Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Pachter

It's killing the market. They did a masterful job of marketing the box and an abysmal job of managing the supply chain.

Andrew Cuomo

This is an abysmal failure of city, state and federal government,

Jim Presba

It's abysmal safety record is there for anyone to see. We just don't know why it's been ignored and overlooked by all the federal agencies that are supposed to protect us.

Daniel Loeb

Notwithstanding the sorry state of the company, the apparent lack of financial controls, the consistently disappointing results and the abysmal investor relations, we estimate that the value of Ligand's assets far outstrip the current enterprise value,

Monica Crowley

Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.

Christopher Low

These are abysmal numbers, suggesting a deeply pessimistic consumer in the first half of September.

Kim Petersen

We've spent barely $700 million in federal grants to U.S. ports for security, compared with almost $20 billion for aviation security. And most important, we are doing an abysmal job in assisting ports in the developing world in improving security to even minimal acceptable standards.

Sen. Hanabusa

No extension should be granted to the city and its operator (Waste Management of Hawaii) because of its abysmal record.

Dennis Hastert

Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid.

Kevin Kane

until an application is derived that adds true value and intrigue to this product.

George Young

We are pleased to retain the excellent technical expertise of Don Foot in a position of responsibility and impact. At this point in the development of our Comstock/Mountain Lion iron project and the ongoing work at the Western Utah copper project, their background and technical expertise will be invaluable to us. Likewise, Dr. Nelson adds a tremendous dimension of knowledge and technical capability to our board of directors.

Bob Reed

We are pleased to be leaders in this effort among U.S. companies. Our entire management team considers diversity a business imperative, and our commitment to diversity -- besides being the right thing to do -- adds value to our company and our communities.

Chuck Jones

We're in a slower-growth environment and as Larry said, if you can get 10 percent growth from organic growth and 10 percent from acquisition, it adds cash and adds earnings. That's as long as they can make the integration work.

Jennifer Bowers

When you teach the way we do, you need some time off. The work day is longer than eight hours, and it's not just grading papers that adds to the time.

Ken Simonson

Whether the recovery from Katrina adds to demand for construction materials depends on the types and speed of rebuilding in damaged areas.

Dr. Gordon

When it all adds up together, you can really have a disaster.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

When we discuss aqueous solutions of substances which do not contain hydroxyl, it is simplest to define a base as a substance which adds hydrogen ion.

John Daniels

What a great atmosphere. Three years ago, you could hear each other on the bench. It's a lot different now. It's a lot of fun and it adds a lot for the kids.

Paul Rosenthal

All of us want to hold criminals accountable for what they doeveryone does. But the way that we're doing it is not the right way.

Reggie Brown

These crimes have been very senseless. What are some of the things that we can do about them?

Rick Applegate

Ruiz was our No. 1 guy, our top priority for property crimes investigators.

Mitch Roob

These are serious crimes that deserve the maximum sentence.

Larry Pratt

There are no criminals in the database. It's you guys. It's a joke.

David Harris

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

David Emm

Criminals will employ whatever evasive techniques they can.

Ross Rice

A standing part of any investigation is to look at any unsolved crimes and see if there's any fit.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Jerry Doyle

It's a shame people would stoop to this kind of thing. We have to look at these crimes and see if there is anything else we can do.

James Lockyer

This is a familiar problem: people spending years in jail for crimes that didn't happen as a result of erroneous pathology.

Latin Proverb

It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love

Hugh Graf

It's not uncommon for these types of scams or crimes around this time of the year.

David Smith

It's a vicious and ugly reminder of anti-gay prejudice. What is unique about hate crimes is that they terrorize the whole community.

Richard Dicker

Despite shortcomings, it was a momentous day for Iraqis. It sends a signal that the days of unlimited impunity for these types of crimes may be winding down.

Li Zhi

The move will help regulators deal with securities crimes more efficiently and help small investors protect their legal rights.

Noam Chomsky

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

Brad Smith

These are real crimes that disrupt the lives of real people.

Brad Dean

We grew because we offered more for your money. Today, everyone offers that, from cruise lines to casinos. ... Everybody is selling value for the money and packaging it with convenience. It's got to be more than simply price.

