Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

I would want us all to put real collective pressure and sustain it on President Milosevic in the hope that we will get an agreement and he will understand the implications of any escalation,

Jamie Clark

Having an endangered or candidate species on your property should be a good thing, something a landowner can be proud of, not something to avoid. With the administrative reforms we have made to the Endangered Species Act, such as safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and candidate conservation agreements with assurances, ranchers, timber companies and other landowners are able to participate in the conservation of at-risk species without the concern that their future plans may be delayed or halted.

Bruce Allen

He's a special guy. He wanted to be a Buccaneer and we wanted him to be a Buccaneer. And in just a few days of conversation we were able to reach an agreement that we think will ensure his future.

Andrew Sorensen

He's doing an outstanding job. We're in 100 percent agreement on the terms of his service.

Christopher Hill

It is a good agreement for all of us.

Carol Raulston

I think the industry has literally been shaken by this month's events. There was a broad agreement that we really needed to focus efforts, particularly looking at technology and training.

Bill Daly

I think the importance of meeting quickly after the season cancellation in an effort to get a deal done as soon as possible is maybe we can take some germs of where there was agreement before the season cancellation and build on those, but time will tell.

Christopher Hill

I think the Chinese draft is an excellent basis for reaching an agreement.

Susan Petniunas

It is clearly time for the U.S. to honor its treaty agreement with Canada, and to end these illegal duties that continue to harm American consumers.

Matt Hasselbeck

I'm not worried at all about Shaun because like we've all seen, Shaun Alexander plays his best games in the spotlight. When games are the biggest he seems to play his best. And we've never played a game this big.

Ginny Redington

Alexander Woollcott did say she (Parker) would be Mrs. Benchley if there wasn't one already. We played that up for the show. You do things you feel could possibly have been true but having not been there, we don't really know.

Hiroko Koyama

This Buddha represents the meeting of East and West. When Alexander the Great invaded Eastern Asia he brought with him a Greek influence that had a profound effect on the way Asian statues would come to be sculpted. This is a prime example.

P. J. O'Rourke

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

Lloyd Church

Our defense was phenomenal, especially in the first half. We played man and only gave up 12 points, and six of those they scored diving on loose balls on the floor that bounced their way. Alexander made a real solid run in the third, but I like the way we held our composure and then counter-punched them.

Fran Healy

You're right, but Alexander Cartwright was a good friend of Shakespeare's and they played a prototype game in an amateur league back then ...

Theodor Mommsen

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

Mike Holmgren

Being the personal protector, blocker for Shaun Alexander and then look what Shaun has done.

Jesse James

This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September.

Susan Cole

Kids need to learn financial lessons early when they have their parents as a safety net. If you're just learning about saving and budgeting when your first car payment is due, you could be in trouble.

George H. W. Bush

Joel Kaplan is a man of great talent, intellect and experience who possesses a deep knowledge of policy and budget processes.

Gerald Curtis

Handling the budget is a big part of the job, but you have to realize that 70 or 80 percent of the budget is mandated by the state; you can change very little of it. But you do have to look at cuts.

Brett Hall

His voice is strong. He's engaged in everything and wants to discuss what's happening right now with the budget and other bills.

Ozhan Bahrambeygui

I think it's important for kids to budget their time. I'm a big proponent of kids doing multiple sports. I like to think we put an emphasis on balance.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Steve Utkus

We're pretty confident it will be maintained or continued. Unlike other Bush tax provisions, it actually raises tax revenue under the budget rules because participants are paying taxes today.

Tom Daschle

to convey our serious concerns about the deteriorating condition of the federal budget and the nation's economy.

Pat Abeln

It is on budget and looks like it's right on target.

Craig Hansen

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Jeffrey Lichtman

He did not want the life his father had lived. He changed diapers, he drove a minivan.

Dan Johnson

Heck yeah I knew I was playing. That's the only reason I changed my pants.

David Anders

The only thing that's changed is they've come out and made it very clear and public. They're being very vocal.

John Cleveland

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

Gianfranco Pasquino

Had Berlusconi not changed the electoral law, he would have won. Next time Berlusconi ought to have better consultants.

Justin Kirk

Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and my first dog was - his name first was Bear, but then it changed to Big, and he sort of looked like Old Yeller. And then we also had a three-legged dog named Foxy, who we found because her leg was in a trap.

Ticha Penicheiro

He's a great coach, he changed this franchise around. He's a competitor, we're a mirror of him. Defense wins championships, and look at where we are right now.

Rob McClure

I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.

Michael Dell

It also means their job is constantly changing because technology is changing and this is a customer-driven industry. So our employees need to be flexible and driven. They are going to always be in training.

John Wilson

Helping people is one thing, ... Changing conditions is another.

