Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Michael Goodman

People dedicated to committing piracy are going to find ways to do it. Lawsuits and other action by the RIAA serve to remind people that this is illegal activity and that they are being watched.

Robert DiClemente

People feel generally that we will see some equivalent forward-looking language that guides market expectations to expect action at least into the early part of next year.

Hank Brown

People expect you to take corrective action when there's a problem, and they don't understand why you don't do it on a pretty prompt basis. My instinct is that's the single best thing you can do.

Scott Hudson

Oftentimes, we used that discretion to give the applicator a warning and to go over some of the deficiencies and the corrective action that can be taken.

Lou Fintor

North Korea's action today, disputing arrangements for IAEA monitoring of the spent fuel rods, raises further serious concerns and belies North Korea's announced justification to produce electricity.

Joan Rivers

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Timothy Smith

After seeing Matt Holland and Stephen Ireland in action, I was wondering if a team could be comprised consisting entirely of national teams?

Sean Ryan

The NASD and SEC may as well announce a decree banishing evil and establishing paradise.

Richard Bayer

Companies generally present it as something that is hard and fast, so when they call you in to discuss it, it's really just to announce what their severance package will be. The fact of the matter is, though, that you can enter into discussions. Companies do have incentives that they can offer so you have some cards to play.

Marc Falcone

Despite the phenomenal growth of Las Vegas, the construction talent pool is not deep enough to provide the needed labor to build all currently announced projects. We believe if all announced and anticipated projects were to proceed before the end of the decade, a significant portion would not get off the ground given the limited depth of the construction talent pool, most importantly subcontractors.

Saudi Arabia

announce new procedures with respect to how charities work abroad.

Mike Johanns

announced without the benefit of a public hearing as to necessity and reasonableness ...

John Dludlu

A replacement will be announced in due course. The ship is in good shape and she feels she needs a change.

Joe Girardi

Anything is possible, but we pretty much have the 25-man roster. We probably won't announce it until we leave, in case something comes up.

Taiji Yoshida

Anyone can announce a plan, the real challenge is implementing it. Stringer is coming from the outside, and he only spends part of his time in Japan.

Taiji Yoshida

Anyone can announce a plan, the real challenge is implementing it.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Neil Lebovits

During Presidential campaigns, politics is a highly sensitive matter, right up there with religion, and whether to talk politics at work is kind of a political decision in and of itself,

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Ron Gardenhire

A regular, everyday guy, yeah, were going to have one. But I don't have to make that decision until Opening Day.

Thomas Steg

A possible tie-up between EADS and Thales...would be a decision for the management of the respective companies, not one which would be steered by politicians.

James Marsters

Details in the mcguffins had to be worked out, but it was there. It was a good idea. I'm not going to tell you, because I didn't think of it.

Ben Goldacre

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Patty Shea

There's really nothing to worry about, it's not really the outcome or anything like that. It's really about what's going on the field, and some of the things that I'm really happy about is they're playing the game at a more sophisticated level. It's the details that are going to make the difference.

Roger Toussaint

We thank riders for their patience and forbearance. We will be providing various details regarding the outcome of this strike in the next several days.

Pete Carroll

We've been talking, and we had a more significant discussion (Wednesday). That is why I am willing to say something in a general sense. There are no details to give. We're in great shape, and things worked out really nice.

Donald Knuth

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

Tite Kubo

I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details. ~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

Patricia Highsmith

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

Louis Kronenberger

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Kevin Logan

Prices played a big role here. A lot of the increase was due to higher energy prices, particularly for oil.

Ellen Russell

Our environmental standards will look at the impacts that will accrue in the U.S. due to the power lines and due to the plant operating in Mexico.

Tom Maier

Our fall in the last two weeks is due to several injuries and if we hadn't had them we might have fared better. But those are all part of the game.

Brian Billick

Anthony Wright is the starter for an undetermined period right now due to injury. Kyle Boller is our starting quarterback. If I left it open to interpretation, if I left that in a way that led to speculation that we did not have the faith in Kyle, that our faith is wavering, that was not my intent.

Kevin Kerr

The sell-off is due to all the locals grabbing profits before the end of the day, nothing more.

Peter Cardillo

The selling in financials is an anticipation of lower earnings due to a slower economy, ... From the point of view of interest rates not going up, it's positive.

