Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Keats

The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

John D. Rockefeller

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

John D. Rockefeller

I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

John D. Rockefeller

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

John D. Rockefeller

Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!

John D. Rockefeller

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Geena Davis

All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.

Gayle Forman

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

Gayle Forman

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Liu Xiang

Things are better now that the attention has subsided a bit, and I'm happier. Now I can concentrate on what I'm supposed to do, that is, training and running. Despite everything that's happened, I feel like I'm still the same person.

Liz Miller

I don't think people should be running to get in the fund before it closes, ... lots of ways to get participation.

Lloyd Cutler

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

Lyndsy Fonseca

Pilates is my favorite meditative way to get in shape. I don't like the gym and I don't like running, so I just lay on my Pilates reformer. It's great.

Lynda Barry

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

Luke Evans

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

Louise Mensch

In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.

Louise Penny

But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

Louise Rennison

Here is my recipe for a mood enhancer. Take a friend, preferably one with a really annoying fringe and outsize pants, and when she is rambling on swiftly, push her into a ditch and run away.

Louise Rennison

If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!

Loretta Sanchez

This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard.

Lori Greiner

When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future.Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.

Lori Greiner

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

Loretta Lynn

Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

Loretta Lynn

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Loretta Lynn

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Lou Holtz

Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.