Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Eichenwald

The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.

Paul Colton

We tried doubling him but it didn't work. Sometimes he just made a shot with a kid's hand in his face. That was big for them.

Muffet McGraw

She's such a great scorer. We tried using a box-and-one or doubling her on the wing. I don't think you can guard her straight up. She has so many moves, she's really hard to guard.

Richard Greenfield

More than doubling the stock buyback will be encouraging to investors,

Randy Hampton

Now, thanks to Utah, we have 22 moose. With this project we have the potential of doubling that number.

James Rubin

I don't think people are talking about doubling or tripling the overall troop contingent, but rather trying to make sure that everybody is doing what they can.

Jim Hall

I think it's a problem that needs to be addressed now because we're going to be doubling traffic in the United States in the future.

John Karevoll

We've had a doubling of prices in the last four years.

Susie Gardner

Our starters, (Kristin) Moore and (Melissa) Hobbs, did an exceptional job doubling the post early, but we didn't maintain it the whole game.

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Cary Elwes

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Peter Speicher

We are at the low end of what we were predicting. It was a little better than expected, I guess. It was just so warm and wet. A lot of it was melting.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Noreena Hertz

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Scott Davis

When we get it down low to Ryan, we do pretty good.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Michael Brown

We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.

Alan Greenspan

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Carlos Ghosn

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Bob Corker

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Jamie Dimon

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

Jonathan Frenkel

Legislation or regulation may not be a solution in all cases, but it may be warranted in appropriate circumstances.

Alexander Cockburn

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Al Gore

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Antonin Scalia

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

David Cameron

Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

Ginni Rometty

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Kat Clark

If they're in a destructive mood, we'll remove the mat, too.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Joan Lunden

Remove failure as an option.

Terry Greene

The scare is if they remove the steroids, it can return.

Li Deshui

Through the survey, we are able to remove the 'water' from the statistics of the manufacturing sector, in particular, from small-sized enterprises.

Jack Kerouac

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,

Robert Mugabe

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Ron Reagan

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Adam Carolla

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Karen Horney

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

Sophocles

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Ed Koch

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

J. B. Priestley

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Lee Hall

I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

Boman Irani

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Bo Burnham

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Observation always involves theory.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Daniel Handler

Everybody has a theory.

Brian Greene

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Frederick Pollock

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Lee Smolin

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

Ed Pastor

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

Charles Dickens

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

Charles Dickens

As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

Charles Dickens

It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.

Alan Greenspan

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

Alan Bennett

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Al Seckel

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

Al Lopez

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

Al Lewis

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

Chris Chocola

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

Travis Parker

Wherever he's at, we just got to find him.

Daunte Culpepper

I'd like to think I'd have made it wherever I went in the draft.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Tenzin Gyatso

There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.

Bill Walker

Wherever she was needed, Dee was there to help.

Tyler Ebell

Wherever our game's going to be played, we have to go out there and play. And it's going to be on ESPN, so that's going to be nice.

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Zachary Quinto

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Ted Strickland

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.