Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoshihiro Gake

The slide in stocks is a positive for bonds. Further stocks declines will damp individuals' sentiment and could affect growth.

Sophia Koropeckyj

This year, most of the strong growth will be in the first half of the year and then it will taper off. Higher interest rates will start to kick in. That will affect companies' (ability to) borrow, it will affect the housing market and all the various industries that are related to that.

Mark Schmidt

When I was their age, I never got tired. Their bodies are used to it, and it doesn't seem to affect them. Two games in two days is tough, but these guys will be ready to go.

Timothy Ghriskey

This seems to be a period where the market is very unsettled. There's really no leadership and that's because there's a lot of uncertainty, not only about the Fed, but in terms of where the economy is going and how that will affect corporations.

Bill Richardson

The reason is, the state treasurer serves on 10 boards and commissions that affect investment and business and financial decisions of the state, and I don't think it's appropriate that he participate while the charges are pending,

Rob James-Collier

The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience.

Lisa Randall

There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden from us in some way, perhaps because they're tiny or warped. But even if they're invisible, they could affect what we actually observe in the universe.

Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.

Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

Bill Muir

As European markets move farther east, Ukraine becomes cost-competitive with our most competitive places.

Rig Veda

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

Bob Kelly

What this means is that Windows becomes the platform for virtualization. Customers will consolidate existing systems to Windows using virtual technology. This is very compelling to our customer base.

John Horrigan

If my mother can set up her own broadband connection and she did then it has become a technology that is reasonably user-friendly to everybody. As more and more people go to the Internet just to pass the time, just for fun, it becomes a destination, just like turning on the TV traditionally has been.

Chris Noth

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

Dan Barrett

I'm sure there are higher-paying jobs, but it's not about the pay, it's about helping the people. Helping people when they're going through this becomes more important than anything.

Justin Chiera

I?m sure it?s in everyone?s mind. Being my last year, I want extra games at home, but once it becomes game time, it?s not on our minds... We?re just trying to go out and win every game from here on out.

Jerry Greenberg

In cases where the right people are paired, each person's power is increased by the alliance. The whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.

Robert Schaeffer

In classrooms serving low-income and minority kids, it turns into teaching the test. The test becomes the curriculum. Because of concerns that those kids are not going to pass, education becomes narrowed to the content of the test.

Ray Mabus

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Michael Josephson

The choices you make in your life will make your life. Choose wisely.

Kamala Harris

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Alexander Dubcek

Socialism with a human face.

Susan Sontag

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Heather Casey

I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did with her hands got her something she wanted.

E. Helm

Terrorists around the world will realize that America's differences end at the water's edge, and that the United States' political leadership always has, and always will stand united in the face of international terrorism,

Shinzo Abe

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

Phyllis Hunter

My niece is going to go stay with her tonight, ... I just can't face her right now. I have to figure something out. I can't lose her.

Abbey Clancy

My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.

Mauricio Farah

Many don't know the risk they face, or ignore the risk they face or are deceived.

Saxby Chambliss

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Colin Hanks

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Rick Davis

We didn't have low expectations in Iowa, we had no expectations in Iowa.

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Bobby Douglas

Trent will be OK. There is no reason to risk anything when the Big 12 meet is two weeks away.

Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Daniel H. Pink

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

Charles Bukowski

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Ricky Hatton

I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.

Ricky Hatton

As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

Ricky Hatton

I have no fear in moving up (in weight) and fighting.

Ricky Hatton

As long as I've got the love of the fans, that means everything to me.

Ricky Hatton

The fans only don't support me cos of the way I fight, they support me cos of the way I am.

Ricky Hatton

Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Donald Miller

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

Dusty Springfield

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

Claudio Hummes

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

Dalai Lama

In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

Dalai Lama

There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.

Diogenes

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders.

Dick Gephardt

When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

Desmond Tutu

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

Samir Haj

I wanted to get everyone's attention. We need people willing to play and put out the effort.

Jose Andres Puerta

I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished.

Martin Klebba

The one thing little people don't like is the 'M' word, 'midget.'

A. N. Wilson

The ones that are flagging up the 'no' vote are the ones that haven't suffered in this war, ... And the realism about it is that the people that have suffered in this war are most of the people that are saying 'yes.'

Tom Liston

After every large-scale tragedy 9/11, the tsunami people start scamming these fundraisers. We're just being proactive.

Charlize Theron

After Monster, when I started telling people about this story, some people said 'Oh, you're doing another ugly film'.

Megan Smith

The most important thing is, we really want to make sure the American people are able to get to any Web site they'd like to get to.

Ian Logan

The most important thing is to support work on search and rescue to get those people who are injured, then immediately to look after the people who are homeless.

Roberto Aguire

The most important thing for me is to continue to impact people through my work.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Thomas Hobbes

Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

John H. Johnson

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

John Calvin

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

George Crabbe

How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important usefulness. Good is done by degrees. However small in proportion the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good, a great deal may thus be accomplished by perseverance, even in the midst of discouragements and disappointments.

Lord Chesterfield

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Jimmy Carter

It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.

Emile Coue

Patience and perseverance are necessary in autosuggestion, as well as in everything else.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Raymond Chandler

The more you reason the less you create.

William J. H. Boetcker

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William Jennings Bryan

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.