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.

Eric Chavez

Regardless, we needed to get something on the board with that at-bat. I'm the key guy in that spot to make something happen. I didn't come through. It hurt us right there. We have to get a run in, whether it's a flyball or something else. In that situation, I'm the person you want up there -- I'm the person I want up there. Hopefully, starting tomorrow, I'll have opportunities to redeem myself.

David Galvin

Rebounding was the big difference. We knew that how we did on the boards would be key. We gave up too many offensive boards. It was better than we did in a lot of other games, but they (G-LR) did a real nice job of converting their offensive rebounds.

Peter Swire

Recent revelations show even more clearly why the board is needed. The White House has had no privacy officials, and having privacy expertise in the White House will reduce the chance of mistakes going forward.

Jason Crowell

Pat has more than 20 years of viable experience with the health-care industry. He is more than qualified to serve on this board where he will be an asset.

Howard Morton

Pat came on our board of directors in October of 2002, when we were just a year old. She lent a steadying hand to that board. She was a strong personality and a dedicated person.

Van Shaver

Our main desire is to get the board back up and functioning properly.

Nicki Harrington

Our original date to get this done was 2005, but I told the board to slow it down and do it in phases ... that moved to fall 2007. If anything, I've slowed the talk down.

Richard Cunningham

Our OMN is a great solution for firms like Moon Capital who are looking for a turnkey solution for reducing errors and improving efficiencies throughout their execution process. The openness of our solution and plug-and-play nature of our network enables us to get clients like Moon up and running quickly. We are excited to have Moon on board and are looking forward to helping them grow their business.

Mark Lewis

Our next step is to go to school board meetings to help districts define how parents and students will be notified.

Preston Sturges

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.

Jack Shea

While the bourbon category has been sluggish overall, premium whiskeys such as Maker's Mark have enjoyed double-digit sales increases. Maker's Mark is enjoying popularity particularly with the urban sophisticates.

Cheryl Voyna

Some Jaycee chapters are heavily involved in all the regional and national events the parent organization hosts. Others never send anyone. No one dictates that you have to do it. But the opportunity is there for some wonderful experiences.

Michael Linenberg

Our previous view ascribed a 50 percent to 60 percent probability to a Delta Chapter 11 filing. We now think it's 80 percent to 90 percent, primarily to the recent surge in oil prices north of $60 a barrel,

Spike Lee

'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.

Louisa Willcox

It is a tremendous success story, but the last chapters aren't yet written.

Ron Thomas

It is a positive voice in the U.S. and a positive force in the African-American community. And anything we can do to strengthen the local chapters also strengthens the organization nationwide.

Helane Becker

I think United cut as much as they can after three years in Chapter 11. There's not a lot more they can do at this juncture. In our view they're probably positioned as well as they can be at this time.

Matt Blunt

It is important that we recognize the pioneering efforts of the suffragists, whose efforts lead to ratification of the 19th Amendment, ... Their commitment to equality and women's rights was an important chapter in the expansion of American Democracy and the enfranchisement of all our nation's citizens.

Adam Baldwin

It could potentially be something big but come what may, we have closure on a very sad chapter of our lives when the show was cancelled. Now we have this movie that stands on its own and hopefully we're all part of something special and I think we are.

George Muller

It hasn't happened a lot, but we do get people who, when we check into it further, we discover have already been to shelter A or shelter B. We send them to chapter headquarters in Salt Lake City. Not everyone is the most ethical.

Paul Adams

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

Mark Fabiani

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

John Bowen

Our position is that as a matter of law it's approved. The county would have to notify us if they disagree with that.

John Benedetto

Pasco County football has gotten a lot better and you better be prepared to play well week to week or you're going to get knocked off.

Sue Tucker

Our only option is to refer people to one of the shelters in Dane County -- or to send them up to a shelter in Stevens Point. We have no place, else, to put people.

John Walsh

Sussex County is suffering maybe more than most. Kent County is having its problems. ... High gasoline prices, highway congestion, people in manufactured homes are dealing with unconscionable rental increases. Most of this can be laid at the Legislature's doorstep.

Rick Howard

Survive and move on. that's what they tell when you get to the playoffs. That's what we did (Friday). Hart County played hard and fought the entire game.

Gary Gray

Our peach crop in Chilton County in a good year is probably worth in the neighborhood of $10 million, and local growers have reported a 30-percent increase in yields as the result of information they got from the meeting. This is a very important meeting for us.

Doug Warren

Our scores have to come down (from the county meet).

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

James Allen

Part of the reason of the survey is to look for current information on what people are doing, what their risks are and what their level of knowledge is,

Keith Clark

Part of that time period will be a sports program that redesigns the current 'KDKA/IC Light Sports Talk' show, while keeping our branding with Pittsburgh Brewing.

Farouk Kadodia

Our long-term vision for the team, the current situation and our position on the log table has forced us to look for other options.

