Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Shapiro

We were at the tail-end of a championship run. Instead of letting that run naturally just play out and transpire, we abruptly traded good players and artificially created an upper-level in our farm system.

William Manchester

Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.

Falun Gong

For a professional artist to be taken so abruptly without consultation with the company is of great concern to the safety of citizens travelling in China,

Russell Coutts

It was symbolic of the prevailing attitude at the time that locks to the base were changed abruptly so that sailors, who had been with Team New Zealand for more than a decade, including Brad, found themselves humiliatingly locked out.

Mark Vitner

Back in late 2000 the Chicago PMI weakened a month ahead of the ISM survey. The weakness then also came quite unexpectedly and soon afterwards the Fed abruptly reversed course,

Michael Ignatieff

After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?

Kevin Hunter

Southern California is a place of relationship fiction and friction ending abruptly without warning. Here you have a city that is all about looks, but when you look deeper, there isn't much else. Here in L.A. if you've lasted in a relationship for four years and it ends you say, "Oh, we had a good run.", like it's, "The O.C." or "C.S.I." - From the book by Kevin Hunter, Jagger's Revolution

Ian Shepherdson

This is a significant decline in confidence, ... Presumably the combination of higher interest rates and stagnant stock prices lies behind the moves, but the key point is that the steady rise in recent months has abruptly begun to reverse.

Hanya Yanagihara

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

Ron Wilson

We actually got right down to the wire on both kills. I think maybe we let our guard down a little bit.

Jack Berry

We always hate to see employees move out, but we're always seeing movements, both in and out.

Atharva Veda

Wealth comes naturally to a person, who is endowed with both these qualities.

Plato

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Alan Greenspan

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Robert Aventajado

We want them to make collective decisions. Otherwise, how can we hold negotiations at all? ... Without them putting their demands in writing, we'll just be confused.

Margaret Chan

New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.

Randy Huth

We write what we know about. It's easy to write songs about things you're familiar with. We're all collective writers.

Carl Jung

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

Henry Hyde

would be to look the other way instead of confronting our collective responsibility under the Constitution.

Eric Anderson

We're looking for collective wisdom on what we can do to help.

Dennis Miller

America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me.

Adam Haluska

It's kind of a collective decision. It's something we see as protecting home and it's not out of reach.

Jeff Kinney

It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.

David Berkowitz

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Joseph Roth

We've already received such a warm reception from customers in Michigan. Just as we have customers who are excited about Ikea, we have lots of potential employees who are excited as well.

Cindy Adams

We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,

Carly Fiorina

Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do.

Alex Jones

When you talk to customers, you can tell that a lot of them are a lot more local.

Quincy Allen

We want our customers to be able to tell the difference.

Niklas Zennstrom

Until now, we've been primarily focused on PCs. But our customers want a more ubiquitous experience. And, with a service for mobile phones, we plan to deliver this.

Joko Widodo

When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.

Miriam Toews

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

Kay Redfield Jamison

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

John Miller

They (patients participating in support groups) are more likely to be complying with their medications, less likely to be depressed and actually in some studies people have quicker rehabilitation,

Doug Leggate

The removal of hedging for '06 should reveal (the company's) true earnings power as hedges have depressed earnings over the past three years.

Spencer White

Our sense is that expectations are now so depressed that we are likely to see more upgrades than downgrades from this level. It has not been such good value since 2003.

Douglas Brinkley

Depressed and in physical pain from hip-replacement surgery, he started talking openly about suicide, polishing his .45-calibre pistol, his weapon of choice.

Del Shannon

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

Marian Edelman

So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

Ted Knight

Sometimes when I got a little lonely or depressed I would go down to the supermarket in hopes of being recognized. I would squeeze a few melons and look around surreptitiously. Raise my voice if I had to.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Robert H. Connelly

When faced with a tough choice, pause for a moment and think what your Mother would say about your decision.

