided that.

Brian Cashman

We will need choices, You always do. It's somewhat of an insurance policy. He's also prepared to go to Triple-A.

Robert Carter

Title insurance is not required by law, but it's prudent to get it, to make sure you own a property. The state, however, sets the rates for title insurance.

James Carter

He said I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't have any insurance and I said you're going to start rebuilding now, because I'm volunteering my services right now.

Rick Whatley

Our road service insurance is what we are so well known for.

Ben Wallace

There ain't nothing to worry about, because you're going to win some and you're going to lose some.

Sandra Gordon

The people of New Orleans have lost so much; we don't want to lose this.

David Millar

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

David Korten

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Chuck Hatfield

We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students).

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Nick Flynn

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Ricky Gervais

I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!"

Darren Shan

Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.

David Miliband

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick

Dave Barry

It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick

Cary Fukunaga

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

Jane Austen

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

Jason Clarke

I am sick of living out of a suitcase.

Jane Wagner

I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

Alan Watts

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

Carol Vorderman

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Carlos Mencia

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

Carlos Ghosn

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

C. S. Lewis

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

C. S. Lewis

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Agnes Repplier

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Aaron Stanford

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Alan K. Simpson

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.