Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Rodman

We think they are not achieving their objective and in fact the government is extending its authority politically around the country,

Tony Fratto

We think the secretary can be more effective in achieving the priorities of the president by remaining in Washington.

George Coleman

Too many young people were entering school behind their achieving peers. We wanted every child to come to school with the same advantages as any other child.

Rob Laird

This year... when this 80 is booked, we will have sold 100 planes in China, so we are well on our way to achieving the same volume as we did last year.

Rob Laird

This year ... we are well on our way toward achieving the same volumes we did last year. We hope to maintain our current market share in China, which is about 60-65 percent.

Anne Mulcahy

Though disappointing, these results reflect the difficulties found in our visits and reviews of operations around the world over the last two months. There is no doubt that the time required for recovery is longer than previously anticipated. Stabilizing the situation has been our focus and much progress has been made, but achieving renewed growth will take more time.

Glenn Engel

UAL shares are trading at post 9/11 lows despite boosting liquidity 9$3 billion in cash, $4 billion unencumbered planes as of 3/020, achieving labor peace and improving service. We cannot imagine an industry recovery that leaves out United, which has the industry's most attractive network.

John Antioco

We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our debt by more than $430 million,

Khaleda Zia

We are close to achieving two other goals, namely, reduction of income poverty and under-five child mortality rates.

Tom Patten

I think there is no doubt he'll be over 14.

Paul Sereno

I would not doubt for a minute that those two encountered each other, not favourably for the Nigersaurus,

Ian Shepherdson

We doubt this can be sustained as the reality of $2.60- plus sinks in. For now, though, it looks good.

Christine Callies

We doubt that the markets are going to take off here. I think we will need more evidence that in fact things are starting to turn.

Donald Trump

Well, I think everybody has moments of doubt. I'd love to sit here and say, I never have doubt, I have total confidence. People seem to think that about me, but it's not really true. You always have moments of doubt.

George Herbert

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

Gamaliel Bailey

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

Garet Garrett

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

Gordon Cooper

A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their cameras toward the UFO.... I had chance to hold (the film) up to the window. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt in my mind that it was made someplace other than on this earth.

Kaz Matsui

I feel my role right now is to get on base, ... That's all I'm really focusing on.

Jennifer Lopez

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Esther Hicks

What you focus on grows.

Esther Hicks

I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.

Esther Hicks

If you focus upon whatever you want, you will attract whatever you want. If you focus upon the lack of whatever you want, you will attract more of the lack.

Frances Newton

I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.

George Papandreou

We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state.

George Carlin

To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.

Linda Scatena

I called (Tim) on his way home from work and told him I may have possibly found the rings.

David Chang

I think we were lucky on that one and found it pretty quickly. If you had a large infestation, you probably couldn't get rid of it.

African Proverbs

The rainmaker who doesn't know what he's doing will be found out by the lack of clouds. Luganda, Uganda

Samuel Johnson

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Bill Cowher

Remind them where they were seven weeks ago, that's the thing in my mind. Seven weeks ago you found that people liked you because it was unconditional.

Zygi Wilf

Regardless of what is found in the investigations, we will take the appropriate measures for those who were involved.

Jim Cabucio

Regardless of the outcome of a Friday night game, each Saturday morning, Kyle could be found teaching our youngsters the fundamentals of the game.

John Byrd

re-emphasized all the reasons the jury found him guilty in the first place.

Patrick Ford

In those times, I needed someone with creativity, vision, and courage. And I found those qualities -- and much more -- in Don Rumsfeld.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Scott Marshall

The market is obviously looking into next year as it maintains its strong growth profile.

Jim Craig

The market is more severely discounting no growth and is willing to pay more for solid growth, ... growth will be the place to make outsized gains.

Ken Perkins

The market is in terrible shape and the prospects for growth are not good,

Peter Greene

The market is defensive. It indicates to us that we'll see a slowing of profit growth going forward.

Henry W. Kendall

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Brian Deming

Last year we didn't have any points, so to get on the point scale is a big deal.

Larry Nelson

Last year was one of those years you'd like to kind of forget. Last year was kind of a tough year emotionally and physically.

Brian Fuentes

Last year was a train wreck. This year . . .

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

J. J. Abrams

I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

John Podhoretz

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Walter Kirn

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Robert Bork

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Thomas Otway

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Moore

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.