Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

Kofi Annan

The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given.

Bruce Tulgan

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

Leonard Susskind

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses.

Michael Winter

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

Allan Zaremberg

You can't just make arbitrary caps without regard to jobs, without regard to costs.

Joanna Scott

There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And that's when I get to page 100. I have to see it out.

Peter Rainer

There's always something arbitrary when you limit a list to a fixed number. There easily could be 100 for another book.

William Novelli

Arbitrary caps on Medicare will mean that providers or beneficiaries will have to make up the difference through lower payment rates or higher cost sharing.

Roger Craig

They should go down as the greatest team in history because of the parity of the league and with all the salary caps and stuff.

Annika Sorenstam

This has been another great season and this victory caps it off.

Hugh Johnson

They are going to be looking back on the last two weeks and noticing the small caps have come back to life.

Anthony Biondo

This means a lot to me. This makes up for a lot. It caps my career.

Bob Wood

There was some movement on the part of the company in insurance premiums and deductibles, as well as caps on premium costs. Boeing offered the establishment of a committee to find ways to reduce retiree health care costs for future hires.

Michael McDonald

People think the (earnings) numbers are going to be good. All the large caps are going pretty strong, and there's also talk of a tech rebound.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying.

James Klein

These rigid percentage caps on stock create all kinds of problems. You're discouraging employer matching, and you're imposing rules on how individuals should invest their money.

James Klein

These rigid percentage caps on stock create all kinds of problems.

Alan Rickman

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...

Alan Greenspan

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Chambers

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Jardine

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Akio Morita

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Akio Morita

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Will Brown

They're going to play regardless of what the score is, and they'll probably play early.

Daryl Manning

There's a violation to have any sign in any homeowner's yard, regardless of what it says.

Sean Kline

They always play us harder. It always seems like they come out and give us a game, regardless of the way the rest of the season is going.

Ben Wallace

That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation.

Sergei Lavrov

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Katie Findlay

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

Matthew Devost

Most sites that are doing e-commerce should have some kind of security statement with regard to how your transactions are secured.