Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Liu Jianchao

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. ... We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can solve the question properly through dialogue and diplomacy.

Maurice Hinchey

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions, ... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts.

John Hamre

Recent events where criminals were able to become customers have led us to take this strong action in order to regain the trust of consumers that their information is being used only for their benefit, or the benefit of society at large.

Kristen Kinley

Recall numbers vary from year to year, and they don't necessarily rise consecutively year after year, and they aren't in the case of Ford. This was a hit to our recall volumes, but the number of actions was down.

LeBron James

Record-wise and going into the playoffs, we can't improve. I'm trying to get as much rest as I can. I don't want to try to force the action by playing on an ankle that's not 100 percent.

Adrian Foster

Recent price action suggests the dollar-yuan is more loosely following the dollar.

Gary Chase

Recent price action in airline shares has created some price disparities that we believe investors should exploit.

Charles Holliday

Recent movements in long-leading economic indicators and in raw material prices offer hope that an end to the spreading global downturn is in sight, ... Despite that, we continue to take actions necessary to emerge from these difficult times as a much stronger company.

Linda Miller

Recently we've de-emphasized the large multinational drug companies because of the headwinds they've faced because of patent expirations and no big product approvals,

Gilbert Lopez

Our recommendation would be to go for companies that are seen benefiting most from the likely end-result of all these developments -- lower interest rates and improving consumption.

Rob Morris

Our rapid SOA development tools are specifically designed to enable mainframe developers to deliver more than just Web services from the mainframe. With Ivory, companies can quickly and easily incorporate the full value of their mainframe resources in their SOA.

Tim Bajarin

PC companies do not want to have more than six weeks of inventory, and most of them try to live within three- and four-week turns, ... We're hearing about inventory build-ups in some companies that are as much as 13 weeks.

Tetsuhiko Yasuda

Our No. 1 competition is not other companies but counterfeiters. We want to work with governments to stop this.

Adrian Gonzalez

Order-to-delivery times are shrinking and companies are heavily outsourced, which means reliability and consistency of performance are more critical than ever. Companies are striving to meet service levels at the lowest possible cost and are turning to carrier- and vendor-performance metrics to do that.

David Rudow

Oracle's success hinges on retaining its customer base, including ones it inherited from the companies it bought.

Mike Viracola

People have been looking for companies to say we've weathered the storm -- no pun intended -- whether it's the hurricane stuff or the macro things,

Margo Timmins

Success is a very difficult thing in a society where we dispose of what we like very quickly, before you even learn to play your instrument, ... So far, the record companies we have worked with have respect for us as musicians. I want to sell records and I need a record company to do that, but I don't want to sell myself.

Gordon Brown

Relations between the United Kingdom and the United States have never been stronger, deeper and more cordial,

Marcus Trescothick

Our team spirit goes deeper than just one loss.

Tony Rizzo

Road warriors have laptops already, but what we're talking about is making a deeper penetration into the enterprise.

Alan Thompson

It is an extraordinary coincidence, you start to think there is more to it, but nothing has been found yet. If it happens again, we would have to look deeper into it.

Greg Nossaman

That will give us another tough presence. We're a little deeper with him.

John Brady

I think it translates into your fans having a deeper connection, maybe, having seen (the Tigers) play in high school and now at LSU.

Pat McNamara

I was hoping we'd have enough energy to sustain. But in a rivalry like this, sometimes guys dig a little deeper than they normally do. They had more energy than I thought they would. This is a great win for the Cadets.

Allen Coulter

I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.

Eric Wright

I think he can get maybe a sense of people wanting to do something for him. When he has birthdays, he gets excited and he knows it's for him. I don't know if it goes deeper than that.

Rick Cornett

Regardless of who we were going to play against, we were going to play strong and were determined to play well down there.

Robert Mckain

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mark Wilde

Steve Rogel is a very determined individual. He's got a big checkbook and he's not going away.

Mike Klemm

Spirits are up. There's a good feeling out there. We all know this was forced upon us and everyone is determined to see it through.

Jay Marston

Our players have been making things happen. Today it was Kaila Burns. She was determined to keep the inning alive.

