Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Johnson

We knew they were rooting for us in the beginning but they changed. We thought it was funny.

Robbie Earl

We know what's at stake and what we have in front of us. Good teams know in the beginning of the year what kind of destiny they can bring to themselves. I think we recognize that. My class and (the senior) class, we've been here quite a long time and we're at that point where this is our year and we'll try to make the most of it.

Shalee Lehning

Ultimately, it's something that we've worked for all season - to win a championship and to be one of only two teams in the nation to end on a win is huge for us. Everybody kind of underestimated us at the beginning of the season. We proved to ourselves and everybody else that we are a team that is going to compete, and we're going to do good things.

Mark Goodman

Ultimately I think it means very little for student publications that are outside of the 7th Circuit, but that said, I have no doubt that some school officials in other parts of the country are going to see this as a green light to begin censoring.

Kimberly Williams

The people who do survive - when they get that last treatment - they begin seeing the light.

Denis Pombriant

Unlimited Edition is a very important development. Companies have had a very fragmented view of business processes; there hasn't been anything that allows them to get a 360 degree view of the customer. Now those using Unlimited Edition can standardize on the same kind of environment for all occasions. They can have integrated processes from one end of the enterprise to the other so that the problem of information silos can begin to abate.

Christine Martino

We are pretty confident that the usability and visual enhancements to the Linux desktop will fuel more growth in this market. We think this should give customers more choice and confidence to begin integrating open solutions.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Mary Bailey

We also share a bold spirit and wry sense of humor.

Michael Nelson

We're going to have to wait a few more years before we can decide where it belongs. The fact that we don't know shows you how hard it is sometimes to tell how they're going to look with the passage of time. When a president makes a bold decision, it carries great opportunity but also great risk.

Steve Ballmer

Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets.

M. Thompson

With the process in Liberia heading for normality, we would foresee a very large number of people taking the bold decision of going back home.

Lorenzo Codogno

There is clearly a risk now that they might be bold enough to tighten policy in December, We think they will wait until March.

Dorothea Brande

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Shelby Seyrafi

She was very bold when she said that she would hit that 12 to 15 percent revenue growth number, and she is hitting it in the first quarter after she said it.

Tasneem Aslam

We need bold steps by the leadership of both countries to resolve the outstanding issues. We also need sincerity and flexibility in order to overcome the legacy of the past.

Jim Webb

On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.

Charles de Lint

Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.

Charles Caleb Colton

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Charles Dickens

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...

Charles Dickens

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

Charles Simmons

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Chris Christie

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

Diane von Furstenberg

It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to be an attractive woman than a fashionable one.

Bob McDonnell

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

Craig Ferguson

Now that healthcare is guaranteed, I'm frying everything I eat. Fried food and cigarettes.

Bill Bradley

He has misrepresented my healthcare plan time after time after time, and I called him on it,

Juan Williams

While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.

O. Henry

Because of the long-term complications of cocaine use, we are looking at a healthcare time bomb,

Carl Hiaasen

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

Donald Trump

Our healthcare is a horror show.

Ann Marie Buerkle

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

Grier Stanley

We really need them to stay there because the numbers over there are ridiculous. It's important that they stay healthy to provide healthcare there.

Debbie Oliver

Many birthing hospitals are not knowledgeable about cleft palate.

Marc Volavka

There are still a significant number of hospitals ... that are not benefiting from the overall increase in revenue.

Patti Smoake

We need nurses in all places -- in universities and in hospitals -- and the only way to solve this problem is to train more.

Victor LaValle

I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

Andrew Lansley

Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.

Janet Olszewski

The plan would shift $400 million in state spending to the partnership from money the state now pays hospitals and clinics who treat the uninsured.

Rick Wade

About 25% of hospitals are in the red.

Tao Levy

It might give hospitals some more power to push back on prices.

Michael Jacobson

It looks to us as though hospitals hadn't been thinking about how they've been preparing foods.

Alan Greenspan

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Arthur Erickson

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Bertrand Russell

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Carlos Castaneda

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

Bill Gates

There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

Bill Gates

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Charles de Gaulle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Chris Christie

We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Chris Alexander

We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.

Dianne Feinstein

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

David Shore

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

Billy Joel

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Arlen Specter

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

John Dunn

There's a lot of systems on (boats). They're complicated.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Tommy Mottola

I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

Steve-O

The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems go away for just a little bit.

Robert Reischauer

This has to be viewed with some skepticism,

Louis C. K.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Elie Wiesel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Cheryl Conway

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Mark Bishop

Through witness interviews, we have two suspects, but as of yet, we have no descriptions.

Philip Brooks

Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes,