Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Briggs

There are some gradual signs that the worst is over for this particular downdraft, ... We're optimistic that we can get a little turnaround by the end of the week. But it's hard to point to any one real catalyst that can turn things around.

Jim Volk

Unless there's some catalyst for the shorts to start scampering there's no reason for markets to go higher.

Jim Volk

We're just in a holding pattern. I don't see any catalyst on the scene at this point to get stocks going.

Christopher Johnson

We're seeing the idea that technology is starting to get back in the driver's seat. And tech is a catalyst that you need for the market to rally.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.

Francois Trahan

Short of a significant decline in oil prices, we do not foresee a likely catalyst that would spur the market significantly higher at this time. The equity market will likely remain in a transition phase, which could see the strong equity market uptrend of 2003 evolve into a slight downtrend in early 2005.

Susan Walvius

She may be the fastest guard in the country. She certainly was the catalyst for her team.

Art Hogan

We've sort of run into resistance, we need a significant catalyst to move us further and it's just not there.

Elizabeth Dole

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .

Abdul Sattar

We are prepared to enter into a dialogue with India at any place, at any level, anywhere, at any time,

Susan Reeves

We're in dialogue with with the government of Chad, consortium members and other relevant parties.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

Nicholas Burns

We remind the Burundi government and security forces that respect for human rights and peaceful dialogue should be key elements in their efforts to re-establish security in the country.

Taha Ramadan

with mutual bilateral interests and not a dialogue between master and slave.

Kate Grenville

I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

Lee Hall

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.

Brian Tracy

Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time.

Brad Smith

We had a very constructive dialogue yesterday. In fact I wish we could have had had this type of dialogue sooner.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Alan Moore

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Chambers

It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

Akhil Sharma

Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

Akira Kurosawa

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

Tim Healy

We have to get a lot more physically and mentally tough. That's a concern.

Riley Wallace

We're going to have to be mentally and physically ready. When you have no depth, the travel can really take its toll.

Leon Washington

We know he can do it. It's all about getting mentally prepared.

Gail Goestenkors

She's just such a mentally and physically tough kid. I think especially this time of year, that's what you need.

Mac Gifford

She plays to win and she is a very mentally tough person. She just can't stand to lose.

Matt Porrovecchio

She played well. She's mentally and physically tough.

Annika Sorenstam

She is very, very strong. She is mentally strong and she is tough.

Derek Laxdal

We're a physically and mentally fatigued team right now.

Krystal McKenzie

She's got a hamstring that's nagging, but she hasn't pulled it or anything. I think she's back to 100 percent, but mentally she doesn't think she is.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Sgt. Devine

She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.

Bobbi Koppel

We're able to provide a lot of opportunity. These are the things that students see the most.

David DeFazio

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Chinua Achebe

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

David Kim

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

David Kim

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

David Graeber

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Dave Barry

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

Mark Cuban

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Charles L. Allen

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

Bo Burnham

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.