Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Frank Ostini

Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tom DeLay

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

Vince Sollitto

Let's realize how far this governor has come and give credit where credit's due. The governor has taken the deficit from $16 billion down to $4 billion and that's a tremendous accomplishment.

Hector Flores

Let these people get their education. Don't criminalize them. They pay taxes, and they contribute billions to the economy.

James Williams

Lower withdrawals than most estimates -- at 20 billion cubic feet -- are bearish for gas, but the concern about the Nigerian supply of crude and the reaction to the Iranian situation could result in crude giving gas some support.

Ram Kolluri

SDL is a component supplier. They supply a lot of materials to Nortel Networks and they're a nice story in the optical fiber equipment, ... ... optical fiber investments will raise from 3 billion in 1999 to approximately 15 billion in 2003. Globally the demand is going to be $40 billion for year 2003. And these are the people who are going to supply all the equipment.

Anton Schutz

Mack is not going to sell damaged goods. If he can fix it, he'll get a higher price.

Bob Crawford

Last year, we had a kind of historic season of damage and fires, so what we're seeing now troubles us a lot,

Shlomo Yosef

Sharon was in a life-threatening situation because of intestinal damage and as result doctors decided to operate.

Tom LaSorda

Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.

Bill Gates

No one should think that shareholder value would be preserved ... Microsoft would be greatly damaged by this kind of split.

Johannes Ullrich

More often than not, a patch will actually do more damage than good if you roll it out too quickly without testing it first.

Randy Lert

(Money managers) expect the Fed to stop raising rates before short-term rates inflict any significant damage to economic growth.

Steve Buyer

My great fear is that future presidents will now flaunt the law in a more egregious manner ... and that's how they'll defend impeachments in the future, ... Damage was done.

Andrea Seigel

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Matthew Sweet

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

Sarah Palin

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Vitor Meira

I was telling (team co-owner) John Barnes that patience pays here. That's what we did the whole race. We were racing smart instead of aggressive. It paid off for us.

Rocco Buttiglione

If instead one talks about the United States, there's a turning point. You know where you can find it? In a film called Pretty Woman.

Terry Egan

So instead of PowerPoint you have presentation software and instead of Microsoft Word you have word processing software.

Elaine Elliott

She's pretty much had her way. You're always talking about containing, not stopping a player like that. It would be a victory to keep (Langhorne) from getting 20 instead of 30.

Bill Clinton

If they had been in office instead of me, we would have had peace in the Middle East.

Marvin Demoff

If they want to sign someone else instead of Larry and release him, he'll end up playing somewhere else. Players have only so many options.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

William Stafford

One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.

Kevin Wilson

Money's not everything - the volunteering professionals to get this thing done is worth more than anything ... that's worth a million dollars,

James Williams

No one thought - not a single person - that it would be this severe, this tragic. No one thought the levees would break. Not in a million years.

Erin Dawson

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be where I am.

Andrew Bogut

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

Danica Patrick

More than anything, I'm more relieved after this run.

Andrew Schwartz

Now that choke-hold has been relieved at least for a week.

Jim Marshall

On one hand, (they're) relieved and on the other hand, they're soldiers and they want to be there,

Sarah Rose

Just so relieved we have another year to turn things around for St. Joe's.

Mary Pierce

I am just very relieved to get through,

Ann Brashares

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

Denise Baklid

We are ecstatic. We are relieved and we are truly blessed.

Carly Fiorina

I know all of us will be relieved when the mailman stops coming.

Carolyn Battaglia

I'm just relieved that the situation has been resolved.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Dick Wolf

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Diane Sawyer

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

Dennis Quaid

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Eleanor Roosevelt

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Edward Abbey

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

John Clifford

From talking to him, I think he wants to play receiver.

John Groff

From what we have been talking about, it's going to be really something.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Source Unknown

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.