Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Koch

From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

Lewis Thomas

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

Laura Leighton

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

Mary Shelley

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Mary Tyler Moore

Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

Lee Iacocca

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Neil Cross

I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.

We didn't play very well at the beginning but to weather the storm we knew Rutland was capable of putting on us and stay close in the first half, get the jitters out; that was key for us.

We are heading for 1,000 percent inflation by the year end if we do not start behaving better. The government itself is beginning to feel the impact of their policies. They don't want the consequences of having, one month, not paid the army.

We are grateful for the support given by the governor and our Legislature for our salary increases. And we are confident this is the beginning of a renewal of support for higher education.

Vera Wang

My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

Bill Owens

A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I got the guitar. By the time we were in ABBA, the music was the only important thing.

Orison Swett Marden

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

Debbie Ford

If you wish to fly to new heights, begin by setting your sights on a destination you can reach and then create a flight plan, a map, that will be your guide.

We're kind of front-loading some of those days when we think professional development does the most good, and that's in the beginning of the school year.

We're not expecting an immediate premium increase directly as a result of Katrina, but the wider issue of climate change is beginning to have a very serious impact on insurers.

There are other real issues we need to look into before we begin posing solutions to problems that don't exist.

We set high goals at the beginning of the season. Being able to hold (the trophies) is exactly what we wanted. We all knew we could do it. But to see it happen shows us all what the boat is made of.

We set goals at the beginning of the year. The kids wanted to win the league and districts. Some even said states. I'll get back to you on that last one.

We set goals at the beginning of the season. They haven't changed. We're all still working for the same things.

Tuukka Rask

We set a goal at the beginning to win a medal. We're very happy that we did it.

We still have nine games left, so this is just the beginning. We're still sitting in second place, so we'll just push forward and won't look back. I'm confident the girls can do that. They know it's just soccer and that it's a whole new game the next day.

We still don't have completely DCI-compliant systems operating in the marketplace. This year will see that those systems come together and begin to get integrated.

We still believe the U.S. economy is beginning to pick up speed but, near term, there is little to shift equities out of their summer torpor with the coming week relatively light on economic data.

Pierre Schaeffer

We are just beginning to unleash the true potential of what digital photography can provide for consumers.

We are just beginning to become a great team. We still have a lot more to learn.

This would be a positive signal of building confidence, and this is what we need at the beginning of these delicate negotiations.

Hugh Johnson

The question is when will the earnings recovery begin and how strong will it be.

Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes

Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

Marsha Norman

This story begins where all great stories start, with loss. 'Hansel and Gretel' begins with the parents are gone, 'Cinderella' and 'Sleeping Beauty,' the mom is dead.