Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Cook

We want to stop the breaches in the cease-fire and we want to avoid the potential of future atrocities,

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

James Baker

The only reason why I negotiated with these guys was simply because they didn't try to avoid the issue, they got hold of us right way, ... They clearly didn't understand when they went out of bounds the risk that was involved to other people. I think in looking backward, they understand they put other people at risk with their behavior and this was a way to settle this thing.

Susan Reeves

The potential changes to the (net-profits) bill must be considered carefully to avoid upsetting the balance contained within the bill.

J. Giertz

The performance of the index suggests that Illinois avoided the slowdown of the national economy that occurred in the last quarter of 2005.

John Whiting

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

Roy Jackson

We've always been able to avoid publicity. We don't even have our name on the front of our building.

John Lazarchic

We've always avoided it because of the huge human workload.

Judy Cameron

We've all been told at one point in our lives that we should avoid late-night snacks as they will lead to weight gain. In reality, however, this belief is not based in fact. We conducted a review of previous data on the topic and found no real evidence that this was true.

Alain Robert

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

David Sedaris

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Mark Parrish

The only difference between tonight's game and last night's game is that 40 guys were a little more tired tonight, and the building was different, ... All I know is that if we play 82 games like this, I'm going to die.

Michael Miles

The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.

Sen. Sakamoto

The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.

Rudi Giuliani

The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.

Ron Holt

The point, I think, is that Camden Yards really fits into that neighborhood but it has the 'wow' factor. A great new building that excites people but doesn't take away from the neighborhood.

Bill Seltenheim

The point is inventories are building over the ideal 60-day marks. They've maybe reached a point where the market is getting saturated.

Chris Boone

The plaza is a culmination of about two years work designing, raising funds, and the building the plaza. Originally we had planned to do this in the fall, but because of the hurricane it was sidetracked.

Andrew Grossman

Unprecedented in its size and scope, Higher Expectations Week unifies concerned citizens to highlight the myriad of problems Wal-Mart creates, ... Together, this national movement is moving toward making the retailing giant a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen.

Eric Anderson

We are going to show the world that private citizens can complete the training and the qualification necessary to execute such flights,

Cheryl Johnson

We are a very rural county. Our hands were just tied. Now citizens have a recourse.

Joe Sinagra

We are at sea in a sinking ship, our citizens are treading water to stay afloat, and now New Jersey government wants their life jackets.

Edward Gibbon

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

Dick Durbin

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.

Edward Snowden

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

Len Traubman

We have no illusions about what somebody like Sharon or any government professional can do without citizens deepening and expanding this public peace process of human relationships.

Martina Horvathova

We want respect. We don't feel equal citizens of the Czech Republic. We don't feel free. We fear for our children.

Alan Perlis

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"

Chris Christie

We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

Jeff Campbell

The positive news is we're making progress on the cost front, led by painful concessions by our employees and suppliers, ... The tougher news is while the revenue environment has improved, it's still depressed by historical standards.

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

Scott Magruder

We are proud of it. We put a lot of work into it. It did cost a little more, but it was worth it.

Rajiv Dube

We are looking to establish quick gains, though it is too early to quantify what the cost savings will be.

Ron Jones

We spent the last few weeks talking about how good the team's effort was and tonight was the first time that we didn't play with the effort that I felt we should have. We did some of the same things that have cost us games this year but it just looked like the energy level disappeared in the second half.

Nathan Myhrvold

The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

David Berkowitz

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Robert Johnston

We want to substantially put greater emphasis on customer service and customer satisfaction. We really want to revitalize the spirit of the organization. It needs to be a much greater competitor.

Joseph Roth

We've already received such a warm reception from customers in Michigan. Just as we have customers who are excited about Ikea, we have lots of potential employees who are excited as well.

Cindy Adams

We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,

Jerry Rogers

We spoke with more than 50 financial institutions and each of them gave PCS top marks for customer service, conversions and system capabilities.

Carly Fiorina

Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do.

Alex Jones

When you talk to customers, you can tell that a lot of them are a lot more local.

Anne Stevens

When you talk about what is Lincoln, it's about reaching the American customer who has reached his goals, reached his dream and wants to be rewarded for that.

Charles Stuart Calverley

The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees...

Charles Spurgeon

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

Chogyam Trungpa

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

David Mitchell

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

Casey Affleck

When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.