John Hahn

Our organizations currently provide the majority of the security details required during events at our venues.

Elizabeth Leonard

Some of the people that are currently getting services might not receive services. Or, it could mean that new programming that would've been more helpful won't be funded.

Lee Scott

Our goal for the second half of the year remains double-digit earnings growth,. However, given the current economic environment this will be difficult to achieve, ... We expect earnings growth in the second half will show improvement over the first half of this year as we leverage our sales and market share gains, but the growth may not meet our original goals.

Jamey Marth

Our findings suggest that the current human epidemic in type-2 diabetes may be a result of GnT-4a enzyme deficiency.

Mitul Kotecha

Overall, he is opening the door to further rate hikes. It could also suggest that rates could go higher than currently priced in.

Andy Reid

Releasing players that have worked their tails off for the team is one of the toughest days for me,

Anne Coates

Preview days are the worst days of your life.

David Stevens

Or, from time to time, I've spotted people a few days until we can get something worked out.

Dana Williams

Our office has 30 days to make sure this petition is significant.

John Mattos

Our next twenty days are our rest days. We get to fine-tune all the little things we have maybe done wrong and concentrate on the those we've done right.

Roy Blumberg

Oracle is putting pressure on the technology stocks, but the Dow was up for seven days in a row before yesterday. The market was more than due for some kind of a sell-off.

Ellen Wheeler

People invite these families and actors into their homes five days a week,

Judy Tenzer

Sports is like life you have good days and not-so-good days, ... We always think about the what-ifs. We are making some adjustments with the ad....Andy will still be visible.

Lauren Pelletreau

Some of these 4-pass products may not have all 4 days left on them.

B. J. Novak

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

Antoine Fuqua

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Paul Clarke

The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,

Julianne Moore

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones.

Patricia Clarkson

I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.

Colin Trevorrow

'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

Lesley Manville

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Grant Heslov

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Larry Martin

Pastors and spouses and staff members were so involved in ministry to people after disasters that nobody was ministering to them. They were exhausted.

Michael Konken

Such a vast power in a single hand is a disaster for the diversity of opinion in Germany.

Michael Chertoff

State and local authorities have the principal, first-line-of-response obligation, with respect to a disaster of this kind, ... Obviously, the law recognizes they can't do it themselves.

Jason Chaffetz

Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.

Carolyn Gorman

Renters insurance is very valuable. And for not very much money, it can save you from disaster.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Brad Sherman

People who lived through the Northridge earthquake have a special sympathy for victims of another one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history,

Anthony Collins

Man, it's a disaster down there, ... Everything you're hearing about it is pretty much how it is.

Bill Vaughan

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

Aniela Orr

It governs their lives. They worry about how long they'll be out.

Rory Stewart

I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

Joel Gallen

It wasn't that same unified, universal thing, ... Nobody governs this sort of thing. If other people want to do their own thing, they can.

Helen Johnson

Our outlook for military tent sales this year and next remains unchanged until we have orders in hand,

Barry McCaffrey

At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.

B. H. Liddell Hart

For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

B. H. Liddell Hart

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

B. H. Liddell Hart

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

B. H. Liddell Hart

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Tom Kenny

There has been a lot of testing done on the racking strength provided by different types of spray foams, ... And the strength provided by closed-cell foams can be substantial.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

Bill Bryson

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

Tom Izzo

That was big to have it be seven when we thought we'd be down four.

Dan Ross

I thought we'd be sixth or seventh after the first day.

Jesse Moore

He said, 'You will take the test.' So we took the test, the whole class, all seven of us.

Shane Filan

We've been together seven years and we're pretty much like family.

Mike Wilton

One trip probably would kill seven years of recruiting.

Moran Atias

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

W. Hull

Six of the seven have been contacted, and all are well.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Shellie Samuels

Sure they were suspicious that night. No question! They're cops. That's their job,

Bubba Scott

Sure it's nerve-wracking when it's so close. But you get used to them and compete.

Peter Jacobsen

Sure I do. After all, I know Tonya Harding.

Genderen Stort

Resettlement for sure has become more difficult. They don't see the pressing need any more.

David Fox

I'm here to make sure we get things resolved.

Dave Shoji

I think they just wanted to get some confidence. I'm sure he wanted to see better play out of his starters.

Brian Levy

I think there will be a place for him in this league. I'm not sure where it will be.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Carrie Fisher

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Joan Bonvicini

That week was surreal. We were numb, we made it through it.

James Blake

It doesn't get better than this, ... If every week were like this I would never retire.

Pat Riley

I think he is a week away from conditioning.

Charlie Batch

I don't know. You just have to take it week by week, day by day at this point. All I can do is just be ready.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Michael Campbell

It is a long way to come for one week and go back again,

Doug MacIntyre

We may see another week or two of increases.