Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Tien

What's offensive to me is that you have the government selling Registered Traveler on the basis that we will get you through security lines faster, when they created the inconvenience on dubious grounds in the first place.

William Prophet

With the FOMC meeting less than one week away, and 10-year rates soon to be within 25 basis points of the overnight rate, it is difficult to picture the market remaining at these levels.

Peter R. Grant

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

Robin Clements

With some speculation that the RBNZ could have moved by 50 basis points, the end result was a market reaction consistent with an element of relief.

William Saturno

With its fine painting and its elaborate mural showing the mythic basis of kingship, the chamber has upended much of what we thought we knew about the early Maya.

Max Nordau

We will briefly mention some peculiarities frequently manifested by a degenerate. He is tormented by doubts, seeks for the basis of all phenomena, especially those whose first causes are completely inaccessible to us, and is unhappy when his inquiries and ruminations lead, as is natural, to no result.

Reuben Mark

We are especially encouraged by the 110 basis point improvement in gross profit margin during the quarter, to an all-time record and the largest quarterly gross profit increase in over three years.

Steve Barrow

Fifty basis points is most likely; that's factored into the markets already.

Michael Iachini

Expense ratios are all mostly under 75 basis points.

Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Katrina Kaif

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Kevyn Aucoin

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul, and sometimes even in myself.

Khalil Gibran

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

Khalil Gibran

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

Khalil Gibran

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Khalil Gibran

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Jonathan Swift

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

Jonathan Swift

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms ...

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Cynthia Lennon

Julian would call and Yoko or one of her people would say John was sleeping,

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.

Lastings Milledge

I thought about it every day. It got crazy at the trade deadline, thinking of all the possibilities where I could have gone. But nothing's done until they call you and say, 'You're traded.' I feel like I'm here, and as of now, I'm going to stay until they make a decision.

Emma Forrest

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Linton Brooks

The demonstration, which ends on Friday, is the first one we have held in China, and in fact the first one we have held outside the US.

George Steiner

This was all about a side piece, a girlfriend and it is my sister who ends up murdered.

Johns Hopkins

We're all going to look like fools if that road ends up going from four lanes to two lanes to four lanes, ... I wish we could get more things, but in my heart I don't think we're going to get any more.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

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.

Frank Martin

I'm at peace with understanding that I'm at a crossroads. I'm at peace understanding that it comes with the profession. ... But whenever you face the possibility of change, there's always a nervousness to it. We all want stability.

Ray Smith

Thats part of playing the professional game, ... Youre going to face good opposition day in and day out ... and thats why you value every at-bat. You want to make every out a tough out.

Tony Russa

It makes it a lot more personal, ... I mean, whoever you're facing, you know professionally what's at stake. But when you face a guy who's been such a great teammate, we have experienced so much together, it makes it a lot more personal.

Sidney Crosby

It's frustrating. I go out for five minutes, come back in and get hit in the face from the same guy.

Lilla Crawford

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

Kabir Bedi

There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

Pat Summitt

That's a slap in your face. It's a slap in our program's face ... and I don't understand it.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Francois Hollande

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

Robert Williamson

It's not that I'm trying to be greedy. It's the principle of it. If you're injured, the regulations state you're to be given this medal.

John Burroughs

It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental.

Adrian Benepe

This park was taken away for construction of the tunnel and never given back. We unpaved a parking lot and put up a paradise.

Girish Tyagi

There were no major surprises and that actually is good news, given that the recent surprises for the sector have been of the wrong kind.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Keith Tucker

They haven't given up, ... That is what I like about them.

Michael Gibson

over a given period of time to help them recoup that cost.

Woody Allen

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

Brian Weiss

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

Charles Bukowski

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

David McKenzie

We've still got a long way to go ... but I'm happy with my position at this point.

Rig Veda

The real happiness of life is in doing 'karma'.

Aristotle

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

Bentzi Lieberman

with happiness and determination, but without confrontation with the security forces.

Mark McGrath

When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

Marilyn Monroe

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one ... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.

Marvin J. Ashton

A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.

Nawal El Saadawi

Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.

Nathanael Greene

Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.

R. C. Sproul

The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.

Margaret Cho

If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world...And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. It's all about how you have to look a certain way or else you're worthless.. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.

Mark Twain

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Bobby Cox

He looked like a 20-game winner today. He really did. He can't pitch any better than he did today.

Phil Garner

We send them (Marlins) out of town with no change. After those first two games, it looked bleak.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Renzo Rosso

In New York, I wear dark denim most of the time.