Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Suzuki

Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

Matthew Smith

The perception that the U.S. economy is a runaway freight train is mistaken -- things are slowing.

John Davidson

The ongoing issues are the strength of the economy and whether or not the pace of the recovery is in fact slowing down. One of the important things this week will be to see the extent of the damage.

Sidney Taurel

We are seeing a very resilient economy and one that seems to be growing in every part of the world. Just about every region is growing and it's very encouraging.

Shahab Jalinoos

There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.

George Rose

We're in a global wine economy now. If you're out of grapes, you're out of grapes.

David Rosenberg

When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story.

Helen Sharman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Patricia Russo

We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements,

Robert Collins

We're hoping it is one of those things that will never be finished. We want to keep growing and expanding to have more facilities.

Bob Walsh

We've been interested since day one in expanding the tour. It was just something that had to be assessed over a period of time.

Nedra Turney

So far, we're opening no new shelters. We're just expanding where we are.

Bradley Chicho

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

Paula Otto

Media General has been very successful in expanding its reach through strategic purchases.

Bill Gross

What we're doing is kind of expanding upon the neighbor concept.

Iain Sinclair

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

Rahm Emanuel

Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.

Richard Preston

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Marisa Miller

I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.

Nick Woodman

I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.

Condoleezza Rice

We are very focused on hoping that these negotiations do succeed,

R. Ingram

When we were 1-6, all we focused on was that we were better than that. We knew it; we just had to prove it. We've come a long way and it's great to be back to .500 and to know we'll get a home game in the tournament.

Mike Milone

We remain more student focused than anything else. That is what we try to do.

Jake Peymann

Usually I like to take a nap. I'm not sure (how it started). After a long day of school... Twenty minutes, that's about it. ... I listen to music to get focused and think about the meet or whatever it may be.

Bill Greubel

We're more than just a supplier to the trucking industry. We have always focused on helping to improve the trucking industry by offering innovative solutions, and we feel the need to do more than business-as-usual in this case. By helping to fund this specific program, we hope to make a positive difference.

Scott Squires

We're focused on this year's tough schedule. The SCIAC is really up this year. With the improvement in the league, it should be a dogfight week in and week out all the way to the end.

Andrew Wright

We're focused on the Internet community. That market today is for PCs.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Michael Clarke

We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Chad Reed

We're just not putting it together. The speed is decent, and the package is there. We've just got to put it together for the weekend.

Al Jarreau

I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.

Robert Genuario

We've got a lot of work to do. Frankly, I think you have to scrap the appropriations package if you're going to do tax cuts. ... It just doesn't work.

Mario Martinez

Where are my packages because I want to know, I got the receipts, and I can prove to them that I haven't received my packages.

James Allen

We are reaffirming what is our policy. This is a standard package of incentives.

Ann Boeckman

When a product reaches the point of spoilage, there will be other signs that will be evidenced - for example, odor, slime formation and a bulging package - so the product will not smell or look right.

Tony Smith

I think we've only scratched the surface. I think she's just so unique. She's the whole package when it comes to her ability.

Diana Williams

We're trying to take all of this and wrap it up in a package of what they need to look at at home.

Sen. Lynn

Today we're presenting a total package that in Florida, we don't only want to recruit you -- we want to retain you.

Steve Rodriguez

We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Jim Calhoun

We did what we could with the schedule put before us. We passed every test.

George Pataki

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

T.I.

My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

Keith Coogan

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.

Craig Patrick

We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Jermaine Jackson

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Charles Spurgeon

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

William John Wills

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.

Jim McManus

One of the things we always recommend is that there are provisions for the trustee to be replaced.

Richard Morris

It's probably down because of the provisions on those two UK projects.

John Walters

It will not take all of the provisions exactly, but it will take many of them and make them nationwide.

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

David Copperfield

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Jochen Behle

We are sorry that it had come to this. It's a relief for Evi now.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.