Famous Quotes & Sayings

For every megawatt of Entergy New Orleans transmission, we avoided about half our purchased power costs.

There will be casualties, ... but we will avoid any harm that may befall the hostages.

There will always be those who will avoid paying and then we have to go back to the courts.

Bob Berg

There were clearly more people and more activity. Some regulars came in Wednesday and said we'll see you Monday. They wanted to avoid the crowds.

There is no way to avoid the birds in the air, but the pilots can avoid being where the birds are.

There may have been people who wanted to see it (at Miller's theater), but he may have been trying to avoid offending another group by showing it. Under freedom of speech, private individuals have the right not to carry messages. If he found it objectionable, it's his freedom of speech right to decline to carry it.

You're taught to avoid everything on the road, and this is just the opposite.

Your safety's in question no matter where you are. You just learn to avoid the alleys.

You're always going to have a few bumps and bruises this time of year. We're as healthy as any team. We've been pretty lucky to avoid that big injury. Knock on wood.

John Palfrey

You need to avoid any one entity having too much control over the ecosystem.

You of course want to be very sensitive to the children. So to the extent that we can avoid calling them, we will. But if it?s necessary in order to give them a just result, and give them back what?s left of their family, we?re going to do it.

You never want to go to that hearing if you don't have to. It's a lot easier to go into spring training when you can avoid that confrontation. That's an ugly part about baseball.

You probably want to avoid the water. When you've got those types of winds and tides and swells, I'd give caution a lot of thought.

This is a sad and tragic situation for this child and his family and I offer sympathy to them. This unfortunate situation could have been avoided with proper crime prevention measures in the proper storage of the firearm.

This is expected to be one of the worse hurricane seasons, and so far they're right and we're only halfway through it. All you have to do is pose the question: What if you had another monster storm in another few weeks, just as things are starting to come back on line? I don't know how you would avoid recession in that environment.

This is a tough one for us. It's the last home game for the seniors, a chance to end the losing streak to Indiana, and we had a chance to be the five seed (and avoid a Thursday game in the Big Ten Tournament). Now we just have to focus on playing good basketball in the Big Ten Tournament.

This is a time to be very diversified and avoid taking chances. Sometimes being a spectator is not a bad idea.

Steven Brust

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

An investor is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in business, and how to avoid them.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane, and pursues the obscure.

William Shakespeare

Are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boathook to avoid collisions.

James Thurber

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?''

Dustin got two fouls in the first 30 seconds, so we had to sit him early. He managed to avoid fouling out, but we needed to spot him in and out throughout the game.

During times of war it is the responsibility of every citizen to inspire the valiant to engage them in war. One should avoid waiting for invitation. One should always be ready to strive for welfare of others. This is the path of truth itself.

Ducking and hiding, I'm not sure. Avoiding what's inevitable? Yes.

Dr. Thomas knew I made the right decision by avoiding surgery. Everything is going like we planned. But I had to work hard and that's what I have been doing.

Herb Kohl

Evasions, avoidance and hiding behind legal jargon simply will not suffice, ... We need and deserve to know what is in your mind and in your heart.

Especially if you're in contract negotiations, you help yourself a lot in terms of good will by avoiding layoffs, ... I think the industry has been pretty rational.

Even if it manages to avoid breaching its covenant this quarter, the company may not be able to forestall the debt-covenant day of reckoning much longer, as long as its EBITDA continues to erode, ... And that is the substance of our story - that Gap is flirting with a serious liquidity problem.

Federal law exists to avoid confusion. There would be marketplace chaos if states regulated whatever they wanted.

Susannah McCorkle

Feeling totally immobilized. Can't even listen to music, except classical. Avoiding people so word won't get around how down I am." ()

Ralph Fiennes

Fernando has a particular shooting style, ... which you might call guerrilla or documentary. He wants to avoid anything that smacks of a camera setup. It's as if the street informs the camera.