John Walters

We're going to have to focus on the particular, unique circumstances we're faced with girls, which is different today than it's ever been before, which has obstacles we've not faced before, but obstacles we can overcome if we do the right thing.

Dawn Staley

We faced elimination, so we know what it feels like. Seattle doesn't at this point, so it (the pressure) is going to be on them. They're supposed to win.

Mike Angel

We faced a team with a lot of athleticism and a lot of length. That made it more difficult.

Todd Abbott

We faced a really good pitcher our first game.

Kirk Maltby

We faced a lot of great goaltending in Nashville, so we're familiar with it,

Randy Osnes

We faced a kid last night that threw different than what we saw tonight, so we had to make some adjustments.

Frank Poirot

We faced a choice. Low and wide, or tall and narrow.

Cliff Politte

A lot of us were nervous knowing that it's a big game, a big situation and we haven't thrown, haven't faced a hitter in two weeks. If I have to rest until March or February, so be it. We live with it as long as we win.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk (Bonds), even before Mo was here. The only thing is, the guy wants to hit a few home runs.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Tim DeBruycker

We stopped doing what we were doing and we let them right back in the game. Then we're tied. No matter what we did in the first few minutes it didn't mean anything.

Joddie Gleason

We started off the season making a few more turnovers than we would have liked, but a lot of that had to do with all the new players learning a new system.

Nancy Diers

We started a little slow, and we picked it up after the first loss. We didn't serve receive well, and we missed a few serves that were critical. That just comes with experience.

Jamie Watson

We started a few games where we started strong, experience-wise but we should have played better in the end. We needed this game to stay in the playoff hunt.

Maria Bamford

I've been stopped a few times by people who want to say, 'Hi.' But I'm an introverted person, and the idea that I'd have to talk to people all the time seems a little overwhelming.

Bryan Hassler

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Jacques Rogge

We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.

Margaret Chan

Until we see further evidence, we are still at Phase 3 of the pandemic alert,

R. Robinson

This (The IRA plan) is just a further delaying tactic to gain further concessions.

Alia Faraj

We're going to study the matter further and review all the information that will be provided to our office.

Todd Lewis

When we conducted a further investigation of his so-called hospitalization over the weekend, the indication was they didn't think anything was wrong with him and they were trying to get him out the door.

Source Unknown

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Drew Mitchell

We're in the sweet 16. We've gone a lot further than we thought we would.

Jarrad Page

There was too much hesitation out there. They were more sure of themselves than we were. We were just slow.

Franz Kafka

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Jamie Redknapp

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

Hal Sparks

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

John Gibbons

He was moving like nothing ever happened. I didn't see any hesitation or anything. We'll know better tomorrow.

John Kerr

(Christian) cashes in on any hesitation by the other player. (He) can read it like an animal.

Andrew Motion

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Hesitation will get you killed.

Lee Bermejo

Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.

Jeffrey Nelson

We have no immediate plans to run that service. What runs on our network are our services.

Sergei Ivanov

We are also ready for an immediate start to official talks with the United States on SALT 3.

Andy Reid

It?s the immediate thing I had to do.

Pat Quinn

It's the normal routine for me. We'll meet with the players and review the season. That's the immediate future.

Charles Schumer

This Medicare Part D plan is a fiasco. It's much worse than people imagined. The problems are not simply problems of immediate implementation, but conception.

Khader Habib

There will be a painful, immediate response for tonight's crime,

O. J. Simpson

There's a long list of sites that need immediate attention.

Eduard Shevardnadze

They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

Chris Abani

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

Chogyam Trungpa

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Chip Conley

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

Barnett Newman

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

David Hong

The positive impact of an FTA is tremendous, ... Prospects for the Philippine Economy.

Richard Flood

We are seeing an expanded use of impact fees.

Kathryn Wylde

We've already got reports that sales were down this last weekend over last year. I'm sure there's been an impact on tourism as well.

Jim Tracy

We're talking about a catcher. Squatting, up and down out of the crouch, runners going, boom, the impact of landing. ... It doesn't make any sense to push it.

