Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Dell

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

Mark Victor Hansen

You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.

Naomi Campbell

I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am.

Miriam Toews

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

Oprah Winfrey

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

Marc Benioff

This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.

Patrick Ness

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

Patrick Ness

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."

Lev Grossman

I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.

Oscar Wilde

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Government doesn't have the money to keep up with the developers, so we're asking them to pay their fair share for traffic they bring into the area.

For the first time in this ongoing saga we are considering and asking our attorneys to explore the possibility of occupancy on the peninsula as a way of settling the dispute.

For now, though, we're asking people who aren't in high-risk groups to hold off. And if you are in a high-risk group, talk to your doctor or get to a clinic.

Irvine Welsh

Are you asking me or telling me?

Nancy Pearcey

In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.

Nancy Pearcey

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

Keith Urban

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!

There's a lot of sheet metal out there that could blow around and hurt somebody, so we're asking people to stay away for safety reasons.

There is the (dam) law and there are rules. This incident is changing things significantly. We are asking each owner of each dam to provide us with records so we can evaluate what each owner has been doing.

Ron Dennis

There's a point at which you've just got to take a more moral position and say, you are asking too much, and we are very close to that point.

At every home I visit, people are asking for tax relief. That is consistent and persistent.

Winky Wright

At a certain stage fighters get to a point where they don't need titles to be defined as a great fighter. I think titles are a great thing to have, don't get me wrong. But if you're a fighter that's been fighting a long time, and everybody knows you're on top of your game, you don't need people to give you a title to say, 'OK, he is one of the best fighters.' All I'm saying is if you put the titles up there, I'll win the titles. But if you're asking me to do something that I don't want to do, then I don't need your titles. I want to be a fans' champions. I want to fight who the fans want to see me fight.

Asking the right questions will never lead you to the wrong answers.

Dennis Crowley

Asking Siri where the nearest sushi bar is - that's not interesting. What's interesting is asking your phone where one of your friends have last had dinner in the neighborhood, or having it recommend a cool paella place in Barcelona because it knows you eat paella all the time at home.

Asking rents are going to continue rising in 2006 and beyond due to the increased cost of development. This is another example of a developer being required to shift design plans to meet the current economic conditions of the construction industry.

Asking people to vote on matters that are kept secret from them is a farce. It's a joke to say you can operate a free government when the people don't know what's going on.

Jen Lancaster

Asking me to choose between a traditional book and a Kindle is like asking me which of my dogs I love most.

Chris Dodd

Asking her to stay on, at least until January, gives the president time to think these things through,

Christopher Dodd

Asking her to stay on, at least until January, gives the president a bit more time to think this process through, rather than trying to jam decisions.

Asking for this information is important. You've got to have open government ? if it's not open, there are some serious problems for the future.

Asking for opinions doesn't mean that you're giving up the right to make the final call; it just helps you make a better decision.

asking for many extras that we have denied.

Asking for a less burdensome severance pay regulation doesn't mean that we want to avoid paying it.