Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Diouf

We also would encourage that resources be allocated to compensate those poor farmers -- and most of them are poor farmers -- who are raising these poultry ... and who, if they are not given the right incentive, will tend to hide what is happening,

Ukraine is taking the gas from our European partners. We decided to compensate the stolen gas for our partners.

Guy Kawasaki

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

ASAP Rocky

I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don't even have pierced ears - I'm not into that; it's too much.

Vicente Fox

We are going to support everyone to recover their goods and rebuild their homes that were destroyed, to compensate agricultural producers for the loss of crops, and in finance plans for businesses,

We want to compensate for missing the World Cup. We have paid back Tunisia, and we want to do the same to Ivory Coast.

We want to compensate for missing out on the World Cup and also for not winning the Nations Cup for a long time.

Online retail is figuring out ways to compensate for being a virtual experience by providing a lot more information than you'd be able to find in-store. Many online stores offer extensive product information, side by side specification comparisons, customer reviews and 360 degree views, all from the convenience of your computer.

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

More often than not, the error is in the customer's favor. We encourage our customers to point out any discrepancies, and when they do, we compensate them appropriately.

David McKay

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

Franz Beckenbauer

There are technically better teams but we can compensate for that. We are not in the position to compete in Italy or other places but it is different at home.

Kevin Harrington

He will need to compensate for the lower-than-usual long rate with higher short rates.

Horace Walpole

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Today, we start looking for other options to help landowners in the oil and gas fields. The oil and gas industry proved this session that they do not want to negotiate with landowners and compensate them fairly for damage to private property. This controversy isn't going away.

Without her, it will be tougher. All the players will have to find more ways to contribute to compensate for our loss of her for the season.

To some extent jobs created in the public sector will compensate for job cuts in the private sector.

We will eliminate the floater day and all the officers will be working a 40-hour schedule. We will compensate them for the two years that they did not receive the floater day.

We keep plugging away. We work a lot of reception and getting more out of our serve. We have to compensate for being smaller at the net. We're working on our timing.

I think there's a strong probability that digital sales will start to compensate for the decline of physical sales for the global recorded music industry this year.

Markets can still rise. Stocks in Europe are fairly valued. They can compensate for a lot of interest rate rises.

I will do some crazy stuff if I have to. I'll move kids in different positions to compensate for other teams' strength. I can do that this year.

Jason Silva

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.

Gray Davis

utilities are going to have to write off some of their debt. We are not going to compensate them for mistakes of judgment they made; they were big proponents of deregulation back in 1996.

B. F. Skinner

We're still trying to improve. We're just not going to be a great free-throwing team. That's something we just have to accept. We have to compensate for that.

Nicolas Davila

Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.

The legal system in Turkey works. The judiciary has put in the law the ways to compensate its internal mistakes.

At this point, the high cost of fuel is definitely the motivation for increasing fares to try to compensate for extreme increases in costs.

They have full legislation to compensate people. They have obligatory legislation on how to take away asbestos.

It's just one of those things that it's there, you know it's there, and I just don't want to get to the point where I'm out for a longer period of time because I did something else trying to compensate for it. This way, (we) get it done, get it over with and I look forward to May.

It's just a horribly tragic thing. Their lives are forever changed. There's never going to be enough money to fully compensate them for what happened.

Zinedine Zidane

The sooner we find the net the better. We know that we must slot a fair number of goals to compensate for a possible away victory by the Swiss.