Mark Cuban

It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.

Robert DiClemente

At each such turning point since 1960, industrial production has risen notably over the succeeding 12 months. This period is unlikely to be an exception.

Washburn

This is their boom. This is their Industrial Revolution,

John Larson

It was a very important crossing, and it was very important to that industrial area.

Ian Shepherdson

Production was steady, ... a real industrial recovery is still some way off.

Phil Hardberger

sophisticated things that the industry really needs, and that we don't have. We're not an industrial town, we haven't done much of that sort of thing. We don't have enough people that know how to do those things, and consequently we are losing jobs and subsequently we're losing business.

John Coniglio

There is a real promise for this product for the industrial market.

Allen Newton

We're about out of industrial property at the interstate. It's one of those things when you're looking for property, you need a lot.

Tim Varney

There's no dialogue, it's kind of universal. Sort of like an industrial style, rock and roll tap show.

Rick Renzi

is not to spy into Mexico to steal some sort of industrial secrets or something.

Michael Allen

They need to have sustained growth, so they can't concentrate only on the high-density market. What they've done for the most part is go into very big destination markets like New York to Southern Florida.

Frank Lesh

It's nothing more than a psychological spot; it's like 10,000 on the Dow. In reality, the markets themselves don't see anything special about that $50 level.

Joseph McAlinden

People get white knuckles from turbulence. But I don't think what we're experiencing in the markets is a suggestion that we're on the verge of something really horrible.

Marc Ganis

The teams in smaller markets, like Jacksonville and Cincinnati, got their stadiums first. Then it was the big markets' turn -- Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, and soon New York and Dallas. The disparities between markets have become magnified.

John Felmy

Right now, the short-term markets are going a little crazy. If there is little damage, they can reverse themselves.

Greg Valliere

Right now the markets are viewing this as if it's going to be quick and painless.

Ken Tower

This is a really tricky time for investors, because there is such a strong seasonal tendency for markets to struggle.

Tom McLaughlin

This is something that could take manufacturers into new markets and niches.

Martin Winterkorn

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

Benoit Mandelbrot

One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

Peter Morici

We're starting to get into the zone where if this persists its problematic,

Bertrand Russell

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

Brian Tracy

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

Bryant H. McGill

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Catherine Ponder

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Catherine Ponder

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Chris Chocola

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

Bob Taft

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.

Barbara Olson

What do I tell the pilots to do?

Jane D. Hull

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

Brent Scowcroft

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

Tony Dungy

You don't win championships in September or October. You don't win them in week eight. You don't win them with one game.

Doris Lessing

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Fidel Castro

They should put those signs inside, not outside.

Wendy Suehrstedt

It's at that time that the big signs will change.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Nancy Umstead

As a group, we think they are signs of energy.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Josh Hufford

Stop signs in Spain aren't red... They're rojo.

Susanne Villarreal

That's why those signs didn't go up because somebody called and complained about them.

Tom Bentz

There are some signs that things are getting better.

Michael Redd

Those signs are the real deal. They're our standard and what we strive for in every game.

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

Jennifer Schack

A breezy day is in the forecast, with our temperatures struggling to climb.

Tommy Lee Jones

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Niranjan Shah

We are struggling to give three suitable venues to the ICC for the tournament.

Gerard Houllier

We are struggling to get tickets, even for the technical study group.

Patrick Halsted

We're struggling with what we do with these things.

Sharon Alexander

We're struggling to survive, ... We can't go down after 59 years.

Jeff Kasko

We're struggling to get there. But we're still hopeful.

Rachel Brosnahan

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

Kenneth Clarke

They suddenly thought they had someone with the X-factor.

Bill Xia

It's not that suddenly we did something new.

Derek Jacobi

I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

Robert Mundell

It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.

Lynsey Addario

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

Kurt Barnard

This is really the surprise of the year. We should have really anticipated it because suddenly the weather turned very cold.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

David Hockney

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charles M. Schulz

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.