Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Evans

Let me tell you the basic fundamental principle by which we sit down and negotiate agreements with our friends: nobody wins unless we all win.

Rich Levin

Major League Baseball looks forward to signing a lease so that Washington's baseball fans can enjoy watching their team in a new, state-of-the art stadium. We believe it is important for all parties to honor the terms of the agreements that were made.

Rich Levin

Major League Baseball has not yet been provided with the filings made by the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Commission with the City Council last Friday, nor the text of the legislation passed by the Council last night. We are very concerned about what we heard during the debate, and we need to read the materials and the legislative language so we can determine whether they are consistent with the agreements between Major League Baseball and the city.

David Medine

Sears did not file these agreements in court even though they told the customer who signed them they would.

Kent Johnson

SEQuester(tm), the patented star product in this new generation of super filters, is intended for the genomics market of automated DNA sequencing laboratories. The product offers sizeable labor savings in the processing of DNA samples and fully enables robotic sequencers. We have discussed tentative agreements for brand alliances and manufacturing through well known distribution channels in the DNA products industry, an overall market worth an estimated U.S. $4 billion.

James Wolfensohn

One of the assumptions that divides institutions of faith from those based on politics and international agreements is the automatic assumption that you have to teach me spirituality, that you have to give me a moral center, that you must convince me there's more to development than economic mechanisms.

Stephane Dujarric

One of the agreements signed today concerns supplementary arrangements on the facilities, utilities and services the Cambodian Government would provide for the premises of those Chambers; the other deals with safety and security arrangements.

Zhu Bangzao

No other country has the right to interfere in bilateral relations between China and other countries. In our view, agreements reached between China and other governments should be followed.

Craig Brown

The plaintiff dropped John Mack from the lawsuit after they understood the fact he played no role in authorizing the employment agreements that are the subject of the suit and didn't join the board until after the agreements were approved.

Marcy Kaptur

In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.

Carol Chastang

Make it a regular annual procedure to review and update your insurance. Also remember that insurance on mortgaged property probably only covers the lender with nothing left over for you.

Chu Woosik

Lower NAND prices would boost demand in a few months' time. We still see a 40 percent annual fall in NAND prices.

Beadsie Woo

Lower annual pay and lower pay growth can flow through the economy, because it also means lower consumption, which effects businesses.

Gordon Johnson

Many people like to make New Year's Eve an experience rather than marking it with a single event. The Mesa Symphony's annual New Year's Eve concert is always packed because it allows East Valley residents to start the celebration a little bit early.

Kevin Logan

Seven percent is not an unreasonable estimate for GDP growth. Retail sales were strong, especially with the revisions. Consumer spending possibly grew 12 percent at an annual rate. That's really charging right along.

Kevin Logan

Seven percent is not an unreasonable estimate for GDP growth, ... Retail sales were strong, especially with the revisions. Consumer spending possibly grew 12 percent at an annual rate. That's really charging right along.

Mary Grealy

Millions of American seniors will soon be eligible for significant savings on the annual cost of their medications.

Kevin Hess

Mouser grew sales 30% in 2005 and over the past five years our compound annual growth rate was 22%. I believe the growth can be sustained.

William Williams

Life is valuable -- when completed by the imagination. And then only.

Kris Mayes

Legislators will debate the issue of how much the program should be funded. So we're waiting for the funding process to be completed and we just don't know when that will actually occur.

Dana Perino

Security measures were thoroughly reviewed, including intelligence matters, I do know that at the end of the day, when the process was completed and the transaction was approved, homeland security questions were resolved.

Jeff Lemire

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.

Mahmud Abbas

So far the elections have gone calmly and smoothly, and I hope that they will be completed without incident.

John Scott

Mrs. Sousa is currently scheduled for another set of diagnostic tests to be completed on September 9, 2005, ... We would therefore request the opportunity to report back to the Court following those tests with a scheduling request.

Nancy Stewart

My expectations were two completed passes. I expected that we would win, and I don't know what next week holds when we play Baldwin on Monday, but I expect a different game.

Norman Williams

When I look back at that day and think about those heroes on September 11th, 2001.. They fought a tremendous fight and even though they've completed their efforts, their faith will continue to live on.

Michael Patrick Hearn

Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'

Mike McCue

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

David Mellem

Lower taxes are great, but if its going to cost you money, it's not worth it. If a stock hits your sell range after 3 months, do you really want to risk 9 more months of fluctuation to get a lower tax rate?

Frank Armstrong

Lower costs will give you higher net returns. I think cost is critically important.

Kumi Naidoo

Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.

Mike Kelly

Last year we reached 355 fifth-graders, at a cost of $6 a student, ... We did this with the help and sponsorship of SFA, Nacogdoches ISD, Coca-Cola, Nacogdoches Safe and Drug Free and others. People stepped up throughout the year, and we received very positive feedback. It was a great adventure, and we will do it again.

David Hudson

Many, many farmers have made significant inroads into their cost structure and we have seen a very significant surge in diversification.

Joe Baca

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Kurt Barnard

Sears is on the way back to health. They're doing a good job (of cost cutting) and they are offering customers a good, recognizable value and customers are responding.