Charles Corp

The significant increase in 1999 planned expenditures is primarily due to the company's plans to enhance its systems capacity.

James Lago

Technically, these stocks are due for a rebound after being oversold last month.

Bill Rodgers

Sometimes such an injury may be due to increased running, fatigue, sickness, etc and have nothing at all to do with your shoe.

David Lord

Our family and friends are praying for a miracle but are also preparing for the worst and making arrangements for organ donation.

Jerome Bettis

People say I'm not going to be able to focus because of the distractions but there really aren't any distractions. The possible distraction would be family, but my family comes to every game anyway.

Robert Sinclair

People take every opportunity to see friends and family whenever they can, ... People are working very hard and they need to get away. So they're hitting the roads.

Sarah Miller

People don't realize the importance of family and free time.

Tom Olson

People feel strongly about the school because we're a family here, and our plan is to make sure we won't be in the red next year.

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Vladimir Guerrero

Ortiz said. ''Vladi says he doesn't remember it, but that his family always talked about the help they received from the US.

Bible Bible

Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.

Marty Beauvais

The money doesn't even matter. I love the people. It feels like family here. This is my family. This is home.

Colin McRae

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, and I am looking forward to giving the fans something to cheer,

Alan Pardew

A fantastic strike. He'll do well to hit another one in his career.

Rusty Petrea

Now my passion is different. Now my passion is guiding this fantastic thing known as the First Tee.

Dougray Scott

It was very hot, very rugged and quite inaccessible. But I had a fantastic time. The work is the thing that motivates me.

Richard Miller

It was an outstanding show. She's a great show person, and she did a superb job. There was really something for everybody. I looked around and could just see smiles on everyone's faces. It was a fantastic show and everyone had a really great evening.

Graeme Souness

I understand that on Monday, our final offer was rejected, so I think that one is finished, unfortunately. We have made a fantastic offer for the player and really, there is a limit on how much you can spend on one player.

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Mike Babcock

The way they are playing, why wouldn't you play them. They were fantastic (against Chicago).

Ciaran Hinds

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Aphaluck Bhatiasevi

As of Wednesday, we haven't seen further outbreaks or human infections.

John Williams

As Mark settles into the role he will further concentrate on the relationship between the senior playing squad and the Academy.

Harold Evans

Once we get further into the irrigation season and start using more water, we'll get all of it flushed out.

Asafa Powell

Actually, I wanted to get it over with. Further on in the season, I'll try, for the record.

Richard Ford

A promise was made by the Iraqi side to provide us with further information that we have requested.

Simon Clarke

Perhaps it will work in Dublin, but in the further out places it will be near impossible.

Ben Bernanke

Providing quantitative guidance about the meaning of 'long-term price stability' could have several advantages, including further reducing public uncertainty about monetary policy and anchoring long-term inflation expectations even more effectively,

Gordon Smith

Provided there are no further power outages and we are able to start up by Thursday this week, production should be back to normal by this time next week.

Sven Friebe

Rates are going to rise, and we see potential for further upside in the euro.

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Hippocrates

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

Kenneth H. Cooper

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

Robert Morris

It takes a lot of people getting sick, and going to physicians, and then it also takes the physicians diagnosing the illness and recognizing that it's water-borne, and very often all of those things don't happen.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

John Howell

They stand up to the ravages of the illness better.

David Dye

We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.

David D. Burns

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

Claire McCaskill

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

M. Wolfe

People say you have to be a member before you're serviced. No, you do not,

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Jason Chaffetz

Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.

Troy Vincent

That's his right and that's our fiduciary responsibility to protect him - any member of our association.

Eric Swalwell

One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.

Lawrence Wilkerson

When I rationalize for myself not resigning, I did it by saying, 'This is the only sane member of this administration.

Trevor Noah

There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.

Nick Lewis

We went in a little too confident. We've got to realize it's tough to win on the road in any conference.

John Stocco

But you never realize really what it's like until you're actually out there in the spotlight,

Salvation Army

I didn't even realize that there is a possibility ... I would be very sad to see it go.

Gibril Wilson

I didn't realize that the punt was short. It was unfortunate. ... You've got to make your own breaks, so it's all on us.

Kurt Warner

I didn't realize that, the little things you learn.

Kristin Gore

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.

Dan Campbell

I didn't realize how young our team was, ... We're all pretty much on an even plane.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

George Herbert

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.