Famous Quotes & Sayings

Because the event happened, people will tend to attribute the slump it to Greenspan, but the market had a bearish bias as it was and we're the middle of a big refunding week.

I'm convinced it was a miracle, in every sense of the word. We attribute all of this to the power of the Lord. Through the whole experience, it's brought us all closer together as a family.

China Machado

If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.

Dusty Rhodes

I just think that Mark has got the attributes it would really take to lead the city - fresh leadership and a new viewpoint, ... puts him in good stead with the suburban folks.

I helped the company set up plants all over the region. In doing so, I made a lot of good contacts and learned a great deal about economic development. I think one of my main attributes is that I am not in any way politically connected in this area. I have no hidden agendas, no favors to return. I can bring a fresh set of eyes and ears to the position. All I am wanting to do is make sure the economy here flourishes, jobs are kept here and more are developed.

I really like his character. I think he's a real solid kid. All the attributes you'd say a boy scout has, he has. I don't even know if he's a boy scout, but he's honest, he's trustworthy and he's easy to talk to.

Pat Boone

He's 'Exhibit A' for the power of prayer, ... You can only attribute his recovery, in light of the medical prognosis, to God.

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

Kevin Youkilis

It's like they always say, good hitters walk. You get to be a good hitter before you get a lot of walks, that's the way I see it. You take a lot of pitches. You can be smart and selective at the plate, and that helps attribute to walks.

It shows just how competitive it is. You can also attribute it to the popularity of girls athletics. Girls are becoming more involved and they have more opportunities to play golf tournaments in the summer.

It's been a little too easy to attribute it to managed care. There are a number of factors here that could explain overcrowding and increases in the numbers of people in certain periods going to the emergency room.

The number one brand attribute at the time Napster was shut down was innovation. The second highest characteristic was actually 'free'.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

Scott Hamilton

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

Clients are in the same position as agencies. They are looking for a person who has all of the attributes but can also roll up their sleeves and do the work.

Vin Diesel

I had never played a real-life character. All the characters that I'd played before were fictitious. So I'd spent all this time creating the affectations and amassing all of the attributes and characteristics and mannerisms, and then Jackie came to the set the first day of filming. I kicked everyone else out of my trailer, and we started to talk. He told me, in his own words, just for him and I, what the whole story was about for him and what that trial meant to him. After that meeting, all of the work that had gone into building the mannerisms and attributes seemed secondary. The most important element was to understand and believe in his cause.

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

The divine attributes are first developed in ourselves, and thence transferred to our Creator. The idea of God, sublime and awful as it is, is the idea of our own spiritual nature, purified and enlarged to infinity. In ourselves are the elements of the Divinity.

You've forgotten the grandest moral attribute of a Scotsman, Maggie, that he'll do nothing which might damage his career

The early visit of the chancellor is in keeping with Germany's special relationship with Israel and the importance she attributes to positive developments in the Middle East.

Bartolo Colon

The first three innings it felt like I had a groove going. Then I started elevating and I can't attribute it to anything. But when I started missing high, they were hitting it.

You can't attribute it to any one cause. It constitutes part of the pattern.

This is not a company you would buy for its fundamental attributes or its operational strengths.

This is the essence of your town. It's the great strength or attribute that distinguishes it from other small towns.

Winston Churchill

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.

William Ames

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.