Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Gaines

We want to provide a forum for people working within city and county governments to see what's new in the sustainable movement, and give them tools to achieve their goals of building sustainable projects in their own communities. We'll also have case studies and dialogue sessions where private developers can talk to local government officials about their concerns.

Mohammed Dahlan

We want to protect what we achieved at Camp David, we don't want to waste those discussions.

Karen Harris

We have seen a huge gain in our (Illinois Standards Achievement Test) scores just because of these kids who have role models and good behaviors skills. Overall the students have helped the whole building.

Jose Torres

What these guys are doing out there is something that maybe 1 or 2 percent of the extreme sports fanatics can actually achieve to get out there in 18-foot waves? It's crazy.

Howard Simon

What the Registered Traveler achieves is convenience for some but at the expense of security for all. It's a false sense of security.

John Robertson

What the president is effectively saying is that the economy will this year grow by over 35%, from a negative of 35% in the past seven years, which is not possible. You cannot achieve growth where there is no investment.

Travis Bradberry

When you're working hard and doing all you can to achieve your goals, anything that can give you an edge is powerful and will streamline your path to success.

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Jack O'Connell

The fact that more than half of our students have not yet achieved proficiency on the state's content standards, and that a wide achievement gap continues, shows how much work still needs to be done,

John Thomas

We want it to be an asset to the community. The design is unlike anything in the state.

Richard Blumenthal

We want every asset available to bring some justice to victims,

Jeff Cerefice

The creation of a BDC should result in more business for Thrifty Car Sales dealers and happier customers. Our dealers were telling us they had a need for greater traffic flow to their locations, and the business development center is designed to do just that. This is a red-hot concept in the car sales industry right now. Lots of new car dealers with multiple brands are moving to a call/business development center strategy. It takes incoming calls off the showroom floor and channels them to dedicated professionals solely focused on making appointments. We were able to leverage the assets of our worldwide car rental reservation center to deliver an extremely cost-effective, state-of-the art, full-service call center for our dealers.

Sammy Teel

We have so many different players who can be assets in so many different positions for us. It's just a matter of getting the right players in there at the right time.

David McIntosh

Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes, ... You can't use the taxpayers' funds to help you raise money for your political campaigns. Those are two different functions.

Kangna Ranaut

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

Jim Yong Kim

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

Richard Kinder

We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.

Mike Flanagan

We determined that it is in Elrod's best interests not to go through the rigors of a full season of games and travel, ... We are exploring ways for Elrod to continue to be an asset to the organization.

Carlos Ghosn

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Rob Fields

We want people to know we take this very seriously. This isn't for us to go out there and play. It's a lifestyle, a commitment you've got to make.

Charlie Daniels

Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

Charles Taylor

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Daryl Gross

We have a young team and I think they've shown me they have a level of commitment and desire to compete. It's really exciting.

Delores Killette

The people of New Orleans have our commitment to restore service to pre- hurricane levels as quickly as we can.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Aaron McFarland

We were totally playing their style most of the game. Then their player got hurt and we started playing our style which is 1-2 touch pass. We didn't wake up but once we did, we created chances.

Penn Jillette

'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.

Michael Birch

The problem with Myspace was always that it was never as strong a product as it needed to be. It left itself vulnerable to competition. It was only a matter of time before someone created something better.

Morgan Fairchild

When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her.

Richard Nichols

The process worked. You see this crowd. We created a strong interest in the problem of growth. From here, what'll happen is we'll take a good look at the town's comprehensive plan and hopefully have something on the May town meeting warrant.

Don McCoy

Venus is extremely inhospitable for life, whereas Earth is a great place to live. If these planets were created about the same time, why would Earth take on such a different character?

Elliott Abrams

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

Ed Sheeran

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

Edward Carey

I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.

Carlos Castaneda

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

Charles Thomas

Whenever they lack. I have to pick it up. I?m an energy guy. So that?s what I have to do.

Jarret Stoll

We wanted to win this game pretty bad. It's the last home game of the regular season for the fans. It's our 20th win at home, which is something we wanted, too. The young guys did a great job. There was a lot of energy out of those guys, and we got a big win.

Charlie Dent

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

Peter Cardillo

The CPI was good news but still leaves that question mark about energy prices. The gasoline hike of the past three weeks was not included in it.

