Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Liu Jianchao

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. ... We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can solve the question properly through dialogue and diplomacy.

Maurice Hinchey

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions, ... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts.

John Hamre

Recent events where criminals were able to become customers have led us to take this strong action in order to regain the trust of consumers that their information is being used only for their benefit, or the benefit of society at large.

Kristen Kinley

Recall numbers vary from year to year, and they don't necessarily rise consecutively year after year, and they aren't in the case of Ford. This was a hit to our recall volumes, but the number of actions was down.

LeBron James

Record-wise and going into the playoffs, we can't improve. I'm trying to get as much rest as I can. I don't want to try to force the action by playing on an ankle that's not 100 percent.

Adrian Foster

Recent price action suggests the dollar-yuan is more loosely following the dollar.

Gary Chase

Recent price action in airline shares has created some price disparities that we believe investors should exploit.

Charles Holliday

Recent movements in long-leading economic indicators and in raw material prices offer hope that an end to the spreading global downturn is in sight, ... Despite that, we continue to take actions necessary to emerge from these difficult times as a much stronger company.

Jimmy Rollins

Records are meant to be broken and it's good to have an opportunity to chase them. But I'm more focused on how we do as a team.

Dick Anderson

Records are made to be broken and one of these days someone will do it, ... I hope it never happens in my lifetime, but it is certainly possible.

Dan Jones

Real Madrid's top spot represents a remarkable transformation in the club's revenue generating capacity. It has broken the mold.

Stanley Hauerwas

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence.

Jenny Wieland

People know that they can call us no matter what. Whether you've been robbed or had your car broken into, people are victimized by that.

Richard Davies

Some of these post-bubble things make sense. The real question as a buyer is whether there is so much broken glass there it's not worth the effort.

Michael Green

Our clients look out their window and their neighbors are on the ground with guns to their heads. The next thing they know, their door gets broken open.

Irish Proverb

Many a man's nose was broken by his mouth.

Jack Warner

Most records get broken by small margins. This was a no-doubter.

Charlie Crisafulli

Spirit Lake is a complex world, like an underwater forest, ... It teems with life. It's fascinating. It's very complex.

Sue Hutchinson

Our task might be as simple as publishing a set of guidelines about using an existing air-interface protocol, or as complex as creating a new air-interface protocol. We're not going to know until technology demonstrations are done.

Bud Tribble

Our target is to do it promptly. How quickly that can be done depends on a lot of variables, in terms of how much information we get and how complex the things are to address.

Phil Klay

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.

Nico Rosberg

I was about 10 years old when I first understood how complex and difficult the whole father-son thing is for us.

Rohan Walsh

It is a very complex situation and it's really to do with industry structure, and he's within his right to test that. He's taking on a fairly big target in terms of the ACCC.

Dr. Bartzokis

It is a very complex problem. For kids with mild ADHD that are sent to school, it may be quite traumatic to try to function in the increasingly structured environment as they move up in grades. It is difficult to find optimal solutions, and the highest levels of expertise and resources are needed.

Shannon Cross

Kodak remains a very complex restructuring story and it is difficult for investors to track the operational performance of the company.

Steve Roddy

Larger and more complex processors are just inefficient.

Rhoda Kopy

People have developed very inappropriate concepts of what happens. I think, in part, it is because of Hollywood. Hollywood's depiction is someone swinging a pendulum of some sort and gaining control of you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Gerhard Richter

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

Carlos Braceras

I would say we are much more on that side . . . The administration (of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.) is supportive of new concepts and is looking for the implementation of HOT lanes sooner rather than later.

Rita Ora

I think the good thing about Macklemore is that he is very precise about what he gets involved in. As you can tell, he's very passionate about what he puts his name on, because he talks about things people don't usually talk about, and his concepts are very, very passionate.

Duane Akina

He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So I can position him mentally to take the strains off of our linebackers and the rest of the secondary. I can put all the mental cover-down rules on him.

Anita Elberse

One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.

