Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

Barbara Tuchman

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

Arthur Erickson

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Arthur Golden

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

Arthur Conan Doyle

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

Arthur C. Clarke

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents...

Bellamy Young

Id love to go back and do theater. Theres nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

bell hooks

In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

Baltasar Gracian

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

Baltasar Gracian

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

Baltasar Gracian

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

Arianna Huffington

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.

Diana Wynne Jones

I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.

Demetri Martin

For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.

We're most concerned with ensuring the eagles do not get disturbed.

We're more trading off of earnings. Investors will be able to tolerate continued moderate inflation as long as earnings continue to accelerate.

Willis Reed

Yes, because the contract that they forced us into, the previous contract three years ago, in my opinion, I already gave them their raises. That's why I had a wage freeze in the first three years (of the new contract proposal).

Yep, ... We'll be doing it on, I don't want to say a regular basis, but a continuing basis.

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Bernard Ebbers

WorldCom condemns unauthorized carrier switches, and we cooperated fully with the FCC's review, ... The incidents highlighted by the FCC were perpetrated by a few sales employees, who have since been terminated.

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Working people in this country need stronger unions, ... Employers continue taking things away from workers.

Jason Bartlett

Working out has become a huge part of training, and it's nice to have this be so convenient for us to use.

John Williams

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

Jamie Fellner

Working conditions in U.S. meat and poultry plants should trouble the conscience of every American who eats beef, pork or chicken,

With the low morale that we currently have, yes I'm concerned people might consider going.

With the lines we have, we really just want to contribute as much as we can. I think it's the strength of our team, and it shows our character.

With the last few years of consecutive declines in attendance, the trends for live concerts overall aren't particularly encouraging.

With their minds absorbed in Me, with their lives surrendered unto Me, always enlightening each other by talking about Me; they remain ever content and delighted.

With the injury situation as it is, we will continue to have hard games.

With the improvement in oil prices, second quarter net income increased 18 percent from the first quarter of 1999, in contrast to the seasonal earnings decline that we usually see from the first to the second quarter of each year,

With my contract situation and the team moving in a new direction, it was pretty much a done deal.