Roe Hye

We are looking into how many human eggs were used in his research, but so far we have found that the number of eggs exceeds the ones presented in the Science paper.

David Robertson

It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.

Denis Leary

Charlotte Rampling, when she was younger, looked exactly like my wife. That's one of the reasons that when I first saw my wife, my knees buckled. Based on her looks alone, she was already in my kitchen making eggs.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you.

Richard Blumenthal

The permit is issued to the national entity Andersen, and its actions, regardless of where they take place, are relevant to Andersen's fitness to practice in Connecticut,

Vince Sweeney

We are pleased to be acknowledged as a national leader in this area. Over the years, people have worked very hard to make things happen. You're never done. It's an ongoing process. But we think we've made progress and its' nice to have an external entity recognize the progress.

Wole Soyinka

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.

Gene Ween

When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.

Charles Hayward

If all one does is get another entity to stand in place of NYRA, you're going to have the same results,

Edward Hirsch

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

Tzippi Livni

The question of the survival of the PA as an entity is less important than the future of the peace process.

Nelson Mandela

The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.

Pat Burns

We need an operational entity -- somebody who's accountable for it.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mike Harris

We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can,

Javier Solana

We want to see how we can help organize the transfer.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

David Shuster

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

David Schwimmer

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

David Koechner

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

Dave Barry

Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Anthony Burke

We're seeing tremendous increases each year in the number of taxpayers e-filing their returns from home.

Robert Toll

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Kathy Deck

We are seeing some serious imbalances in the market. When you have price increases with inventory increases, something's got to give.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

Peter Yu

Since Samsung has invested so much in LCD technology, they would be the one to make the next-generation displays.

Steve Robertson

We've been here a long time. We've invested a lot of money, and we'd like to stay here, but we need to make a profit.

Vince Gilligan

There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.

Eric Coldwell

If an investor pulled out of the space because of this, they don't understand what they are invested in.

Willie Smith

We've got too much invested to let somebody come in and take over.

Brian Cashman

Hopefully, this is nothing, but we want to make sure. We have a lot invested in him.

Chris Bickers

I think we have somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 invested in 50 nests.

Billy Beane

I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.

Mike Thatcher

You have invested a lot of trust in us; we won't let you down. Public safety is first and foremost.

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Kenneth Branagh

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

Susan Collins

We have a pot of money that is going to have to be spread over a larger population at a time when prices are soaring,

Bob Bertini

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.

Bill Walker

We want to be able to get the same pricing as larger companies.

Dana Martell

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

Andrew Wallace

We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.

Richard Money

We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.

Ed Gillespie

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Kendall Mills

We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.

Bill Miller

We're going to have to put 12 of them out there, ... maybe some snipers, too.

Mike Shula

We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.

Mike Davis

We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Alan Perlis

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Marc Ward

For years people had never seen a nest hatch, but they're seeing them now. It's incredible.

Alice Munro

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Nick Clooney

Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe.

Rich Ballinger

We're really proud that our students can go play Raven Nest for $5 on weekdays and $8 on weekends.

John Heywood

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

George W. Bush

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

Horace

Hatched in the same nest.

Jack Hanna

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Brian Lucas

We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Bruce Springsteen

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Aimee Mann

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Alan Clark

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Chip Conley

I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite questions are "Tell me about a failure in your career, what you learned from it, and how you've leveraged this lesson" and "All of us are misperceived at one time or another. What's the most common way you're misperceived in the workplace and why?" Both of these questions require a certain amount of self-awareness and a willingness to not give pat, normal answers that we offer experience in interviews.

Catherine Ashton

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Cathy Freeman

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

Carl Lewis

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

Bob Woodward

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

Bob Paisley

Though I hope to have a few more seasons still in senior football, I am studying to be a physiotherapist and masseur when my playing days are over. We married men have to look to the future, you know.

Blanche Lincoln

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

Betty White

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Darryl Drake

That comes with time. When you've got a young quarterback, a new quarterback with the system, the more comfortable he gets, the more he'll start spreading it around.

Allan Hale

We're visualizing spreading it around a little bit,

Katsuhiko Machida

The old way of doing things was just spreading us too thin.

Dr. Nabarro

Avian influenza is a big threat. It is spreading throughout the world.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.