Richard Hendrix

We felt like even though we were down, the game was still ours. Even down to the last shot, we thought we'd cruise into the next round. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way.

James Graf

We are getting into the dangerous portion of the mission. The cruise has not been easy, but now we are starting to enter into the realm where we have lost two spacecraft in the last 15 years.

Douglas Ward

As we've gotten larger and larger ships in the main resort cruise section, particularly in the U.S., what I've found is that people get tired of standing in lines and being highly structured, and then they start to think about smaller ships, and so they want to downsize.

Ed Conley

For instance you may have some people who have insurance and insurance is meeting their living expenses while they have been displaced. You have some people who may be looking at an option such as a cruise ship where all of their needs are going to be met. It is going to vary by family.

Judy Randall

They are giving the customer exactly what they want. What we have to do is to become a cruise ship on land.

Randy Johnson

You don't want to lose your focus that you're going to cruise through it by any means. I was able to get some easy outs.

Bob Hunter

This is where it gets tricky, especially for inexperienced travelers who are making long-range plans. It might be worth it for a really expensive cruise that is non-refundable, for instance. It depends on your risk quotient and health.

David Rodgers

People cruise around with their kids and their grandchildren - it's a family-type event.

Charles Spurgeon

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

Sathya Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Lee Janzen

The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win.

Sharon Stewart

We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed.

Nicolas Roeg

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Nicolas Roeg

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Bill McKibben

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Terri Teuber

There is no question that different consideration would have been given to the situation if people were going hungry.

Charles Dickens

I only ask for information.

Charles Schumer

We want to see how much information is forthcoming between now and the 7th.

China Mieville

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

David Icke

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Some information I just keep to myself.

Dee Hock

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Mayor Barse

We are always seeking new and better information.

Richard Davidson

We've already had some very worrying points of information which could have seen the start of the correction.

Alexander Kashlinsky

Where they lived, how big they were, how much light they emitted, whether they even existed, we weren't sure. What we've done, we think, is obtain the first information about these stars.

Al Alvarez

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

John Grant

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Calvin Williams

This is a done deal. Let's not insult anybody's integrity or intelligence. It's a done deal.

Connie Kelliher

This illustrates why workers are insulted by their take-away contract. Our members generated that profit he's being rewarded for.

Rodger Schmidt

There wasn't much talent. I don't want to insult anybody, but it's true.

Sparky Anderson

They're loyal Royal all the way. But, they're not tough fans, a player does not have to worry about being insulted there.

Kim Gandy

an outrage and an insult to the women of this country.

Author unknown

A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.

Peter Hitchens

The myth about Muslim tolerance needs to be exploded, Behead those who insult Islam.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

Linda Patterson

We want to see justice served for what was done.

Chris Christie

She supported a deal that didn't even require this murderous regime to return a cop killer, JoAnne Chesimard, to face justice. See I know about this personally.

Chris Christie

Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Chinua Achebe

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Edward Gibbon

But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

Edward Gibbon

A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.

Natasha Tsakos

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

Kim Priez

While Mardi Gras may be smaller this year, the pageantry is not going to be lacking in any way.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

Phillip Brown

With the lack of support there last night to stop the A&P tax, I don't see the need to do anything further.

Keke Palmer

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Kelly Rowan

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

Tony Stewart

We're ready. I don't feel like we're lacking anything or waiting on anything.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Marc Cherry

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Alan Bennett

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

David Tudor

Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.

David Duchovny

You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours (points to us), what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Lines are very difficult to learn.

Bear Grylls

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Deepa Mehta

While we're working on the script, I never see any films. I make it a point because I don't want to get distracted. I don't want to be influenced, and before I know it, have somebody say, "My God, she plagiarized that line."

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Charles Spurgeon

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Charles Spurgeon

When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

Alan Greenspan

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

Alan Bennett

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Al Sharpton

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

Charisma Carpenter

I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.

Billy Tauzin

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

Byron Katie

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.

James Ragan

They're kind of a victim of their own success.

Johnny Jessop

They're just as much victims as we are.

Cameron van der Burgh

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Deepak Chopra

Victims always feel alone and helpless.