Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Kristof

Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are invaluable. One is volunteering, especially mentoring other young people with reading, math or help thinking about college. Through iMentor, one can even mentor people online.

Ann Fox

Wouldn't you like to write checks when you don't have any money in the bank? ... It's tempting. It's just that the consequences are bad.

Grant Wistrom

We're getting better coverage. Our linebackers are more sound. We're getting better checks and better coverage. Guys like Rocky (Bernard) and Bryce (Fisher) have obviously picked it up for us, and they're rushing the quarterback really well.

Toni Sacconaghi

As much as we had hoped that our reseller checks would have been more encouraging, the fact is simply that demand continues to remain weak, with no imminent rebound,

Marc Benioff

They have created a culture of acquisition instead of innovation. It's a lot easier just to write big checks than it is to innovate.

David Oliver

They have a good power play, they are a physical team that finishes checks and they have the talent to score goals. They are one of the top teams in contention to win the Calder Cup and we're in the game with them. We're close.

Jill Furillo

This fundraiser is the prime example of what is wrong with our system. They write their $100,000 checks because they hope to get a favor in return.

Andrei Lankov

For decades, this country was second only to Albania, or even second to none, for keeping out all information about foreign countries. But the old state supervision, where the police would do random checks looking for things like radios, collapsed over the last decade. It was too expensive to run.

Don Peters

For all investors who wrote checks to Uncle Sam, they could think about investing differently for their taxable accounts.

Granth Sahib

There is no other as Great as the Guru. I have come and collapsed in the Guru's Sanctuary. In His Kindness, He has united me with God.

Alfred Artis

They made it tough on us. When we collapsed on Gamble on the inside, No. 24 (Johnson) would hit those long 3s and when we went out to guard him, they would score underneath.

Toby Dodge

They're negotiating about an institution that doesn't exist and shows no signs of coming to life, ... The state collapsed in June, 2003, and definitely needs to be rebuilt.

Jeffrey Thomas

A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed star, but should preferably also have a kind of elegant simplicity.

Liam Dalton

The stock collapsed back down to 6 in two months because (the company's) growth rate was 650 percent in 1995 and it slowed to 87 percent in 1996. Eighty-seven percent is fast growth -- but it's at nosebleed valuations.

Fritz Braun

We are trying to lift the collapsed section of the roof and send in search dogs.

Robert Kiyosaki

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Derek Johnson

She collapsed at school and was taken to the hospital, ... That's how we found out she had asthma. It hit us by surprise.

Allen Collins

When that collapsed we lost thousands of dollars,

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Peter Feinstein

We have no other intention right now for the property other than to operate it not only as the world's largest gentlemen's club, but as the world's most expensive gentlemen's club.

Tom Parker

Absolutely. It's not an extraordinarily expensive thing. This year, we're getting a late start, but I look for it to do very well in year two and three.

Josie Russo

The most expensive item on the menu is the prime rib at $15.95, but that's a big piece of prime rib.

Robert Artelt

The more round they are, the more expensive they will be and the better quality they will be.

Rick Foster

It's just the technology, but it's expensive technology.

Virginia Barker

It's expensive and it does not offer as much protection as a vertical sea wall during a really intense storm event.

Hideo Mizutani

It seems that foreign selling, partly spurred by relatively expensive Japanese shares, has peaked out.

Kevin Knox

They're still three times as expensive as CRTs, but they're not three times better.

Sherry Broder

They (the Marcos family) always seem to find money to run for office in the Philippines, which is an expensive undertaking.

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Chris Nelson

a terrifying prospect to serious foreign policy players.

George H. W. Bush

the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in the modern history of our nation.

Jerry Lewis

This is a national security issue; this is a national security bill. It's important to protect our ports from this kind of foreign involvement.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Norihiro Fujito

It is understandable that foreigners want to take profits for now.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

Colin Lundgren

Foreign investors will still get a lot of yield comparatively in the U.S., so we could see them buying.

Charles Dickens

I only ask for information.

Charles Schumer

We want to see how much information is forthcoming between now and the 7th.

China Mieville

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

David Icke

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Some information I just keep to myself.

Dee Hock

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Mayor Barse

We are always seeking new and better information.

Richard Davidson

We've already had some very worrying points of information which could have seen the start of the correction.

Alexander Kashlinsky

Where they lived, how big they were, how much light they emitted, whether they even existed, we weren't sure. What we've done, we think, is obtain the first information about these stars.

Bill Coleman

We are a very safe community. His primary responsibility is keeping us safe.

Stuart Backerman

There is no merit to the allegations, Michael is innocent. This is in keeping with what we've said all along.

Ted Carpenter

What we're seeing is the reflection of two developments -- first of all, the U.S. military being more and more into a force-protection mode, keeping its military personnel as unexposed as possible to fighting.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Bob McNair

We're going to look at any and all options. Whether it's keeping the pick or trading or whatever.

Susie Gardner

We?re back to preparing for each opponent and keeping a routine going. Right now, we?re really out of our motivational gimmicks.

Dusty Baker

It seems like we have trouble keeping them in the ballpark. If we could keep them in the ballpark, it'd be different.

John Jones

A lot of people are in harm's way right now. Your product is keeping them safe.

James Phillips

Americans don't want to be there keeping the lid on things.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Edith Piaf

I can die now. I've lived twice.

Eartha Kitt

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Barry Commoner

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Peter Marshall

We are looking to jumpstart the program, ... This is not a short-term fix.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Charles Ramsey

We are looking into the possibility that it is gang-related, but we are not certain,

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Eddie Izzard

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Gareth Peirce

Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?

Bill O'Reilly

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

Chester Gould

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

Chester Brown

One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Stephen Jay Gould

[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.

Jillian Garza

We know that it was not a random act.

Robert A. Heinlein

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

Robert A. Heinlein

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Michelle Ryan

Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

Dave Bristow

I don't think it's a random thing and they got lucky. I think they knew.

J. G. Ballard

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Random violence is incredibly infectious

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Al Jarreau

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Chet Williamson

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Charles Rangel

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

Dick Wilcox

When we did shoot it, we shot it well. We got a lot of second shots.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Susan Hill

We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.

Matt Perry

It's a state of mind. It's a sport, but it's also a philosophy.