Famous Quotes & Sayings

With this agreement we've brought about an improvement for all families. We've achieved an improvement for families with one income and we've made it better to combine family and work.

Would I love every person in this crime to receive life in the penitentiary? Absolutely. But we have had to work with the first two defendants to be able to achieve even charging Ms. Burwell.

Word of mouth is very important for a unique show like Avenue Q , and that's something that we can achieve in Las Vegas much easier than we would going into the roadhouses." ()

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

We're still hoping to achieve a consensual agreement.

To learn about it in some depth, so that we understand the background, the thinking and hopefully then we'll work with the Onondaga Nation and their people to achieve a just and fair resolution to their action.

John Bolton

Time is short, ... open to alternative formats if they help us achieve consensus.

Michael Campbell

Tiger seems to find that sense of confidence all the time. We try to achieve that every time we play, but it doesn't come to us that easily. We can all do certain things with the golf ball. It comes down to talent, obviously, and mind-set ? how strong you are mentally.

Tibet has achieved marked progress in various social sectors over the past 40 years.

Ma Jian

'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.

Condoleezza Rice

tremendous opportunity to achieve real security and lasting democracy and true reconciliation in the Balkans.

While the 40-year mortgage may not be right for everyone, it does offer first-time home buyers another way to help achieve their goal of home ownership.

Norm Coleman

We need long-term reforms that can only be achieved from the outside looking in.

We needed to achieve a 600 percent increase in file system performance.

We know there are things we need to work on but for our first game we're confident we can address those and continue to get better. We don't take anything for granted, though. We know that if everybody considers us as the No. 1 team we'll be the team they all try to take down and that means a lot of very physical games. For us to achieve our goal of winning the championship we have to stay healthy and take care of our bodies.

Ludwig von Mises

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

Henry Paulson

While we know that we cannot expect to achieve these results every quarter, we continue to see attractive opportunities.

While we have so much information about changes that would be necessary to decrease the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, it's not clear how to change society and change policy to help those changes take place. It's disturbing that we have so much information now but we haven't really achieved the social will to make the kinds of changes that would need to be made to really impact tobacco smoking and the trends of increasing overweight and obesity.

While we have made our earnings per share targets for the company, it was not achieved while hitting our gross margin targets,

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.

Sathya Baba

Understand that society is the source of whatever pleasure one derives and whatever wealth one achieves in life.

Oliver Kahn

We can achieve something unique in German soccer and that's giving us an extra push.

We can achieve great things this year. I have really high hopes for the girls.

Mukesh Ambani

We are now investing in each of our businesses to achieve substantial earnings growth in the future and create further value for millions of our shareholders.

We are now in the process of accomplishing this. Everything is in flux now, but we are moving forward.

Alejandro Toledo

We are now beginning to see the fruits of the sacrifice it has taken to maintain discipline and achieve sustained economic growth,

We are not surprised by the significant cost savings that our study concludes can be achieved without sacrificing safety and mission support.

Dieter Zetsche

We are not satisfied with last year's results. We can only safeguard the future of our company and the jobs of our employees if we achieve profitable growth.

Luiz Scolari

We are not ready yet for the World Cup. When we reach Korea we will be ready. If we show our quality, we will achieve our objective.

Stephen Fleming

We had done everything pretty well up till them and it just showed if you want to achieve something like 5-0 then you're got to stay with it right to the end.

We focused our style to personality-based and that, in combination with having the B.C. Lions' rights, enabled us to achieve our highest ratings ever, even without NHL hockey, ... The lockout itself was such a soap opera, too, with 'Are they coming back? Are they not coming back?' and people would tune in to get their dose of information.

Oscar Arias

We need a force that recognizes that only through development and liberty, through education and health care, through better priorities and wiser investments, can we achieve the stability we seek.