Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is no quick fix to this complicated issue. The plan that the council adopted this week provides a good long-term strategy for how we might achieve that goal.

Jan C. Ting

There is no quick fix for illegal immigration. But only when we achieve better control of our borders and better respect for our immigration laws can we give meaning to the discussion we need to have over reforming the numbers, categories, and procedures for legal immigration into the United States.

Pascal Lamy

There is not a sufficient level of convergence among members on the level of ambition in the key areas of the negotiations, ... If we try this jump and miss it, we might lose what has been achieved already.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

There could be a national ranking achieved in the (800) relay. Whoever wins, both teams should get national rankings.

We will pretty much count on our defense to get it done, ... We would like to win the division and continue to compete with the teams in our league. This is the toughest league in the state, so it makes it a little more difficult for us, but we want to set our goals high and work to achieve them. We do have a lot of good athletes, especially in the freshmen and sophomore classes, so the sooner they get some experience the better we will be in the long run.

Unauthorized filling of wetlands and damming of open waters can have serious environmental consequences. The Santa Clara River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in Southern California. The EPA's action today underscores our commitment to protecting this very important water resource and to work closely with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other resource agencies to achieve this goal.

We had a good plan at the end of 2001, ... We executed it. We achieved everything that was in it and then some. But it wasn't good enough. ... So guess what? Now we have to respond again, and we're going to step up to it.

We think there's an opportunity for a performance that could come close to or match what the athletes achieved in Salt Lake City. We hope they'll be able to achieve at that level. We'll tell you after the games how we did.

We think the Fed is hesitating. It still intends to achieve monetary neutrality but it is not ready to shed away its caution as it fears uncontrolled inflationary skid.

George W. Bush

We're pursuing a strategy of freedom around the world, because I understand free nations will reject terror.ÊFree nations will answer the hopes and aspirations of their people.ÊFree nations will help us achieve the peace we all want.

Christine Pelosi

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.

Why does a human body become deceased? The reason is that as long as the human body is not free from suffering, mind cannot be happy. If a man lacks enthusiasm, either his body or mind is in a deceased condition.... Now what saps the enthusiasm in man? If there is no enthusiasm, life becomes drudgery - a mere burden to be dragged. Nothing can be achieved if there is no enthusiasm. The main reason for this lack of enthusiasm on the part of a man is that an individual looses the hope of getting an opportunity to elevate himself. Hopelessness leads to lack of enthusiasm. The mind in such cases becomes deceased.... When is enthusiasm created? When one breaths an atmosphere where one is sure of getting the legitimate reward for one's labor, only then one feels enriched by enthusiasm and inspiration.

Alastair Reynolds

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

Elbert Hubbard

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

This year we are celebrating our fifth anniversary and are proud to add this award to our list of achievements. It is always an honor to be recognized in this way. But, we are so consistently and wisely informed by our clients, that we feel we share this honor with them.

This transition away from magnetic storage will allow us to work toward a new business model, which includes improving our profitability rates over the next two years. Assuming a recovery in the semiconductor industry by early next year, we believe we can achieve our new business model targets by the end of next fiscal year.

This transaction represents an important building block in establishing the financial resources required to achieve our short- and long-term goals and objectives. Equally significant is the establishment of our relationship with Cogent Capital as an investor.

We also remain confident that we will achieve 10 to 15 percent earnings per share growth in 2005,

To see 20 or 30 grown men so emotional made me feel pretty proud that we'd achieved the impossible dream.

Wu Bangguo

To resolve the Taiwan issue and achieve the final reunification of the motherland is the common aspiration of all Chinese at home and abroad.

Valentino Rossi

To relax, maybe start a family and live a normal life. This would be impossible to achieve in Italy, where I am asked constantly for my autograph.

We didn't get everything that we'd like to have, and the citizens didn't get everything they'd like to have. At the end of the day, the people that are most affected living along the common boundary achieved a greater comfort.

We had a fantastic amount of success last season, but the one-two finish eluded us throughout 2005. It is the ultimate team prize, and we are delighted to have achieved it today.

We had a big win over Wakefield (15-12) right after a 24-0 loss to Woburn. I felt under the circumstances, our younger players did pretty well, and now our goal is to achieve better team balance.

Robert Rubin

We believe that any bank seeking to conduct new financial activities should be required to achieve and maintain a satisfactory CRA record, ... The draft bill fails to include this requirement.

We are so proud of all the achievements of Marco this season despite the outcome in the finals.

We believe it's an unfair means to achieve a competitive edge.

To this end, we must diversify the primary sources and the supplying areas integrate our national market with the European one, create relations of interdependency with producing countries, defend the environments to achieve an environmentally-friendly energy development.

Eric Hoffer

To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous in a matter-of-fact way

To the contrary, if that person had no specific goal in mind and the end of the week were approaching, they probably would not pull out all the stops like the goal setter would. Goal setters tend to have a very clear picture of what they are trying to achieve and that in itself is a source of motivation.

Brian Ferneyhough

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.