Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Gettelfinger

Delphi 's misuse of the bankruptcy procedure to circumvent the collective bargaining process and slash jobs and wages and drastically reduce healthcare, retirement, and other hard-won benefits or eliminate them altogether is a travesty and a concern for every American.

Edmund Phelps

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

Peter Stuyvesant

It would be altogether too tedious to insert here all the annual petitions for powder which were sometimes repeated two or three times a year.

Thomas Christie

I see this as the most viable of four possible options. We could do away with the matrix altogether and go back to an 8 year top-out. Or we could do nothing at all. Or we could use Dickerson?s suggestion, or mine.

Lew Wallace

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

J. Maarten Troost

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

Thomas Carlyle

Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith

Peter Burrows

Obviously, Jobs has had the last laugh -- as some 22 million units sold altogether will attest. And now comes a product, the 1.5-ounce iPod Nano, that's so smartly conceived and well-engineered, the skeptics are hard pressed to find anything to complain about. Sure, consumers will have to pay $50 more to get the same song capacity as with the now-discontinued iPod Mini line. But get one of these gizmos in your hand, and such complaints will fade.

Barbara Ryan

Pfizer clearly is a company with tremendous disregard for the generic drug industry and is not given to settling. But it is not altogether unlikely that Pfizer could settle its litigation. If Pfizer could translate some of its cash hoards into greater certainty on this litigation ... I think they would do that.

Todd Parrott

I've been very fortunate in my career to win a lot of important races and big races that we have, a lot of them with this guy beside me, ... But at this point in time in my career I'm not sure there's anything that was more important. Today came at a very good time for a lot of us.

Carl Laundrie

This is one of the initial steps in the direction we'd like to take (with the airport). Besides the restaurant, this is the first significant non-aviation business on the county-owned property at the airport.

Stephanie Nelson

Besides the human costs, it is a very expensive disease.

Barry Bonds

Besides my kids being born and my wife being so supportive, he kind of really inspired me to come back, ... It was just really heart-warming to know this young kid was rooting for me and told me to keep my head up. Things that we say to young kids, this young man was saying the exact same thing to me. It just really motivated me to work harder and get back.

Jamshyd Godrej

Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.

French Montana

Besides buying a mansion or something, everything I wanted I always got. I'm just ready to invest it and save it. Otherwise, life can hit you, but you can't go back to working at Home Depot. That's why I always just be stacking.

Ahmed Zewail

Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

Chris Paulson

We had a hard time scoring besides Wes tonight. We didn't get much out of everybody else. They just swallow you up. They just really put the clamps on everybody else.

Harold Johnson

We wanted kids to have something to do here besides hiking. It's a place where families can get out of town, out of the hustle and bustle.

Eddy Curry

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

P. Herbert

I sort of fell in with the wrong crowd. Things started getting twisted, and instead of facing my drug problem, I made excuses and justified getting away with it because I was maintaining a job and family.

Paul Davis

To be honest, I don't really think so. Everyone is tired this time of year. We can't make the excuse of being tired.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Jarome Iginla

We'll try to have the same mindset for Game 2 as we did Game 1. Now hopefully all the excuses are gone and we can keep going.

Goran Ivanisevic

I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

Tommie Harris

I take my hat off to them because they didn't have a bye week and we did. There was really no excuse for us to lose and not play as well as we were supposed to.

Elizabeth Ryan

I think it's outrageous. I think they're making excuses so they can keep raising it.

Kobe Bryant

We can have all the excuses in the world. You can say we're young, we have guys hurt, but we just have man up and be ready to play every night.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Bill Graves

When things go to 50%, in general there's still a pretty good selection. More than 50%, and you may get a good price on something, but it might not be what you want.

Rich Lowry

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Barbara Jordan

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Baruch Spinoza

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

Baruch Spinoza

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Carlos Alberto

Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,

Shawn Marion

Sometimes we have a team down 20 points and then start missing some shots. That's when we need to clamp down on defense. It's not easy, but at the same time we've got to do it.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Juvenal

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Trent Dilfer

Braylon wants to get better, and he wants to get a sense of timing and rhythm with me. After the one I just missed him down the middle, I went to the sideline and told him we're not there yet but we're going to get there this game.

Danny Miller

We go out and do our best, ... but we have to move on to our next missing person.

Jeffrey Hammond

We're going to be in the outer cordon-type mission of controlling traffic, posturing ourselves in a position where if we have to respond, we can react immediately,

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Shelli Haferbecker

If it wasn't the first shot, a lot of times it was the second and third shot.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Chris Hammond

I always start pretty strong. When I do struggle, it tends to be in the second half.

Ron Gardenhire

I think the second time around we'll see where we're at here.

Duane Starks

Starks said. ''I just think we executed more in the second half.

Colin Cushman

Standish in the second half, that's the story right there. She's the real deal.

Mark Teixeira

That could be it exactly. The first day, I didn't sleep at all. The second day, yeah, a little bit.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Benjamin Disraeli

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Miley Cyrus

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Charles Churchill

By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

Bruce Henderson

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.