Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

Daniel Rosen

Our overwhelming problem is our representatives are voting according to how the moneybag supporters want them to vote.

O. Singh

Peace and happiness shall fill your mind deep within, if you act according to truth and self discipline.

Shaukat Sultan

Our men returned fire after being attacked by the miscreants, and according to our information between 15 to 20 terrorists have been killed in the retaliatory fire.

Robert Maire

Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.

Adam Smith

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

Tim Danson

Steve Moore had no control over the timing of the incident. This was our (legal) limitation period. We had two years from the date, according to our theory of the case.

Ed Epping

Statistics tell us that when you have 10 medical incidents ? then you're going to have a lost-time accident. We're up to 13 or 14 medical incidents, so we're overdue for a lost-time accident, according to statistics. That's why we must be more cautious than ever before, because statistics tell us we're overdue for one.

Katie Hafner

Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company - almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.

Allyson Schwartz

Preserving local open space is not just critical to our region's quality of life, but also to safeguarding our water and environmental quality.

Bob Etheridge

Our ports are not only critical entryways into our nation that must be protected but they are critical entryways to our economy.

Patrick Joyce

Parking is critical to a facility like Springfield Clinic.

Jeff Raikes

Partners play a critical role in delivering solutions and applications to customers with the Microsoft Office System. The value of Solutions Competencies is that they enable Microsoft to deliver resources and training to partners that are meeting their customer needs. And for partners, the opportunity to highlight their expertise to customers is tremendous in the growing IW solution market.

Irwin Berger

Paul's considerable development experience, team leadership skills, and knowledge of scalable data and security management will significantly enhance our testing and trading infrastructure. As we continuously work to develop the next generation of alternative investments, Paul will ensure our critical real-time data systems meet our evolving needs.

Clarence Briggs

Staying current is critical for maintaining a website's relevance, and the WMT makes doing that easy.

Richard Blumenthal

State regulators twice rejected the proposed Islander East pipeline because it poses a significant threat to water quality and critical marine resources in the Long Island Sound,

Skip Lockwood

Spouses play a critical role in managing their husbands' illness. Having the opportunity to talk with someone else who has the same thoughts -- the same ups and downs -- can put things in proper perspective.

Greg Hart

Some of what we're going to say may sound critical or harsh.

Shinzo Abe

Regarding the abduction issue, the Japanese side said what they needed to say in a considerably firm manner,

Timothy Flynn

KPMG is a better and stronger firm today, having learned much from the experience.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Ma Jun

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

Kara Swisher

I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

Michael Arrington

I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.

J. Taylor

happened to occupy the same law firm office as former Vice President Nixon.

Kevin Blemkin

There are still refinery issues. The market is going to remain firm in the medium-term until we see that the stockpiles are there.

Jim Collins

I feel sorry for Microsoft. If you want to hire a firm that is going to do a job better than any law firm in the country, you go to Keker & Van Nest.

Craig Bradley

Parking here is worse than on many other large campuses.

Tom Daschle

That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Hans Vestberg

Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Danny Shader

Overall, the situation is going nuts. We are getting a very large number of inquiries.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Mike Chung

Large trucks have been so much more inexpensive recently.

Sonya Pace

He was talking about driver's licenses and he was going to be more mature when he turned 16.

George Peterson

There are 64 million people in the U.S. who will be getting drivers' licenses in the next 10 years.

Carl-Henric Svanberg

We're all waiting for the 3G licenses in China,

Gwen Moore

There are more African-American men with suspended licenses than valid licenses,

Bill Campbell

Being in the software business, I have no problem with licenses and no problem with paying for licenses. But I think that this is a real heavy-handed approach.

Cheech Marin

At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

Priscilla Ahn

In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've been surviving. I don't really make money through record sales. I used to be really picky: 'No, I don't want it to be the song of a commercial,' but nowadays it's what you need to do to get the song out as much as you can.

Lamar S. Smith

I think patent trolls are abusing the system.

Craig McHugh

We're pleased about the patent and the protection it provides us. We're evaluating all the alternatives.

Gus Sauter

We have a patent on our Vipers ETF structure that we invented,

Ronald Riley

Even if the patent is bad, it still has value if you can get someone to pay you to go away.

Elon Musk

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents

Candace Bushnell

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

Nathan Myhrvold

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Nathan Myhrvold

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

Nikola Tesla

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.

Elon Musk

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents

Candace Bushnell

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

Nathan Myhrvold

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Nathan Myhrvold

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

Nikola Tesla

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.

Thorstein Veblen

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

Donnie Henderson

Our practice tempo was probably a little different than what we've seen.

B. F. Skinner

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

B. F. Skinner

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

Bill Crawford

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Frank Scelfo

I think there's more of a sense of urgency. We saw it in practice on Tuesday.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.