Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

Alan Watts

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

Alan Watts

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

Haley Barbour

We know we've had some loss of life. We really don't know how much. There are credible accounts of 50 to 80 in Harrison County. Those are not confirmed, but they're credible,

Beth Givens

The person on the other end of the line is likely to have very sensitive information -- your account number, your Social Security number, the types of accounts you have (and) the way you use your accounts.

Mark Mershon

The pleas entered today are admissions of guilt in one of the largest corporate accounting fraud schemes on record. This apparent but ephemeral performance by the company propped up its stock price, causing investors to suffer untold losses when the scheme collapsed.

Astro Teller

We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.

Robert Peterson

We are pleased to report that all outstanding issues involving the SEC's financial review, as well as the accounting issues related to DFG, have now been resolved, ... Today's earnings release brings this matter to a close and we now look forward to proceeding with the Tyson transaction.

Anne Mulcahy

We are aggressively implementing our cost-reduction plans, which will yield more than $1 billion in savings by the end of 2001, ... Since the third quarter of 2000, we have taken actions that account for more than one-third of this target, including the reduction of approximately 2,000 jobs worldwide in the fourth quarter. This activity will intensify with the reduction of 4,000 jobs in the first quarter and additional reductions through the balance of the year.

Matt Rossell

We want them to put a label on the fur that tells exactly how the animals lived and died. If the furs were labeled and consumers could make a choice with all of the information, I think the protest would end.

Craig McLaughlin

We know we don't count all animals but the counts are good indicators. We also use computer models based on information collected during the hunting season.

Tristram Stuart

Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the environmental evidence mounted, they didn't appear to be winning the argument.

Michael Specter

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

Patricia Schmidt

The people who took the kittens in said they were the nicest animals.

Pat Watkins

We are a true, 100 percent natural pork, which means our animals are never given antibiotics, from birth to box. We do not use any artificial growth stimulants or hormones.

William Karesh

We start at a market somewhere in Guangdong Province in China. And it's packed with cages, and you'll have chickens, and you'll have ducks. You might have some other animals -- cats, dogs, turtles, snakes -- and they're all stacked in cages, and they're all spreading their germs to each other.

Robert Full

We also study animals at the extremes of performance, creatures that are exceptionally good at one particular thing.

Karl Mayer

We have seen 60 or more animals in Moss Landing Harbor near the boat launch. If fishermen are speeding out of the north harbor in the dark at 5 a.m., the likelihood of boat strikes is fairly high.

Reggie Lee

We knew they had a couple players, both named Moore. Jennifer Hinton did a good job on Andrea Moore in holding her her to four points.

Arron Afflalo

We know how tough it is in Oregon and we know both of them are very good teams. We don't expect a cakewalk at all. Neither one will be easy.

Rafael Benitez

We know how important the final of this Cup is. The incident is not serious. Both managers had the same idea. Someone must be sensible.

Paul Levy

We know how competitive the market is and have great respect for our peer group, but we will continue to look for opportunities where we can both buy and create value over time.

Paul Evans

We know and respect the rich history Liz Waters had as an all-women's residence hall, ... But our main goal is to accommodate the preferences of as many residents as possible. We expect both Liz Waters and Cole Halls to thrive under this new arrangement.

Greg Matthews

Very few for both of us. It's a protected species, can't be shot by the farmer ... that would be a big fine.

Kevin Keatts

Very bright student; he's in the highest classes we've got here. I think both parties are going to move in a different direction.

Cai Rumohr

Versus the positions as we went into the strike, Boeing certainly looks like they did give more, ... would cost both sides more, so getting it settled earlier is definitely better.

Michelle Young

Veronica Arce and Odette Barcomb both did an excellent job as setters.

Manish Agarwal

We knew they were going to come and had made elaborate arrangements for it.

Kenneth Choi

When you're working on a huge, elaborate set that took months to create, and you're surrounded by hundreds of extras, you better remember your lines and know what you're doing in a scene!

Kevin Oh

For such elaborate traits to evolve, you have to have mating patterns where everyone wants the same thing.

Elizabeth Nosek

His menus were very simple. They were not overblown and elaborate in the Victorian sense. You could taste the freshness and quality.

Russell Smith

The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.

Sean Booth

We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it.

David Chang

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

Paul Provenza

We didn't shoot it like a real movie, ... We never set up lights, we didn't do anything elaborate with sound, we never did makeup or anything like that, because every time something like that happens, it's another layer of artifice.

David Simons

I think our show is the most elaborate in terms of what it is trying to say about the American city. I'm proud of what we're trying to address.

Alan Ball

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

David Suzuki

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

We all live downstream

David Suzuki

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

David Suzuki

The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

David Suzuki

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

David R. Brower

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

David R. Brower

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

Hanno Langenhoven

Unlimited growth in a finite environment is impossible.

Jean Chatzky

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

Harold McAllister

We just went through our season and went through the highlights and thanked everyone who participated this year.

Anthony Cordesman

Obviously every time you get a weakening of the coalition, it highlights the lack of international support for the U.S. mission.

Kevin Rudd

The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.

Frank Spindler

This, we believe, really highlights the impact that Pentium III-M and 0.13 micron technology from Intel is going to have on the mobile segment,

Tim Burns

You should have seen it. It was one of the highlights of our season.

Rick Astley

It's really weird seeing someone impersonating you. But at the same time, Vic Reeves' impersonation of me is one of the highlights of my life.

E. B. White

It highlights our struggles and similarities and how we are very different.

Erik Cole

I'd rather really not talk too much about it. All you can do is hope it doesn't get too many highlights and it doesn't get out there too much.

Deb Caletti

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

Dave Johnston

We want to recognize the importance of our employees.

Catherine McAuley

A good beginning is of great importance.

Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Randy Johnson

I think you see not a sense of urgency, but a little more importance on every game. I suspect it will be that way the rest of the year.

Ronald Coase

What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.

Rusty Wallace

We've got to put a major importance on handling,

Daniel Gibson

I think we understood the importance of the game. I think we understood that every night we come out to play, we come out to win. We knew that wasn't one of our better halves, so we took that as motivation.

Oliver Ivanovic

It is of utmost importance for Kosovo institutions to preserve peace in the province.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

David Forst

Until they are in the Major Leagues, they are assets.

Lisa Bonet

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bill Bavasi

We'll see if we can fine-tune it. Those are important spots, but we have no major trades (in the works).

Conor Maynard

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

Stephen Mangan

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

Dave Gahan

Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.

Dorothy Thompson

Romancing the Soul--True Stories of Soul Mates from Around the World and Beyond.

Lena Headey

I miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, 'Do you want to get a pint?'

John Martin

If you remember the film Spartacus, when the Romans said 'stand up Spartacus', all his mates stood up. If we all do that, they will be no target and the threat will disappear.

Helen Fisher

Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.

Libba Bray

She's no beauty, mate

Shane Warne

I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.

Lina Wertmuller

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.

Tom Rath

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

Sandy Howard

We need to make sure that this doesn't occur at other sites around the state.

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Michael Bamberger

That didn't occur to me. I was still in my reporter's mode. I wanted to talk to her first.

William Styron

It did not occur to me that there would be many difficulties to impede my ambition. . . .

James E. Faust

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Mark Thompson

Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery.

Bud Grebey

Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work.

Dick Cheney

My preference would be to deploy them as warriors, (rather than peacekeepers),

Larry Ellison

You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely.

James Lindsay

If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better.

Alfred North Whitehead

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Orlando Bloom

Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

Robert Johnson

As long as there's no preference for adult, that's fine.

Dick Cavett

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Demetri Martin

I never set out to do a sketch show.

Monica Raymund

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

Stephen Urban

We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,

Carson Daly

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

Al Yankovic

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Tracie Thoms

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Angelo Crowell

Just taking things more serious, taking a different approach. I was kind of transformed, so it's kind of cool.

Ann Robinson

I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years.

Justin Smiley

I think he's taking it pretty well, but I know it's tough.