Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Douglas

As effective as he's been. I agree with that (decision), I think it's an effective cost savings move. Our office largely deals with three department heads directly.

Kobe Bryant

People that know me understand that's just me. That's not something that was fabricated. The people who don't side with you or agree with you, you use that as fuel. You use that as motivation.

Rafael Ramirez

Of the 32 (companies), we have agreed with 30. We believe this was a mistake on the part of Total and Eni.

Frederick Chiluba

Details of the agreement will be released tomorrow.

Colin Steele

The signing of the addendum to the MoU addresses the valid concerns of the labour movement and speaks to the resilience of the original agreement and reinforces the fact that social partnership and dialogue is possible, orderly and mutually beneficial. Indeed, members of the union movement have signalled that while a new MoU would not include a wage freeze, there are several critical matters which are better dealt with in the spirit of partnership benefiting from research not rumour, candour not deception.

Kiran Karnik

A free trade agreement with the US in the services sector will be a win-win situation for both the countries.

J. Taylor

After I heard some of the unrest, I agreed not to pursue it, unfortunately. I do feel it is a mistake, but if it is not the will of the cities, I agreed not to pursue it.

Jean Todt

So we can say that an agreement has been made.

William Esrey

Right now, we're trying to agree on a process, ... I think everybody is trying to be reasonable there, but we have not started to approach what we think the value is.

Roger Vincent

Some parents might say 'don't do it' without explaining why. But if you explain, children can make an assessment of whether or not it's a sensible thing to do.

S. Walker

Schneider is in Meridian, Miss., doing damage assessment and client casework. He is working with 16 others in a team,

Pan Yue

The right way to stop improper industrial distribution is to ensure environmental impact assessment for newly launched projects and promote it in policy-making.

Mohamed ElBaradei

a state of play of where we are, what we have achieved, what is left for us to do and an assessment of the degree of cooperation we are receiving from Iraq.

Dennis Ross

What the Bush administration needs to do is ... make their own assessment exactly what the landscape is. What's possible, what's meaningful. And if they focus that way, that will inevitably take some time.

Phil Jones

You might want to check with the IPCC Bureau. I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 [the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report] would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Hard to do, as not everybody will remember it.

Ron Walters

My assessment of his role on the council is that he has been effective. He has gotten himself into the thick of the baseball politics with his own backing and plan, and has carved out some attention to development projects in Southeast as a part of the construction.

Robert Brusca

How could we have such a turnaround in job growth and have the Fed find that it doesn't change its assessment of risks in the economy whatsoever?

Ursula Plassnik

My personal assessment is that direct contacts are positive development if it leads to increased dialogue, something that I view positively.

Ayrton Senna

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Jamie Bell

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

Denise Garcia

There are some risks and challenges. As they expand internationally, their costs are going to go up. So we'll still see that top-line growth, but we'll see some pinch there on the costs and the operating margins.

Barry Sanders

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

Brian Weiss

Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

Boman Irani

I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

Mark Tushnet

When you put the memo together with his voting registration challenges and with his opposition to a local antidiscrimination ordinance in Phoenix, ... you get a picture of somebody for whom issues of racial justice and nondiscrimination were not a high priority.

Antonio Gramsci

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

Edsger Dijkstra

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

Herbie Hancock

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.

Bob Wise

There will be set modifications and different graphic elements from what we do.

Dennis Quaid

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

William Cullen Bryant

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.

Tupac Shakur

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

Christopher Hill

The issue is the tactics of how we express the elements of the document.

Judy Pardonnet

They went through a number of elements and a number of different scents, and their performance was very sub-par and unacceptable.

Joe Mantello

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit

Robyn Archer

Quite often, if people don't want to listen to the message they will say 'Oh, but it's so musically inferior', but when you have songs that are musically sophisticated, with enormous heart and expertise and a message, that's when its hard to resist. It's great to see people of exceptional musical talent, like Paul and the musicians he works with, contributing to songs like these.

Keith Brown

It was an enormous loss, that is the one that eventually killed us.

Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Donald Kennedy

There are enormous pressures to be extremely productive and at the top of the heap.

Mark Cullen

As stylized as he is, Doug has a sort of filter, where he can't shoot something that's not true and something that he doesn't feel is right with the character. He just does it with enormous flair and that's what we took with us in the show.

Susan Sontag

God, living is enormous!

Michael Morse

made an enormous mistake in my life: I took steroids while in the minor leagues.

Norman Ornstein

Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.

Ken Marino

I'm a huge 'Eastbound & Down' fan. I'm an enormous Danny McBride fan.

George H. W. Bush

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

Douglas Feith

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

Colin Powell

The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

Sean Penn

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

John Cummings

Right now, we can comfortably shelter about 257,000 residents on island. Now when we talk about shelter space, we plan for a 3-by-5 space, just enough for you to lie down and get in.

Atharva Veda

The women that lie upon couches and upon beds, and they that rest in litters, the women all that exhale sweet fragrance, do we put to sleep.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It's not about accounting. It's about lies.

Green Day

Billie-Joe: Just about 99% of the population masturbates while the other 1%, lie about it

Matt Millen

You can tell people the truth and everyone thinks you're lying, and you can lie and everyone thinks you're telling the truth.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Heather Ross

She (Victoria) can't lie to save her life. She takes responsibility for everything she does.

William Bastone

Frey lied to us, lied to his lawyers, and lied to his fans.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

June Daugherty

These AAU teams are amazing. They practice all year. They're well coached. They play a lot of games.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Jan Karon

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Bobby Robson

Practice makes permanent.

Brene Brown

One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice - which is really hard - is in those moments where we're being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.

Bruce Lee

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Edmund Hillary

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Daniel H. Pink

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

Thomas E. Mann

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Thomas Reed

If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.

Robert James Graves

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Swami Vivekananda

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Atticus Ross

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.