Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Allen

Unstable natural gas prices and supply volatility hurt all Americans, including Virginia families, farms, manufacturing plants and small businesses. I believe allowing states to opt in to deep-water exploration far off the coast will make Virginia and America more secure and more energy-independent.

Richard Strauss

We've actually been at the low-end of the Street range for the fourth quarter ... (and) felt that we had to go even lower, so we did -- a nine percent across-the-board trimming here for the fourth quarter, ... The backlogs are still very significant, but the current environment is just not allowing deals to get done.

Glenn Johnson

We are pleased to announce that we are allowing our residents to return to assess and secure their property,

David Epstein

We're in a republic, not a democracy. The founders were very careful to say they were worried about allowing people to directly elect representatives.

Darrin Zeer

When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection.

Adam Gilchrist

Whether it's us not playing well or England not allowing us to play well it's a difficult one to work out,

Chip Williams

What they want to do is drive the line with nine players and make you throw. Their game plan coming in is to score a couple, either off the special teams or a run off the offense, and then shut us out, not allowing us to run.

Ray Staver

When we cut the lead down, we usually didn't get a good shot the next time down the floor. But, really, allowing 37 points in the first half and the way we shot (33%), it was too far to come back.

Morris Dees

When we got into this case, ranchers all along the border were allowing these types to come on their property, ... Now, they're very leery of it, especially when they see someone loosing their ranch because of it.

Jim Calhoun

The person who believes less in Josh is Josh. It's a daily progress with him to get him to believe.

Glenn Wilson

We are lucky to have Doug, who has been a great coach. He really believes in what we're doing here.

Tom Reilly

We are at a crossroads - young people are moving out of state. Our future is disappearing. You need a governor who believes in Massachusetts. There is nothing wrong that can't be fixed.

Martin Seligman

Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche.

Holly Holm

I can't even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me.

Dave Brat

We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

Jon Meacham

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

Kim Sears

Universities, colleges and business schools get that information on students. He believes military recruiters should too.

Charles Smulders

Vendors must find ways to persuade end-users to replace their PCs more frequently, ... Dataquest believes that the new generation of small form-factor PCs will be instrumental in making this happen.

Eric Keller

We spread the offense to spread the opposing defenses and that really creates running room.

Nora Volkow

When you start to live in a situation like that . . . it creates a sense of responsibility to your own life to do something that can help others.

Mel Thomas

Whenever we play good defense, it creates our offense.

Jesse Marsch

Watching the games last year and trying to get a feel of what it meant for this community, it's an exciting week for us. I've heard a lot about what the stadium is going to be like. The stadium was great two weeks ago when we played but I've heard that it creates an emotional environment and I'm pretty excited about that.

Rick Carpenter

What this initiative does, it allows government to grow steadily every year and creates a stronger rainy day fund that's harder to get into.

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Tom Bissell

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.

Eric Hoffer

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Chris Davies

When their competitors have a good story to tell about how they're managing greenhouse gas emissions, I think it creates pressure to have a good story themselves.

David Mixner

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

Cal Thomas

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

Carl Icahn

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

Clyde Prestowitz

The possibility exists that they would get upset with us at some pint and sell dollars. And if they sold all those dollars right away, the value of the dollar would plummet, interest rates would spike and the U.S. would go into a recession.

Nick Woodman

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

Earl Weaver

Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.

Elizabeth Arden

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

Charles Edison

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

Cher

I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

John Ruskin

The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu

Luiz Scolari

The performance of the entire team was good,

Joe Crocco

We are looking forward to a good week of practice, going over some things and getting ready for Jericho. That's where our entire focus is right now.

John Gray

We struggled again. It was one of those nights. We only scored (seven) points the entire second half.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

Jody Kielbasa

We want to pound home the idea that the festival is for the entire Gulf region.

Jim Hale

We have never talked about being ranked No. 1 or being undefeated at all the entire season. Those numbers aren't important to us.

