Famous Quotes & Sayings

We would have preferred a smoother, more effective ability to access the information that Sprint possessed. Time is critical in an investigation where you've had an abduction of a child.

Jamie Moyer

This will be a team that could possibly have the ability to surprise some people.

Bill Cowher

We did not play to our ability and the standards that we've set here. You like to think that it's something that is correctable. Sometimes you're going to have a day like that. ... We did not have our best game.

Bill Cowher

We did not play to our ability and the standards that we've set here, ... You like to think that it's something that is correctable. Sometimes you're going to have a day like that. ... We did not have our best game.

We had a choice of letting it happen to us or trying to manage it, ... When we let it happen to us, our ability to react as well as we would like financially is compromised.

We believe that any decision about a union should be made in a neutral environment, and we feel that card-check neutrality has been proven to have the ability to make the process fair.

Hector Ruiz

We believe that AMD's long-term success depends on our ability to help China grow its information technology business, and we are demonstrating this belief by sharing this important technology with our valued partners in China,

We believe people will benefit from the ability to not just view a page, but to easily act on that data in contextually relevant ways, both online in the search experience and in the applications they are using.

We believe our offer is well above market. Our offer reflects the business realities we face and recognizes the contribution of our employees with the ability for us to win new business. That's how you secure the long-term future of our employees and our company.

We are so close to putting it all together and I still believe in the talent on this team and our ability to get it done against anyone. We have all the components but really need to start playing smarter, understanding certain situations better and becoming more proficient at playing to our strengths.

This will really challenge our ability to hold runners. Our pitchers are going to need to change their looks and control the base runners.

We believe our ability to successfully reverse this volume erosion is limited by the continuing overhang of government litigation and investigation issues. The resolution of these issues remains among our highest priorities.

We believe in this model's ability to pass on great savings to the customer. When it does work, it works incredibly efficiently.

Kenneth Bacon

We believe hitting their (Serb) supplies -- their fuel and ammo supplies -- will have a demoralizing impact as well as a debilitating impact on their ability to operate. But I can't give you a firm estimate of how long it will take for their sources to dry up.

Brian Wilson

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

Brian Krzanich

A lot of the really good features of Windows 10 - things like Windows 10 Hello, where you have facial log in and you don't have to use all your passwords, the Start screen and your ability to go through that, the touch usages of gaming, as the new games come to this product - those are going to run with PCs that have the latest features.

Indra Nooyi

BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.

Damien Hirst

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

Donella Meadows

What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.

With pleasure, Mexican consulates will be able to house an official from another government so that it can provide adequate defense (to its citizens), in the proper setting, given that we have that ability that does not necessarily correspond to the capability of all the other countries.

Arthur Schopenhauer

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy

Alan Greenspan

Without the needed restrictions on the size of the GSE balance sheets, we put at risk our ability to preserve safe and sound financial markets in the United States, a key ingredient of support for housing,

With an increasing number of our customer devices requiring full Web browsing and the ability to run web-based user interfaces, Opera is natural partner for Sigma Designs. At Sigma we are focused on producing exciting products that enable the best user experience, and Opera is complementary in that it provides users a fast and full-featured Internet experience.

Patrick Duffy

With a new house, you can pick everything. It's the ability to create what you have in your mind as the perfect house.

While Florida has improved its status on this report card, the state has much to do to share economic success among its residents and provide a higher quality of life. Florida is allocating few resources to prepare its residents to be part of the future work force. Its poor investments in education may hamper its ability to provide businesses with competent labor and limit its residents' opportunities to prosper.

Jack Valenti

Yet one thing has not changed, ... A moviemaker's single indispensable asset -- as elementally essential now as it was in the Golden Years -- is the Story. And that means studio executives of this era must share the same DNA as industry pioneers in at least one particular -- the ability to find a narrative with heart and heat.

Jeff Ward

There are sacrifices from a financial standpoint. But the ability to focus on things outside work is very important to us.

Donella Meadows

We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct legal expenses as a cost of doing business to intimidate individuals or organizations that voice legitimate concerns.

Donella Meadows

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.

Illinois Jacquet

Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

Frank Whittle

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Barton Gellman

Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.

Winston Churchill

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.