Kwame Kilpatrick

Other than the Rev. Martin Luther King, no other person has had such a role in changing (the African-American) vision of our community and our country,

Judith Jones

Recalling the pleasures of growing and gathering foods and preparing them with care, of relishing the changing seasons ... was her way of preserving an important part of American life and sharing its rewards with others.

Debbie Mills

Parkinson's is not something you want to handle alone. You need to go to support groups, talk about what works for you and find out what other people are doing. Get information. Things are changing every day.

Michael Strauss

Investors are relieved that he's continuing the same tone and isn't changing things.

Trey Anastasio

In your heart you feel like you're doing the right thing, because, ultimately, honesty is your gift to these people who are willing to listen to your music, ... Changing is part of that. You've got to change, and that's hard.

Steven Reed

In terms of changing the LDP, Koizumi has done an awfully good job.

Mary Bach

I think it's a direct reflection on the kind of community that we are.

Tom Daschle

I think it is essential we put as much pressure through the international community on North Korea to do the right thing and do it quickly,

Rep. Heaton

I think in Mount Pleasant we have a really great cross section of the community attending.

Susan Tucker

He was a visionary in the fact that he knew this community needed a place to gather. He saw this as the southwest hub, and it has really become that. His vision really has come to life.

Jeff Pollard

I think it's a risk in how the community will react.

Joe Gill

I think the Friends of the Light House Shelter are outstanding. They provide community support with an excitement that is unparalleled.

Greg Beck

I think the desired effect has happened here. I think community division was the intent from the beginning, because keep in mind there was nothing set in stone.

Dana Brown

I think the community support is crucial to this project.

Jim Davies

I think the community is being well served.

Todd Jones

I was lucky to get a couple by him. Because he's a pretty deadly hitter.

Shawn Chacon

I wouldn't say I needed it desperately. But after struggling the first couple of times you put more pressure on yourself.

Billy Beane

Kenny called me a couple days ago in Phoenix, ... He gave me a call.It took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

Dwyane Wade

Just the right place at the right time. Some nights are like that. I was able to get in a couple passing lanes and get some picks, but for the most part, it was just being in the right place at the right time.

Michael Young

He did his usual thing and kept us off balance. We got a couple of hits here and there, but we didn't really square much of anything up. He did a good job. It was typical Barry.

Juelz Santana

He definitely got some fire underneath his belt. He's not just a one-song wonder either. I heard some of the next couple records and it's real hard.

Lindy Ruff

He can win a game by himself. They got a couple of lucky bounces, but he made the difference.

Dave Tibbetts

Having a couple of inches of a step down is huge for practical reasons. If the deck and the porch are at the same height, water can seep in.

E. O. Wilson

He just threw me a couple of pitches there that I didn't think were strikes, but the umpire didn't see it that way.

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Drew Matus

I think what this does is ratify the Fed's current stance --- moving at a measured pace seems to be the prudent course.

Mahmoud Zahar

I think that during the current tour, we will be able to raise the needed funds.

Phil Goff

It is important in the current situation for steps to be taken to resolve the long-running public sector strike, which has contributed to this tension,

Roger Ashby

I will be talking to the current squad individually over the next few weeks about their futures and once they know, I will make it public.

Joel Naroff

There is an ever-growing number of homes on the market, and while the overhang is not great at the current selling pace, it could become a problem if we trend back toward more sustainable levels,

Douglas Hattaway

I don't know what planet he's been on for the past eight years, but this administration helped lay the foundation for our current prosperity.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Zhu Rongji

Lack of water resources is a serious limitation on the economic and social development of our country,

Robin Urbanski

Right now, the air-to-ground solution is much more economical to us.

Stephen Gallagher

Investors maintain a healthy economic growth outlook, but now with lower inflation and interest rate risks.

Jean Johnson

If you look at statistics about their economic prospects, it's not really as promising. Yet personally, they are optimistic.

Jon Nadler

In the gold trading pits, economic uncertainties are taking a back seat to uncertainties of a different nature these days.

Phyllis Martin

In Greenville, we really are studying the unmet needs of women, whether economic needs, educational, physical or emotional.

Wilson Washington

In a world littered with economic instability and job insecurities, why must we make THIS election about race... Has it not always been about that???

Bryce Kaneshiro

Kaiser, they always step it up in the playoffs. They eliminated us last year, I didn't forget that.

Paul Lambert

I think it's going to slow the shopping around (of student-athletes). I don't know if it's going to eliminate it, but I think it's going to slow it down. It's a good deal.

Joe Herald

I didn't go into this with the underlying premise that I wanted to eliminate the idea of a centralized campus.

Charles Schumer

He has been one of the most outspoken anti-choice crusaders in the country. He has worked to totally eliminate even in (cases of) rape and incest a woman's right to choose.

