Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

Daniel Rosen

Our overwhelming problem is our representatives are voting according to how the moneybag supporters want them to vote.

O. Singh

Peace and happiness shall fill your mind deep within, if you act according to truth and self discipline.

Shaukat Sultan

Our men returned fire after being attacked by the miscreants, and according to our information between 15 to 20 terrorists have been killed in the retaliatory fire.

Robert Maire

Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.

Adam Smith

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

Tim Danson

Steve Moore had no control over the timing of the incident. This was our (legal) limitation period. We had two years from the date, according to our theory of the case.

Ed Epping

Statistics tell us that when you have 10 medical incidents ? then you're going to have a lost-time accident. We're up to 13 or 14 medical incidents, so we're overdue for a lost-time accident, according to statistics. That's why we must be more cautious than ever before, because statistics tell us we're overdue for one.

Katie Hafner

Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company - almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.

Jaime Ortega

President Castro assured us the pope will be received by all the people and will have maximum freedom to express himself, to move and to do whatever he wants,

Mike Detillier

Patrick Willis, man, if he had come out, he would've been a pretty high pick. But he wasn't assured of being a first-round pick and he's coming off the injury. He did the smart thing and he'll be one of the top players, not only in the (Southeastern Conference), but in the country.

Gregory Nojeim

Passengers not legitimately under suspicion should not have to fear that their private effects and private lives will be held up to public scrutiny, ... Safety and privacy will not be assured if people are targeted for searches based on incorrect criteria instead of evidence.

Bill Thies

People have a sense that they can go in at 55 and be assured they're not going to get Alzheimer's.

Susan Wilson

People may think there are flooding issues. We want to make people aware of the work we are doing, why we are doing it and assure them there is nothing to worry about.

Derick Virgil

Someone on this campus is dealing with this issue. We can be assured of that.

Tom Maletis

Our goal is to keep it here for as long as we possibly can. Obviously we have concerns with infrastructure, but Lyle (Anderson) has assured us he is going to look at our needs and do everything he can to meet them and make this our home.

Mack Brown

Our friendship has come out of respect. Gary's honest, and his program goes by the rules. I know those kids are disciplined, and we've got a lot of people on my staff who have been around the Colorado program that assured me of those things early. I've been able to see those things first-hand by being around Gary more.

Mack Brown

Our friendship has come out of respect, ... Gary's honest, and his program goes by the rules. I know those kids are disciplined, and we've got a lot of people on my staff who have been around the Colorado program that assured me of those things early. I've been able to see those things first-hand by being around Gary more.

George Packer

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

Frank Lloyd

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor.

John Mackey

Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

Shia LaBeouf

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

Jack Kemp

Laissez-faire, Darwinian capitalism is not going to work here. Markets do work, but they need the direction of government in situations like this.

Richard J. Roberts

One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.

Noah Feldman

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.

Noreena Hertz

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

Walter Mosley

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'

Jill Lepore

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.

Jonathan Galassi

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.

Helen Araromi

Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life.

Natalie Forbort

It could hurt other students who might want financial aid. There isn't an endless supply of money.

Mary Szybist

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

David Hudson

There is an endless supply of speech that seems to offend these days.

Mark Margolis

There is an endless range of parts I have not played. I would love to do a whole slew of period pieces. I also used to do a lot of stage work, and I would like to go back to that from time to time.

Roman Polanski

Human life is just a given series, an endless series of such moments,

Miranda July

I have endless sympathy for (them) because I see myself so much in them.

Zhang Jianmin's

Human must not be enslaved by material. To be a man, you have to be the master of yourself, not the slave of things.

F. Sionil Jose

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

Norman Finkelstein

People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.

Charles Steele

The extension is crucial. We can't expect a system that enslaved us to save us.

Donald Evans

Regarding your first question on the free trade agreement, as I said earlier, we are going to be very sensitive to the needs of Morocco.

Denny Green

Reggie has shown he can play tackle, guard and center. I think if it (unrestricted free agency) goes the way we want it to go, then I think that's the way we would go play the season, with him at left guard.

Master Kwon

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Zoltan Torok

People just lived better and better. It was like a free lunch for voters.

Conan Stevens

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Courtney Taylor

Success is having two things: a little more free time than you know what to do with and a little more money than you know what to do with,

Tim Floyd

Stanford stayed tough. They made their free throws when they were needed.

Jim Wilson

Some of the property owners took the free lights and installed them at their own expense.