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will in large part be determined by how we do right here in the heartland of America,

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will be determined largely by how well we do here,

Mary Wittenberg

Our women showed how gutsy, determined and talented they are,

Larry Sabato

I think they have to do something prior to November 2006, to show they understand they have overspent and are determined to do something about it.

Randy Schneider

Stephanie is going to be a great pitcher. She's learning to make every pitch important. When she digs in and throws hard, she's good.

Dan Ayres

Starting in April, the lowest tides are in the morning, so that's when we schedule the digs. These morning digs tend to be very popular, partly because we often get good weather.

Ulysses Yannas

Some of us were looking for $175 million in digital earnings.

Russ Feingold

Some have called for a dignified process. So have I. But at times, it sounds like what some really want for the nominee is an easy process,

Aaron Russell

Someone had come in to them and reported they had seen somebody digging what they thought was a grave.

Chinese Proverbs

Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst

Kim Powers

Our goal here is return every loved one to their final resting place as quickly as we can. We're handling this recovery with dignity and respect like it's the first time.

Carlos Lopez

Right now, obviously, our first option would be to dig into gas taxes.

Nicki Zongrone

Retail is actually the fastest growing segment of digital printing right now.

Willie Anderson

Our motto is still keep shoveling. We want to be the guys with the shovel in our hand, getting dirty and not getting all glamorized and Hollywood after two games.

Kevin Dillard

People just focus on me and Andre. But we've got a lot of other people that can play. The rest of the team does the dirty work. That really helps us out.

Stephen Brennan

People in Terre Haute shouldn't look down on him quite so much as this cold, crass guy who wrote dirty novels all his life. Underneath, the impulse for beauty, for joy, for pleasure is in all of his characters.

Andy Neary

On the way back from a hard work day, we'd be all sweaty and dirty and gross right next to each other, and nobody complained.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If we're doing this for ten hours, I'm going to need a little incentive to stay motivated." Patch hooked his elbow around my neck and dragged me into a kiss. "Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his eyebrows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter. Two kisses per strip. Any objections?" I pulled on an innocent face. "None whatsoever.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his brows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter.

Pavel Datsyuk

We not too much go to net. We not too much shoot it. We miss first quick goal, I think that is big for us. We needed more pressure. We not do this stuff. We needed to go more to net, get hard goal, dirty net, we needed something like that and we not do it.

Big Pun

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

C. S. Lewis

You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.

Ryan Ray

Our recycling program has also reduced our solid waste by up to one-third with a savings of approximately $13,000 for the first year, and we eliminated the need for a confidential services vendor, which saved us $22,000.

Walt Dabney

Our only option was to shut down operations and eliminate positions.

Bobby Bowden

Some guys practice pretty good and then they get in a game and they're a different person. These guys got talent. It's who can eliminate the error.

Bobby Bowden

Our penalties continually punished us and continually took away good play after good play that could have won the game. We're not good enough to do that. Some people might could. We might have done (so) in the past. We've got to eliminate the penalties.

Yoweri Museveni

Our role is to wipe out insecurity ... if we have to eliminate those chaps by force, we will do it.

Jim Minor

Our goal is to eliminate illegal dumping in the county.

Michael Chertoff

Our goal at DHS is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant,

Laurent Robert

Our first objective is to try to maintain the 0-0. That's all we need to eliminate Liverpool and that is what we are going to play for.

Adam Hasner

I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

Austin Perez

Our members have been following the law for 20 years now.

David Herro

Managers, instead of following their convictions, are following the crowd. There is a herd instinct.

Russ Brown

I'm here to win. That's just the way were are. I have no problem following him around . He was doing what he had to win and I was doing what I had to do to win. The track did what they had to do. I hit him. They made the right call. They put me in the back and that's the way it is.

Hal Rogers

the American people have a right to know what happened in preparation for and immediately following the storm.

Jan Denise

It is OK for me to hold out for what I want. It is OK for me to find a way to make it happen. As long as I am following my truth, as long as I am not invested in how or when it happens or who helps, it is more than OK. Trusting the outcome, trusting the laws of the universe, is different from being invested in the outcome.

