Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Durkan

We want to see a credible report telling us there is no current or ongoing illegal activity from the IRA.

Andy Brough

We have seen continued bid activity and earnings have been reasonably robust. The market has had a great run in the first quarter.

Dan Dinges

We have secured the rigs necessary to complete our program, a program that focuses on more development activity and less risk. The current forecasted activity level calls for 391 wells, with increased activity in each region including expanded drilling on each of the acquisition plays purchased in 2005.

Wade Estep

We were also receiving a wellness program, sort of a physical activity program. We were going to try to set up some sort of physical activity program, but that didn't really materialize.

Randy Williams

We've seen a sharp decrease in phishing site activity since deploying the TippingPoint anti-phishing filters, and block more than 9,000 phishing attacks per hour.

Niklaus Wirth

The creative activity of programming - to be distinguished from coding - is usually taught by examples serving to exhibit certain techniques.

Jim Craig

There is a lot of activity in Europe at this moment and we are focusing on that.

Vladimir Putin

There is a long-felt need to confer legal status onto the activity of Cossack units, ... Today, the Cossack movement is reviving.

Larry Johnson

There is clear, unmistakable evidence that the level of terrorist activity that has killed and injured people has soared to unprecedented levels since we invaded Iraq.

David Ader

We've seen dip buying and think that's a precursor to larger commitment into supply.

Bob Walker

There is a lot of buying going on right now.

Scott Graham

There is clearly some month-end buying going on.

Eugene Law

There is buying this morning on relief after the interest rate news but people are hesitant to go all out because the focus is shifting to what Taiwan's new president will say in his inauguration speech at the weekend.

Sadie Jones

When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.

Teresa Cowan

We use what's out there instead of buying new.

Talib Kweli

Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

Gil Gutknecht

Ultimately, we think the VA is probably going to end up buying literally thousands of these,

Emma Holly

I have two much-beloved stovetop espresso pots at home, plus a couple French presses I couldn't resist buying because they were so pretty. If I had to imbibe at Starbucks, I'd want a mocha with an extra shot.

Gordon Brown

We have said very clearly that not only is the rebate justified, but if in the national interest it was necessary to do so we would have to use our veto.

Charles Prince

We have said pretty clearly that our focus is on extending the franchise transactions.

Marty Heires

We have no intention of doing what they seem to be trying to prevent. Right in our application we state very clearly we have no intention of opening branches.

Ed Wade

We want our fans to be excited. We're giving them a lot of reason to be excited. But we clearly understand that you play the game on the field. That's what it's all about.

Robert Gelbard

The expectations clearly will be that there will be much more room for maneuver on the part not just of the coca farmers, but on the part of trafficking organizations.

Donald Rumsfeld

The F-8 pilot clearly put at risk the lives of 24 Americans, ... It was clear the pilot's intent was to harass the crew.

Leonardo da Vinci

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

Jonathan Turley

The fact is, the federal law is perfectly clear. At the heart of this operation was a federal crime. The president has already conceded that he personally ordered that crime and renewed that order at least 30 times. This would clearly satisfy the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors for the purpose of an impeachment.

Tzipi Livni

The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.

Damon Lindelof

Whenever we do a story or we show the monster or we find the hatch, that all has to be consistent with what we know the ending to be. We have a goal that we are working towards.

Dan Hammerschmidt

We were a real explosive offensive team at times last year, but we weren't as consistent as we need to be. I'm hoping our leadership and experience will make us more consistent, everybody buckling down and being tougher.

Chad Fox

We have a young defense, ... Part of that growing up is playing consistent every down. At times, the defense plays stellar, lights out. Other times, it slips here or there and doesn't look so good. We'll get it.

Russ Knocke

The process for sharing this type of specific threat information with state and locals was consistent with protocols for how we share the information and for how that information is vetted by the intelligence community.

Herman Edwards

The problem with that is you've got to win. You can't expect teams to keep losing. There's some teams in the division that are good teams and we can be a good team, too, but we're not playing consistent enough to be a good team.

Terry Francona

As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.

Ted Cruz

If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

Chuck Wilson

We're just trying to be consistent with the little things that we do and continue to try and do them well. Last week I was happy with the fact that we didn't jump offsides and make stupid mistakes.

Maajid Nawaz

I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.

Klaus Steinbach

We have proved our leading position in the world.

Lawrence Lindsey

We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted,

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Joe Kantarik

Make sure that you tell everyone that right now we are leading in points.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Tony Stewart

Obviously we wanted to win the race after leading that many laps.

Kevin Connors

With Photoshop we already have the leading position in the photo-editing market. But we always see room for making it better.

Al Sharpton

In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.

Abigail Johnson

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Bruce Springsteen

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Brian Lucas

We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Keith Nowak

We don't make enough on selling accessories that (standardized ports) would be that big of a deal.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Trey Burke

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Brian Tracy

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

Lawrence Frank

We're starting to see what we need to do to win.

Terrie Archer

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Kim Smith

We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.

Gary LaGrange

We're starting to get back to work today.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Caleb Colton

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Byron Katie

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Bruce Tulgan

Leverage your uniqueness.

Jane Austen

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going....we have to observe what's going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other

Aaron Swartz

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Alan Kay

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.

Alan Kay

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Alan Kay

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Alan Kay

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Ted Chiang

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.