Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jin Canrong

Verification is definitely a problem. But to reach a new agreement they need progress, and today's statement is progress.

David Allen

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

Dave Barry

Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements ...

David Talbot

EFR entered into an agreement to sell some noncore assets for $2.05M.

David Suzuki

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

Anita Plessis

The powerful prayers of the righteous which moves mountains are determined by the power of agreement and not whether we're in the same place!

Trey Davis

The possibility of a settlement with Arthur Andersen presented many complicated and interconnected issues that required the agreement of numerous parties. Despite our extensive efforts, in the end these simply could not be worked out. Without their resolution, any settlement would have worked to the detriment of the class.

Navtej Sarna

The position that India will take on this issue at the IAEA will be based on India's independent judgment, and we categorically reject any attempt to link this to the proposed India-U.S. agreement on civil nuclear energy cooperation.

John Rogers

The plea agreement was extensive and is clear. Mr. Rasch and I discussed it thoroughly, and it's my understanding that he had a clear understanding of the contents of the agreement.

Bobby Flay

When I was a kid, the first thing we would be able to point to was the slice we wanted. Describe to me that slice. What's the slice that we want?

Laura Ziskin

I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.

Norman Wisdom

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

Dick Lampman

We've always had a more pragmatic view of our business. You can describe our mission in two words: technology transfer.

John M. Smith

When we were making that run at the end, you could feel it. You can't really describe it, but you know there's so many people who want your season to keep going. It's an inspiration. You want to play for yourself, but you want to play for them, too.

Rob Durling

We were destroyed. There's really no other way to describe the game.

Mike Boyd

We failed in the handling of this call. I can't describe it in any other way.

Seamus Mallon

Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting.

Justin Timberlake

'Friends With Benefits': it feels like a two-hander to me, but it is a big movie, and this is the first straightforward male I've been able to play. I would describe my character in 'The Social Network' as a kind of sociopath. I would describe my character in 'Bad Teacher' as... just a weirdo. But this is a male's male.

Alan Greenspan

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Steve Thompson

We lacked the killer touch. It is as simple to explain and as difficult to put right as that.

Paul Browne

We know from experience how difficult it can be for new writers to get their work into print. As a result, there is a lot of undiscovered talent out there. We intend to find it.

Sven Eriksson

Wales made life difficult for us, especially hanging in during the first half when I thought we played well,

Pauline Hanson

Wake up, Australia, before it is too late. Australians need and want leaders who can inspire and give hope in difficult times.

Don Worstell

The one thing we like about our team over most teams we play is our depth. We play nine guys, and any one of them can go big on you on a given night. I think we're a difficult team to scout.

Rick Stansbury

The pluses are that (Gordon) is a good player. He is going to be one of the better players in the league. If he gains more experience he will be really good, he has had some difficult times and has been providing good leadership as a freshman.

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Angela Sgrignuoli

Where the wind made it difficult for several riders Saturday, today was nearly perfect for the runners.

Scott Smith

We want to stay away from penalties and turnovers and not give up big plays on defense. It's going to come down to execution and effort.

David Orton

We are pleased with our overall progress in the quarter and remain intensely focused on technology leadership and operational execution.

Anton Chekhov

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

Nick Saban

We have to get the kind of execution at quarterback that will give it to them.

Tim Parmeter

When we do what we're supposed to do, and we have execution, we're going to be hard to stop.

Bret Easton Ellis

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

Roy Halladay

The pitches they hit weren't very good pitches. To me, that's not a pitch-selection thing. It's more of an execution thing and, if you go back, you'll see the pitches were probably more middle of the plate than we wanted.

Dana Delany

There are only so many stories, and half of that has to do with the execution of it and half of it has to with the timing,

Robert Nigh

Mr. McVeigh's temperament is very even. He is calm. He is himself. He is prepared to go forward with this execution tomorrow. Quite frankly he is ready to die.

Charlie Daniels

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

Charles Tupper

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

Charles de Gaulle

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Charles Dickens

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Charles Dickens

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

Charles Spurgeon

Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.