Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marquis de Lafayette

I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary.

For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.

Oliver Ellsworth

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

Oliver E. Williamson

Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.

Oliver North

There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

Tom Stoppard

It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.

Seamus Heaney

I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.

Sam Walton

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

Willie Geist

I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim.

William Bligh

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

Ving Rhames

The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.

Arthur Smith

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.

Benny Green

Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.

BeBe Winans

People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.

Roger Staubach

We'd love to emulate what he's done. He has a history of doing it right, and we're fortunate to be associated with him.

We want to congratulate Fred on a tremendous basketball career. Fred is going to be an outstanding asset to this organization whether it be working with the basketball staff, or using his business skill set to help us on the corporate end of things.

We were all under the assumption that everything was put to bed over this.

Jason Reitman

We were about 30 minutes into our screening when I noticed a scene was missing. I assure you it was a projectionist, not Tom Cruise.

Mathias Eick

We were able to make an assessment that we did not have to make any changes and our observers stayed.

We definitely were not prepared, but I guess we were prepared the best we could. I obviously wasn't able to assess the strengths and weaknesses of Colorado because we didn't give them a fair fight.

We don't know yet what the long-term effect will be. You can assume the others will need to respond quickly to this news.

We don't know the extent of those problems, but we're doing that assessment now to make sure that people are safe.

We don't know if Whirlpool would remain in the floor-care business if it bought Maytag. But assuming they spin us off, we're still better off away from Maytag.

We don't know how much of (the trustee's) report was the independent assessment of the experts and how much was a result of the Commission's influence.

We don't know exactly what their next move will be, but we assume they will return to the hunting grounds.

We don't intend to assemble airplanes during this strike, yet we will continue focusing on support for our customers and their in-service fleets.

We don't intend to assemble airplanes during this strike.

We work together as a team all the time. If something happens in one of our jurisdictions, we know we can count on the assistance of each other . . . because we have long-standing agreements.

Sarah Clarke

We work hard to pay hourly associates for every minute they work, and they are encouraged and obligated to report any off-the-clock work to upper management. A notice with instructions on how to do this is posted beside every time clock.