Famous Quotes & Sayings

These results for the third quarter, traditionally our best, are the strongest results reported by any North American carrier for the period and reflect our ability to now achieve North American industry leading levels of profitability versus low cost carriers as well as legacy carriers,

Alberto Gonzales

These provisions of the USA Patriot Act are essential to our efforts in the war on terrorism, and their loss will damage our ability to prevent terrorist attacks. Our nation cannot afford to let these important counter-terrorism tools lapse.

These (projects) were not funded at the full ability of the Corps of Engineers to execute the project. But the important question is, 'Would that have made a difference?' And my assessment is, no, it would not.

Dirk Kempthorne

These facts are in direct conflict with my ability as a governor to prepare for disaster or domestic terrorist attacks, we need a commitment from the federal government that the equipment that is left in Iraq will be replaced in quick order,

John Shea

These data are joining an increasing body of evidence that Neanderthal extinction was not due to any lack of ability to hunt.

The Stockholm project involved a collaborative effort by some of IBM's most talented divisions across the globe and can be replicated in cities around the world. IBM's ability to harness innovative thinkers around the world enables a synergy that combines insight with sophisticated technologies, bringing added value business engagements such as the Stockholm system.

John Martin

The Steelhead appliance models 100 and 200 allow us to offer customers with smaller remote offices the best price/performance application and WAN acceleration product on the market. Unlike competitors that offer crippled versions of their products to small remote offices, including limited bandwidth capabilities to less than 256kbps and memory-only based systems with no disk-based optimization and no ability to accommodate growth, our Steelhead models 100 and 200 offer the full functionality found in our larger-scale appliances and even offer an upgrade path from the 100 to the 200.

The state of our economy is tightly tied to the ability of our citizens to purchase needed fuel, ... Out-of-reach prices threaten Floridians at every level and every income scale, and the people deserve some kind of relief.

Ted Cruz

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

The state knows that. They have the ability to do that. They just don't have the desire to do that.

Alex Ferguson

The start of the game will be so important and we need the crowd behind us. The question is can we usurp Chelsea and make them think for a bit? I know we have the ability to do it - and I think everyone else does too.

The stand-out was the strong iron ore shipments, which engenders confidence in their ability to grow the business and the outlook for 2006.

Nate Robinson

The sky is the limit for Dina. She has tremendous potential and ability and soaks everything in we tell her. You can see she loves track.

Joe Franklin

The skills are quite different. If you have more athletic ability, there is some crossover, but it's difficult to do all five well.

John Ashcroft

the skill, ability to undertake attacks both against American interests overseas as well in the United States.

I see the ability to drive the technology further upstream in my process so we can coordinate even further the interaction between our various systems, which will help coordinate all of our titles.

I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ability to surrender to the inspiration whenever it strikes. When I clear my mind and let the music take over, my hands seem to move on their own, and my voice utters words I haven't premeditated. This is pure instinct. It's like riding a wave. You just take a deep breath, hop on, and hang on as long as you can. That's basically how I songwrite when I'm composing impromptu pieces. It's a lot like channeling. Or free associating. And it's super fun, because anything can happen! It's pure creativity.

I've been targeting this game for Matt. It's a horses-for-courses selection. He's got great experience and an ability to control the forwards. Against France we've got to be right in their faces. They have a powerful pack that can be dominant if you let them play. If you let your concentration drop, or miss one-on-one tackles, they can carve you up. So we've got to be astute and squeeze the life from them. We've got to stop the band playing and get the crowd whistling.

I've been competing since eighth-grade. It gives me the ability to fight off blocks and overpower people.

It would mean the economy's ability to continue at the current rate of growth is better.

It would have been easy to give up but I think we're the best 3-9 team around. I'm really confident this team has the ability to turn it around. This is probably the best hitting team we've had in the history of the school.

I understand the rights of people to have the ability to criticize what we do, ... At the same time, we have a lot of fans out there who were very supportive of what we've done here over the last eight years, particularly what we've done over the last couple of years to try to get to the finish line. And I also think it needs to be said that for eight years, I've been a doer, and not a critic. Because sometimes standing up and doing things is a lot easier that people standing on the sidelines and criticizing what you do.

I use dividends rather than earnings because they more accurately reflect whether a company's board feels good about its business, balance sheet, ability to sustain working capital costs, and its future in general. Earnings tell you nothing about that, and can be manipulated.

Things are getting worse. However, despite the greater instances of attacks the amount of investment in security has produced a degree of resistance to those attacks. Internal breaches of security was five per cent three years ago (today it is 30 per cent) . . . perhaps with the implementation of improved security people have a better ability to discover security breaches than in the past.

Thomas Friedman

Think about what they mean for the preservation of language, for preservation of text, for the ability of people to tell their stories. It's going to be phenomenal.

Oscar Wilde

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde

Gordon Bethune

The world's largest airline and Europe's largest carrier contend they can't compete without the ability to fix prices and schedules and dominate the world's largest business market, ... This is a deal that just should not be approved under any circumstances.

They are all very good students and are very easy to teach. I knew they had great ability and they get along so well." ()

They also show to the world that the Chinese people on both sides of the Strait have the wisdom and ability to resolve their differences and build a new framework for the peaceful and steady development of cross-Strait relations.

David Adler

The whole thing about reality weddings is that it gives people the ability to peek over the fence to see how others are doing it.

Dick Martin

The whole theory of the new law is to see how to improve people's ability to repay creditors. There's got to be a balance between relieving debt and allowing creditors to collect.

Dick Advocaat

The will is there, that is evident in the dressing room. Whether we have the ability is another question,

Bob Stoops

They all have skill ability. They are all guys who work hard and they have the respect of their teammates. They are all bright guys, and you put that all together and you have a group of great quarterbacks.