Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Stillwell

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can. We're fortunate we have 11 other properties that afford us great flexibility from an employee and a customer standpoint.

Scott Sanders

We have to have a popular price for this show so that anyone who wants to see The Color Purple, regardless of their income level, can afford to come,

Madeline Albright

We have a strategic opportunity to put the peace process back on track and we cannot afford to lose it,

Mike Herndon

We were already down two games, and we felt like we couldn't afford to go down three. We talked about it yesterday and today before the game.

Nick Boynton

We have put ourselves in a pretty good position the last month or so, so we have as good a chance as anybody to make it. We should have gotten more points than we did in the last week, but we can't do anything about that now. We just can't afford to let points get away the rest of the season.

Joe McInerney

We have provided competitive salaries, affordable wages and good pensions to our employees and remain committed to do that.

Herman Walton

When you get to the playoffs, you can't afford to turn the ball over. Free throw shooting is always important too. That's an area that we need to work on.

Arnold Palmer

The fact is the Berger Foundation has afford us the opportunity to do this. You can't beat it. This is something that, I think as far as golf and golf-related things are concerned, this is the kind of thing that should happen more and more, and particularly in cities where they have golf tournaments such as this.

Deborah Dowdell

The reality is, today, in some communities, really just the big guys or the chains can afford to buy into the system. Our system has made it prohibitive for small operators to buy into.

Carol Moseley Braun

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carlos Castaneda

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Alan K. Simpson

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan Kay

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Charlotte Bronte

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Charles Sumner

Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Charles de Gaulle

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Charles de Gaulle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Branch Rickey

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

William Shakespeare

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

Aristotle

We work to earn our leisure.

Aristotle

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Bertrand Russell

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

Ben Goldacre

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,

Frank Tyger

When you like your work every day is a holiday.

Rossi Ralenkotter

We looked at it simply from point of reaching leisure travelers.

William Congreve

Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Maria Sharapova

When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.

Tracey Emin

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

Tim Finchem

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Daniel Barber

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.