Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Albert Dunlap

It is obvious the company no longer felt it had a legal basis to pursue its defenses without Al,

Steve Bennett

Intuit had another solid quarter. We beat consensus estimates for pro forma profitability. Our Quicken Loans mortgage business was profitable for the quarter and grew revenue on a year-over-year basis for the first time in four quarters.

Milos Forman

If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.

Michael Berry

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.

George Young

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

Alan Rifkin

If you look at the four hurricanes last year, which had combined insured losses of $23 billion, both Home Depot and Lowe's benefited by about 100 basis points on their same-store sales,

Art Hogan

I think 50 basis points (one-half percentage point) is a credible consensus estimate for what the Fed does (at its March 20 meeting). Unfortunately, over the last five or six tumultuous trading days, we've talked ourselves into the fact that the Fed cares about equity valuations, but that's not the case.

Michael Holland

I think 50 basis points is built into the market price structure,

Pat Whitcomb

Jake dominated his weight class. And Josh was just consistent and did what he had to do.

Chris Ault

Joshua has been one of our more consistent defensive players. He's making plays. He's a natural.

Tony Russa

He definitely has five tools and every year I've seen a more consistent guy.

Paula Creamer

I have definitely gotten longer. I have new muscles and my golf swing has changed, so once in a while I can hit one pretty far out there. But it's learning how to use those muscles on a consistent basis.

Mike Holmgren

He is as about as consistent and tough a linemen as I've ever coached. He's very, very steady.

Winston Churchill

I'd rather be right than consistent.

Buddy Bell

Results are everything, I guess. Denny just has to be more consistent in the strike zone. Overall he was good, but could be better.

Zhu Bangzao

Our position is consistent and clear-cut -- that Iraq must cooperate with the United Nations and effectively and comprehensively implement all the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council.

Jiang Zemin

Our policy has very long been a consistent one. Peaceful reunification, one country, two systems,

Franz Kafka

His weariness is that of the gladiator after the combat; his work was the whitewashing of a corner in a state official's office

Chad Johnson

He's good. Very good. He's fast, quick. He has all the tools. He's going to be all right. He's going to get better and better as the years go on. He's going to be one of the top corners in the league.

Tatum Bell

I think you can always find a running back, but to find a shutdown corner like Champ, they just don't come around that much. He's hurt a little bit, but he'll come back when we need him. He's a great cornerback, so I think we got the better of the trade.

Shawn Rychcik

We've felt good and the past two games we haven't made any errors. We got some pitching and some timely hitting. We really manufactured some runs and played more of our game, so I think we've turned the corner here. We're pretty excited to get back into things right now.

Felipe Alou

I thought the guy was out. Saw a strike on the corner that was not ruled a strike.

Carol Hively

It is kind of like gas stations, where you're looking for a specific kind of corner and there's only going to be so many of those, and we all want that corner. We're looking for the high traffic count and good visibility.

John Luckhardt

He is a seasoned one-on-one defender, an excellent run-support corner and an outstanding tackler.

Craig Anderson

He hit the top corner through a couple of screens. A good shot. There wasn't much you could do.

Jack Straw

Because it was quite dark in that corner I was being pushed towards shaking hands with somebody just as a matter of courtesy and then it transpired it was President Mugabe.

Sheraz Mian

We are faced with perhaps the worst possible situation that planners and policy makers could image.

Todd Law

Taylor is a pretty good team. They have lost only three games and you have to give them credit. They are probably the quickest team we have faced all season. I felt like we played pretty passively as the game went on after nice start.

Roy Oswalt

I've faced these guys 50 times it feels like already,

Randy Johnson

When you're still making quality pitches in their third time up, you can feel your progression. I faced them three times.

Robert H. Connelly

When faced with a tough choice, pause for a moment and think what your Mother would say about your decision.

Frank Poirot

We faced a choice. Low and wide, or tall and narrow.

Rupert Murdoch

And, while we faced comparisons to a record quarter year ago at our film studio, we released a number of successful films this quarter each of which should generate strong returns later this fiscal year when distributed in home entertainment.

Rhonda Jefferson

Though it looked like the same team we faced the first time, they had a lot more kills in this game then they did in the last one.

Keith Rockwell

The problems we have faced all week continue, in agriculture, industrial goods, cotton.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Joel Allen

Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Champ Bailey

John, he knows everything, he studies the game very hard and he'll knock you out.

Mo Rocca

It addresses a life-long concern, the risk of someone ruining your game. I just don't want you, 50 years down the road, to have your game killed by some guy with a shinier walker.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Bobby Bowden

What do you lose? I think you probably lose your most solid, mature, leader and blocker.

Two Chainz

I see myself as a leader and not a follower.

Thomas Berger

We may not get a leader who is as cooperative as Koizumi.

Bill Grant

He was not only a leader of the party, but he was a confidant of the party as well.

H. Hunt

He was our only returning senior who played a lot, and I thought maybe he would try and be the man, but he was our leader in the way he played team basketball.

Quincy Douby

I am a leader on this team, and I'm the one taking a lot of the big shots in big games. It was my time to step up and take control.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Yogendra Yadav

He has become president precisely because he is a weak leader and no one thinks he would be a long term threat to them.

Rob Reiner

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Richard M. Nixon

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Richard M. Nixon

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard Gilman

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

Robert Dale Owen

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Robin Hobb

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Benedict Lucchesi

He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,

Rudyard Kipling

it's always best to tell the truth.

John Burdett

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

Lauren Myracle

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

Mother Jones

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

Randy Moss

There's no telling what you are going to see,

Anne Frank

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Charles Bishop

No! ... You're telling me if three commissioners tell me I've got to sign, I've got to sign? I don't think so.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Robert Meyer

It is phenomenal. When we first started, it was just me and three employees. We all wore many hats.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

David Marshall

Hell, by then it'd been out there three days.

Whitey Herzog

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

Richard Francis Burton

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

Vanessa Hudgens

I have three closets in my bedroom.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Stuart Appleby

It will be one of our top 10 doing something,

Alex Kelly

It was hellish conditions, if you will, on top of the chimney.

Bobby Cox

They're very similar. They're on top of their games.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Kirsten Gillibrand

While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

Lisa Kleypas

I’ll tell you what I’m fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It’s all come down to the hope of being with you..

Otto von Bismarck

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Eric Shinseki

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

Craig Ferguson

It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

Aristotle

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

David Letterman

Today is Veterans Day. Thank you to all our men and women who have served the United States armed forces. In honor of Veterans Day we are marching out a few jokes that have already served.

Dan Lipinski

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.