Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

Edward Jones

Many of the leading technology companies have shown solid sales and earnings growth since the economy began to improve in late 2001. While technology earnings have continued to grow and the stocks have remained flat or even dropped, we believe the prices of many of these companies are more attractive than we have seen in a long time.

Sigi Schmid

Sebastian is a very attractive player. He has a huge pedigree in soccer and he has a strong desire to play in the States. He has the potential to be an impact player in this league.

Abraham Lincoln

Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

Abraham Lincoln

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

John Wong

Medical insurance should become very attractive to middle-class families in China because they really don't want to undertake that risk themselves.

Alan Boss

M dwarf stars dominate the stellar population in the solar neighborhood, and so are attractive targets for searching for habitable planets. The models show that gas-giant planets are indeed likely to form?at distances sufficiently large enough to permit the later formation of habitable, terrestrial planets.

Bobby Jindal

One of the things that made him so attractive to voters when he ran for mayor was ... he was an outsider.

David Ferris

One attractive consumer solution is to offer a backup service.

Robert Hass

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Jochen Zeitz

Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.

Bruce Reznik

Lorena really is the environmental candidate. She's somebody I've worked with on environmental issues for the past six years, on state and local issues, and she has proven her leadership.

Jerry Ray

Many of the Florida environmental groups have come to see us, and they wanted this approach.

Beth Zimmerman

Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them to improve the shopping experience and sales potential for all consumers, regardless of gender.

Jostein Gaarder

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Maurice Strong

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Dennis Weaver

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Denis Hayes

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

Jerry Costello

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

John McGreevy

One of the attractions for us is Mark's interest in global Christianity.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

For Xbox, Japan really is a key, important market in the global strategy that we have,

Ron Redmond

From a global perspective, refugee is a neutral term.

Michael Ignatieff

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Nicholas Burns

If we're to maintain our position as a global power, we need a power like India.

Ryan Donovan

She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.

Gordon Haff

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

Jeffrey Benjamin

The only lasting investment is an investment in yourself.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Mahbubur Rahman

Since independence, Japan has been Bangladesh's largest development partner, but private investment from Japan remained at low level in that sense.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Assemblywoman Garcia

We need investment in transportation and investment in people.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

O. J. Simpson

So far, we've had a pretty positive reception.

Byron Scott

One positive of having a young team is they don't quit,

Jermaine Dye

No one ever said this was going to be easy. We've got to stay positive and just find a way to get some momentum.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Allan Houston

Now we are trying to do something positive for them.

Tyra Banks

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Diane Sawyer

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Bob Beauprez

We need to stay to the promise. Promises made need to be promises kept.

Mahmoud Othman

When he promises something, he'll get it done. If he can't do it, he won't promise it.

Bob Martin

He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

National Press

Undelivered Promises and Betrayals of the Uruguay Round.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

Kenneth Roth

These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.

David Clohessy

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

Gil Gutknecht

This is the first salvo in what promises to be a very interesting battle,

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Buck Showalter

You stay with it. But at some point, you have to get returns for the opportunities they are given.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.