Roy Barnes

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.

Charles D. Broad

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.

David Elkind

Learning teaches us what is known, play makes it possible for new things to be learned. There are many concepts and skills that can only be learned through play.

John Connor

reflect some guarded optimism in the direction the market is taking.

Shaun Stenshol

Our goal is a sustainable society and Bio-Beetle is a step in that direction, giving visitors and L.A. residents a renewable energy option when renting a car. As our slogan says, 'Give the planet a vacation the next time you take one.

Shen Haihua

Overall trade was quiet as most players stayed on the sidelines to wait for direction from investment funds.

Pat Summitt

Management wanted to go into a different direction.

Jaromir Jagr

We need some scoring and we need some defense, too. There are a lot of players around the league that see this team is going in a different direction than before.

Jeff Candage

We need someone to get in there and give them some direction. We need oversight by someone in a leadership position.

Joseph Lyons

We need rates to go down, but this goes in the other direction.

Derrick Kellier

I will have to meet with the officials in the ministry and to take direction from the prime minister to see what she wants to be her focus. It is not my focus; it is what her focus is and that of the entire Cabinet.

Thomas Steg

It is another step in the wrong direction by Iran.

King Hussein

President Assad did not give me any letter, but he perfectly knows that ... I am ready to help to serve the goal of comprehensive peace and the peace process,

Joseph Finnerty

Our overall goal is to stop this casino.

Brian King

Our overall goal is meeting the students? needs,

Viviane Reding

Participation of people in decision-making is the real goal of e-government. Governments have to do more than just release information to the public.

Caroline Shepherd

Part of the goal was not to spend more resources preparing for trial. We took him off the street. We shut down his business.

Michael Rothman

Part of our goal was to take back the medium of e-mail from spammers who have really hijacked it.

Doug Griffin

Our main goal was to stop her penetration and put good pressure on the shot.

Sue Curtis

Our main goal was just to get kids being more active, just to make sure that when they're out at recess, they're actually moving, not just playing in the rocks.

Richard Cradit

Our main goals are to grow as a team and consistently improve throughout the season, leading to a strong performance at the metro league championship, as well as the regional and state championships.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Leonid Kuchma

Such talks are accompanied by unacceptable preconditions and have no positive issue for discussion,

Pradeep Maharaj

Some of the issues they raised are new but many of them have been raised before.

Sean McCormack

Our views on that issue are well-known," ()

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Phil Savage

Reggie has a lot of talent. In my opinion, with Reggie Bush, more could be less and less could be more.

Sathya Baba

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

Katsuhiko Machida

Survival today means innovating and doing things that no one else does. This is a lesson not only for Sharp but for all of Japan.

Drew Frank

That'd be nice. Maybe I should. As I teach, I don't keep lesson plans from one year to the next and I don't keep anything from one season to the next.

Stephen M. Walt

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Andy Newman

Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's going to be.

Louis Benevides

Plano West is just an up-and-coming team. They've come a long way in less than a season.

Darrell Nichols

I think there's less tolerance for repeat problems. I think they are now going to be a little more strict with what's going on.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Dave Douglas

We have a marketable, manageable resource, and it's going to waste.

George Tsai

The United States wants a manageable status quo. It doesn't want to see things out of control.

Fred Rogers

Anything mentionable is manageable.

Sara Labberton

I do not know. She has a much more manageable situation there now and we are not trying to strong-arm the situation.

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Josh Herring

That could have been a big turning point in the game. If we tie it there, we would have the momentum.

Hans Blix

that could be risky from the point of view of proliferation.

Robert Fitzgerald

Our selling point is, if you have to get through, it's Ricochet.

Randy Gumbley

Our strong point is that we'll be solid on the back end.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Phil Condit

Overall, at this point I'm pretty positive, ... We've got things going in the right way. Now, we've got to go out and do it.

Rick Simon

Really, it's getting to a point where it's really serious now.

Olli Jokinen

We need points right now, and we can't keep throwing them away.