Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Bohn

We want to stay ahead of the competitive curve.

Lawrence Summers

The ongoing task of debt management for the federal government will clearly be very different in the years ahead than it has been in the past, when debt was rapidly increasing, ... With $3.6 trillion in debt outstanding, even a 3 basis point (0.03 percentage point) reduction in federal borrowing costs will ultimately produce savings of more than $1 billion per year.

Marv Levy

We appreciate his efforts and wish him well in what lies ahead in his career.

William Paul

We are seeing conditions that are similar to what we saw in 2002, the counts of cases that we're having now are ahead of what we had in 2002, least in the city.

Zina Garrison

We are pretty much considered the underdogs here but I have a lot of confidence in the young women that are here and we are really looking ahead to a good match.

John McDonnell

We are ahead of where I thought we would be by two points. Florida State has a lot of great bullets and Texas and LSU, but we are on line to do what we are capable of doing.

John Sheehan

We are ahead of the curve on this.

Brian Halla

We are ahead of schedule on the return to profits plan we announced on May 5.

Robin Clifford

We are ahead of schedule for Sunday's deadline, and by midnight Sunday, (all) Yugoslav forces will be gone,

Charles Dickens

You have been the last dream of my soul.

Charles Caleb Colton

Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?

Charles Caleb Colton

Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.

Charles Dickens

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Charles Dickens

She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him with eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face, her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the wind and rain, did not turn him from his purpose of helping her.

Charles Dickens

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.

Charles Dickens

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

Charles Dickens

Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.

Charles Stuart Calverley

I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

Caryl Chessman

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Charles Spurgeon

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Karl Pilkington

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Henry J. Heinz

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

David Graham

On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.

Kofi Annan

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiledThe sweetest and the best;Matilda, though a pleasant child,One ugly trick possessed.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiled The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possessed.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bo Burnham

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Christine Feehan

You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake

Jaime Lerner

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

Karl Pilkington

Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.

Nora Roberts

He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.

Rudyard Kipling

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

David Bohm

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole...