Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

I want to rebuild America.

Carlos Mencia

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

Carlos Fuentes

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

Willa Ford

We have said we intend to restore automotive profitability in North America by no later than 2008 and we remain committed to deliver on our promise.

Roger Wilkins

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Jeri Ballantine

We have neighbors from South America, the Middle East, India and four or five different Asian countries. It's really a great melting pot, and all the kids play with each other.

Brian Jeroloman

We have so many leaders. We're so prepared. Coach McMahon is the best coach in America. People who have been watching basketball saw they had some bumps in the road, too. There is no doubt in my mind. We're going to succeed.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.

Montel Williams

When you say shock value, the fact that we talk about what happened to a person... we talk about real things, we talk about real issues.

Ray LaHood

The reality is the people have a hard time believing gouging or collusion is not taking place when they see these spikes, and I have a hard time believing it myself,

Ted Cruz

There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

Al Wolski

We know we have kids who can catch and kids who can throw and we preach it all the time about hanging in there, believing and keep hustling for something good will happen. Finally, it paid off.

Michael Specter

We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy, or we don't need to vaccinate our children.

Norm Eash

We're going up there believing we can win, but we know we're going to have to play better than we did last week.

Lonnie Starks

This program was very good at losing before this year. It's just about believing and these kids have that now.

Turhan Douglas

This win means we're back. We won because of heart and by believing we could do it.

S. Walker

Until our kids start believing in the potential they have, that's exactly what it will be - just potential, ... We're getting some good individual efforts from a handful of guys but we're not getting it from a lot of others. Everyone, including us coaches, expected big things from this bunch. But if the players don't realize the opportunity they have, we might end up being just another better-than-average Hilliard football team that wins seven games or so.

Imad Moustapha

What they want to do is ... keep on repeating them day in, day out, every day, every day, and some people will eventually end up believing them.

Michael J. Saylor

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

Sanjay Kumar

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

Karan Johar

No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.

Jack Welch

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

Fadel Gheit

Lee Raymond really set the standard for other CEOs in the industry. Everybody else copied Lee Raymond, but you can't duplicate what he's done.

Ricardo Semler

The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.

Rick Wagoner

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Jeremy Heimans

I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.

Ken Bender

CEOs are no longer willing to arbitrate between departments and IT. They just want revenues and profit. They might say they want something coordinated, but more important, they just want it done.

Mark Hudson

We have no information showing that she was ever in Alabama. Our investigation is ongoing as we speak. There is the possibility that more charges could be coming in Alabama.

Dan Bartlett

We want fresh thinking, to charge the batteries, and passionate participation.

Dmitry Rogozin

The people now in charge of the Kremlin administration are rubbing out the results of 15 years of the new, democratic Russia. Russia is ceasing to be democratic.

Scott Anderson

The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

The most important thing you need to know about the Pentagon is that it is not in charge of today's wars but rather tomorrow's wars.

Stephen Cambone

The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.

Jeff Wuite

The outcome was that no charges should be laid.

Kirstie Alley

Scientology helps you lose your insanities. One of the keys is, they say, 'You're in charge of your life, buster. You're responsible for any condition you're in.' If I look at it that way, it helps.

Gloria Fletcher

We want them to get back their jobs and as long as these charges are pending, there's no possibility at all. Which doesn't seem fair.

Rob Enderle

Whenever the largest online retailer makes a decision, it's going to be a big deal. They're the bellwether for their segment. What they do, others will likely do or consider doing.

Scott Boras

When he got Boston's first offer, he realized that he thought of himself differently than the Red Sox did. He knew then that there was a possibility he may leave, and I don't think that he ever considered leaving prior to that.

Kypros Chrysostomides

We want improvements in the text. The intervention of France introduced some new important elements, but the general framework of the counter-declaration is not considered entirely satisfactory to our side.

Steve Rucchin

There are a lot of good teams out there, and if we want to be considered one of them, we have to show up to play for a full 60 minutes. From what I've seen the last two games, teams are sitting back, but our team is not poised enough with the puck. We seem to be ramming it down our own throats and moving it where they have their guys positioned.

Steve Anderson

There is a level of stock in the system and one other thing to consider is that we're a net food exporter.

John Milton

When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that one talent which is death to hide, / Lodged with me useless.

Donna Abbott

We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.

Tom Odell

I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist.

Tawni O'Dell

When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.

Doug Jackson

We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.

Andy Burnham

We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation.

Dr. Fossbender

There are a lot of fixed costs that we are not able to control.

Jack Vance

the reality is it costs a lot of money.

