Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kidd

My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.

Ashley Wagner

In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.

A. S. Byatt

There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

Bill Callahan

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

Beth Brooke

Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don't get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion.

Ben Folds

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

We'd like to see less of that tax being used for operational purposes and more of it going to capital projects. So with that thought in mind, that's kind of been where we've guided this year's proposed budget.

We would have to go through a process of assessing what he is capable of doing physically.

We were a little flat coming out of the county tournament. We didn't wrestle to our capability throughout the lineup.

We were about to reach capacity with our current system.

We definitely wanted to get a win for him and cap his night off. Unfortunately, we couldn't do that.

John Abraham

We definitely think we're a playoff team and we definitely think we're capable of winning the Super Bowl.

We definitely need more capacity for the education of nursing students.

We don't have to sit here and say things that undermine them. We're just going to go out there and play the way we're capable of playing, and hopefully, it'll show up on the scoreboard.

O. Henry

We don't know how we're going to use the force. So we have to have a capability set that will withstand all reasonable futures.

We do expect a fair day's work for a fair day's pay. It's imperative that the local union cooperate with us to get rid of work practices that keep us from running our machines at their full capacity and realizing their full potential.

We do different things to get ready. This is how we do things in this program in practice, and then we're capable of realizing it when we're in that situation.

We worked really hard to set up that defense. I told our guys that we had to defend really well and capitalize on the opportunities that come our way.

Xbox does have a material impact for Microsoft in the December quarter because of the holiday shopping season. The fact it was capacity constrained in December will probably create some headwinds for their overall quarter.

X86 systems are far more capable than they used to be,

Robert McNamara

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

The data we have comes from a physician re-registration survey. So when physicians are renewing their licenses we can capture information about them.

The data shows that states without a six percent cap have the same rate of drunk driving as those who do.

Hugh Johnson

The decline will divert capital flows away from U.S. investments.

The denim market has been such a hot market, yet the Gap has not been able to capitalize on it.

Adam Johnson

What good's a captive without her captor?

Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.

Allan Gurganus

I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of 'The New York Times.' It daily challenges my own capacity for faking anything deranged enough to sound true. I work till 2 P.M. unless I am in the throes of finishing something. I rewrite to be reread.

Alan Greenspan

Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.

Alan Greenspan

There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it in the way that directs the limited capital of the society to support the low-productivity parts of the economy, it means that the rest of the economy - our overall standard of living - will not rise as much as it could.

The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.

The rate of capacity utilization would have to go up pretty dramatically for the Fed to tighten.