Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Andrew Kirk

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Justin Smirk

The post-drought rebuilding will hold back a bit of the growth and see agriculture still being a negative for 2005-06, but set us up for a very good 2006-07 - assuming average seasonal conditions,

Alexander Kalugin

We're not going to put forward demands. We'll seek to convince them that now is the time to take responsible decisions. If you come to power and form a government, you must understand you are assuming a great responsibility.

Brian Carpenter

We were assuming a transition between IPv4 and pure IPv6. The good news is that there is also a transition path from NAT and RSIP to IPv6.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

Tom Hansen

We're going to start pressing a lot of it this week ... assuming people are willing to talk.

Chuck Tursky

We wrestled Mount Pleasant at Trinity's Elite Duals, but Zach and Donnie didn't face each other. It will be a great match ... assuming both make it to the final.

William Shakespeare

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

William Lefkowitz

A lot of people are assuming after Intel's disappointment that Texas Instruments will also disappoint.

Chad Jackson

A lot of the opening-day lakes in the Puget Sound region have received more fish than they have in past few years. Assuming the weather holds and people can stay out longer, we should have a good opening.

Jim Calhoun

The person who believes less in Josh is Josh. It's a daily progress with him to get him to believe.

Martin Seligman

Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche.

Dave Brat

We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

Kim Sears

Universities, colleges and business schools get that information on students. He believes military recruiters should too.

Marek Hlasko

At first, one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost.

Robert McDonald

At Emerson we never use the term 'lobby,' ... We use the term 'educate.' Our management believes that if we can educate elected officials to the global challenges that American businesses face today ... that hopefully they will make better public policy decisions.

Bill Novelli

AARP believes the millions of older Americans and their families will be helped by this legislation, ... far from perfect.

Samuel Butler

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Olli Jokinen

It's just so much a different feeling this year. We've become a good team as the season has gone along, and everybody believes we can still get to the playoffs. The guys really believe in each other.

Allen Fishbein

A lot of borrowers don't understand the risks. There's a danger in treating a mortgage like a credit card.

George Soros

This asymmetry in the treatment of lenders and borrowers is a major source of instability in the global capitalist system and it needs to be corrected,

Wade Henderson

Anti-discrimination laws are the foundation to ensuring that people of color are treated equally. We will vigilantly defend any law, regulation, or ordinance that is designed to ensure equal treatment of all borrowers in the mortgage process.

Keith Gumbinger

These loans can be of value for people who want to save or invest the money they would have paid in principal, ... Unfortunately, the way the product has been pitched, borrowers have been encouraged to stretch their budget to buy more house.

Patricia Scherschel

With interest rates on federal student loans set to rise on July 1 for the second-straight year, the clock is ticking for borrowers to lock in today's interest rates -- the fourth-lowest in the history of the student loan program.

Beth Haiken

We're concerned for borrowers because they may not fully understand what may happen. In three or five years, we may be in a different credit cycle and they may not be able to refinance as easily as they expected.

Luke Swarthout

Loan repayment policies must be improved, so they do not push borrowers into poverty or discourage people from getting a college degree.

Keith Gumbinger

Most borrowers have some financial cushion so the impact won't be immediate; spending an extra $380 is manageable at first. But it's safe to say there are some who will find themselves in budgetary difficulties a year or two down the road.

Keith Gumbinger

Expanding your menu (as a lender) to include as many loan choices means you get a better opportunity to scour borrowers out of niche markets.

Erik Autor

We're going to monitor this situation very carefully over the next several months. This is a case where what happens in Washington can have as much effect on cargo as what happens on the docks.

Niklas Savander

When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles.

Dallas Salisbury

Workers should think about it very carefully and go through a very clear evaluation.

Alice Lichtenstein

What's really important is that we carefully look at what our lifestyle patterns are, our eating patterns are, make small changes and make sure those changes that we make can be maintained on a daily basis.

Jack Straw

We're going to listen carefully to what the president has to say and we'll take it from there,

Jean Charest

We're going to carefully prepare this mission. It's not easy to go to a country like India where we don't have a presence.

Strobe Talbott

As Secretary (of State Madeleine) Albright and others have said, once there has been a complete withdrawal, the international community might consider permitting the return of some official Yugoslav personnel to perform very clearly specified and very carefully circumscribed and supervised functions within Kosovo,

Nazila Sawhney

It's the purity of the fabrics, the sensuality of the look and the fact that everything's carefully hand-done.

Richard Jackson

It is said that each of the chemicals in use need to be thought about very carefully in terms of their human health risks. Especially the risks to children, and the amounts left on food should be as little as possible.

Dan Roberts

We've already noticed some changes in the water.

Derek McLuckey

We are making adjustments in the first quarter of this year because of changes in our military support business. These changes have forced us to make this necessary decision to ensure our competitiveness.

Juergen Boos

We are looking forward to presenting in Frankfurt the great changes that have taken place in India over the last 20 years.

Bill Belichick

There are changes every year. It's hard to tell how all of those will pan out. But there's a lot of work to do.

Frank Robinson

We started making subtle changes during the course of that (1988) season and got prepared for '89,

John Ashcroft

Where there are responsible changes to be made, we will make them, ... Where there are mistakes to acknowledge, we will not shy away from doing so. Those who step forward to voice their legitimate concerns will be welcomed, and often their ideas reviewed and embraced.

Nicolas Roeg

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five.

