Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard DeKaser

We have seen and I expect will continue to see a softening of demand for single-family housing that has been unmatched by a decline in construction. Eventually builders get with the program.

Joe Marsh

We have no illusions of grandeur here. It's the situation we want to be in. We want to have to go out there and have to earn every single shift. We'll have to do that in this building (the Kohl Center) for sure.

Samuel Palmisano

We have more work to do, but we are off to a good start this year, building on the momentum of 2005.

John M. Smith

We have some building to do. Building doesn't mean that we're looking at some poor seasons in the future. Building just means we need to build some individuals that don't have a lot of credentials at this point.

Dave Lutz

What these seniors have done is impressive. I told these guys that it used to take, eight, nine, 10 years for T.J. to win 29 games, but these guys have helped build a foundation.

Anthony DeFazio

What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.

Capt. McDonough

Whenever you have a large number of people in a building you want to make sure they can get out very quickly. So they need to know where the exits are and they need to know how to get to them.

Arthur Stein

Whenever you build an institutional use, like a hospital, or a courthouse, there is going to be expansion, and the uses that relate to that institution are going to expand as well,

Marv Levy

When you say you're building for the future, that's an incomplete sentence. You're building for the future coach and general manager, is what you're doing.

Jim Daugherty

We want to raise money to buy a thermal imaging camera.

Roger Price

We have seen a spike in interest in E85. Not enough time has elapsed for people to start running out to buy flexible-fuel vehicles, though.

Roger Price

We have seen a spike in interest in E85, ... Not enough time has elapsed for people to start running out to buy flexible-fuel vehicles, though.

Donatella Girombelli

We have to give modern women the possibility to choose, because now the moment of choice is like an investment. Women want to buy something not for one week, for one moment. She would like to have something that she can have for a long time.

Don Cassidy

Whenever you buy any kind of sector, you have to have the stomach for higher volatility.

Carlos Slim

When everybody else is better off, they can buy more, they strengthen demand, strengthen the market, strengthen the country.

Tom Schroder

We want our guests to buy tickets online. That way, we know they're coming, and it helps our guests plan their day.

Janie Rude

We wanted treatment for our mother, and there's so much expense involved when you get cancer, from the medicines to having to buy wigs when they lose their hair.

Mark Evans

We have a window where we want to buy land on the south side of Kellogg. We want to have a contract within the new few months.

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Golda Meir

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness

Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)

Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the fools of their tools

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.

Juvenal Juvenal

Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself - so say fools

William Shakespeare

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.

David Jason

Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses)

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

Carlos Castaneda

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

C. S. Lewis

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

Agnes Repplier

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

Alan Kay

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Charlotte Bronte

My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

Charlotte Bronte

Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none

Charles de Gaulle

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

Charles de Lint

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Charles Dickens

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset