Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Mike Conners

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Dick Corn

Macomb doesn't have a great deal of size. They don't seem to score a lot of points, but they do create a lot of points and scoring chances off their defense. Our scouts were pretty impressed.

Dick Nyman

Losses don't come much tougher than this one. We outplayed them the whole game, but two mistakes cost us. We had some great scoring chances but we didn't finish.

Jamey Gelhar

Last year, they took our chances away for the championship. We're going to be really fired up.

Jeff Lenherr

(Scott) has a strong desire to score. He's a very good one-on-one player and we've noticed that we've been getting a lot of one-on-one chances so far this year. Moving him up to forward helped stretch the defense and gave us a lot of room for chances.

Dwyane Wade

Second chances hurt us. They got a couple of second chance rebounds on us and that was the difference in us making the plays at the end.

Zheng Bijian

So long as the two sides can have a sober head to face the overall situation and handle the existing problems with a pragmatic attitude, can they seek the opportunities and promote the positive and sound development of the bilateral relations. Otherwise, they will miss the chances or even make historical mistakes.

Jim Rise

Missed opportunities. We had our chances and we didn't execute. We didn't play well today. We missed a lot of signs and the kids took themselves out of a lot of innings. We need to play a complete game and we haven't done that.

Takehiko Jimbo

Momentum for the yen is good. Fukui's comments and this newspaper report fed speculation about a March policy move, increasing the chances of a rate hike by the end of the year.

Samir Geagea

Lebanon is the true land of consensus par excellence,

Keith Sherin

Given the current outlook, we expect to modestly exceed the first quarter consensus estimate of $0.75 per share,

Joe Sims

Getting a global consensus, it turns out, is not that easy. We're hoping we're going to get widespread support so we can stand up and say to the U.S. government that this is a true consensus document.

Natan Sharansky

The prime minister is traveling without trying to make consensus here. I prefer to be with the majority.

Robert Pavlik

If we get a GDP or deflator number that's much stronger than the consensus estimate, then it could hurt the market because people will be talking about a tougher Fed.

Phil Hansen

Basically, the consensus is Stayton and Cascade will be at the top. ... But I think we've improved enough to be in the playoffs. It's just how focused we can be in the next (eight) games.

Lloyd Banks

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Tom Chatfield

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.

Herb Kohl

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

Ted Parrish

Semi stocks won't do anything until we get guidance about estimates for 2004. Otherwise, the stocks will get really overheated.

Drake Johnstone

If they exceed estimates for this quarter, which I think they will, and raise guidance for the upcoming quarter, investors would be more favorably inclined to Microsoft.

Mike Rann

World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected,

Joe Haworth

We did lose possibly as much as two million gallons onto the beaches. We're still doing the estimates on that. We don't know how much could possibly have made it to the ocean. We know some did.

Joe Walsh

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

Tom Courtney

I think you're going to see a really wide range of estimates unless they help us with that, which I'm not sure they'll do.

Gale Norton

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Margaret Gatz

Our finding confirms the higher estimates that have been suggested previously.

Jim Lushine

Mother nature still has us in its sights. I hope it just wings us rather than hitting us in the gut.

Hal Ziegler

Matt?s been hitting like that for us all year.

Carlos Zambrano

My first three games, I was worried too much about walking and hitting people.

Pete Rose

One thing about a hitting streak is the stamina.

John Jones

Now we're hitting a little bit, but we are not playing well defensively.

Jim Edmonds

Obviously, I'm not hitting the way I want. So, I was trying to make it up for it on defense.

Mike Oliver

I can't put into words what hitting that shot was like. I just knew I needed to hit it.

Brian Deville

I can't give her a hundred percent today because she missed some of her spots, but she kept them from hitting the ball.

Malcolm Gladwell

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

Hugh Johnson

What Oracle did is it demoralized the rest of the technology sector.

Socrates

The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Larry Ellison

There is no more important platform for Oracle than HP and Itanium.

Bill Vaughan

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

Marc Hebert

It is like being at Oracle in the 1990s Silicon Valley.

Marc Benioff

I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing today.

Dan Roberts

Right now, we're just in kind of high-level discussions with Oracle about the relationship that we can build.

Barry Hyman

It's not the Fed; It's all Oracle and it's taken the sector with it.

Libba Bray

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Elliott Schlang

The quarter was substantially better than what we had anticipated.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.