Joni Gray

I think we're OK. I think we just keep following this road ...

Lewis Carroll

It frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea, And dines on the following day

James Armstrong

I think this is following in a long line of great San Francisco nuttiness.

Greg Childs

I'd like to keep the combination going and I'm hoping he runs the following week.

Linda Fox

I think they're fabulous, the way they're handling this. I didn't plan on doing anything today. I can't shop or anything.

J. Taylor

I'd like to thank the management for handling this issue in such a sensitive way,

Don Imus

He didn't shoot Harry on purpose, but you're handling this horribly and you're just trying to spin me.

Jiang Zemin

Handling well the issue of the people's livelihood is the fundamental task of the party and government.

Dick Ward

There are so many ways by which materials handling technologies and processes serve that need.

Randolph Bourne

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

William Poole

From what I know of that situation, markets are handling it very well,

Gregg Langbehn

His two-out RBI was a big run for us. It seems like he's handling all the pressure pretty well. He's holding his own.

Jim Haslett

I got a nice e-mail from Tom Coughlin . 'Thinking of you.' How about that? He said he thought I was doing a nice job handling things. I'll tell you what I wrote him back.

Bernard Golden

Photo sharing, by its nature, is a high-bandwidth offering -- just the sort of Internet service that could be impacted by a lack of net neutrality.

Bill Tancer

I think there's a lot of romantics out there who use the Internet to get inspiration. People are at a loss for words.

Michael Mahoney

I think there is going to be more Internet consolidation.

Lauren Gelman

Just because we are talking about the Internet does not mean we should lose the right to speak anonymously.

James Awad

I would urge people not to speculate in the Internet sector.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Rob Enderle

He was an instrumental part of making the Internet happen. When your on the Web and doing shopping, say a little prayer for Scott because he's part of what got you there.

Bill Clinton

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Al Gore

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

Vernon Geberth

That was not necessary to do what he did to her body. That's a utility to prevent screaming.

Cindy Sheehan

I think this is so urgent and necessary that this is what I have to do.

Adrian Edwards

It is not the U.N.'s wish to have these barricades and things in place, however, as part of security provisions for doing our work here, they have been necessary in the past.

Charles Ruff

It is neither necessary nor appropriate for the president to testify.

Christian Louboutin

It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.

Jay Wright

He just did what was necessary to win the game. And having that weapon is valuable.

Brian Cashman

He's got time to do what's necessary to get us where we need to be.

Angus King

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

Amanda Schull

If it isn't necessary I would rather not subject my skin to too much, so if I don't have anything special to do for the day, I try not to wear any make up.

Kristy Sobel

I went online because I wanted to see if there was something I could use if I was going out.

Susannah Fox

There aren't any new recruits. It's online veterans who are signing up for a second or third tour.

Jeffrey Grau

Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to grow,

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Mark Logan

Scott's been out there from the get-go on how to make the online space profitable.

Gina Bellman

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

Nev Schulman

The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want.

Javier Sambrano

Our presence has really been more about monitoring the students for safety than anything else.

Karen Scott

I'm here for him. My presence for him is all that matters.

Courtney Sims

I was just trying to be aggressive, and I just wanted to be a presence out there.

Paul Steidler

Law's very prominent presence in the Vatican this week is reopening a lot of old wounds,

Courtney Sims

I was trying to be more of a presence on defense. I wanted to be more active.

Mary Carillo

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

Gary Waters

He may be the strongest presence in the league. The thing he's doing consistently is rebounding.

Carl Risch

She ran tough, really made her presence felt.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

Alison Davis

Just give us the directions. I promise we'll show up.

Nancy Lee

That's the promise of XML, but there's still a lot of work to be done.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Russ Jewett

I don't know about his status for this weekend, but I can promise he won't be triple jumping.

Bob Martin

He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you.

B. R. Hayden

I think it has real promise as long as there isn't some unexpected safety issue.

Brian Wallace

It is all about a fulfillment of a promise that was made,

Carl Jung

Didn't I promise I'd always look after you and keep you from harm?

Gwynne Shotwell

I never felt any issues whatsoever about being a woman in Tech.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.