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.

Todd Cheney

Our regional was so tough. We had a 103-pounder who took seventh in state and another state qualifier from a year ago who did not win a match. All things considered we did okay.

Seabo Gaeganelwe

Parliament considered national interest and in as much as people raise their objections, no one will intimidate or deny the people in the town the right to vote.

Ruth Comer

Part of (the demand for higher-cost products) has been fueled by the Food Network and cooking shows that use more exotic ingredients. A lot of items that were once considered specialty are now considered mainstream. Many are now staples in our produce section.

Jodi Picoult

Part of our job as a writer is to consider how we tell stories, ... This is one way of looking at multiple versions of storytelling. What is also fun about it is all fiction used to be illustrated, so in a way this very revolutionary form of novel is really going back to basics.

Marvin Emerson

People need to remember that Herb is just 16 years old. I don't know if people always consider that. There is a lot of pressure on him, and I think he handles it as well as could be expected for someone his age.

Fritz Elmendorf

People have to think realistically, and I think the economy is pretty sobering right now, and people should consider their financial moves very soberly. Part of that is getting in less debt.

Adam Adelman

People might be delaying some purchasing decisions and in the short-term, that's considered a negative.

James Balsillie

People may have paused to consider but we haven't heard of any competitive shift.

Eddie Jordan

People may consider that. But there is a respect for the game.

Dave Eggers

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

Jim Williams

Our perspective on that is if you are involved in criminal activity, and you are apprehended, it wasn't because of profiling. If you drive through a radar zone operated by one of my officers going 45 in a 25, you weren't stopped because of profiling.

Michael Edmondson

It is a resolution that is standard for first-time offenders with no other criminal history or arrests and individuals with a history of drug addiction.

Nik Nanos

The announcement of the criminal investigation . . . made what was a relatively comfortable (Liberal) lead into a neck and neck race.

Gloria Feldt

The Ashcroft Department of Justice can no longer threaten Planned Parenthood doctors with the daunting specter of criminal prosecution for putting their patients first.

Hugh Keefe

That was our theme from the get-go. There was no criminal intent to defraud.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

Margie Long

I think sometimes juveniles tend to think by shooting windows with BB guns it's fun for them maybe they're bored; but it's a criminal offense.

Eric Holder

I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

Edmund Phelps

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

Michael Garnett

Getting thrown in like that is a tough way to make your debut. In between periods I talked to Dunham, and he said to go out there and relax. After that I played as I always played.

George Gwozdecky

I thought he did well. We didn't put a lot of pressure on him after the first period but he made some big saves.

Rick Vernon

Going back to the '60's, we're one of the only schools that plays them year in and year out. When you play somebody for that period of time you're going to have that rivalry.

Damon Ristau

Our staff is incredible. Without them it wouldn't be possible to run this event.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tim Hibbitts

It is likely? No. Is it possible or plausible? Yes.

Nick Harper

I was trying to get it as soon as possible and get to where there were no defenders, find a clearing, and score.

Korey Rowe

It didn't seem possible and it took a long time to sink in.

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Kiki Vandeweghe

for working with us to make this possible so quickly.

Valentino Rossi

For sure, it's possible to win the championship. There's always more pressure than normal, but we try to win this race like we do in other races.

Charles Gittins

He did the procedures that are required to do a proper periscope search. Unfortunately, he didn't see the target.

Alan Doss

We haven't had the long queues we had before, but that may be in part because the procedure was simpler ... just two candidates.

Larry Parker

Yes, I think some procedures can be tightened up. Improvements can be made.

Alan Perlis

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Anthony Fauci

When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.

Julie Andrews

a routine procedure that I was told would not be threatening to my vocal chords.

Robert Poole

There's actually now a well-established procedure for every project.

Phil Roe

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

David Wright

It?s not as complicated procedure to take them down.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Suzanne Collins

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.