Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Alan Greenspan

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Sherry Argov

Men tend to fall in love when they feel like they are cherished or revered as the 'man' in the relationship.

Shashi Tharoor

I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country.

Sheikh Hasina

Let us join forces to lead the country to the cherished goals.

Carol Guzy

I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. It's - they're cherished treasures to me now, of course.

James Gleick

Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

Pico Iyer

What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

Felix Bloch

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Dan Sullivan

New Orleans has always been cherished for its unique French Quarter, its fabulous cuisine, and music to suit all tastes.

Sathya Baba

What you get from society, give it back to society. That is the primary value to be cherished by everyone.

Al Sharpton

But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Chris Daly

The performances of the different offices are on opposite ends of the spectrum. In Fresno County we have what seems to be a near abdication of their responsibilities, whereas in Alameda County we see an office committed to protecting all residents in the county.

G. H. Hardy

We are praying we don't have an earthquake, ... This is money we've committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

Dane Moody

We've all committed ourselves to having a good team, and we have a lot of individual talent. I think one-on-one, individually, we're better than any team in the country.

Joey Lott

We started slow out of the gate last week, and had some turnovers early. We also committed a lot of penalties and we know we can't do that this week. I've told our guys that Bowman is good enough as it is, and we don't need to help them by playing sloppy.

Patricia Smith

We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling. We remain committed to sharing a great selection of toys at great prices for our Web site.

Patti Smith

We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling in this case. Regardless of today's decision, Amazon.com is still committed to providing a great selection of toys at great prices for our customers.

Doug Oliver

We still remain committed to the development of an import terminal. It's not that the project is not occurring, it's just that these specific negotiations have ended.

Doug Oliver

We still remain committed to the development of an import terminal.

Mark Klein

We are pretty confident everybody will be back tomorrow.

Chris Jones

We acknowledge they're a good team. But we know we have a good team, too. I feel confident about our chances.

Rob Dickson

We always have a Plan B, and we're working on a C and D. We are confident we're going to find someone. All the ingredients are here. It's just a matter of what lucky group will open the store.

Todd Wuerger

We want to qualify as many guys for state as we can. If we can do that, I'm confident that we can hold our taper for another week.

Dan Petrocelli

We have a story to tell, and we're looking forward to telling it and we're very confident how it's going to come out.

Kristen Kinley

We have a solution that fixes the problem, and we're confident that this is going to be the right remedy.

Nikki Green

We have a solid defense and a solid keeper. She made some great saves. I'm really confident in my keeper.

James Clarke

We have no evidence of feathers in this species. But there is evidence of feathers in another primitive tyrannosaur. We are fairly confident that it did have feathers.

Daniel Gaul

We want people to leave here after a session knowing they got a good workout, feeling confident and able to defend themselves.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

David Shuster

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Bernhard Goetz

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Bernhard Schlink

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

Stephen Flynn

We have no idea who's in the ports. And many of the folks who come in to service the ports, that drive the trucks back and forth, are people who don't have very distinguished backgrounds. May have criminal backgrounds.

Terry Ebbert

We have no criminal justice system functioning today.

Ralph Brown

We have some criminals out there. That's why we have lights and security people at Wal-Mart.

Craig Montgomery

We want Occidental Park to be a place where more people of all incomes gather, and where criminal behaviors are displaced by positive behaviors.

Jim Harper

What we're seeing is just the start of a trend in which government prosecutors will use (Internet) search results in criminal investigations.

Luis Carrillo

What he did was totally irresponsible, unprofessional and went into criminal conduct. Justice demands that he be arrested.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Dell Leonard

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Dave Barry

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Byron Katie

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Gareth Peirce

Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?

Eddie Izzard

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Dick Durbin

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Dennis Kucinich

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

Bill O'Reilly

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

B. F. Skinner

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Joe Carroll

I don't know who took me, ... I'm fine. I was treated reasonably well.

Antonin Scalia

I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

BeBe Winans

I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Dave Wood

I feel that I got stopped (because I'm black),

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Elton John

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Mark Twain

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

Martha Reeves

I will always dance in the street.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Phil Garner

I thought we were going to him today, but they told him (Saturday) he could not play. I suspected that was going to be the case.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Anthony Daniels

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Dan Robinson

unless something is in our refinery in a week or so, we're starved.

Brad Coker

Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really make a call.

Murray Walker

Unless I'm very much mistaken... I am very much mistaken.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.

Elizabeth Peyton

I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.

Dean Ornish

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

Alexandra Stoddard

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.