Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ortberg

As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.

Noreena Hertz

Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn.

David Lopez

As long as they charge the same to all, there's nothing illegal about it.

Aida Alvarez

Pro-Net gives small companies an edge by providing direct online exposure to contracting officers in charge of the $200 billion-per-year federal market.

John Roth

Our customers are inhibited by the high cost of energy and steel. They are concerned that the prices they are forced to charge make them less competitive.

Carolyn Williams

Nor can medical schools charge what it costs to train a physician.

James Blankenship

Colby Davis and Michael Cheshire, the two returning linemen from last year who were in there tonight, I think they really took charge of the young kids.

Theodore Pappas

Any charge like this we don't take lightly, and we didn't.

Christopher Brown

An individual who did not live in any of the neighborhoods where Phillips Roofing was working, (nor) was a customer, called authorities. He saw Phillips was using donated materials to do dry-ins. The materials were often provided by customers and, when they weren't, Phillips didn't charge for anything but labor.

James Davis

As energy prices stay high, there's savings to be had by looking at your energy infrastructure. Most companies haven't.

Luigi Speranza

As growth gathers momentum, companies are regaining some of their lost pricing power. This increases the probability of greater pass-through of past oil shocks to non-energy prices.

Ibrahim Rugova

As far as privatization is concerned, we will follow the international norms, and all foreign companies have to comply with international standards.

John Nelson

As analysts, we know that there are these smoking and health issues, ... but it is always reassuring to hear from the company that irrespective of what is going on, (it is) doing well enough that (it) can raise the dividend 20 percent. Not many companies can do that.

Todd Johnson

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Mamoru Yamazaki

As companies have finished restructuring and the economy is expected to keep growing next year, you don't have to be pessimistic about a rise in the jobless rate in a single month.

Tom Browning

As companies get bigger, they are looking for efficiencies, they pare down internal resources and they get less personal with their consumers.

Colin Morton

As a shareholder you get nervous when companies say they are looking at the U.S., because historically, UK firms haven't made a good fist of it over there.

Susanna Phillips

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Ted Moskonas

It would be very easy to direct a show with four or five students. But that's not what we're trying to do here.

Asia Argento

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

E. Hurley

We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of the tax law change.

Martin O'Malley

Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.

Brian Spears

I want a competitive edge for my company, and, as a member of the community, I want to do the right thing. Energy efficiency has become more important in our lives.

Ken Williams

Right now, we're still in the grind of it. You've got to keep that edge to you. OK, yeah, (it's) a happy, joyful occasion,

Mark Zandi

This is going to keep energy markets on a razor's edge for the rest of the year,

Jim Rutledge

The weather back home was been terrible so I didn't want to lose my competitive edge sitting around the house.

Stefan Hell

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Eric Rothschild

Dover is now the thin edge of the wedge. When we talk about an actor outside nature we are talking about God.

Bible Bible

And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

Gloria Naylor

Even though the planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging on to the edge just like I was; and unless there's some space, some place, to take a breather for awhile, the edge of the world - frightening as it is

Ian Macdonald

As IT projects come up, we go in and do the research into the technology and identify what level of risk and exposure that it gives to the company.

Hugh Johnson

Technology -- you really have to have exposure there.

Steve Moore

As the games get more important and there's more public exposure of it, then as the trademark owner if you don't do anything...you really are putting your rights at risk.

Adam Baker

The response from the bars, nightclubs, and restaurants has also been tremendous, as they have appreciated the publicity and foot traffic generated from exposure on our web site.

Marisa Miller

So, it's kind of a big deal. This will result in more exposure and, hopefully, new connections, more shows and who knows what.

Andrew Kohut

People with the most exposure to immigrants have fewer problems with them as a group.

Leonard Hamilton

I saw quickness, speed and intensity that separated him from other kids on the floor. He was from a small town, and even though he was very well-known in his area, maybe he hadn't gotten the exposure as other people. We were fortunate to have contacted him at the right time. I felt we were a good match for each other.

Atsushi Osa

Most of the Japanese automakers have a lot of exposure in the U.S. and it's important for their overall performance how the U.S. market performs.

Steven Patch

Most candies have very low lead, it's essentially no exposure risk at all. These Mexican candies, some of them, do have very worrisome levels of lead in them.

Christina Pearson

No state is as prepared as they need to be for a pandemic, nor is the federal government.

Jon Corzine

The short-term solution is to move the securitization of tolls so that we have the money to match federal trust fund dollars,

Tom Brokaw

The terror warnings from the highest levels of the federal government tonight are just-

Tony Avella

Something has to be done on a federal level to stop these escalating prices before people start freezing,

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

David Suzuki

Provinces have let the federal government take all of the heat and all of the pressure about Kyoto, and they really have been sitting on their asses not doing anything,

David Linthicum

The wife is being held on federal charges. I can't really speak to those charges.

Randy Nelson

They actually match up pretty good. We use the same process, which comes from federal mandates.

Chuck D.

There won't be much help from the federal or state level. Local response is going to be critical.

Michel Leveille

The brace is fine. It keeps my leg straight and stuff. It just gives me the confidence. It is like a mental thing.

Scooter Smith

The big thing has been our goaltending. Mac has been unbelievable and he gives us confidence. We know we have the talent to win games.

Valentino Rossi

Racing with Yamaha gives me a great taste and a great motivation to win; these last two championships have been two of the best,

Jason Williams

Priest, he's a hard runner who never gives up.

Paul Sagawa

Nortel doesn't have this particular piece, which gives Lucent a leg up,

Robert Kiyosaki

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Liz Shimek

Definitely, this gives us some momentum. We didn't do some of the things we wanted to do defensively, and there's a lot of time between now and the Big Ten Tournament. We've got a lot to work on.

Nigel Dawes

Colby and I like to shoot the puck and he does a great job looking to find us. There's no question he gives us a spark.

Brian Kelly

Anthony has always been a guy who has had speed, but we think he's a guy who can really come in and help us this year. It was unfortunate that we had to play him last year, but we think he gives us a real good second option right now.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

Don Kelly

With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Janet Martin

Technology made the world a very small place.

Patty Davis

This is a small town nestled in the mountains.

Harrell Smith

This is a small step to put them back into the game.

Larry Clark

This is a small hiccup, ... some disgruntled employees.

Roger Cressey

This is not a small fish. This is a big fish.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Samuel Liles

We're a small congregation, but we're not going to let this turn us around.