Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tina Brown

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.

A lot of this (rally) you can attribute to oil being down more than a dollar, ... You had basically a one-stock decline with 3M this morning, and because that is somewhat seen as a proxy for the economy, like GE, it was weighing on the blue chips.

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.

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

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

Rick Brunson

I attribute this to working hard and staying with it for all those eight years.

I attribute this description of us as courageous, which Commander Castro has so generously made, to the courageous position that Mexico has always held in its foreign policy, in defense of the principles of sovereignty,

I attribute that to the games we played in the first semester. I don't know if we win those games if we have a cake schedule in the first half.

I attribute that to my teammates, actually. They are always setting me up and always giving me great passes.

John Thompson

I attribute that to listening to partners. Partnering been in the DNA of our company for over 25 years.

I attribute our success to just having a solid combination of players over the last few years. We have always had outstanding players we've been able to rely on. I've been coaching since 1973, I've been around the block a little bit and I have an idea of where the gyms are around here, so I just make sure they get there and let them do the rest.

I attribute it to innovative marketing, rebellion by the people, you tell them not to smoke they're going to do it anyway, and a faster resilience by the industry.

Rob Johnson

I attribute a lot of that to the fact that Danica ran well in Indianapolis.

He's got all the attributes of a good horse. He's good enough that he makes his own luck. He can run on the front end, but he doesn't have to have the lead. I don't know about everybody else, but I know Lawyer Ron is the real deal.

David Pierce

I consciously or subconsciously draw on whatever attributes are most appropriate to the character and just heighten them.

LaVar Arrington

I could easily be in different situations. I'm healthy. My personal life is wonderful. I attribute a lot of my happiness to my wife. We have discussions on what goes on here and on everything else. We always take the positives out of things.

Daniel Gibson

I did a lot of other things besides scoring the basketball. I got my guys a lot of open looks. I played good defense. I think I had a good all around game, but I attribute a lot of my game to my teammates. The way they pushed me and motivated me to keep playing hard.

Michael Shermer

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce.

Shawn Stockman

His attributes and what he's done in the music industry is something that we look up to, and we hope to be able to do the same, ... We hope to be able to be around as long as Elton, still creating beautiful music for the world to listen to.

I've always said about Jordan, maybe his best attribute is his competitiveness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

The Lord is without attributes; the attributes of virtue are under His control.

Billy Donovan

All of those guys can look at the individual honors and attribute it to playing as a team. They made it possible by being a team and they were honored as a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

William Ames

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

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.