Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Walpole

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

George Diller

Liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, beginning America's new journey to the moon, Mars and beyond,

Ian Roberts

Let's begin looking at it now. Let's not wait until the last minute.

Russell Henderson

Let us make a demonstration on behalf of all those who have lost homes in our city, and in more than 1100 cases, lost their lives because the security we paid for was not there to begin with.

Adoniram Judson

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

Sandy Smith

Make it a priority and if you have little kids, start right at the beginning so they know there is no other way of doing it.

Connie Allen

Luckily, Chelsea hit those free throws at the end. If we would have made them at the beginning, it wouldn't have been that close, but we made them when it counted.

Tony Cox

Mailers are sensing that customers are ordering later and later, and responding by putting more catalogs in the mail at the beginning of December.

John Rooney

Let's have a good season, that's it. That's all I've said from the very beginning. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Andrew Barrett

Lycos would provide 60 percent of the revenue and is only getting 40 percent of the combined company, ... We are advising our clients to take profits.

William Band

Many times, clients don't take the proper leadership role. However, the risk is high as four out of 10 client/PSP relationships fail.

Reed Kathrein

Milberg Weiss is not looking at this at all and I don't think people should be out there trying to sign up clients today. We've got a lot of other things we have to think about now.

Nigel Dennis

One thing you learn fast, when working freelance, is that lots of things do not pan out - projects get canned, clients don't pay, and so on.

Linda McDougall

Numbers just don't lie, and Intuit doesn't have the numbers to back up their claim. They don't understand the difference between the number of clients served and the number of tax returns prepared.

Abraham Lincoln

As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.

Tony Caldwell

We want to make sure we have enough eligible individuals on the waiting list. Clients come and go all the time.

Jay Adams

One of the lessons I have learned is that clients understand the need for X-ray inspection, but sometimes have difficulty integrating the function into their operations. With the changeover to lead-free assemblies, the need for X-ray inspection services will become more critical, and so will the need for manufacturers to understand how to integrate these tools.

David Anderson

One of my clients wanted me to do a site inspection. He was having a weak moment for a life-size moose in his yard.

Tom Coughlin

Let's get this thing settled so we can make concrete plans about how we're going to move forward. It's not a comfortable feeling for any club. We need this to be settled and we need to move forward as a league. We need to be able to utilize all the abilities that we have in our planning.

Prakash Javadekar

Second, 14 years have lapsed and neither any concrete evidence of conspiracy has come forward nor are there any new revelations.

Capt. Boney

From every indication we have from interviews, he intended to hit the concrete barrier.

Julian Zelizer

I don't think his resignation actually ends the story at all. And I think it now offers the Democrats more concrete proof that there is something wrong in Washington.

Rob Atkinson

I would have proposed more innovative initiatives, but given our benchmark, which was zero, I think we've got to give him credit for raising the issue and putting some concrete proposals on the table.

David Alexander

If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them.

Bruce Barton

I got more potholes in my concrete slab, ... than all of Venice has in their streets.

Michael Prell

Some concrete judgments have to be made. There is a long list of practical questions that need to be addressed, starting with which price index they should use, what the specific number or range should be, and to what time period it should apply.

Ralph Klein

I didn't get the result that I had anticipated, but I am going to meet with my staff and my caucus, of course, and members of the party, and determine what I am going to do. I will have something concrete for you next week, mid-week.

John Jenkins

Mayan cosmology contains within it the explanation for our current global transformation, and possibilities for how we can survive it.

Apollonius of Tyana

Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

Rudolf Scharping

If a planned force contains around 3,000 men, then our contribution would be two or three companies,

David Augsburger

Wherever chocolate is made, chocolate is chocolate. And any month that contains the letter a, e, i, o, or u is the proper time to share it with others.

Louis E. Boone

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Michael Sheen

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.

Vikram Seth

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

David Horsey

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.

J. Horton

We have a lot more leaks than in the past.

Ben Bradlee

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.

Tom Rosenstiel

Journalists are trying to make the distinction between leaks that are political and leaks that are whistle-blowing.

Johnny Johnson

Because every now and then the truth leaks out.

Marisa Coughlan

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

Jim Ramstad

It's time to stop the leaks and spin and turn Washington into one big recovery meeting where people say what they mean and mean what they say,

Daren Beaudo

They are not necessarily as sensitive to very small leaks at any one time.

Marya Mannes

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

John Cole

The best leaks always take place in the urinal.

Richard Parker

We have always been unique and we have always maintained the old-style structure and doctrine.

Peter King

There is a very serious question as to why the records are not going to be maintained on American soil subject to American jurisdiction.

Gautam Gambhir

I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.

Gretchen Mol

I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.

Ariel Sharon

I have no regrets. Even if I had anticipated the size of the opposition to my disengagement plan, I would have maintained it,

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Liem Nguyen

no new product announcements are forthcoming at this time.

Michael Howard

More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.

Karen Burk

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

John Jackson

If they didn't want the product or they didn't have the money, than they should just say (so).

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Drew Rosenhaus

We had a productive meeting. We talked about things important to us, and they talked about things important to them.

Tony McCoy

You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.

Mitch Basefsky

There is a leak, a slow leak, and it's being blue-staked for utility services. As soon as that's completed, we'll do a repair on it.

Michael Chertoff

Our role is not to repair the dikes. Our role is to step in if something happens.

Eric Rabe

Some other services may be slower as well, like repair or installation.

George Herbert

A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.

Lewis B. Smedes

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Rudyard Kipling

Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?

Beverly Johnson

I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.

Art Spiegelman

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

David Johnson

We shouldn't be doing that. We should be on our own system. But what can you do? The wells got salt in them.

Dante Alighieri

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Curt Schilling

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

James Castle

Anyplace worth its salt has a 'parking problem'

Harry Reid

You see some of these big homes; they look OK, ... But they've been soaking in salt water for two weeks. They're gone. They'll tear them down.

Mark Wahlberg

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Eric Clapton

Musically, Nathan is in the Top 3 as a bassist.

Anne Byrn

Now that would be way too much for the top of a cake.

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).