Mike Davis

Our plan was to miss the second free throw at 0:00.8. Since it went to two (seconds) we had to make the second free throw. At 2.1 a lot of things could happen in that situation.

Goeran Persson

It is a serious situation for the EU, but I won't hide that I feel some relief,

Greg Aiello

That's true. You can't hide from the numbers. There are disappointing results so far. We have to keep working and being aggressive.

George Pierce

It is not the end of the world. Don't try to hide it from the kids or the spouse.

David Cole

There are no secrets. You can't hide anything.

Kristin Runger

If they can look at somebody else's report, they could hide things better.

Karen Brown

I always hide under the characters. Maybe I went to that place, but I wasn't that character.

Jay Garner

He had 12 years to hide it. He was very skillful at doing that,

Rig Veda

One should never lie to hide one's mistake.

Dottie Kastigar

Lots of barns out here to hide in. And these are people who don't necessarily want to be found. They still have a lot of pride.

Andrew Grove

I will take any kind of developments so long as those tens of tens of millions become twice as many.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Mary Schmidt

There are so many millions of people you can't otherwise reach.

Richard Walden

It could be worth tens of millions of dollars.

Jim Amos

It is significant in its impact. We do millions of packages a year with UPS.

Peter Kessler

For millions of people, this was their source of food,

Ajay Dua

If we have all the data... we will not have to spend all those millions of dollars.

Kevin Bankston

If state secrecy can prevent us from preserving the rights of millions upon millions of people, then there is a profound problem with the law.

Dan Newman

He may spend his tens of millions on slick TV ads, but this isn't eBay. The governor's race does not have a 'buy it now' option.

Omar Sharif

Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

John Kelley

People normally wouldn't do this but they have to come in.

Bob Dickinson

We normally sell those rooms for a lot of money. It was frustrating that no one wanted to come.

Andy Reid

We normally do that if a player is playing his old team.

James Thomas

We normally don't have to go to trial on them.

Carrie Underwood

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

Ashley Tisdale

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Howard Wu

I think they're resigned to it, because that's the normal course.

David Wluka

The accelerated sales pace of recent years has all but ended, and we're returning to a more normal market.

Bob Hadfield

Our policy is to provide water for the orderly development of Carson Valley.

Elliot Krieger

Our relationship with the union, once the order was put in place, has been pretty good,

M. C. Escher

Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

Shaukat Aziz

Step by step, we are getting there. It has to be done in an orderly way,

Gary Thayer

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

Barry Lopez

To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

B. F. Skinner

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

Bill Crawford

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

Big Pun

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Cecil Beaton

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

Robert Full

It doesn't look like any real animal, but all of the principles are there.

Charles Darwin

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

Blaise Pascal

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Ayn Rand

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

Benjamin Disraeli

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Ed Parker

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

Bede Griffiths

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Billy Corgan

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Billy Corgan

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

Bill Clark

The permit limits are pretty close to what the reality is.

Bill Cowher

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Bibhu Mohapatra

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

C. S. Lewis

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

C. S. Lewis

Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.

C. S. Lewis

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

Lily Chatterjee

One strange thing about the rain? It reveals all of the leaks.

William Shatner

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

Ben Bass

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

Gunter Blobel

The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.

Jacques Chirac

We can't reveal the secrets of the confessional.

Zahi Hawass

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

Douglas Alexander

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

Sebastian Horsley

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Abu Bakr

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

Atharva Veda

Servant Nanak seeks Your Support; he has come to Your Sanctuary.

John Ortberg

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

Italian Proverb

He that seeks to have many friends never has any

Becca Fitzpatrick

Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.

Mike Hall

We've too many sides so have to go to three and make the other a development team.

Bill Shankly

The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)

Bill Delahunt

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

Bill Vaughan

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Bill Bruford

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

Lindsay Davenport

I think it took away a lot of it, especially on the women's side . . . on the men's side, you have some upsets once in a while.

Thomas Schelling

I think I know whose side I'm on, and I'm sorry for him.

Lindsay Davenport

I struggled a lot on one side of the court,

Leon Mbangwa

He is still under our observation. But he is still stable and still in hospital.

Chris Presson

Financially, we're more stable than we've been in many, many years.

Mark Zuckerberg

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Peter Banko

It's not critical. It's not serious. It's just stable at this time.

Al Stadler

It's been stable since. We've had no issues.

John Heywood

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.