Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing - Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Edsger Dijkstra

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

Larry Freed

During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

Ismail Haniyeh

We've handled challenges in the past and we will be able to stand up to future challenges as well.

Peter Yesawich

This speaks volumes about the challenges contemporary families have simply coordinating schedules . . . and the premium they place on the increasingly limited leisure time they spend together.

Patricia Hill Collins

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

Martin Seligman

You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.

John Shelby Spong

My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.

Mark Lawrence

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

Alexandre Dumas

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

Domhnall Gleeson

Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.

George Leung

The widening rate gap between the U.S. and HK in the later part of 2006 will likely be accompanied by a strong HK dollar.

Michael Greco

There are some significant gaps in people's knowledge,

Richard Cobden

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Randy Baseler

The A340 is on its last legs. Airbus has a huge gap between 300 seats and the A380. They will have to do something.

Amy Butcher

The gap between what Stephen Harper and the Conservatives practice and what they preach is as wide as the St. Lawrence.

Andy Kohut

Over three October surveys, he's steadily increased the percentage of people who say he is likable, honest and able to get things done; the qualifications gap between him and Gore is also much diminished. There is nothing here that would lead me to say that there are signs of a nascent Gore movement; it is all pushing toward Bush.

Joseph Biden

We're losing them because they look over there and they think ? there's this giant gap between what they see and the rhetoric they hear.

Anne Enright

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Sidney Poitier

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

George W. Bush

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Henry Louis Gates

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

George Eliot

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

Christopher Alexander

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.

Jay Carter

We've had 4-H turkeys as many years as steers. We used to get them in April, now we get them the end of July and they still weigh as much come November.

Anita Hill

In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since

English 17th Century Proverbs

A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

Mark Turgeon

We didn't play together. We didn't play the way that led us to the (Missouri Valley regular-season) championship or the Sweet 16.

John C. Calhoun

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

Ken Roeder

We led 19-11 before Washburn (9-4) put on a five-point run to get back within three at the end of the first quarter. The tide turned at that point and Washburn could do no wrong.

Clint Norred

What led up to it is under investigation.

Sam Smith

Tuesday, March 7, Dumpsters will be in place, so they can turn in their garbage.

Warren G. Bennis

Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march

Seymour Cassel

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

James Wolpert

I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Atticus Ross

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

Jose Antonio Vargas

All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Even in my age now, I'm the same as before and just as fearful I only learn how to pretend to be strong

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.