Stephanie Marquis

So far, we have 382 claims. We're estimating the cost to the state has been about $64,000.

Octavio Paz

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Noreena Hertz

Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.

William Story

Nothing can be sour and sharpAs a love that has decayed --On the loose strings of the harpOnly discord can be made.

William Story

Nothing can be sour and sharp As a love that has decayed -- On the loose strings of the harp Only discord can be made.

Jakaya Kikwete

People who sow seeds of discord by preaching tribalism, racism and religious misunderstanding should find another place to go.

Viktor Yushchenko

Our memory must become a warning for those who want to sow discord in our multiethnic family,

Edmund Spenser

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

Oscar Wilde

Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

Julie Gerberding

We don't want volunteers to flood in a discordant way.

Travis Bradberry

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

Ramalinga Raju

Our marketing expenses will go down too. We are taking a stand where we would be guided by what opportunities it brings, whether it preserves our margins or whether it ensures higher growth. There is a range of things that we can do to structure these deals.

Jeannine Kenney

We think this is unfair, unworkable and unacceptable. It virtually ensures that on Feb. 18, 2009, tens of millions of televisions go black.

David Ogden

The resolution of these issues ensures that this evidence of one of the most tragic events in American history will be protected for scholarly and research uses.

John Updike

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

Torrie Wheat

Man, he's just magical sometimes. That first goal was unbelievable, a highlight-reel goal. Then he went to the net hard and potted two more. He's a goal scorer. He's going to do that for the rest of his career.

Heidi Martin

Making the state tournament has always been our top goal and we're just one win away from that now.

Lou Cacchio

League championship and getting back to states-that's the goal for the year.

Brent Walston

Many of her goals were with her left foot. And she's not left-footed.

Scott Goodale

Scott loves playing to the crowd. He'll be under a lot of pressure next year for sure. But he thrives on it. The goal now is three titles. He could end up the greatest wrestler in Jackson history.

Inaki Saez

Scoring the first goal is a weapon we have to use,

Lalit Panda

Setting high goals for your staff, and guiding them to think with an out-of-the-box mentality is important.

Brad Shaw

Miro Jr. probably needs a goal today, doesn't he?

David Beckham

Mine was a great goal but the important thing was the team winning,

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

David Dismukes

may end up importing labor from other producing regions.

Ted Ludwig

Maybe it's just symbolic, but to me this is the day for labor and this is the day I'm proud to be a striking member.

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

James Campbell

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

Tim Heekin

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Joseph Hansen

If we do not drastically change, there will be no labor movement in this country,

Paul Gurgol

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

Ben Quiles

She's amazing. She locates well, and her mechanics are unbelievable. She's a smart pitcher.

Mark Prior

I don't know what adjustments I could make. My mechanics to me are about as simple as you could get.

Mike Lieberthal

He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying.

Jason Isringhausen

I think I have my mechanics back in order. Things are going in the right direction. It doesn't look like it totally, but to me, they are.

Alan Furst

Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.

Bryan Price

We want him completely healthy, and we want his mechanics sound. Until that happens, he won't pitch.

Brad Hennessey

A win is always satisfying, and my mechanics were better in L.A., but I made pitches when I had to -- and I just wish I had one pitch back. What are you going to do?

Chris Bootcheck

I'm at the point now where I'm pitching in sequences; I'm pitching in sequences of two and sequences of three. It is not about my mechanics and it is not about my stuff. It is about competing.

Scott Carson

they are also some of the best-paid mechanics in the world.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

William Stafford

One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.

Kevin Wilson

Money's not everything - the volunteering professionals to get this thing done is worth more than anything ... that's worth a million dollars,

James Williams

No one thought - not a single person - that it would be this severe, this tragic. No one thought the levees would break. Not in a million years.

Erin Dawson

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be where I am.

Andrew Bogut

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

Cathy Cook

I don't know what the overall stimulus was.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Dean Ornish

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

John Abizaid

There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall the trend is good,

Charles M. Schwab

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

John Hotard

Today we have 2,077 pilots on the sick row.

Dave Barry

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Brandon Jay McLaren

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

Craig Ferguson

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Adolf Galland

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

Anna Torv

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

Donal Logue

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

Evander Holyfield

Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal,

Abner Louima

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.

Phil Anderton

We are going to take the appropriate time to reach our long-term aspirations.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

L. Heroux

Make sure what you risk is yours to lose.

Shannon LaRocque

Scripps is important to the county, but at what risk to taxpayers?

Colleen Hartman

We had a very gut-wrenching decision. We thought at the time that there was too much risk to go forward.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Edward Abbey

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

S.K.R. Amarasekara

I'm a little more worried now. The risk is higher.

Kevin Harvick

I'm all for taking chances. But you have to make sure you don't get caught. You have to know if the risk is worth the penalty.

Robert Mahon

That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.

Theron Roschen

It's thinner than conventional asphalt, and that's where the savings comes in.

Ed Pastor

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Nancy Pelosi

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

Mike Rowe

We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.