Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

Trevor Manuel

I wasn't even the ham in the sandwich. I was just dragged out of the sandwich, abandoned by left and right!

Darrel Good

Most analysts are on record with expectations of a decline in corn planting intentions and an increase in intentions for soybeans. The debate generally centers on the magnitude of the changes. Acreage of spring-planted crops, however, could deviate from intentions due to escalating spring wheat prices; potential for abandoned hard red winter wheat acreage to be replanted to other crops; changes, if any, in price relationships of spring-planted crops; and spring weather conditions.

Stephen Jones

When that effort failed, they abandoned the canoe and attempted to reach shore. They were in voice contact initially, then the water began to take its toll on them. The struggle was then to try to get out of the water themselves.

Paul Farmer

We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa. We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success.

Jack Rogers

I've been asked for a list of things that these folks need, ... They need everything.

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Bryn Terfel

I've asked Tom in the past, but I don't know what was wrong with him as Tommy boy didn't return any of my calls,

Drew Davis

Some buddies from church went out playing and they asked me to come.

Aaron Stockstel

One day I took a visit and my mom asked me how I liked it. I said it wasn't too bad. She said good, you're going there next year.

Carol Booth

One customer told me he asked his wife if she wanted to go out to dinner, ... She told him, 'No, let's just go down to the Cafe.'

Jeff White

Now, Al, I think, leading up to the Western Michigan game it might have been at the Tuesday press conference you were asked about probably Ahmad and you said, at that point, you had ruled him out, that he was probably unavailable. Is it the same deal this time?

Jamie Oliver

Sorry, I don?t do offal' - when asked to spend a day cooking at Westminster

Remi Oyo

Soro thanked the president profusely for the commitment and zeal with which he did his job as the chairman of AU. He asked Obasanjo not to be tired as he continued to help them in Ivory Coast to get out of the woods.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Allan Miller

People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for.

Shaan

A person who shakes a leg to 'Zor ka jhatka' at a disc doesn't care about its picturization in the film. He enjoys and downloads it because of the merit of the song.

Mike McGuire

Anything is a gamble when you come out with a new product, If you don't take care of your most popular product and innovate it, somebody else is going to take it away from you.

Olga Korbut

And then Richard was, my son was born, and this is another new deed to take care of him and I very happy I have a very good family.

William Ford

The situation is dire for many students, and it has a real impact on the quality of our health care as a nation, ... If costs are so high that colleges have a hard time interesting the most qualified students to become physicians, the medical profession's future is put in jeopardy.

E. Hicks

The situation he's in, everyone wants to win, so he can get the job here or a better job. Through all the stuff I've been through since I've been here, if it weren't for Andy, I wouldn't be sitting here today. He's just been there for me my whole time here. If someone keeps looking out for you, you're going to care for them.

Mel Pearlman

This is an issue that will come up in the next generation in Four Corners. In Four Corners, it's going to be particularly difficult to incorporate. Under Florida law, a city has to be in one county, and Four Corners is in the confines of four counties.

Judy Johnson

Don't know the future, don't know when the city will be re-opened, don't know how to get back to my house to pick up my belongings that are important to me,

Marcus Samuelsson

Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

Robert Garcia

Even a small city like ours will feel a major impact if this (bill) is passed in the Senate.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Thomas Campbell

Every day, he would drive into the city at noon and sell all day, ... He returned to West Warwick most nights around 8. It was a job for him.

Jason Schwartzman

To be honest, I'm happy in LA because my family is there and I think that's a great reason to live in a city - to be near the ones you love.

Howard Schultz

With less than a month to go, it's very clear to us that the city and state officials are not showing us the kind of respect we feel we deserve.

Peter Boylan

With Kalona being only 18 miles from Iowa City and the uniqueness of the community, I can see tremendous potential here.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Tom Odell

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Bruce Steinberg

And the signs since the fourth quarter suggest growth picking up in the first quarter more strongly than most people had anticipated. So I would say the recovery is here.

Reggie Sanders

Each day is better, ... I'm not 100 percent. I'm not going to be 100 percent because it's going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it's being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.

Bobby Cox

Boyer has been up four times now, and he's fine.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Clint Hurdle

You aren't going to replace a Todd Helton, but we have guys that can do things for us.

Martin Milner

You can't do a serious show about two guys in their 60s trying to find their route.

Tim Massaquoi

We've had a lot of injuries. It puts a lot of pressure on the young guys to step up and make plays. We've done that sometimes. Sometimes, we haven't. It's just a lack of consistency. There are times when we haven't been in the right position to make plays.

Jackie Moore

We've had a lot of guys step up and guys we didn't know much about. Basically, everybody's been picking up the load. It's all been about mixing and matching.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Gary Gambardella

They traded their houses for the big house.

Sherry Sylvester

Neither man ever met a tax increase they didn't like.

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Virgil

Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Dale Timmermann

In past years, you have (chosen not to) increase the rates or not to increase them (as much as proposed through the formula).

Doc Rivers

It's our job to support him, increase the talent, so he can be on a better team and become a better player. And the better we get, the better he is going to be.

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Michael Moskow

Even without an increase in inflation expectations, it will take appropriate monetary policy to keep inflation well contained,

Connie Kelliher

That is the smallest percentage increase since the plan was established.

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Mark Holmes

It was a culmination of several weeks of work and several months of research.

Loreen Hewitt

It will probably take him three months to recover.

Bob Honts

They were months overdue, so I was about to sue them.

Dwayne Roloson

I've got two or three months in the summertime for that.

Powers Boothe

I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

Edward Snowden

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Donald Trump

I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.

Bob Herman

What I do, with the office schedule I don't schedule regular things past 2:30 p.m. - unless its an emergency. There are many time I have not been able to make practice. The office comes first.

Anne M. Mulcahy

I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

Stephen Colbert

After nearly 15 minutes of soul searching, I have heard the call. Nation, I will seek the office of the president of the United States. I am doing it!

Steve Toltz

There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

Sylvia Kristel

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Serena Williams

Venus [Williams] has an amazing line; I love her collection. I'm always at her office. She has an interior design company and her EleVen company. They have a wonderful office space and I'm always there for the interior part and get to see what she's doing with EleVen.

Michael Scott

Wikipedia is the best thing ever.

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Karl Turner

It seems like to me, police made a lot of procedural errors.

Nikolai Shepel

They took back roads and there may have been no police posts, so that's why they got through without obstacles,

John Campbell

They said, 'we could protect you if you'll tell us what you know,' ... But she said, 'I don't know anything,' and left. There is no allegation that the police took any affirmative step at all to provide protection.

Matt Strauss

It's the No. 1 destination for police in Price Hill.

Brad Taylor

The tires just went sideways and pulled me into the ditch.

Corey Claitt

I didn't want to get frustrated, but I'm not used to losing. We just had to trust one another. We pulled together as a team.

Jim Shaw

I pulled myself out. The timing was too tight.

R. Robinson

Every day, he talked to us about being responsible,

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Mark Grudzielanek

We talked a lot and we had to get comfortable,

Al Horford

We always talked about how we were going to do big things.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Paulo Coelho

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Marisha Pessl

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times...

Marjane Satrapi

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Billy Corgan

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

Brad Williams

Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.

Brian McDermott

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.