Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

Alan Watts

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

Alan Watts

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

Campbell Newman

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

Beth Givens

The person on the other end of the line is likely to have very sensitive information -- your account number, your Social Security number, the types of accounts you have (and) the way you use your accounts.

Mark Mershon

The pleas entered today are admissions of guilt in one of the largest corporate accounting fraud schemes on record. This apparent but ephemeral performance by the company propped up its stock price, causing investors to suffer untold losses when the scheme collapsed.

Astro Teller

We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.

Robert Peterson

We are pleased to report that all outstanding issues involving the SEC's financial review, as well as the accounting issues related to DFG, have now been resolved, ... Today's earnings release brings this matter to a close and we now look forward to proceeding with the Tyson transaction.

Anne Mulcahy

We are aggressively implementing our cost-reduction plans, which will yield more than $1 billion in savings by the end of 2001, ... Since the third quarter of 2000, we have taken actions that account for more than one-third of this target, including the reduction of approximately 2,000 jobs worldwide in the fourth quarter. This activity will intensify with the reduction of 4,000 jobs in the first quarter and additional reductions through the balance of the year.

Chris Chocola

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

Chris Christie

I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Doug Risebrough

Unrestricted free agency is not a savior. I've never seen an unrestricted free agent carry a team. But it is a tool.

Jack Stewart

We started this vote record last year to highlight the legislators who show an understanding of the economic and employment benefits of manufacturing and the cost burdens manufacturers incur to operate in this state. With over 340,000 lost manufacturing jobs in California over the last four years and no state agency in charge of retaining, recruiting and promoting manufacturing, we count on the Legislature to make this state more competitive for manufacturers.

Martin Van Buren

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Chris Kennedy

We always hope our federal bureaucracy is going to do a good job responding to the needs of Americans. The painful fact is, this is a bureaucratic process. Unfortunately, there are complaints all over the place out there about the speed with which the agency is dispensing with these claims.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Jeff Lemire

We want to take our time with 'Descender' and let the story unfold at its own pace. But we have carefully planned each world and worked to give each its own look and feel. And each of the 9 core worlds will play a role in the series.

Steve Squyres

There are cliffs the rover could fall over and die if we aren't careful. We are gong to proceed carefully and methodically.

Lee Byung-hun

Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.

Nabil Sha'ath

watching carefully the unfolding political developments to see its consequences on the peace process.

Erik Autor

We're going to monitor this situation very carefully over the next several months. This is a case where what happens in Washington can have as much effect on cargo as what happens on the docks.

Niklas Savander

When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles.

Alice Lichtenstein

What's really important is that we carefully look at what our lifestyle patterns are, our eating patterns are, make small changes and make sure those changes that we make can be maintained on a daily basis.

Jack Straw

We're going to listen carefully to what the president has to say and we'll take it from there,

Jean Charest

We're going to carefully prepare this mission. It's not easy to go to a country like India where we don't have a presence.

Maia Carroll

We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Lucas Papademos

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

Louis Stokes

In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.

David Boies

The only reason for them to collusively not to sell is to try to continue the scarcity that has driven natural gas prices to historic highs.

Rob Judson

The outcome of the game is important for us to continue to play well. Sometimes seeding for a tournament can be deceptive.

Stephen Baker

The powerful collaboration of industry leaders HP and AMD continues to yield successful results, as demonstrated by the HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC. With its rich feature set and distinctive branding, this notebook has proven to be extremely popular throughout the North American retail market.

Howard Johnson

The potential offensively is pretty good. If we can stay healthy and these guys continue to do what they did all spring, we'll be fine. We're going to be exciting at the top of the lineup.

Justice Theodore

The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.

Mark Hamilton

We want seminars that will really engage these delegates in discussions about the issues that must have been dealt with at the Constitutional Conference,

Lili Simmons

I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.

Bob Watson

Yeah, I saw some things, I heard some things, ... But I dealt with them, and that's it.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism?the way you play it is free will.

L.K. Advani

Some MLAs may have personal differences. But all differences should be dealt with amicably within the party framework.

Stephen Barrett

should be dealt with individually under medical supervision.

Henry Fielding

Since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving; the one is to get a beard, the other is to get rid of one

Jerry Angelo

We're going with the hand that we dealt ourselves. It's unfortunate; Rex will be missed.

Marlin Nilsson

This product is something that will have to be dealt with and livestock is one of the few things that can utilize it.

Greg Stuart

We actually think the (Internet) penetration in households is higher.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Mamie Gummer

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Darrell Issa

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

Thomas Sutton

He loved his job. Even after he retired, he kept spreadsheets with all his household bills.

Elaine Pagels

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

Beverly Jones

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

It is possible to do many household cleaning tasks by simply using ingredients from the store cupboard, which are also safer for the environment.

Jane Fonda

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

Kate Hutton

I would say it's a very typical Imperial Valley swarm.

Jerry Rubin

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

George Orwell

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

James Henry Breasted

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

Angus King

I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

Pankaj Mishra

Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

Tommy Douglas

We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.

Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Charles Lindbergh

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Elizabeth Kostova

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Charles Handy

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

Bret Bicoy

What's so promising about this is that we have all recognized as individual organizations that we can't do this alone.

Bella Abzug

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

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.

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

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.

Whitney Watson

We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.

Danny Ferry

We're in the same position now as are a lot of other teams.

Francesco Rutelli

Let those who won be put in the position to govern.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

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

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Wolfgang Schauble

My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wendy E. Long

I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Gary Hoffman

We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.

Charles C. Mann

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Diane Abbott

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Ellen Gilchrist

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

Brad Thor

Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot.

Sara Shepard

My sister and I visited Iceland in 2001, and I incorporated it into 'Pretty Little Liars.'

Angelus Silesius

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

Dennece Knight

Most of our visitors will be here to have fun.

Harry Friedman

We know our visitors like to see us in different cities,

Hattie McDaniel

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.