Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. Hodge

There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.

M. Hardman

We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.

Nick Woodman

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Tom Eid

There is no one-size-fits-all approach, because all businesses are not set up to run the same way.

Nancy Kaylor

We're starting to see more employers introduce flexibility into their workplace. The workplace is starting to look a little different. Businesses are finding they need to do it to retain the workers they have.

Brent Hayes

We've got hopefully a couple of new businesses that will be in the mall by early spring.

Ken Stein

We'll be counting on the continued generosity of businesses and individuals to hit our fundraising goals, but we can sure promise them a priceless entertainment experience and opportunity to help the community in this time of need.

Michael Alter

We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.

Robert Reich

We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation,

David Chavern

There are companies being told they have tens of thousands of material financial controls that have to be attested to, which on its very face is absurd. They can't all be material.

Kelly Chesney

There are some companies that use it for a direct mail piece they have within a community.

Claire Kent

The reason companies want to go public now is that (luxury good stocks) are at record high valuations.

Cummins Catherwood

We still keep seeing better-than-expected earnings. The important part of it to me for the market is that these are core companies and industries.

Kenneth Wong

We're in discussions with retailers in the upscale category, including traditional department stores, entertainment companies and restaurants.

Patricia Chadwick

We're in a zero-price environment. What really allows companies to earn is to cut costs and be in growth sectors of the marketplace.

John Palfrey

Where it is going to be tricky is in the gray area. That's where we will earn our keep. Where it's something unethical, but maybe not illegal, we want to put companies on notice that we're going to shine a light on them.

Long Nguyen

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

Olympia Snowe

Until then, the four companies will continue their work,

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Nick Griffin

We are pleased to see continued growth in the Hawaii financial services industry.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to say that we are off to a good start in 2006 with continued strong growth in software and product revenues for the first quarter.

Hoshiyar Zebari

We are at a crucial period now and we need their continued engagement.

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Douglas Elliott

We've been able to hold the line on electricity prices for a long time. Unfortunately, the costs we incur to serve customers have continued to rise over the years.

Jon Abernathy

We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.

Michael Molligan

We're still living off a couple of years of surplus rainfall. We can get through a continued dry spring, as long as the summer rains come when they're supposed to.

Gary Arant

We're still going to need continued cooperation from our customer to get through the weekend.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Jumana Musa

There is no level of crime that is so bad... that rights no longer exist.

William Shakespeare

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

Adlai E. Stevenson

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Capt. Ministral

We'll see what kind of victim it was, if it was a crime of opportunity or if someone who went out to lure a child.

Michael Bryant

We are also providing additional, enhanced services for gun crime victims and witnesses involved in these lengthy and large gun-crime prosecutions,

Sandra Miller

Unfortunately in tourism, perception is reality. Because if a tourist or visitor perceives it unsafe they are not going to come. So we've got to deal with both. I think the reality is we have a crime problem and we have to deal with it.

Park Dietz

as most episodes of other crime dramas aired for the last 20 years.

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.

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.

Phil Pantano

We want everyone to understand what we've done and what we plan to do. We're talking about jobs, investment and economic opportunity.

Bill Maher

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.'

Khalid Malik

There is no question that more can be done to mend the gap that so often triggers social unrest when economic growth on a national scale leaves the poor and disadvantaged behind.

Tom Scott

While January numbers were good and encouraging, I don't think we want to read too much into them in terms of the rest of the year. There is still a lot of negative economic news out there. I think that's reflected in the retailers' forecast for sales growth in 2006.

Edward Lazear

We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains.

Paula Abdul

All my life, I have been taught to take the high road, and never to dignify salacious or false accusations. And I have been taught never, never to lie. Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

Carl Doren

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

Steven Forester

It seems like all the currencies are pretty well stuck in some pretty tight ranges, and I think everybody's getting probably lulled into a false sense of security.

Charlton Heston

Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong.

George Hoffer

You don't want to give people false signals with price.

Jim Sterk

There was probably some false hope. If I had a choice, I would have liked to have a (non-league opponent) that won in there.

Jim McDarrah

There was one guy, his false teeth fell into the sewer. And he just picked them up, shook them off and put them back in his mouth.

Mike Grier

It's a little troubling. I think when you start scoring five or six goals a night, you get lulled into a false sense of belief. As a team, we let things slide. Maybe this stretch will help us get our heads screwed back on.

Sonny Smith

They recognize a false smile and a false greeting. Be gentle and be yourself.

Arlo Elkins

This is one of the better teams we've ever had. Every team poses a threat to us, but I think this is going to be a very successful season for us.

Uday Bhaskar

I don't think it poses a security threat.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

William Congreve

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Max Mosley

The idea could give rise to a commercially successful series, which may stand out from the other one-make series in the world of motorsports.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Chad Smith

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Rob Mullens

It is very much a threat at this point.

Julia Dixon

The threat exists. We're trying to extinguish that threat.

Hironari Nozaki

Aeon isn't going to be a threat to the big banks.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Dan Hitchings

You're going to have what you had (before Katrina), and that's all you're going to get. The threat is the same.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Al Jourgensen

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Charles Krauthammer

To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.

Dmitry Medvedev

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

Brigitte Bardot

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

Ben Linder

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

Eddie Vedder

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Eddie Vedder

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

Angela Merkel

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Cindy Crawford

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.