Famous Quotes & Sayings

Megan Schwab

Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.

Gary Thayer

We've seen, over the past seven months or so, orders stabilize or improve slightly, compared to a big decline last year. Orders are rising relative to inventories, and that's a positive sign for capital spending.

Bill Gross

The fact is that GE is a conglomerate financed by a money machine -- its subsidiary GE Capital -- but, unlike Berkshire Hathaway, its foundation is vulnerable because its survival depends upon the confidence of outside investors,

Don Rahn

The real indicator to me is what do you have coming up in the next five years in your capital plan.

Adam Cole

There is a limit to the negative effect on the yen of the capital outflows that have been driving it down for the last two months.

Sanjay Kumar

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

Tom Hunter

In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture.

Thomas Woods

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.

Douglas Gibson

She is a convicted criminal who stole thousands of rands of taxpayers' money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

Bob Conlin

If a person is convicted of something while in state service, they do not automatically lose their benefits. There's no provision in state law for something like that.

Joseph Estrada

I have mixed feelings. I welcome this opportunity to present my side because I was denied that right in the impeachment trial when prosecutors walked out. I was convicted in the streets.

David Sims

One in every three people convicted for DWI in Los Alamos County is under 21 years of age.

Daniel Berrigan

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Steven Chaykin

We think they are being inappropriately detained. Their presumption of innocence has been eviscerated. They are being punished for a crime they were not convicted of.

Felix Sabates

We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.

Elaine Makatura

We have no way of knowing if they were a convicted felon, or whether they were telling the truth if they said they weren't one.

S. Hughes

We know she doesn't want him convicted of this murder, ... She wants him out so they can have their life together.

Dan Smith

The reality is much like you've heard about the Jordan River. There are some not-so-good things in that water that could be potentially dangerous to our divers.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys - white guys - are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places, and all of these guys -- white guys -- are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Bruce Bochy

We know how dangerous he is. And we don't want to make a mistake and find out.

Jim Jordan

Ultimately, voters are going to decide a small-town physician from a small and atypical state is probably not qualified to lead this nation in a dangerous world.

Alain Robert

Life has to be dangerous.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

Todd Matthews

We've already had some dangerous situations, and I am really dreading March.

Todd Matthews

We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dread is March.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Charles Dickens

Are there no prisons?

Charles Dickens

Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

Charles Spurgeon

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are worse prisons than words.

Alan Moore

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Edmund Burke

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Brendan Behan

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Chaka Khan

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

David Henry Hwang

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.