Famous Quotes & Sayings

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Jalal Talabani

We need to ignore some petty or nonessential or marginal issues in order to achieve national unity for Iraq, including the unity of the opposition.

Bill Coleman

We couldn't be more pleased with the business and financial results we achieved this quarter and in fiscal 2001.

We couldn't achieve what we need for the future.

We have to win as we need to win in order to achieve our aim of taking the title this season.

We believe the lower top-line growth in Q4' 00 versus expectations and uncertainty over Amazon's top-line growth going forward will overshadow the operational achievements that we felt were necessary to achieve operating profitability by Q4 ' 01 and subsequently could have driven stock price appreciation.

We can't afford to ignore any group. The achievement gap plays a big role in being able to address the skills shortage.

We can't achieve cost savings by asking consumers to do what health plans and employers have not been successful at doing.

We can still achieve our goal. Having that one home game would have made it easier, but it can be done.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Ultimately you want to do something in life that people will remember. And with Buffy, I did that. I don't feel like I need to achieve something. I just do it because it's fun. And that takes the pressure off.

Sander Levin

The When Women Succeed, America Succeeds economic agenda will enable women to achieve greater economic security, raise wages for women and their families, and better allow working parents to support and care for their families.

Sander Levin

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.

Sara Blakely

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

Ricky Jay

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.

We have the same goals every year. We've never achieved them, but we want to go undefeated, we want to win a conference championship and we want to have at least a 3.0 GPA. We've got two of the three a bunch, but the undefeated one is tough to do when you have some of the schools on your schedule that we do.

Typically, self-service technologies provide very limited visibility into what customers are truly seeking; and more ineptly, search-based tools do not provide insight into the level of satisfaction achieved by the tool. The ASA differs by capturing each and every customer query, providing a real-time snapshot of customer concerns and offering advanced tools for the analysis and management of interactions. The result is not only improved performance to tens of thousands of self service support sessions each day, but a happier and more satisfied customer.

We have a history of success and tradition of doing well in sectionals. Its good the girls get a sense of what we're doing. I think the girls are seeing if they do what they are responsible for, we can achieve success.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have agreed to the findings and recommendations to strengthen our alliance and achieve strategic objectives, ... Now is the time to move forward with the transformation of our alliance.

We have a good record of accomplishment and are very proud of what we are doing to promote our cultural heritage. When people come in, it's hard for them to let go. They reminisce; look at the value of what we are sharing. We cover a gamut of generations.

We will achieve our 2004 earnings objectives despite a tough competitive environment,

We wanted to look at different combinations of players. We did achieve that.

We have certain standards that are mandated that students have to reach certain levels of achievement to go on to the next grade.

We have believed all along that it's people power that will help achieve our objective.

We have been very supportive of the reforming of the exchange-rate regime, but implied in that support is taking them at their word that over time they'll achieve greater flexibility and an exchange rate that increasingly reflects underlying supply and demand,

We have to make sure we qualify for Europe. We've had a great season but we haven't achieved anything.

We're working hard to achieve a settlement and believe settlement would be in the best interest of consumers and the economy, but will not comment on any aspect of these confidential discussions.

We're very proud to have achieved this milestone. Our military customers have had faith in the Port of Beaumont to handle its military equipment in an efficient manner to support our armed forces.

We're very pleased with this deal. The CBC wants to ensure curling fans see the greatest number of draws and this new deal achieves it.

We're very pleased with this deal, ... The CBC wants to ensure curling fans see the greatest number of draws and this new deal achieves it.

John Chen

We're very pleased with our performance for the year, which marks another solid year for Sybase. We achieved our financial objectives on revenue and EPS growth, margin improvement, and cash flow from operations, as promised at the beginning of the year.

Noam Chomsky

U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.

Patrick White

Wabash is one of America's greatest liberal arts colleges, rich in tradition and even richer in promise and possibilities. To be chosen to lead Wabash to new heights of achievement as its next president is a great honor.