Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Alan Greenspan

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Alan Greenspan

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Jamie Shea

We want them to have the benefit of summer months to help to rebuild their homes and lives. But obviously, we want them not to go back until there is a secure presence, to ensure that the refugee return can be done in an organized way.

James Hood

We want to stay in the port; we feel we have been a good tenant. We provide an economic benefit, a net positive revenue flow, which goes to the general revenue of the state.

Andrew Golden

We want to spend as much of the endowment as possible, subject to two constraints ? preserving purchasing power into perpetuity and assuring that the spending stream is relatively stable. Your great-grandchildren need to get the same economic benefit that you're getting now.

Pat Keliher

We want to see the biggest public benefit come out of this, but we have to take it at step at a time.

Louis Navellier

I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

Kevin Logan

The only reason we wouldn't be able to make it (to the benefit concert) is if Pete got listed and we needed to leave. As soon as they list him then we need to get him down immediately.

Ken Burns

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

C. J. Mahaney

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Rod Bourgeois

We still worry that, at the stock's current valuation, implicit expectations seem somewhat steep relative to the guidance we anticipate.

Kevin Flanagan

We still think the fundamentals will come back and rise from current levels.

Jim Copeland

We're in pretty good shape, considering the current landscape.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

John Thain

We have to focus on the revenue side, we have to focus on the expense side and make sure we can earn to justify the current market value.

Camille Paglia

Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt.

Camille Paglia

Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

Camille Paglia

Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

Peter Lacovara

We approached the Egyptians first. It was kind of the reverse of normal. ... At first they had to be convinced.

David Brooks

It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.

Bill Maher

President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy.

Bible Bible

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

Dennis Prager

Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.

Ariel Sharon

Since then, I have worked tirelessly in all my meetings with Egyptians and others in order to do so,

Byron Katie

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

Michael Boulware

The possibility to play this game is very exciting and very motivating. The play I got hurt on, I played a little tentative, and I think it made me realize that if you played tentative you're going to get hurt.

Lexi Thompson

I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.

Noel Fisher

I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

Cassandra Peterson

[I] go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me.

Karen Johnson

We want everyone to come out and take part, because it's going to be a very exciting event, one in which families can participate together.

Kurt Barnard

Watch out for this company. It's telling us something. While most retailers sold indistinguishable products, Sharper Image sells exciting and unique things that people want to buy.

Donna Brazile

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

Greg Nasello

We've always struggled to score goals. That's why it's been so exciting to see the girls put these type of games together.

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Al Oerter

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Ries

Good things happen when you narrow your focus

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Chin-Ning Chu

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

David Rusenko

To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off.

Sarah Santana

We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Jacques Santer

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Glenn McGinnis

We have narrowed it down to those who are providing full financing.

Army Sgt.

When he first signed up, he wanted to go for the full 20 years, but we had to talk him into four. He knew the military, he knew what was involved with it the separation, the risks.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Bill Donabedian

We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Chris Chocola

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chloe Bridges

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

Chinua Achebe

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

David Suzuki

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year. We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year, ... We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

William Shakespeare

Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

Edward Hopper

Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Rick Perry

Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon,

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Megan Crandall

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

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

James Goss

They had talked about that possibility. Between publishing and broadcasting and interactive, that provides them with enough to do.

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.