Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

I. Stone

We are looking forward to performing in China for the first time.

Chuck Hagel

We are at a very important and delicate point in our relationship with the People's Republic of China and how this is handled will go a long way as to the future of that relationship,

Alex Wong

There are concerns that new competitors like China Netcom and China Telecom will enter the domestic market once 3G services are introduced next year. The focus now is on such uncertainties.

Mats Olsson

We're in close cooperation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Mats Olsson

We're in close co-operation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Steve Schneider

We actually find it not at all difficult in China -- it is more about how you drive growth; how you utilize technologies and how you train people.

Zhou Xiaochuan

What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.

Julie Gerberding

We remain sobered by the ongoing transmission in Hong Kong, China and probably Singapore,

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Alan Arkin

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Alan Alda

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Chogyam Trungpa

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

David Talbot

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

Carl Sagan

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

Byron Katie

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.

Buffalo Bill

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

David Miliband

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

David Rakoff

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Alan Watts

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Alan Ritchson

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Alan Moore

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Alan Moore

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Alan Bradley

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Anna Seward

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

Joyce Banda

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Andrew Jackson

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Bob Wheeler

There is indeed such a bottleneck, and if their software does what they claim, it should get wide support.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

John Milton

Rhetoric . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous and passionate.

Michael Defensor

But as to how many they are, we don?t really know and they are indeed a security concern.

Russell Smith

I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over comfort.

Shakeel Syed

His story is indeed a story that needs to come out, and needs to be shared with the world.

Rob Portman

We should not be lowering the expectations, nor lowering the ambitions in the round, ... Hong Kong is not the end of process.

Alan Mak

I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

Charles Schumer

While the Port of Hong Kong is screening everything, we are screening next to nothing.

Jaime King

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

Victor Koo

At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.

Hariadi Wibisono

The result of test from the Hong Kong laboratory was positive.

Alan Greenspan

For Hong Kong and Singapore, in fact, they have been able to realize the size of economy.

Jason Baker

In three years of protesting in Hong Kong I have never seen anything like this,

Ming Pao

Hong Kong needs a harmonious society and so does the movie industry.

Katy Perry

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

F. Stone

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

Thulasiraj Ravilla

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

Warren Ellis

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Simon Cowell

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Lisa Ellis

Simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream rapidly and used up quickly.

Anna Akana

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Jack Cheevers

We are working rapidly ... to remedy the situation.

Betsy Beers

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Cecilia Zalkind

We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.

Lynn Coady

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Kenny Harris

The site is rapidly taking shape. We're very excited.

Scott McClellan

The United States is responding rapidly and robustly." ()

Joel Fuhrman

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

Charles Dickens

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Alanis Morissette

My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

Alan Rickman

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Al Stewart

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

Chief Seattle

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Chief Joseph

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

David Sedaris

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

Dave Barry

Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.

Dave Barry

Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

Peter Banko

He still kind of wonders what all the hoopla is about.