Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Walpole

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

George Diller

Liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, beginning America's new journey to the moon, Mars and beyond,

Sandy Smith

Make it a priority and if you have little kids, start right at the beginning so they know there is no other way of doing it.

Connie Allen

Luckily, Chelsea hit those free throws at the end. If we would have made them at the beginning, it wouldn't have been that close, but we made them when it counted.

Tony Cox

Mailers are sensing that customers are ordering later and later, and responding by putting more catalogs in the mail at the beginning of December.

John Rooney

Let's have a good season, that's it. That's all I've said from the very beginning. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Petronius

Let us together closely lie and kiss, There is no labor, no shame in this: This hath pleased, doth please, and long will please, never, Can this decay, but is beginning ever

Randy Raper

Lenoir-Rhyne was on him from the beginning. They saw a lot in him. We played him out of position. But he's a man on wheels; he's the one we needed to do the job, and he got it done. He'll do a great job.

Madame Stael

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Derek Loomis

We're not concerned with what those people think about what we're doing.

Bill Walker

We're not concerned with numbers. (The way the word gets out) is that I tell you, (and) you tell someone else.

Salvation Army

We're not concerned or scared about not being able to offer them shelter, ... (However), it puts us in a position of being scared of what we are going to be able to offer them, whether we are going to be able to keep them in the same way that we have been able to. We don't know that.

Bertrand Russel

Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned

Evan Katz

Making things feel real is one of our primary concerns in the way we write it. And it's one of the gifts that the actors who do the show really have to make ridiculous situations feel real.

George Pauli

Levels like that with benzene, our only concern would be lifetime consumption.

Masaki Iso

Low rates have supported equities globally, so investors are concerned interest rates will rise further.

Gary Crum

Last year, we had a concern about people in nursing homes who were at high risk and decided to allocate some of our vaccine to them, ... This year, the nursing homes seem to be in very good shape.

Rick Baughman

Last year we were all really concerned about his health. He always wanted to know if he could do anything. But then he bounced back and was there for the kids this year.

John Davis

Like all freshmen, you have to pay your dues. You don't get the nice office space. You don't get the most desirable committees.

Todd Beitler

Lenders are selling properties at market value, especially if it's a desirable property. The lender who owns the property is not under any obligation to sell at any great discount.

Richard Greene

If they're (cities) desirable places to live, ... it can explain a sustained high house price for years to come.

Orison Swett Marden

Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

John Tyler Bonner

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

David Richards

When you talk about integrating the two audits - doing it once, rather than twice - that's easier said than done. It's desirable to do it that way, but when you get down in the weeds and try to figure out the specific steps that you're going to coordinate... a lot more has to be thought through. The objectives of the two audits are totally different.

John W. Snow

We are seeing a tremendous outpouring of the American spirit, ... That is our indication that this program will be utilized and have a desirable effect.

M. Thompson

It increasingly seems that the U.S. is going to go it alone, which is the least desirable outcome.

Steve Wilson

I think you're going to see a lot of heavy things come in because of gas, ... The prices on the big SUVs and the heavy trucks are going to have to go down. They're just not as desirable anymore.

David Packard

Lew was such a straightforward and honest guy. The employees loved him.

E. B. White

Obviously, we look at all the federal employee issues pretty closely.

Michael W. Smith

No one is trying to terminate employees for expressing public opinion.

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.

Charles Rossotti

From my point of view any kind of mistreatment of one taxpayer or one employee is one too many,

Paul Tobias

Future employees at the moment of hire don't negotiate, don't hire a lawyer, don't tamper with those clauses, don't even read them. They're interested only in the money. They'll sign anything.

Kelly Ross

If an employee is misbehaving, an employer can establish rules to stop that. If they're not qualified for the job, you don't have to hire them.

Bill Black

If an employee is leaving a lot of money on the table, he will think twice about leaving the company.

Tom Reilly

When you'd come by there were more offices and people didn't know where to go. Employees can look out the window and see what's going on. Now we stop someone from standing around for 10 minutes, wondering what's going on.

Robert Palmer

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

David Watson

Make your day what you want it to be. What's special is loving each other and growing as a couple.

Michael Fitzpatrick

Mild weather and growing stockpiles can't be ignored much longer.

Robert Reischauer

Medicare spending has slowed dramatically in the last year. It's now growing at less than 2 percent, which is the slowest rate of growth since the program started in 1965.

Glenn Walters

Media is growing rapidly in our world. Job opportunities are increasing as well.

Noel Maye

One of the things we're seeing in the profession now is that a lot of practices are growing from one-person firms.

John Lasseter

Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.

Jack Vaughn

More and more people are shopping online. I know some students are doing that. Our Web sales are growing every semester.

Ella Henderson

My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up.

Kim Maher

(Mitchell) is very athletic, so she can play multiple positions. She swings a powerful bat.

Louis D. Brandeis

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

Warren Littlefield

I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.

Kristin Spangenberg

Unlike a painting or a drawing, a print can be in multiple impressions.

Tim Armstrong

The reality is, I've started multiple companies, so actually I'm probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I can do both.

Lamar Alexander

We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Watching big-name high-techs revise down multiple times is very discouraging,

Dean Fabrizio

We're going to play a lot of man-to-man coverage. We're also going to play some zone as well. We just want to give him multiple looks.

Jonathan Lee

When we first started, we went through multiple ideas. We thought we had a vision of what we wanted to do.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Tyrone Willingham

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Oona Chaplin

I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Kerri Strug

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

Bakul Dholakia

If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.

Hussein Chalayan

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Tod Kowalczyk

We've got to find a way to pursue the ball.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Matt Hasselbeck

Miscommunication. Usually, that is a wide receiver running that. I was thinking one thing and Jerramy was thinking another.

Harold Williams

I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it turns out one of our dealers say someone like Symes turns out to be a fence?

Richard Kolko

If we receive a request we will assist.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Anne Campbell

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Charlene Whitlinger

We don't know how much it will be and how we will receive it.

Andrew Yaracs

We've become very well-known and through our exposure, we receive a lot of yearly invitations.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Tony Bell

It just sets things up to look bad. Ideally, (Pye) could go to another department.

Denene Millner

I knew that Steve Harvey had a good, solid message to share, and I wanted to use my knowledge and skills as a relationship author to help him bring his message to those who were willing to receive it.

Ed Parker

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

Earl Nightingale

Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone

Eliot Spitzer

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

David Nicholls

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

Kim Hostman

She has a lot of new skills that she's working on. Hopefully, she'll have them down for conference.

Mark Cuban

Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right.

Dale Tallon

We addressed a need we had for speed and skill in getting Patrick Sharp.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Karel Bruckner

I can tell you that the starting lineup will be very different this time.

Kevin McHale

Getting Marko was something we really wanted to do. It's all starting to come together.

Herman Edwards

If we had to play tomorrow, ... Kingsbury would be our starting quarterback.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Dan McCarney

I don't know who the starting kicker's going to be.

Jonathan Taylor

Tribes are starting to make it on their own.

Aaron Levie

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.