Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Shum

The potential supply disruption risk premium has already been built into the price and because there really is no immediate threat to supply ... prices are correcting downwards.

Mike Parks

The people who built this course for us were shocked by the prices we are going to charge. They said on the East Coast a course like this would cost between $10 and $15 per round.

Phyllis Berry

We are pretty much built out; our major highways are at capacity. But it's not all about roads. The lesson is a hard one to learn. We didn't learn lessons from Miami. You need to plan for it now. Learn those lessons early.

Robin Murphy

We've all kind of built the department together and they are such a talented group. It is going to be hard for this group of kids to be done because they have been going non-stop for three years.

Chris Kennedy

We stress that Congressman Weller's relationships with various Indian tribes has been longstanding, built out of strong mutual support for a number of common causes.

M. Wolfe

We stopped doing that about six episodes in -- even though we'd built nice big sets -- because it just stopped the storytelling cold.

John Sidgmore

We started as a commercial entity; we built the business by competition.

Jim Rogers

Wayne is the county that was built through the tremendous growth of business and manufacturing for a century, and now that's declined so the jobs have declined. People came here for jobs. They're leaving for jobs. It's as simple as that.

Li Zhaoxing

We want peaceful development, ... Stability and security of one country cannot be built on turbulence or crisis of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Charles Dickens

When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Charles Dickens

Death is a mighty, universal truth.

Charles Dickens

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Pam Gregory

She got to see some of the Japanese skaters doing quad jumps and triple Axels, and it got her motivated.

Makoto Watanabe

She has shown that at 36, it is not too late for a Japanese woman to get married and have a family,

Liu Jinping

Since then there's been no boycotts of Japanese products at all.

Toshihiro Wada

We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.

Gopalakrishnan Venkataraman

We are looking at tourists as gods. If Japanese people come to India, we treat them as gods.

Shu Qi

I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Tong Zeng

But most of the compensation suits have been rejected by the Japanese courts.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Ted Cruz

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

David Henry Hwang

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Aung San Suu Kyi

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Dalai Lama

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Nada Doumani

For us what is significant is the way in which the prisoners are treated.

Gore Vidal

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

Phil English

It took all day long for the prisoner evacuation,

Jeffrey Klein

They did everything for him they could do, ... It seems like it's never about the victim. It's always about the prisoner and trying not to step on anyone's toes or do the wrong thing.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Every invalid is a prisoner.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Chinua Achebe

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

C. L. R. James

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

Daymond John

Money is a great slave but a horrible master.

David Brooks

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Beau Willimon

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Alan Keyes

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

Charles Guggenheim

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Elizabeth Edwards

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Courtney Love

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Claire Cameron

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

Creed Bratton

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

Aaliyah

I’m a survivor, and I can handle anything. I’m very confident about that.

Kurt Vonnegut

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

Shane Price

It is important to us to say to victims and survivors of gunshots and violence that we are trying to do something.

Francisco Paz

Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

Charles Stross

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.