Aaron Eckhart

The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?

Douglas Altabef

The real issue is that energy prices keep rising -- it's like an invisible tax on the market and the consumer.

Tony Bina

We set the tone right away and took the energy out them early.

Greg Todd

We know being a successful private school that we're under a watchful eye. We were very willing and open for the investigation. They spent a lot of time and energy looking at us, and we felt good about the investigation.

Eric Anderson

We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.

Anthony Davis

We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there.

Chris Carpenter

We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.

Zhang Ning

We have no specific expectations about how far we will go now. We just want the players to keep learning from the experience of taking part in these international matches.

Sal Fasano

Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.

Annette Brown

We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or reading information to them.

Gayle Devin

We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Tara VanDerveer

We have played more games on the road ... we've had that experience already. We're ready to play, and we know we have to play well.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Bryan Hassler

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Jacques Rogge

We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.

David Leff

This property is a very high priority. We remain open to further discussions.

Kenneth Branagh

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Edward Murphy

We won't go any further with the VA until this process comes to some sort of conclusion.

Margaret Chan

Until we see further evidence, we are still at Phase 3 of the pandemic alert,

Elizabeth Thornton

When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

Elizabeth Thornton

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

Alan Brown

Would you identify the man in this picture?

Tom Waits

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

Kathryn Flicker

Megan had become a walking, talking piece of evidence. She knew him. She could identify him. He knew it, and he had to get rid of that threat. And so he killed.

Frank Brunner

Let's identify where the most pressing need is now.

Thomas Gould

We're going to identify students who have the potential to succeed at selective universities.

Dennis Johnson

Lucas Oil? That has no meaning to me. I can't really identify with that. I don't know what Lucas Oil is.

Scott Eden

Basically, our mission is to identify the problem, do outreach, and collaborate with people on solutions, then do testing to see if it made a difference.

Patrick Valenzuela

She didn't want to switch leads but when she did, she accelerated again.

Ariel Sharon

make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us.

Graham Smith

People want a say in who leads them.

Damien Hirst

One thing leads to another with my work.

Rocky Watson

more tips, more leads as this investigation proceeds.

Paige Patterson

Numerous leads have come in from South Florida. We are determining how valid they are and then putting them in priority and pursuing the most important leads first. There have been some real positive tips.

Unknown

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Pierfrancesco Favino

To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.

Steve Stirling

We seem to be more relaxed on the road, which leads to less penalties and lower expectations.

Terry Lanni

I am a resident of Nevada. I vote in Nevada, so if you run for office in Nevada I'm not going to vote for you,

Rebecca Wagner

I think that this is going to be the catalyst. One, this shows that this technology is good. Two, this reinforces that Nevada is the perfect place for solar development.

Mary Holloway

We just don't produce enough teachers in Nevada to staff our schools.

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Coleen Rowley

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception.

Rick Fox

This will be an ongoing process and will take up to a year to close.

Craig Johnson

We perceive this to be an ongoing threat that will be there for many years to come.

Virginia Kice

We have an open and ongoing investigation so we're not talking a lot about it.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Joan Buyce

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Richard Cripps

The Nasdaq is simply crowding out the rest of the market. If you are a portfolio manager, you have to own some of these (technology) names.

John Carlson

Then, and only then, they should put a small part of their portfolio in this.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Mike Keenan

The position Olli is in had nothing to do with it,

Mike Brey

We're in a position where we're just trying to scratch our way to New York City.

Nick Saban

We have a sense of urgency about trying to get him ready, but we're not going to rush him and put him in a position where it's not going to be something he can have success at.

Elio Rupo

We have a position which is one of analysis.

Marco Trbovich

We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's been our position for several years.

Jim Hillman

When we get runners in scoring position somebody has to step up.

Ledawn Gibson

She can do it all. She can play any position on the court, one through five.

Morgan Freeman

We know its a very clean-burning fuel. It's renewable ... all we need to do is make it available.

Al Gore

The will to act is a renewable resource.

P. J. O'Rourke

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

David Appel

did not have his own sources of funding.

Kim Edwards

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Alan Kay

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Richard Grasso

would have been a valuable contributor to our board.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Barry McCaffrey

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings