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 . . .

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,

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.

Fidel Castro

We have no objections at all to the three officials visiting us, to know their assessment and exchange views on these matters, ... We won't close the door.

Bill Ackman

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

Shane Rattenbury

We're making an assessment of our food and fuel and our own energy levels, it's very exhausting being in small boats in such a hostile environment.

Irwin Jacobs

We believe that the current reduction, combined with other cost-cutting measures, is necessary to assure our competitive position in the rapidly growing wireless communications market.

Ken Hitchcock

Whenever there's something in the stomach, you get nervous but I've been assured it's nothing. I'm still going to be nervous until Peter is back on the ice playing pain-free.

Jack Finn

We were assured that this is the beginning of a long, slow, thorough process.

Chris Bertelli

We were assured that that information would go to the mayor.

Jerry Carroll

We were trying every way we could because we're so assured of our market here.

Robert Hathaway

We've assured the King family we will give it our best efforts to review the case and resolve it for their family.

Sue Hofer

We would rather assure them than not hear from them and have to help them recoup losses later.

Sandy Duncan

What I am being assured of is that service will not change. We will have proper coverage for our Borough.

Anthony Chan

With this figure, markets can remain all but assured that the Fed will continue to push short term rates higher well into 2006.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Jeff Horner

We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.

Greg Bolton

We want to serve families the best we can within the economy of scale.

Mike Scioscia

We absorbed non-production from some guys the best we could,

Pat Onstad

We always have a good group, both on and off the field. It was that way with Frank (Yallop) and it continues with Dom. It's not about having the best players, but having the best group of players. We just always seem to gel.

Larry Kupczyk

We always get great crowds here. We played some of our best hockey that weekend.

Ron Allen

We always enjoy the games between us. We always have great contests. Larry and I have been best friends for 20 seasons out here.

Lord Melbourne

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Denis Waitley

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Heywood Sanders

We're talking about a market where convention centers are giving their space away. There clearly will be winners and losers.

Ronald Neumann

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Paul Bauer

We have never been 5-0. One thing I can say about this team is we have been in some close games, but find a way to win. I am real proud of the kids tonight because we played without (senior running back Nate) Robinson for most of the fourth quarter. A lot of our offense centers around him, but the kids stepped up.

H. Hart

What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to hijack four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon at 9 a.m. on September 11, we are not accountable, ... In the Money.

Michael Barry

We're seeing continued development in New Jersey's urban centers in response to an ever-increasing demand for luxury residences near mass transportation. Mixed-use development is the byword People want retail shops and services at their doorstep; they'd like to be able to walk rather than drive.

Frank Turner

What Lincoln wants to do is to create a mixed-use urban center. One of the questions the plan commission needs to consider is how many and how big and where should urban centers be the most appropriately located.

Tod Marks

With these candies, it's all about the fillings. The centers just exploded with flavor, and unusual flavors like tropical fruit and key lime pie.

Robert Redford

As San Francisco holds a special place in my heart and is one of the nation's great centers of independent film, I am particularly excited to have found such a perfect home for Sundance in this city.

Gunter Thielen

We are prepared for an IPO. Bertelsmann has developed strongly in the last years and increased its profits considerably.

Gerhard Schroeder

Where it is necessary, programs will be further developed with public discussion,

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Gene Meyers

We're sticking with technology that has been developed and used.

Von Hatley

What made the difference? I think at the end of the day it was the personal and professional relationships we developed with this company.

Nina Jacobson

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

Robert Klein

As we developed that reputation, the volume has increased, ... Being a new facility and having high visibility, we felt that it was a product line that we wanted to focus on.

Geno Zamora

About a year ago I realized I had developed a set of skills that could help our state, and I was raised that you give back to your community. I want to use my skills to help and protect the people of New Mexico.

Stacey Koerner

They have developed a real expertise for synchronous Internet applications linked to TV content.

Jack Dolan

We are looking to them. Oklahoma did an excellent job getting people paid promptly.

William Shakespeare

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

Jon Oringer

Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.

Bruce Bochy

We're getting hit pretty hard right now, especially with the way spring was going. We were in excellent shape, right until the final days.

Craig Monroe

It's exciting for us as a team to be able to go out and have pitching like that. Our pitching staff has done an excellent job. Things are going to be fun around here.

Tara VanDerveer

It seems like the strengths of a lot of these teams are really similar. Everybody's got excellent post players.

Gordon Strachan

It's a shame for him because he has been playing excellent football and in a nice partnership with a nice midfield going there but we will just get on with it.

Kathy Langston

Alyssa did excellent today. She still makes some freshman mistakes, but she gels very well with the other girls.

Joel Trickey

They have four excellent defensemen. You don't get too many second chances.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Helen Sharman

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

Chris Chocola

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Derek Jeter

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Palitha Kohona

We are awaiting a response from the Tigers to an offer of a private sea plane for their use.

Larry Templeton

We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.

Chang-Rae Lee

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

Bill Walsh

Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.

Mack Brown

Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one?

Kristy Servati

They do so much. We really do owe them a lot of thanks.

Marcus Giles

It's about enough of that, I think. We need to step up. We owe it to the pitchers.

Matt Hasselbeck

It's a pep rally, right? Those people were there from, like, 4:30 in the morning, so I feel like I owed them something.

Lisa Mandeville

At halftime, I told them if they score one more fast-break point on us, you?re going to run a suicide in practice tomorrow. I?m not being facetious -- they owe me two.

Nick Iammartino

It was strictly a bookkeeping error. We do not owe any states any back money.

Markus Naslund

It was a treat being around him for three years. Not only me but the team owes him a lot from all the stuff he taught us. He's going to go down as one of the all-time greats.

Irvin Kauffman

Teach we must, for we owe all that we are to all those who have been and all that we have to those who are yet to come ...if they but ask!

Jim Curry

Public welfare trumps individuals' and businesses' rights. We owe it to our children, we owe it to the public to pass this measure. It's the right thing to do. It's the right time to do it.

Lauren Miller

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

Jake Daum

It's a little overwhelming, especially when your partner just lost. And him getting that tilt was the turning point in the match.

Pranab Mukherjee

Russia is a perfect partner in this direction.

Arianna Huffington

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Eleanora Duse

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Gary Karr

We wanted to respect all the partners out there and their religious beliefs.

Aaron Biggs

We kind of know we can't be partners every single day or someone's going to get hurt. We just know each other so well now, we know each other's tendencies.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

John Burke

We've been working with our partners for years to provide them insight. Have we solved this problem? No, but we're getting closer.

Arianna Huffington

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Eleanora Duse

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Gary Karr

We wanted to respect all the partners out there and their religious beliefs.

Aaron Biggs

We kind of know we can't be partners every single day or someone's going to get hurt. We just know each other so well now, we know each other's tendencies.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

John Burke

We've been working with our partners for years to provide them insight. Have we solved this problem? No, but we're getting closer.

Susie Bright

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Eva Longoria

A marriage is a partnership.

Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

Alan Watts

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

Alan Watts

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Jon Abernathy

We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen up before the VOL Tournament.

John Fuchs

We're right on schedule with where we should be. I'm very pleased with how things are going.

Maurice Greenberg

We are also very pleased we could reach an amicable settlement with Prudential,

Kobe Bryant

We're pleased with the way we played. We feel good.

Brian Oxman

We're pleased with the results. It's time to get on to new and better things.

Randy King

We're pleased with the distinction, but we think there's more to do.

Chris Greene

We're pleased with our wildlife rehabilitators in this area,

Rick Ernst

We're pleased with how the project is going so far.

Jayson Ahern

We're pleased when a test like this is able to demonstrate the efficacy of our technology.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

George Kafkarkou

Small solution providers are just as important to CA as the big solution provider. They make the market, and we are respectful of that.

Julian Baggini

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charlie Munger

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

Bill Belichick

All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.

William Shakespeare

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.

Carl Levin

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably

Calvin Trillin

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

Deepak Chopra

A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed but complete.

Brian Carlwell

My visit was good, and I just wanted to get the recruiting over with.

Terry Gough

I don't know what it is. Recruiting is crazy.

Vivek Wadhwa

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

Lacey Schanz

Recruiting is an art. You have to be as serious about recruiting as you are about coaching.

Robert Massey

Winning's a recruiting tool, ... We have to get some wins.

Randy Edsall

There has to be a whole revamping of recruiting because of technology.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Chester Jourdan

They don't have the resources to do that nor, unless we get that supplemental (federal) money, will (they ever) have the resources to do it.

David Straus

It would put a strain on the resources big-time.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Edsger Dijkstra

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Darryl Franklin

We all know there is not the resources and wherewithal to do all the things in the plan.

R. Inge

The resources took a breather for a variety of reasons.

Jeb Bush

The resiliency of this state is awesome. While we're strained in terms of the resources of our state right now, we're unbowed.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Pope John

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

John Keefe

After all these years of service, ... you kind of feel, 'Why did I do this?'

Mike Torres

The service may be a little slow for a little while it stabilizes.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Alan Greenspan

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

David Brenner

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Bill Maher

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Bill Bailey

Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

Charles Edwards

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Bill Gates

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Bill Gates

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Charles Lyell

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

Derek Jeter

These are some of the tools that we use.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Sam Curry

This is Old World crime, but it's using new tools.

Edward Looney

We're using the word 'gambling' more often now.

Stephen Chbosky

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Shaun White

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.