Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katrina Bee

Keep the end in mind and focus on that. Say 'I am at my ideal weight of...,' not 'I want to be...'. Focus on what it would feel like to you to have achieved that goal; Get in touch with that winning feeling.

David Champion

Just one in ten of the vehicles we tested achieved fuel economies as good as or better than EPA estimates.

Amy Gutmann

Jodie Foster is an eminent Ivy League graduate who has achieved tremendous success and influence in the powerful entertainment industry.

Ron Gatewood

Juan not only achieved his flight instructor rating but also had an advanced instrument instructor rating. After six months as a charter pilot, Juan became an airline transport pilot. He accomplished all of this while working at odd jobs to pay his living and flying expenses. Without a doubt, Juan is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

Madelyn Fernstrom

It also is important to note that blood pressure reductions occurred in patients even though they remained obese with (a body mass index) in the 35 range, which is still not ideal, further suggesting that weight loss itself -- in this study, achieved through gastric bypass surgery -- can improve health outcomes.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

Jay Blanton

He values merit-based pay systems that emphasize and recognize individual achievement and rewards it, rather than a collective, regulatory scheme that does not.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

DeMario Williams

I would say this was my best game. I've had better games playing 'D' than I did tonight. This was one of my best shooting games. But as a team I don't think we played defense as hard as we should have.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Lyssa Jenkens

Growth will continue in education and health, which have been the only steady gainers in this century. But it is now moving into business and professional services, which holds many of the highest-skilled jobs in the economy.

Greg Brenneman

The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn't a business concept, it's a life concept. It's who you are at the end of the day.

Seth Godin

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

Mark Adams

This was a good thing. Whether a restaurant is smoking or non, it should be left up to the business owner.

Scott Ford

It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.(Fords pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate)

John Fitzgibbon

We're pleased that the court concluded that they had no jurisdiction to overturn the trial judge's ruling. We look forward to going to trial where the jury will have all of the evidence.

Silvio Berlusconi

They were in disbelief at the fatality at the end of a brilliantly concluded operation, ... We were stone silent as we waited to hear of the rest of what took place.

Jakob Kellenberger

This is a very positive step. We will still have to see how the diplomatic conference goes next week, but I am reasonably optimistic after the arrangement concluded today.

Michael Riley

They already concluded what had happened and proceeded from there. They only took the facts that supported that.

John Brooks

Cooper high-tailed it out of there. He concluded the meeting and he was gone.

Caterina Scorsone

When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day all the kids sat on the floor and watched 'The Neverending Story.' Having never heard of the movie, I concluded that this was what school must be: sitting cross legged on the floor listening to a never-ending story. Page after page.

David Kinsman

We are very disappointed at the manner in which Manchester United have concluded these contract negotiations and are very surprised that the discussions were terminated at this late stage, in what we consider to be an unprofessional manner.

Barbara Turner

If we get to the Final Four (April 2-4 in Boston), we will have concluded our four-year stretch very well.

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Michael Cohen

I think it's a giant waste of money. I don't see a huge (environmental) downside to it, but the science still doesn't show whether it actually works. If they can create another 1.1 million acre-feet of water, that's a huge amount. I wish them luck.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3-point shots when they were trying to make a run.

Gilbert Arenas

He (Davis) bailed me out a little bit. Because then I'd have had to try and create and finish over a big man, which I probably would have done.

Eva Saint

He left it to me to create the character. Sometimes he would have a comment, and it was always right on the mark. Hitchcock worked the same way.

Jared Leland

What you have here is an equal protection issue. There is a trend in land use to prefer entities that create tax revenue and jobs.

Paul Parker

What will reinvent Alpine is if we create too many rules, create too much of a scene that obscures the value of a very cool, elegant, free sport.

Bob King

What we want to do is create a reference guideline.

Mike O'Cain

What we want to create with SSF is doing it the sportsmanship way.

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Taha Ramadan

It (Iraq) is cooperating with all initiatives in this direction provided there is no encroachment on Iraq's sovereignty and security,

Tim Wakefield

I think with Jason as our captain, he can lead us in the right direction.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Dale Tallon

We talked about the direction we're going in and how valuable he would be to us on and off the ice with our young kids. He was high on our list.

Michel Therrien

I think we are in the right direction and it's going to be positive, but I know they can play better. Eventually.

Ryler DeHeart

It is just another stepping stone in the right direction for this team.

Mike Donahue

Late in the first period, Josh Wilson made a big play to help swing the momentum in our direction.

Derrick Kellier

I will have to meet with the officials in the ministry and to take direction from the prime minister to see what she wants to be her focus. It is not my focus; it is what her focus is and that of the entire Cabinet.

George Hoffman

I would think that is highly unlikely any of our employees would do that.

George Reid

I think it has improved the safety for the public and the employees that work in this building. For the most part feedback has been positive.

Melissa Norcross

In order to protect the privacy of victims' families, we will not release the names of those employees and subcontractors who have lost their lives.

Alan Pollock

The employees already have it; they were our beta-testers.

Mike Boyd

The level of compensation is outrageous when you look at the sacrifices United employees made.

John Challenger

For employees in the middle of a merger-acquisition right now, it is likely that at least one in 10 will lose their jobs because of the combination.

Janet Hansen

It's an issue of how you treat your employees and make your plans. We're not going to skip any tournaments. It makes me mad, but I'm not going to have the kids suffer for it.

Kim Petersen

The people working in these port operations, regardless of who owns them, will be exclusively American ... the same employees working for P&O.

Scott Sharp

Work-related stress is experienced by employees who do not have all that is required for their job function, it is also instrumental in leading to high turnover.

Greg Gallaspy

What we want to do is ensure there's a balance. That's the key.

David Hartley

Having a new state-of-the-art plant is encouraging, but it does not ensure that Cott will do a better job of managing its entire plant operations.

Denis MacShane

I will be urging him to ensure any shutdown is as painless as possible for local communities,

Charles Grassley

We must ensure that this nightmare NEVER occurs again,

David Emerson

Part of what we're doing right now is to ensure that what we do doesn't make matters worse.

Kip Hawley

In view of our need to establish trust with all of our stakeholders on the security and privacy of our systems and data, my priority is to ensure that we do it right, not just that we do it quickly.

Don Garber

In order to ensure that the team will have the appropriate time to prepare for the 2006 season,

Mbhazima Shilowa

In particular, we need to ensure that by 2009 all roads in the townships are tarred.

Peter King

It has to be a weapon held in reserve to ensure there is a real investigation.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Mike Hultz

He was unbelievable. It was probably the second best, not points-wise, but overall performance I have seen live.

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Michael Birch

Resources have underpinned the strength of the market.

Kevin McCarthy

If Russia wants to use energy as a weapon against our friends and allies, let's use our resources to set them free.

Michael Garcia

They are now fugitives. We will be using our resources to find them.

Joseph Stalin

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

Stephenie Meyer

The wasting of finite resources is everyones business

Laura Linney

History's a resource.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

William Green

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

Dorothea Shannon

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.

David Healy

I would say that's the best-ever result we've had,

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Mr Bush

Ahmadi-Nejad is a result of all this appeasement,

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Hariadi Wibisono

The test result showed positive, but we're still waiting for confirmation from Hong Kong.

Ricky Gervais

Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?

Dean Ryan

Sale were smarter and sharper than us but they lacked our power.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

George Stephen

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

Navtej Sarna

The visit is significant in view of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

E. M. Forster

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Doris Day

Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

Angelina Jolie

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently to work with Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari and his wife on the film Difret. They are that unique balance of very thoughtful conscious filmmakers who are also brilliant, original artists.