Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Ross Sorkin

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.

Robbie Fowler

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship, ... But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

Mike Fox

It was hectic. There were people throwing belongings out the windows. In the middle part of the structure, there were people that were bailing out and they said, Oh man, we got out just in time.

Nouriel Roubini

The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming larger and larger.

Bob Blick

We know we're a lot better team than what we've shown. There's motivation there to show our fans and school that we're a better team that what we've shown. Nobody's quitting and nobody's bailing out. We've just got to stop the turnovers and that type of thing.

S. Hughes

We were bailing out water until 1 a.m. and pumping out the basement. I can't figure out why everyone else pays city taxes but mine are four or five times higher because I have to spend $4,000 every four years to fix my house. I thought taxes fixed problems like these.

Sheryl Garrett

Bailing your kids out of a self-inflicted financial mistake is going backward. A credit card can teach a kid when to stop spending. The lesson will be lost if parents keep bailing the student out.

Bobby Cox

This is something that's been brewing for awhile, ... We've been bailing him out. It couldn't go on like that forever.

Edna Smith

This is bigger than the three of us. We do not want to blow this ... bailing out is not an option.

Avery Johnson

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Bill Swank

The purpose of the inspection program is to make sure that if there are poles that are deteriorating, we go out, identify them and make sure the ones that are tending toward failure are braced or replaced.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard P. Feynman

To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Troy Peter

We've found a way to persevere all year even when we've fallen behind. We've come back after trailing by a lot quite a few times. That seems to be our style.

John Davis

I think it's really fallen off people's radar. We don't hear much about it at all.

Robert Jordan

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

Mario Andretti

In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it's a fact.

David Berson

In some parts of the country, affordability has fallen to levels we have not seen in 20 years.

Chris Dodd

I?m very proud of my state, my constituents, my governor, ... I?m proud of the people in the legislature and others who are all taking steps to make a contribution to alleviate the hardships that have fallen on our fellow citizens. It?s a great, great day.

Roy Conli

I love hand-drawn animation, but I have to say I have fallen in love with CG animation. What you can do in terms of visuals is pretty stunning, and I think if I did go back and do a hand-drawn animation, I would want to make sure that, from a stylistic standpoint, it would be as beautiful as 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' at least!

Xu Xiuyu

And many of them have fallen for the 'high-tech superstition' without realizing its superstitious nature at all.

Louise Driver

After we prayed about it, thought about it, we were at peace with this and everything has fallen into place.

Nate Robertson

He wants our expectations to be greater than maybe they've been.

Randy Perreira

Hawaii people have a greater tolerance for fairness.

Bill Tierney

His role is no less than mine is. And it is a lot greater than mine in some ways.

Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Frank Tyger

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Wesley Moultrie

It is having a much greater impact, I think, then what had been anticipated.

Victor Hugo

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

Steven Fisher

There is a need now for even greater scrutiny.

Jim Folkman

I think it's a watershed year just in the magnitude of the increase.

Cory Smith

The magnitude of this just stops you in your tracks.

Louise Hawkley

The magnitude of this association is quite stunning.

David Vallee

It's rare to have a system of that magnitude back up.

Jim Lushine

It's probably going to stand for quite a while because of the magnitude of it there.

Jon Johnston

That's orders of magnitude more than what's at HP Archives, for sure.

Cathy Rhoden

It's a magnitude we've not seen, and people in a rural town want to keep it rural, but I think it'll be a positive thing.

Scott Hand

It's not unusual for a transaction of the magnitude of ours to move to a second phase.

Kevin Rochlin

We're in uncharted waters. There has never been anything of this magnitude and this complexity.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

A. Hodge

Going from one shirt to the next indicates states of transition, of change, not being able to have everything at once, states of concealment.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Alan Trammell

His next start would be Friday. Right now, that's up in the air.

Ken Knutson

He's going to pitch next Tuesday in Seattle (against San Diego).

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

S. Walker

We've seen 25 percent more orders and order values over the past six months.

Tom Engibous

DSP revenue was up 10 percent sequentially and orders were up 11 percent sequentially.

Don Gibson

We'll get orders from there of where we're going to go next,

Robert Gottlieb

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

Gary Thayer

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

Edward Yardeni

Look for orders to rebound in May, reflecting broad-based recovery within the manufacturing sector.

Chu Sik

We can't keep up with orders now, especially TV panels.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Ricardo Semler

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Jorge Cantu

I didn't want to risk it. I'm sure it would have been a risk if I was to keep playing. Let it heal. ...I'll be back.

Reid Hoffman

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

William J. Clinton

The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

Raymond E. Feist

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

Raymond E. Feist

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

Rob Bell

The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.

Tullian Tchividjian

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

Robert Redford

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Randy Mayes

I can get a feel for whether the person is truthful or not.

Richard Paul Evans

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Richard P. Feynman

We've learned from experience that the truth will come out.

Richard P. Feynman

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Richard John Neuhaus

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Richard Hofstadter

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Wallace Stevens

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Phil McGraw

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.