Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are looking at selling Cornell Oaks, but that's routine for us. We may be out in the market later this year. Until we decide on a course of action everything is speculative.

We recognize the importance of providing relief and rebuilding in the communities in the disaster area, but it is totally unnecessary to undermine the affirmative action requirements of new federal contracts that are designed to provide equal opportunity in accomplishing these vital tasks.

We recognize our success depends on creating great products and we are aggressively taking action to improve.

Cornel West

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

We urge the U.S. government to use the tools at its disposal to persuade the Russian government to take concrete action to reduce piracy significantly.

We urge the Albanian government to immediately draw up a plan of action that includes protection mechanisms for women who suffer from violence, and to prosecute and punish the perpetrators, including by making domestic violence an offence under the Criminal Code.

We urge the administration to file its Section 201 action immediately, to make it comprehensive, and to seek emergency interim relief,

We should point out that significant legal hurdles face the plaintiffs before they could prevail in these cases. Many of the agreements between the managed care companies and the physicians require arbitration and this could defuse the class actions ... However, we believe current HMO valuations assume these lawsuits will be dismissed out of hand. This is unlikely.

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.

Herbie Hancock

My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.

Steve-O

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.

George W. S. Trow

To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.

The price action was incredible. A move like that leads me to believe that something is circulating. Something is known.

The price action today's been technical rather than anything else. It's been far less about Greenspan than it's been about corporate and agency supply.

The price action of the last few days does suggest a potential exhaustion in the dollar's rally,

The price action following the release of today's indicator suggests that as long as expectations for an exit from zero interest rates are not brought forward greatly, the impact on the market will be limited.

The players are talked to in spring training and shown video about what actions are appropriate.

The player admitted what he had done was wrong and I took this, together with his previously exemplary conduct, into account. However, it is important to show that dissent of any sort at an umpire's decision is unacceptable and the player's punishment for his actions illustrates that fact.

What's in front of us is ensuring that if there is wrongdoing, that it be fully understood, and that appropriate actions be taken,

Joan Didion

We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

We were surprised that GM said that it does not plan to reduce permanently assembly capacity in North America to reflect the Olds phase-out, ... GM's restructuring, especially its discontinuance of the Olds brand, is undeniably a step in the right direction. However, the costs of these actions are much more visible than their ongoing benefits right now.  We anxiously await follow-up actions.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Henry L. Stimson

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Hassan Nasrallah

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

Casper Dien

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.

Cary Fowler

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.

With every action there's a consequence and if you're going to break the law, I think it's a valid consequence to withhold federal funding to allow someone to go to school.

Ken Giles

While it is a risk, we determined that it didn't meet the legal threshold for regulatory action.

While it is a difficult decision to eliminate positions in our talented and dedicated work force, this move is necessary to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy, ... This is a decisive, yet disciplined, cost-reduction action that balances the need to be fiscally prudent with the need to continually seek growth opportunities and generate long-term profitability in a highly competitive marketplace.

Paul O'Neill

With our economy slowing, now is the time to boost consumer confidence with quick congressional action,

Jim Talent

With only 41 percent of the small businesses surveyed by the National Federation of Independent Businesses taking action or planning to take action to address their potential Y2K problems, something must be done to make becoming Y2K compliant more affordable.

David Frost

Without supporting action by the Bank of England and the Chancellor there is danger of renewed relapse.