Mark Driscoll

We want our fans to show their support for our program by wearing green. We want the entire stadium in green.

Natasha Trethewey

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

Tito Mboweni

We want to see a competitive and stable exchange rate, nothing more, nothing less.

Fidel Castro

We have no objection at all that the three US officials visit us to give their assessments and hold an exchange on these matters,

Moshe Sharett

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.

Michael Widmer

The outlook for the exchange rate will not improve significantly going forward. If the Iran situation doesn't improve, then you should have further upward pressure on gold prices.

Jack Straw

We had a very thorough exchange of the different positions of the EU-3 and the new government of Iran,

Hiroyuki Hosoda

Since there are issues that are oriented to the future, we welcome the opportunity for a frank exchange of opinions,

Wang Zhaoguo

We hope to provide an open platform so that trade union organizations from different social backgrounds and ideologies can freely exchange views and seek more opportunities for co-operation.

Richard Schickel

Leone provided that, primarily through stylistic devices. One of the things I like about Leone's Westerns is that he'll spend a very long time on the preliminaries to a gunfight. But then, once they exchange shots, it's very quick, much quicker than the typical walk-down in an American Western. All of that preparation is fabulous. It's kind of funny, and it's very suspenseful.

Richard Schickel

Leone provided that, primarily through stylistic devices, ... One of the things I like about Leone's Westerns is that he'll spend a very long time on the preliminaries to a gunfight. But then, once they exchange shots, it's very quick, much quicker than the typical walk-down in an American Western. All of that preparation is fabulous. It's kind of funny, and it's very suspenseful.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Ricardo Garcia

We're going to do it a little different. We're going to trade goods for services.

John A. Logan

Legally, ... purchasers of goods over the Internet have always been required to pay sales tax on their purchases, but as a practical matter, many haven't, and this will be seen as a tax increase.

Noreena Hertz

Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

Bob Evans

When goods are in transit, somebody's got money invested in it. The sooner the delivery, the sooner you get your money for it.

Sally Potter

When goods are down, and you're selling used, you have to price a lot cheaper,

Igor Ivanov

on goods that may be used for humanitarian problems in Iraq.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Michael Niemira

I think initially the industry will try to keep the discounts more narrowly focused. The problem is, if sales don't pick up, retailers will start to spread out discounts to those goods not selling as well.

Diwa Guinigundo

Setting interest rates is not just about one thing. You don't say, the peso is strong. So, in a sense, imported inflation can be managed. That's just one part of the story.

Irene Khan

Torture should have been kept where it belonged, in the 16th century, instead of being imported into the 21st.

Ken Smith

The line is getting blurrier, with the shift more toward imported products.

Harry Parmar

The kites and all the strings were imported from India just for this celebration. The string is specially made for this.

Richard Platt

In fact, until that point, there had only been tariffs on imported goods.

Frederic Morton

Its oak paneling is rectory English; the marble in its bathrooms sometimes outdoes the tombstones of the Medici; and the salutes of the older bellhops seem imported from Windsor Castle.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Ted Sarandos

When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Roberto Azevedo

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Robert Brusca

There is a reason for stock markets to be worried. But I don't think we need to talk about recession yet -- it's not on the radar screen.

Firas Askari

Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Alan Hansen

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

Alan Arkin

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

Megan Wing

We want to think about it, see how much we miss it.

Chris Cleave

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

David Mitchell

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

Guy Ritchie

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Ed Helms

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

Jeff Mitchell

We want it to stay the way it is, natural. We want it to be open to the public.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Susan Beal

Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jan Egeland

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Anne Campbell

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Giselle Davies

Nothing is back yet. The IOC has not received the results.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Chuck D.

if they don't think he can play shortstop then they should think about trading him.

Carol Kennedy

We routinely look at any unusual trading activity.

Paul Diamond

Right now we're still in a trading bind,

Peter Smith

A lot of times you don't know who you're trading with or where.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Heather Brooke

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.