Brian Morrison

We're not going to put asterisks on any of our records. There have been so many rule changes, and so many changes in the style of play, and so many other things to consider over the years that we're not going to go there.

Dan Bartlett

What the public wants is back-to-basics governance and decision-making. This is not a situation in which it changes overnight or that there's a 'Hail Mary' pass that changes the dynamic. . . . There's not a magic bullet.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

James Blumenthal

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

Steve Brown

When (former Gov. George Ryan's) administration tried to roll back the sales tax, it just went into the pockets of refiners and retailers and had no effect on prices,

Bob Ross

If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

Jeff Gundy

There is no question that he will be competitive and high energy. But how effective he would be, really, I don't have any idea. We'll have to see.

Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Nicholas Jarecki

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

Larry Lucchino

Tom Werner said this is a happy day for the Red Sox, and I agree. We?re a stronger, more effective and bolder front office.

Peter Beutel

We're still going to need to refine this oil into heating oil and gasoline before it really has an effect on us.

Scott Jones

We're seeing a divergence in the equity markets and a divergence in the tech stocks, ... Dell is weighing on hardware stocks.

Alan Rose

It's the fear there's going to be a mad rush for the exits in the equity market: that's what generates the interest in Treasuries.

John Person

This move will have a short-term negative impact on the equity markets. However, it is longer term, a positive.

Jeff Simpson

There's equity in the conference. There's a small margin between finishing second and finishing last, and that small margin is hard to define. I think we're better than our record shows, but we're playing in a very tough conference.

Chris Fox

The big reason is because being independently owned and operated gives us a lot more flexibility, from everything to fee splits to equity opportunities in the firm for our brokers.

Tyler Mason

A vast majority is equity that is already vested in the company. It's not a result of this merger at all -- 90 percent of the options that are granted to the executives would vest with our without the deal.

Membathisi Mdladlana

Once there's equity in the workplace, the law will become redundant.

Ken Scholen

A reverse mortgage is the true home equity loan.

Lauren Fine

The supposedly lack of participation by private equity firms also does not send a good signal, in our view.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Stephen Moore

What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over the past 20 years?,

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Michael Chertoff

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,

Kenneth Langone

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

Dan Lipinski

With the overall size of the federal marketplace expanding, we should be seeing opportunities opening up for our nation's small businesses.

Claire McCaskill

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

John Maroon

We want to reach out not just to sports fans, but parents who are involved in their kids' lives.

Adam Gilchrist

We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

Greg Brown

We're going to have 13 different departments involved in this deployment

Pete Bodyk

We're getting more and more local law enforcement involved in our mobilizations.

Ken Whisenhunt

They have been sitting through the meetings all year long so I don't think so. They've been involved in it all year long so it shouldn't be a problem.

Adam Schneider

They shouldn't be involved in the process and they're not.

Matt Smith

They're your next season-ticket holders, they're your next patrons. It's vital that they become involved and share the same passion as their parents.

James McTeigue

For Alan, the material is 25 years old and there is a part of him that has moved on. It is disappointing he didn't want to be involved with it, but that's Alan. That's his personality.

Mike Dunham

We have to find ways to win. There's not much margin for error. Just because it's not your night, you can't say it's not your night. We don't have enough time for that.

Don Cheadle

A lot of actors had reservations about the material and about Paul - not his personality or talent, but, with a first- time filmmaker, there was not a lot of margin for error. But I trusted his vision.

Erik Suppiger

This is a marginal disappointment. Revenues were slightly shy.

Charli Turner

It's the end of February. We've been talking this whole second round that we don't have any margin for error.

Yoshihisa Miyamoto

The size of the outlook revision, unseen in recent years, was a big surprise. Profit margins are dropping.

Phil McNichol

It was an eyelash. Bode would have won and should have won by a margin that would have shocked people.

Howard Wilkinson

Things are tightening up a lot here. Wherever the race is, it's within the margin of error. This is now a much tighter race now.

Mats Sundin

You never know in a tournament like this. The margin is so close.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

Don MacDonald

When you, the consumer, look for a brand, you want it to simplify your purchase and come from someone you trust.

Susan Klein

Make sure when you purchase your ticket, you know what you're really getting.

Rebecca Fuller

We purchased one lesson. And that's all he needed.

Quintilian

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

John Andrews

I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Suzanne Vitadamo

She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Will Brown

They're going to play regardless of what the score is, and they'll probably play early.

Daryl Manning

There's a violation to have any sign in any homeowner's yard, regardless of what it says.

Sean Kline

They always play us harder. It always seems like they come out and give us a game, regardless of the way the rest of the season is going.

Ben Wallace

That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation.

Sergei Lavrov

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Katie Findlay

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

Jencarlos Canela

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

Nicholas Burns

We're just going to reserve any kind of commendation for the Belgrade government.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Michael Friedman

The stock trades at about 9 times its 2003 earnings,

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Bobby Labonte

We're going to be like the stock market. We're going to be up and down.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Gerardo Cardenas

They shouldn't have their studies interrupted because of the situation.

Matthew Daus

This is one of the most important studies we've seen.

Eric Jackson

If the studies are accurate, we can see Oaklawn take it to new levels.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Abheek Barua

There is nothing to suggest that would be the trend.

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.

Tony Campolo

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Mark Twain

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Joseph Powers

Irrigation is being done on the (town hall) mall, so I would suggest French's Common,

Mary Wesley

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.