Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Vancouver

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

Nathan Brookwood

Having a more intelligent quad-core, as opposed to the dual dual-core, translates to better power usage and, in theory, far better performance. The advantages are that you get a higher degree of sharing with caches and buses.

Juan Williams

I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.

Boris Gryzlov

It is important to take an objective view of the advantages offered by WTO membership, as well as the possible risks involved. We do not need WTO membership at any price. There must be no compromise here.

Winston Graham

I have been told of the many extra advantages of word-processing, and I acknowledge them. But, apart from other reasons, I find that a sentence, a page, a book, assumes a different nature when it is first in manuscript, second in typescript, and third in page proofs.

Maria Martinez

Reed Elsevier has long been recognized as a leader in using technology to strategically build its business, while Microsoft has been at the forefront in helping publishing businesses find solutions to the fundamental changes that are required in the new digital era. Together, we've charted a new course that will provide Reed Elsevier with significant competitive advantages as the company continues the fast-paced growth of its online properties.

Reed Hastings

Our outlook for the future reflects the continuing rapid subscriber growth and the increasing impact of the cost advantages and other financial benefits that flow from our market leadership.

Ralph Merkle

If you have a distributed manufacturing technology, one of the great advantages is that it should let us have a much lower cost infrastructure.

Dan Schultz

I think it's a good experiment, a good compromise and a good step forward for Squaw Bay. My hope is that it will create some order here.

Tommy Barnes

I think it's a good compromise. We'll continue to evaluate anything we do, including evaluating an extended year for remediation.

Pam Dixon

We may well be living in a new era here in terms of governments and data flow. This subpoena could, if fulfilled as originally requested, definitely compromise the privacy of quite a few people.

Jill Taylor

I always wanted to get married in the fall. So we made a compromise.

Samuel Beckett

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

Rick Warren

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Samuel Johnson

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Yanis Varoufakis

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

Pascual Blanco

In the process, we all have to compromise.

Warren Cuccurullo

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

Mark Blondin

I'm so proud of our members, ... The overwhelming unity and solidarity of the machinist union membership won this strike.

Jim Repace

The membership has had a lot of questions on how this buyout may work.

Joe Mullins

This allows us to customize our services to the membership base.

Buzz Hargrove

It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just exhilarating.

Michelle Sommers

The split in the membership coincided with the split in the board.

Mike Skarr

Quantity in membership is important, but it's more important to have quality members.

Chris Patten

I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States

Rudolf Steiner

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Roger Ebert

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Wyndham Lewis

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

George Jackson

Our objective is a permanent transformation of the city. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've turned an important corner.

Jim Johnson

Our objective was to put an end to what we view as infringement of our package designs.

Rob Dyson

Our objective is to win the (ALMS) championship. It's the way we take each race and the way we run the team.

Chan Gailey

If I worried about all that kind of stuff, I couldn't be in this business, ... This is like being in most any other profession: You're not going to please everybody. My objective is to do what's right by the program and what's right for these young men. Other than that, I don't have a responsibility.

Commissioner Steele

I want to see it stay as objective as possible.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Bebe Neuwirth

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

Lori White

If Qwest offered voluntary overtime, I think they'd find enough people to take it,

Jim Ecker

There was a plea that was offered to us by the D.A., and we rejected it.

Amelia Torres

The review is the preliminary stage and we have been offered undertakings.

Richard Murray

As a club, our position remains the same as ever - we do not want him to go, but if it is offered to him, and he wants to take it, we will not stand in his way.

Joshua Landis

It offered a secular vision of Syria that would dismantle very serious religious splits.

Catherine Cook

They have offered $8,500 as compensation for the sign.

Phil Pergola

They're putting turf in and that's what made this work. And, from what I understand, they offered us the use of their facility.

Mario Theissen

I think it could be possible but in the end it's a sport.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Richard P. Feynman

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Bob Williams

If there was something someone wanted that we didn't have, we could usually get it for them in a day or two. We tried to make things as simple as possible for our customers. I think they appreciated that.

Manuel Pellegrini

It has come at the worst possible time. But we have other options.

Cindy Sheehan

I'll be back as soon as possible but we'll keep you posted.

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Tyler Oakley

I remember having 100 views on a video and being like, "I don't have a hundred friends." So that was a moment.