Famous Quotes & Sayings

We do not think these strong gains have been irrational or speculative, they are based in fundamentals.

We are very confident that, based on the evidence, we should clearly prevail.

We are very concerned that total fluoride exposure is not safe for children. EPA is relying on outdated science to support this increase in fluoride exposure, and in our view has not discharged its legal duty to thoroughly consider the effects of fluoride on infants and children, from all routes of exposure, based on a thorough review of the most recent peer-reviewed science.

We think it's firmly in a downtrend and will continue to see further weakness - pretty broad based weakness.

Matthew McConaughey

Very seldom to you read about stories like this. It's based on something that happened ... history. I was inspired by it. It really happened and it stayed on my mind. I wanted to be a part of it somehow." ()

You have to realize that if you start making deals just based on public opinion, you're going to be in a lot of trouble.

You have to proceed as if you are not going to have him. That's the only way you can proceed. We signed two veteran corners, obviously, to protect ourselves. But I think when you get into the draft you can never make a decision that is based on another player's medical uncertainty. You are really taking too much of a risk there.

You get the tax credit based on the purchase price of the product and the installation and it's up to 10 percent of that cost to a max of $500 will be returned to you by Uncle Sam.

Maria Ressa

You get the idea: everyone wants to use and interpret the information they get based on their vested interests and that often clouds the judgment of the information.

Paul Theroux

The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.

Obviously there are positives to working in the epicenter of innovation. But there are also disadvantages. There is a groupthink mentality that goes on. Being based outside of Silicon Valley, you're not as subject to it.

Peter Gould

I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.

P. L. Travers

'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.

Portia Simpson-Miller

I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on their capabilities, not their sexual orientation.

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

Philip Kerr

All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.

Those who need a little extra time can request a two month extension through Rural Development. They will have to prove their reason for the request and Rural Development will make a decision based on that information.

To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.

Michael Specter

To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.

Richard Wiseman

What it shows is just how much of the picture in our head of our surroundings is a massive construction, based on expectations, what we think is important, what we normally encounter and so on. And that's what magicians are very good at exploiting.

We want to go from confrontation to cooperation, ... We want our members and our workers to have health care, we want our members to get wages and improvements based on productivity. Most of all, we want our workers to be treated with dignity.

Steve Riley

We knew and said six ways from Sunday at the time we were setting the rate, this was our best guess based on the data we have today. We took in more money than we should have.

Sean Hayes

Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.

You have to permit based on the reserves you have, but this is elephant country,

You have to kind of measure your patience based on how you believe in the creative, and there we felt like, unfortunately, it was not going to get better. We needed to make a quick change, and we saw life in The Bachelor, which is cast better than it's been in five years.

You may have taken the yen as far as you can, at least based on a short-term shift in policy.

With 'Human Giant,' we tested almost everything live and made tweaks based on what worked and what didn't.

Jason Calacanis

You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

You cannot deny someone a job based on media reports.

We've had this reinvention every five years, ... Today's success of Sun is based on the bets we made in 1995. And right now, we think we are only in year two of a 10- to 15-year network build-out.

We've had a lot of interest in Spring Hill based on the phenomenal number of residents moving here. It's explosive out here.

We've had a conversation, but whether we're going to extend him based on 30 games or not, I'm not sure yet. We'll continue conversations and evaluate it, and if it makes sense and it's something we want to do from a numbers standpoint, we'll do it. But if we can't keep the numbers down, we won't engage it.

Mike Tice

We'll have to wait a couple of weeks for the swelling to go down and get prepared for surgery in the next few weeks. It's discouraging to us based on everything that has transpired to this point in the season. This is just another hurdle we have to overcome as a football team.