Ariel Sharon

He must start to eliminate the terrorist organizations,

Walt Dabney

Our only option was to shut down operations and eliminate positions.

Bill Crawford

If you eliminate just one of those groups of people, we're just flat out of luck.

Kevin Wilson

If you get him in the pass game, sometimes you eliminate half of the guys he's got to beat.

Kathy Roberts

It has been proven to safely eliminate or reduce many of the normal discomforts of pregnancy.

Rosalind Wiseman

Kids for the most part talk to me about parents gossiping about each other and the other kids. I can't think of one kid who didn't know where her parents fit in the parents' social hierarchy.

Pierre Littbarski

Jacob looked good today. If he's fit he will play.

Dinara Safina

I talk to him every day and he is getting fitter and hopes to return in Rotterdam next week.

Tom Renney

He's a terrific young player who fits so nicely into their scheme. He's just a selfless player.

Jamie Winborn

I think it's going to be a perfect fit for me.

Eric Kanagy

Last fall, when this (tour) started we showed some short films, and it didn't really fit with the rest of the tour. So we wanted to do something that people could come in and look at.

Mike Dunleavy

We talked about the ways we're going to use him and how he'll fit in,

Andrew Strauss

We've got to play to our potential, play at 100%, get all our players fit and ready to go and not put ourselves under too much pressure.

David Byas

He's being very mature and realistic about it, and I think he has to be. Surely the goal is getting him back fit for the Ashes, and he's in good hands and working hard to get there.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

Jessica Young

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

John Grahame

I don't know Robert at all. Actually, this will be the first time I meet him. He called me a month ago and said some type of quote appeared. I never read it. He said whatever it was, it was taken out of context.

Dan Ross

If you told me a week before the meet that we were going to be 16th, we wouldn't have even went.

Greg Marsden

I never would have predicted at this point in the season we would go 197. I try not to worry about (the judging) this year, because I know from meet to meet there are going to be some real differences.

Warren Beaulah

We may just have to let him wear No. 44. I told him before the season that I have a lot of expectations for him. He hasn't quite met them.

Keith Richards

I haven't met him yet, I can't wait. I'm a Stones fan.

Gerald Myers

The first time I talked to her over the phone, and before I met her, I was thinking this is the person we want for this job. To be honest, we didn't go much further.

M. Powell

The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

Xavier Perkins

It was just the way I was treated. When I first met him, it didn't seem like he only wanted me for basketball. It seemed like he wanted to get to know me.

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Lemmy Kilmister

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Pete Sampras

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

Kim Dae Jung

So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

John Henry Newman

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

Gerald Grinstein

Without Atlanta, there would not be a Delta. And without a Delta, there would not be the same Atlanta. You could say we are in a mutual nonaggression pact.

Jamie Rodriguez

We have a mutual respect for each other competing. We would never sit on each other and make someone else do all the work. That's just kind of like a runner moral.

Mike Slive

Just the fundamental format, I think, needs explanation.

Jolanda Schreurs

I think it's an opportunity to redress that and start working in concert. Our needs should be aligned.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule..

Brenda Keeler

It is pretty painful if you don't have a place for this person to stay and this person needs some help.

Two Chainz

You need to be your own individual.

Tim Lappano

He needs to understand that playing quarterback in this system takes a lot of work and a lot of film study.

Bill Whalen

He needs to talk about the relevance of what he's doing with the political system.

Brent Kemnitz

He needs to pitch like a fifth-year senior for us.

Bruce Bochy

He needs to get back out there and pitch.

Herb Kohl

All the Wisconsin and Beloit stuff in their offices made me feel at home,

Jay Cairns

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Richard M. Nixon

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Richard M. Nixon

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard M. Nixon

We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.

Richard Gilman

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

Robert Dale Owen

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Juli Lax

I think we're up to Plan K right now.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Vladimir Putin

Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Walter Raleigh

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

Mack Brown

Plan on being behind. Plan on getting yourself in trouble.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Mary Fetchet

I'm not planning to attend. It will just be too emotionally draining.

Marty Sanders

It makes the year-to-year planning very difficult, especially with class-size reduction.

Paula Nelson

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

John Lennon

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.

Brad Jarvis

Then I read the book, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' and that really got me thinking, ... Until then I hadn't really thought a lot about planning for the future.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

William Shakespeare

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

David McCandless

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Richard Davidson

That is making it a lot more complicated for all social services, ... We are going to have to 'band' together to provide these services.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

Cecilia Zalkind

We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.

Betsy Beers

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Jude Law

When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Martin Buber

Solitude is the place of purification.

Pete Wilson

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

John Mellencamp

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

Malcolm Forbes

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.