Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Andrew Kirk

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Kimberly Williams

The people who do survive - when they get that last treatment - they begin seeing the light.

Denis Pombriant

Unlimited Edition is a very important development. Companies have had a very fragmented view of business processes; there hasn't been anything that allows them to get a 360 degree view of the customer. Now those using Unlimited Edition can standardize on the same kind of environment for all occasions. They can have integrated processes from one end of the enterprise to the other so that the problem of information silos can begin to abate.

Christine Martino

We are pretty confident that the usability and visual enhancements to the Linux desktop will fuel more growth in this market. We think this should give customers more choice and confidence to begin integrating open solutions.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Matt Silverman

We are pleased to begin a relationship with one of our country's premier cancer centers. We are particularly excited because of the community outreach initiatives that are integrated into this partnership. We are not only focused on bringing more marketing partners into the Rays family, but also developing relationships such as this, in which the community benefits as well.

Bruce Kennedy

We've about got it done. We're staged up and ready to begin construction on this.

Gary Knell

We are making a bold run at engaging the tens of millions of young children in India around important educational messages to begin them on a lifelong love of learning.

Maury Harris

We believe that the Fed will require both consistent solid hiring and a rise in inflation before it begins to lift rates.

Jedd Gould

We want to try to bring services to our community that would not otherwise be here.

Don Reynolds

We want to take the concept as big as we can. To really ramp the company up and roll it out the way we want to, we really wanted to take some time and bring somebody in of this caliber.

John Shadegg

The other two candidates are good people but neither one of them would bring real reform.

Johnny Davis

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

Carl Krauser

The other teams I played on were more keyed in on defense. The defense was going to bring our offense and that was it. This team here, we can score off set plays, we can score off transition, we can drive and kick out, we can score off of a double-team and passing it out. We have a lot of weapons to play with. We're just using them out there and it's helping us score points.

Vikas Khanna

The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together.

J. M. Roberts

The person who did this to these two needs to pay for it. He will never bring my son back or Sebastian back, but I want justice done.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

Chris Hernandez

The only reason I think about it is that you guys (reporters) bring it up. It's worse if you think about it, so I try not to.

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Alan Greenspan

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

David Holden

We are a five member board...we had no discussion,

Ron Gardenhire

We're in a pennant race here, ... We're doing everything we can to win. And five runs in two innings, we can't do that.

Irwin Redlener

We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not going to be ready.

David Grant

We started five minutes after (Kline) lost. It's something you reel in right then. You start helping him refocus. You don't talk too much about the match he just lost but about what we're going to do in the future. You have to be there to help him.

Felipe Alou

We spent five months losing series. That's what has us five games back - not the loss tonight.

Lukas Rosol

I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.

Lewis Hallam

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Erick Dampier

We're not going to make excuses. You put five players on the court, regardless of who's hurt. Obviously, we have enough talent to win.

Terry Stralow

We also sponsor four or five softball teams which helps us during the summer months.

C. L. R. James

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Bryan Clay

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Tim Chapman

When you think about it, there's not much between New Orleans and Atlanta. We're going to need shelters here.

Walter Baumy

We have never seen this in the New Orleans district.

Donald Payne

We are New Orleans folk. We aren't going anywhere.

Michael Brown

My first words to him were, 'Mr. President, it is my estimation ... at least 90 percent of the population of New Orleans has been displaced. He was truly taken aback by that.

Joe Horn

But it's not about the New Orleans Saints now. It's about all those people on those cots trying to find their kids.

Christine Mitchell

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again. I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again, ... I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans is my hometown, and our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Ed Miliband

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Dan Walters

We recognize that this is something that our owners want.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

Dan Rooney

I would say we're partners with the players now. There's owners that would resist it now, but ... I really think that's the way it should be.

Bob Stevens

The owners were receptive to donating the River Queen to us if we can raise the money. If can't get pledges or make a significant impact, we'll back out.

Michael Hoffman

The owners have not been particularly forthcoming ,

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Bill Hogan

We still plan on sending out a notice,

Lori Murray

We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

David Rockefeller

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

E. O. Wilson

We're getting a little more Rita than we wanted to get,

Jennifer Lopez

I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.

Claude Mandil

Rita was better than expected, but no survey has been made on the platforms,

Carlos Alvarez

Rita is a storm to be taken seriously,

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.

Bill Golden

It's scaled down in terms of the days, but I think it's more targeted now.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Bryan Robson

When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Steve Alford

We've already got three up on the board.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Charles L. Allen

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?