Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Fernandes

The pilots cannot get over the fact that I have a cup of coffee with the guys who carry the bags. My secretary will (even) go out and help clean the planes if we are running into a delay.

John Kyriakopoulos

The outlook for the Fed policy is clearly data dependent. I cannot see much downward correction to the U.S. dollar over the near term being driven by the data.

Beeban Kidron

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.

David Hewson

The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

Donald Norman

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Don Young

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Alice Walker

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Rupert Adams

We have had inquiries all week but they reached a crescendo this morning - the odds suggest the happy couple are a certainty to get married.

Martin Frost

Management conveyed that if they didn't have certainty that things are settled with the unions, they will be looking at bankruptcy,

Jonathan Band

Title Two, on the whole, is a good statute. It provides a degree of certainty for service providers, so that they know what their exposures are.

Pete Nicholas

We are providing the shareholders of Guidant with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson's.

Yehuda Berg

'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

Yehuda Berg

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

Eric Bell

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance

Dale Martin

Bart was, like a lot of people who were converted to fundamental evangelicalism, converted to the certainty of it all, of having all the answers. When he found out they were lying to him, he just didn't want anything to do with it.

Brian Jennings

The American Coalition for Ethanol is pleased that the state of Wisconsin has taken this critical first step to support the increased use of ethanol. The state has developed a strong local ethanol industry, and ensuring that much of that Wisconsin-made ethanol is used in Wisconsin is one way to secure its continued success and to make the state less dependent upon outside sources of energy.

Vlado Buckovski

We joined that coalition since the country was under attack, now we are more useful as the opposition,

Charles Gabriel

Just because Democrats control committees doesn't mean they have an easy working coalition. There's still a coalition of conservative Democrats who will work with Republicans on key issues.

Joschka Fischer

Me? Joining a coalition under Merkel? Look, Merkel will not be chancellor.

Stephen Wright

We have now got a coalition government which may or may not include some anti-business types like the Greens.

Muqtada Sadr

We have noticed that the coalition has pulled back,

Hoshyar Zebari

We need these forces. It is an Iraqi need, more than an American or coalition need. The consequences would be catastrophic.

Louis Michel

We are in favor of a strong coalition to fight terrorism. All international organizations and the United Nations in particular must be engaged in this endeavor.

Gary Jackson

We are devastated by the loss of our friends, ... They were true American patriots and heroes who were performing a mission that is critical to the success of the coalition efforts to secure peace and freedom in Iraq.

Elizabeth Warren

People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.

David H. Murdock

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Bertrand Russell

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Jeremy Sweet

We were stationed in Pascagoula, Miss., which is about as far southeast as you can go. It was hot, hot, hot - nearly 100 degrees - and very humid every day.

Karen Broach

We have a high degree of flexibility to reach out and touch our demographics. The Latino package is a prime example. We don't offer a Latino tier in every market because the market doesn't demand that. In Madison, a Latino tier is necessary and important to consumers.

Gao Xuedong

We have been trying to make breakthroughs in the degree of difficulty in the summer training.

Herb Sendek

We're really not at liberty to talk about it. What I can tell you is that Gavin is a true gentleman, and he is working hard to pursue his degree at N.C. State.

Paula McLain

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

Christian Gross

There is a JavaScript that has a lot of these things solved. Nobody's released it.

Jack Sheehan

He was immediately released to his place of employment.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Jim Calhoun

I thought at first when he released it, it was going to be good, but it wasn't.

Sydney Wayser

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Brian Goldfarb

Every version of Visual Studio that we've released has been tied to a specific version of the framework.

Carrie Coon

I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help her learn English. I wanted her to play with all my toys. I was actually, I think, really scary to her, because I had so much energy.

Carrie Underwood

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

Carl Rogers

When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

Carl Sagan

A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

Carl Sagan

There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.

Arpad Busson

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

Anton Seidl

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Anthony Swofford

I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

John Buskirk

That was a tremendous punt return. Robert's punt return really kind of put us over the top. That put us in a real, real strong position.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Robert Anderson

My tax return is in a sense very ordinary,

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Carlos Menem

Here we are. What Evita (Peron) said is being fulfilled: I will return and be millions,

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Rudy Gay

That will be a ways away. Whenever that happens, it happens. Right now it's just me and my team.

Jesse Berger

For me the play is about preservation and transformation as ways of storytelling.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.