Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zeng Jun

Property investing is one of the best method for acquiring wealth.

Bill Singer

This is chump change to Merrill. Merrill can be an 800 pound gorilla and demand money and sue, but it hurts their chances in the future of acquiring firms and competing for brokers in the marketplace.

Mark Twain

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Sathya Baba

Earning money cannot be the purpose of education. Acquiring good qualities can be the only purpose of education.

Christian Overland

Even before the museum opened in 1929, Henry Ford was acquiring artifacts.

Gordon W. Allport

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

Daniel Loeb

Brendan, it's time for you to put your money where your mouth is. If you are sincere in your statement that a premium bid for the company is not worthy of discussion, then we must insist that you demonstrate your conviction by acquiring shares.

Paul Di Filippo

Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities.

Robert Irwin

Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy.

David Hodgson

Performance wise there are no complaints from me. We created plenty of chances after playing some good football, but couldn't take them. A couple of wins in our next two matches could change the picture dramatically.

Jermaine Jenas

They are a great team and we have a lot of respect for them. But we are very confident at the minute and, on home soil, why shouldn't we fancy our chances of getting a win.

Charisma Carpenter

The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions.

Claudio Piron

This raises the chances of an easing in French and German rates before the year end.

John McWhorter

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.

Mike Corbus

We had chances early, and we had them late. We played good defense, and we'll be in any game we play.

Eric Hayes

We had chances at Nos. 3 and 5. We just needed to close out the second set, and we could have gone up 3-2. We would have been one point away. Texas Tech did a great job extending the matches to win.

Dennis Bergkamp

We created some chances in the first half and the sending-off made it difficult for us to get going. They equalized but we kept fighting and there was a good spirit. Maybe in the end we would have been happy with a point.

Marat Safin

Everything worked out. I'm satisfied with my game today. If it goes like this, I have good chances to play well in this tournament,

Ryutaro Hashimoto

As for Japan and Russia's relations, we don't have any intention to change the present trend from our side,

Jonas Gahr Store

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Sergey Lavrov

As for relations between the European trio and Russia, we are not expecting any change in these relations. There is no need for that,

Tim Howard

As an OCD guy, I find change difficult.

Moran Atias

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

Neil Mellor

As always, markets will be looking to the statement. Each word holds implications for the markets, and each change will have implications for the dollar.

Gregory Benford

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

Gerry Adams

the big question is not if there is going to be change, but when there is going to be change and what change there is going to be.

Michael Center

The things we are really doing this year is fighting hard and competing well. As long as we continue to compete, scrap, fight and support each other, I think this team can find ways to win.

Casey Paus

I've never been one to quit and I'm not about to quit now. I'll keep competing and preparing as if I was the starter.

Kenny Lester

I wanted to do something special for my last night competing at Oviedo in a dual meet. Once I found the Ghostbusters backpack, I knew it would be perfect.

Mike Holder

Somebody needed to do something. We needed to make up our mind if we were going to be serious about competing in this (Big 12) conference.

Susan Kevorkian

Terrestrial radio broadcasters are competing with not just satellite radio but with other consumer technologies. They are retrenching and starting to make some changes.

Michael Messner

Seeing women and men playing together and competing together begs the question: What do we value as a culture?

Ralph Brown

I've noticed there seems to be fewer people in the parking lots (of competing stores).

Michael Campbell

It would have seemed practical to play the two Hawaiian events like most guys competing this week but I am restricted to 10 and that's why I have had to say 'no'.

Jim Hughes

They also know they are competing for a job, they are competing for a livelihood, ... We want to do everything within the rules, but we also want our people to play with intensity and competitiveness and the proper desire and determination to make the team.

Robert Jones

As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them.

Yusli Yusoff

As petrol prices increase, the global demand for more sustainable energy sources will also rise. Malaysia is the world's largest palm oil producers and palm oil is the world's most traded vegetable oil.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Tom Bentz

Demand is snapping right back. Even with the high prices, there hasn't been that big an impact on demand.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Ben Wood

Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail. They are in short supply at retail.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Virgil

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Edgar Mitchell

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Aristotle

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Seth Godin

No offense intended...Most people online are gorillas. When a gorilla walks into an experiment, what they say is 'What do I do now? Where's the banana?'

Jane Lynch

I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.

Kevin Garnett

It is a Big Gorilla off our back. Obviously, we didn't do well on the road.

Emile M. Cioran

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

William Crow

It was already the 100 pound gorilla in the space, now it is the 1,000 pound gorilla.

Joe Gibbs

Any time you don't play special teams, it hurts you. You've got to be a legit starter if you're going to do that.

Joel Hefley

Any time you have anything that smacks of scandal, it hurts all of us,

Randy Sanders

It's what we live and what we do. When you're not successful, it hurts ... hurts a lot.

Gary Giancola

They didn't outwork us, they didn't outplay us. That's what hurts so much.

Matt Mantei

We'll see how I feel tomorrow. Right now it hurts - bad.

Lisa Johnson's

People pay so much money to the school board. Taxpayers pay for textbooks in every which way.

Kenneth Rogoff

Oil exporters have a lot of useful ways to spend the money,

Wendy Harris

The money wasn't the big thing. I thought what he did to me was horrible.

Andrew Rodgers

The money that we would get (from the city) would stay right here.

Ken Dryden

The money is to be spent on the well-being of families,

Bill Green

The money is just rolling into them as the prices go up,

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Joe Jamail

The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Brian Brohm

That's what Mike's going to do. He's a big guy. He'll pound away and pound away.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Bruce Dickinson

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

Paul Bello

During the season, (May through July), we go through 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of ribs a week.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

John Gunter

I would've never thought that 40 pounds would make that much of a difference.

S. Walker

You don't have to be 6-4 and 280 pounds to be a kicker,'' he said.

Josh Young

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.