Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Jon Huntsman

We're interested in making sure we protect middle- and low-income Utah while stimulating economic development, ... we need to make it acceptable to legislators.

Manmohan Singh

We remain hopeful that solutions acceptable to all sides will be found.

Kofi Annan

work this out and come up with an acceptable resolution.

Joel Klein

We requested the opportunity to analyze those suggestions, and there may be a few that are acceptable to us.

Matt Hall

With the real estate property and valuations continually increasing in that area we just can't continue to operate that kind of retail store. We weren't able to secure another lease that was acceptable to us and acceptable to the owners.

Robbie Fowler

When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.

Mark Wood

We have issues with rental houses that often change renters as the school year starts, ... We might get one group of students who understand this is not acceptable and get them to start working with the neighbors only to have to start the process over when the new tenants move in.

Dylan Jones

So going from there to where they are now -- where it is acceptable for a man to nip off at lunch time and have a facial, or a pedicure -- is quite a journey.

Keith Bowman

The positive share price reaction is a result of investor perception that the sum of the parts is worth more than the current combined businesses.

David Yen

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

Alan Mulally

We also solidified the transformation of our product line, and the market validated our strategy with every order during the year. Our new portfolio of airplanes from 100 to 450 seats, combined with our global support services, put us in a great position for the long term.

Tanith Belbin

We're so glad to be a part of this generation of ice dancing. It's a combined score.

Harley Shaiken

What's new about the global economy is First World productivity combined with Third World wages. That can create some real downward pressure on high-wage countries.

Duane Campbell

With their combined knowledge, it's just incredible . . . I'm learning something new every day,

Bill Watkins

With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

Ted Rogers

When you're able to offer the customer a whole wide range of communications products, it's more attractive, ... The world is moving toward bundles and combined packaging, and not single products.

Jim Graham

When I heard that the mayor had come forward with a new parking bill, I thought 'Ah-ha, now we get to experience creativity,'? You know this is the last year of the Williams administration, and this will be the combined ... eight years of experience. But I've got to say what's lacking here is something that's dynamic and creative and out of the box.

Jay Staggs

We lacked heart, effort and passion, which really concerns me considering this was a huge league game for us and we did not show up wanting to win.

Bubba Franks

We know we're not that far out of it, but all we're concerned with is winning games. And that's going to happen one game at a time,

Rick Carlisle

We know he's going to play because he plays, but we're concerned about it because it is his shooting hand.

John Street

very concerned that all of his years of public service are going to be compromised by the current situation.

Jack Straw

very concerned indeed about the human rights situation.

Steny Hoyer

very concerned by OPM's announcement tonight of a significant increase in health insurance premium costs.

Kofi Annan

very concerned about the military build-up and expressed his readiness for dialogue.

Carlton Dotson

very concerned about his well-being at this time.

Kyle Wilson

Uh, no. I don't have any concerns as far as that goes. I don't really want to talk about it. But I'm not concerned.

Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Chogyam Trungpa

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

Uday Kotak

A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Randy Dunton

Our inability to find somebody who can give us a punch in the lane is a real handicap.

Carl Sagan

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

Scott Wilson

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

Paul Tagliabue

I don't think we'll be in litigation or that the union will decertify. But we are not making progress.

Eric Kraus

I think we have resolved the vast majority of the litigation between us.

Mark Landy

If they do negotiate a lower price, they may open themselves up to litigation by essentially conceding that there has been a problem under management's watch.

Phil Gordon

It's a litigation bonanza, and it will stop business.

Michael Quinn

Any specific questions as to the pending litigation we probably won't be able to answer.

Floyd Abrams

Everything is being dropped. There is no more litigation about this.

Mildred Ellison

Now teachers and principals at our schools can go up there for the training because it's just amazing.

Roger Fox

It's sad, because she's an outstanding teacher and he was a very strong principal as well.

Kenneth Trump

I don't think the principal is doing anything radical.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Abner Louima

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

Nizar Hamdoon

The only way to try to reach out ... is if the American administration sits down and talks with the Iraqis.

Bob DuPuy

I think we're doing much better player-wise, but I think we need to reach out to African-American fans.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Debra Moore

He just said he tried. (He) just couldn't reach his girls. It's just sad.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Elaine Deck

Someone has to be the first to reach out.

Lonnie Bunch

That support allows me to reach out and do the work we need to do.