Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Regan

We want to totally reconfigure this model so that the purchasers have available information before they make a purchase. Our concern is how soon can consumers get the info how soon can NMVTIS get the information. If we're dependent on federal agencies, we're not going to get it as fast as if the private sector is allowed to leverage that info manage it and interpret it and send it back out.

Bud Morris

We want to show the community that there are things happening at our college that are directly benefiting the community. This will also allow our students to interact directly with the public.

W. S. Gilbert

We knew they would be pressing us and trying to set the tempo they wanted. We tried everything at the beginning not to allow that. But they're just such a good team that when they decided they wanted to run, they would run.

Bob Connelly

We knew they were going to throw a lot of different looks at us. We had to take on that challenge. We can't allow people to play us standing up on defense and not be able to run the ball effectively.

Tayshaun Prince

We knew they played that overtime game. We didn't play that many minutes last night. So the key for us was just to get out quickly, make some stuff happen. It seemed like they had slow feet from the start of the game, which allowed us to jump on them early.

John North

Wait until these laws are abused or misused and then the people of Australia will turn on them for bringing in, in peace-time, laws that allow Australians to be locked up without charge.

Alexandra Adornetto

VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.

B. F. Skinner

Ultimately, we weren't ready to play, and (Murrieta) played hard. You can't let a team totally dominate you for 40 minutes and expect that, in the next 40 minutes, you can come back, because Murrieta is a good team. You just can't allow that to happen.

J. J. Johnson

Ultimately, public-safety concerns will determine when businesses can reopen and residents are allowed to return, even in areas that appear to be undamaged.

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Mitt Romney

Ultimately, legislation may need to be filed to provide an exemption based on religious principles.

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Martin Sawyers

We know from inspections carried out on the entire pipeline and throughout Westport that we do not have any major leakage at all. The reality is we're putting it down to a dry spell and a very unusual spell.

Greg Johnson

We are going to stand fast and see that due process is carried out, recognizing the fact that there are some problems in that regard.

Ron Wilson

We're in pretty good shape. We want to finish as high as we can. Our goal is to run the table here. The hardest game is always the next one that you play. My job is to keep everybody focused and in the moment and not get too carried away with ourselves.

Lovie Smith

When you say the defense has carried us, that's what they're supposed to do. That's the strength of our team.

Don Lyons

What a great bunch. They wore the Lady Monarch uniform with pride. They carried on the fine tradition. I know its hurts right now, but when they reflect and look back on what they've accomplished, it's really matched by very few teams.

Mary Berry

What historians will do is not focus on her role as the wife of Martin ... or that she carried on his legacy. They will focus on how she managed to be the leader of institutions and movements by her own right. And not just in organizing the King Center.

Scott Harding

We were hoping to get four innings. He's carried us before in some tough 1-0, 2-0 losses, so this time his teammates picked him up.

Madeline Albright

Unless the commitments necessary to end the violence are carried out in a way that is sustainable and mutually reinforcing, it will be difficult for the parties to change the realities on the ground,

Ron Sanders

We're extremely pleased with the out-of-the-gate success of the DVD release of 'Goblet of Fire'. We knew fans really connected with this installment in the Harry Potter series, and that continued loyalty to the franchise has carried over to these phenomenal DVD sales figures.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

Darrell Nichols

We know for a fact that several of the people staying at the motel were habitual burglars.

Michael Bennett

Wait just a minute. They didn't keep us out of the end zone. I was tackled in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter. Get your facts straight, or get a job working for the New York Times .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

John Burness

There are some folks who want us to do a full investigation ourselves. But the fact of the matter is this is a police investigation, and we can't impede it. The more information we have, if the allegations are true, there will be grave consequences.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

Paul Moreno

We've restored power to about 1.328 million people, but 89,000 are still without.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Richard Branson

Everything in your business can be outsourced... if you're not emotionally attached to doing it all.

Erskine Bowles

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

Antonio Banderas

I think it actually will be an interesting play. I think it is a very smart proposal for theater.

Sergei Ivanov

If such proposals come -- we have not yet received them -- I am sure that they will not solve the ABM issue,

Ken Karl

Under my proposal there?s only one wire to move.

Sergei Kiriyenko

Our proposal remains in force, but only as part of a comprehensive approach.

Burton

Most of the restaurants and taverns, especially the ones downtown, support the proposal I've introduced,

John Izzo

My proposal is a starting point. It isn't an absolute.

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Ann Coulter

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Akio Morita

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Dhirubhai Ambani

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

Julian Baggini

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Arne Jacobsen

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Derek Jacobi

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Denis Waitley

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Alan Pardew

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Cesare Pavese

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Jane Austen

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Edith Wharton

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

Bob Watson

What we're going to do is save a roster spot for him. He can't make up his mind.

Sarah Newton

We didn't want to have them come down to do the work if we weren't sure we would be able to save the building.

Claude Julien

Jose made some big saves in the third to keep us in the game.

Lauren Kellin

It all starts with Amy. She doesn't get any credit. She makes all the big saves and makes us look good.

Lauri Kemper

What we have is better than nothing, but it may not be sufficient to save the lake.

Richard Sommer

I think it's really important to save a little as a benchmark.

Kevin Klette

He made some big saves for us when it counted. He's been doing that all year for us.

Mike Strauss

There is no better way to put it other than it saves lives.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.