Katelyn Keefe

We use energy every day on campus, with a lot of pollution and a lot of environmental costs with the use. Implementing energy efficiency measures is not only good for the environment but also in turn would be economical.

Jim Awad

The productivity and labor costs reports abated pressures (over) rising interest rates from the Fed, which is giving a kick to the market. Also, the storm in the East wasn't so bad, so oil pressure isn't bad.

Temple Grandin

Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

If your goal is to provide a service at terms your customers can afford, you have to figure out how to offer your services at price points such that your aggregated costs are lower than your aggregated revenues.

Erna Solberg

If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.

Quincy Allen

We want our customers to be able to tell the difference.

Sandy Carter

We've seen a trend in the marketplace for customers who are really looking for a more lightweight ESB product.

Jeff Benjamin

We've seen a slight increase. Some of the customers that we've had who haven't been with us for a few years are starting to come back. I wouldn't say it's huge, but it's a noticeable increase. I just took a rough figure last week, and I think in one day we had 30 to 40 tons to be delivered.

Tom Henley

The fact that natural gas prices are going down now is obviously good for us and the customers and what we have been hoping for.

Susan Rosenberg

We have so many customers with merchandise sitting on loading docks. We think we've got a long way to restore trust in our customers.

Ed Fuller

We set out to find out what our customers wanted and that's what we have delivered.

Craig Beilinson

We know customers can't just flip a switch and move to a new OS. We want to make sure they simply deploy the pieces they're ready for, when they're ready for them.

Shane Evangelist

We know Blockbuster Online customers love the value and flexibility the free in-store movie rentals offer, so we decided to give them even more.

Peter Graf

Vendor consolidation is a major trend that forces customers to consolidate their IT (information technology) landscape, ... They're redrawing their landscape without those smaller vendors who they see as being most at risk.

Kofi Annan

We've shared with them where we stand, what we hope to do next and explained to them the state of play,

Ludivine Sagnier

It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.

Tom Fitzgerald

We've all had explained as to what is going to be called. Players were on the rules committee, so we all have to adjust.

Karen Hughes

We're in a war on terror. We are still at war. And to succeed in this war, we must effectively explain our policies and fundamental values to people around the world,

Nayvadius Cash

I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.

Lawrence M. Krauss

To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.

Kevin McDonald

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

Mahmoud Othman

There is no progress. We are sticking to our stance and they explained their stance.

Brene Brown

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Lorenzen Wright

What hurts the most is losing the way we did.

Lisa Bluder

I don't know that a win here puts us in, but a loss here hurts us quite a bit. Last year, that was one that we did point to and say maybe this kept us out.

Rick Carlisle

We're down players, which hurts us, but also we're in a situation where we've got zero margin for error. We're going to have to make shots. We just could never get anything going offensively.

Mike Sanford

He's a tough guy. He had shoulder surgery and has come back. His shoulder hurts him, but he still practices.

Lindsay Bowen

We didn't want to go out this way. It hurts a lot right now.

Unknown

Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?

Ben Voogd

To come out and not show up the one day we need to, that hurts the most.

Don Porter

I think anti-Americanism was a factor. I think that vote was political. It wasn't about a sport. It had do with a political situation to protect the president. It hurts our sport and it hurts our athletes.

Tom Davies

It hurts when you lose a tough one like that. That's why Southern Illinois is where they are, and where they've been.

Krish Krishnan

We have seen a tremendous increase in terms of the interest we are getting here.

Jiang Enzhu

We have no intention, nor the ability, to increase our military armaments substantially.

James Long

We've seen a slight increase (in international travelers). But it's not like it used to be.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.

Jeremy Siegel

The persistent increase in oil prices is worrying me again.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Richard Branson

Everything in your business can be outsourced... if you're not emotionally attached to doing it all.

Diane Jacobowitz

He refused to sign the petition. He didn't want any part of it.

Sadaharu Oh

I was disappointed but it's up to him to decide. It was not a surprise that he refused since he had been hesitating for such a long time.

Dallas Drake

That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.

Jim Hall

They refused to participate at all, even though we requested them.

Alberto Sanchez

They refused to come, and three times they told me they were not doing that service any more.

Paul Farris

I refused to sign off on it as being correct.

Marcus Aurelius

He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse

Theron Roschen

It's thinner than conventional asphalt, and that's where the savings comes in.

Robert Mahon

That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alfred Hershey

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

James Rayner

We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.

Andrew Mason

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Greg Kampe

Wooten does what he wants to do when he wants to do it. He's pretty good.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Dave Shaw

She just wants to get on with her life.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.

Jack Hughes

She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.

Mike Toussaint

She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.

Doug Phillips

She's a stickler. She's a perfectionist. She wants to do it right.