Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

I. Stone

We are looking forward to performing in China for the first time.

Chuck Hagel

We are at a very important and delicate point in our relationship with the People's Republic of China and how this is handled will go a long way as to the future of that relationship,

Alex Wong

There are concerns that new competitors like China Netcom and China Telecom will enter the domestic market once 3G services are introduced next year. The focus now is on such uncertainties.

Mats Olsson

We're in close cooperation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Mats Olsson

We're in close co-operation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Steve Schneider

We actually find it not at all difficult in China -- it is more about how you drive growth; how you utilize technologies and how you train people.

Zhou Xiaochuan

What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.

Julie Gerberding

We remain sobered by the ongoing transmission in Hong Kong, China and probably Singapore,

Luis Walter Alvarez

At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

Dean Acheson

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Herb Vincent

We have to have a lot of cooperation from everyone involved and our fans. We've never done something like this before.

Christian Toksvig

We write with the cooperation of celebrities. We don't just write about them, we talk to them.

Scott Stanzel

should not be mistaken for genuine cooperation in an effort to disarm.

Lucie Morillon

This probably would not have been possible without the cooperation of Yahoo.

Andrei Popov

We have repeatedly stated to our European partners that restrictive policy toward Belarus is groundless, far- fetched and useless. Real understanding and constructive cooperation are obviously reached through dialogue, but not imposed with sanctions.

Mark Fagan

We have six very violent people in custody. There was full cooperation from everyone involved.

Liu Jian

We shall enhance cooperation in trade and investment within the region, open up markets for each other, and promote trade and investment facilitation and liberalization, and strengthen regional economic integration,

Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Richard Flanagan

I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.

Loretta Napoleoni

Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.

Gerhard Schroeder

I don't want there to be any illusions. The Europeans (including) Germany have limited scope to influence the formation of American will,

Carolina Kluft

I am disappointed because I love competing, but the Europeans are the highlight of the year.

Abu Jandal

He made a similar proposal to the Europeans and gave them six months. When there was no response, he started with the Madrid bombing, then London.

Richard Whitman

When Sharon was elected, Europeans saw him as an impediment to the peace process.

Saeb Erakat

urge the U.S. and the Europeans to provide international observers immediately.

Grant McCasland

Like most Europeans do, he shoots those 15-footers all the time. He stays after practice and keeps shooting it. Seemed all that practice after games paid off.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

Kristin Cast

I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to?

Linda Howard

She grew three inches (to 5foot-7) and gained 30 pounds.

Eric Benhamou

This quarter's significant increase in revenue and improved results over last quarter reflect that we have gained traction in the marketplace and restored operational rigor.

E. Hurley

We really have given up a lot in price and gained a lot in yield,

Masaki Iso

Yesterday I think Softbank gained as investors saw this as part of its new growth strategy. But I think the price of the purchase is very much at a premium.

Tony Stewart

We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here. A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.

Tony Stewart

We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here, ... A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.

Natalie Morales

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

Anna Louise Strong

I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Natasha Tsakos

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

Kim Priez

While Mardi Gras may be smaller this year, the pageantry is not going to be lacking in any way.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

Phillip Brown

With the lack of support there last night to stop the A&P tax, I don't see the need to do anything further.

Keke Palmer

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Kelly Rowan

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

Tony Stewart

We're ready. I don't feel like we're lacking anything or waiting on anything.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Mark Shapiro

We lack upper-level, left-handed relief depth. (Heredia) could be a Major League alternative for us this year.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

John Vane

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Tim McKee

We would rather not maintain the new stadium if we didn't have to.

Dick Cheney

We're going to maintain our optimistic pro-growth pro-entrepreneur pro-jobs strategy in Washington, D.C.,

Katrina Kaif

I'm here to work.. not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars.

Al Crellin

Ultimately, we only need one operations center, but for now we will maintain two.

Deng Xiaoping

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

Chris Brown

You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Angela Merkel

We still need to push back that moment where I'd say I'm happy, ... But I'm very satisfied.

Aimee Bender

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

David Hockney

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Antonin Artaud

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Charles Spurgeon

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Alan Parsons

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

Lucas Till

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

David Reuben

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

David Remnick

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

David Duke

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

Ben Whishaw

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

Edgar Cayce

Russia will become beacons of hope for the world.

Agnes Smedley

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Agnes Smedley

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Bill Cleary

The Russians were the ogres then, you know. Mysterious.

Kim Clijsters

The Russians play a similar type of game,

Jawaharlal Nehru

The Russians have been so sweet to me,

Maelle Gavet

The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!

Charles Caleb Colton

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Charles Spurgeon

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

William Shakespeare

It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer.

Bob Woodward

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

Bill Jenkins

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

David Hyde Pierce

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

David Hume

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

David Dinkins

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

David Brooks

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.