Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robertson Davies

Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded

John Ryding

The solid trend in payroll growth has been maintained into February. Reduced labor market slack, illustrated by the decline in the unemployment rate since June 2003, appears to be putting upward pressure on wage increases.

Hoda Kotb

I wake up at 4:15 A.M., get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-clack on the web to see what I missed overnight. Then I go to the gym, around 5:15, and I do what appears to be a very light workout, but who cares. I'm socializing with other nice people at the gym. Then I go into work, and I'm really awake.

Richard Riordan

Thank God it took place in a remote area where there appears to be no tremendous damage or personal injuries,

Bill Snyder

There will be some consequences for Thomas. We have to let things settle down a little bit. It's not what it appears to be. And I'm not in position to tell you, to elaborate on that.

Ben Dell

The risk appears greatest for the gas names that have outperformed considerably over the last 12 months, even those with strong fundamentals.

Richard Bloch

This is a shameful exercise by two groups who it appears have bargained successfully in fat times; but in hard times, the talk turns to nuclear options .... You need to begin today, tonight ... you need to get down to this privately now.

Charles de Secondat

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Pradeep Hirethota

We've been hopeful another year class would emerge to help support the fishery, and now it appears we have one.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Bill Schneider

People thought the election still might be so close that he could make a decisive difference in some states, and he very nearly did. But the states weren't quite that close, the way Florida and New Hampshire were in 2000,

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Randy Honebrink

People should always as much as possible stay close to where they can get help. But that's not in the nature of people.

Sammi Hanratty

People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.

Richard Nolan

People get really up close and personal with their chickens.

Brad Faxon

People get excited about this tournament and I love playing close to home,

David Crockett

People go negative when it's a close race.

Ann McInerney

They are a good team watching them on film but it's even better in person. They have all the components you need to be a championship team.

Sen. Hanabusa

This is not an impact study. This is a baseline environmental study that has 17 components that have to be addressed to satisfy the law.

Hiroshi Arano

The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. shares. It has nothing to do with economic fundamentals in Japan, which have not worsened at all.

Nikolaos Scarmeas

We tried to single out which of the components of the diet are driving its effect, but none of them is prominently responsible. But, when we put them together, the effect was there.

Claire Babrowski

One of the key components of sustainability is having enough of the right products to sell. That starts with making room in our stores for products and customers.

Annalee Newitz

Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

Christy Scott

Again, we played a solid first game and then let down the second game. We struggled with hitting errors and a couple mental mistakes, but we regrouped and finished well in the third game.

Cassie Campbell

After she lets in a couple of goals early, she has a tendency to fall apart, so that's what we're going to try to do.

Paul Byrd

The mood was up in the locker room, which was nice. We've had a couple of red-eye flights. I think we were a little delirious, so we were kind of happy. I was glad to go out there and give us a good performance. I wanted to pitch a lot of innings.

Dennis Roth

Defensively, we stopped them on the goal line a couple of times and that was a good sign for us. Midway through the half and into the fourth we started to have some kids dropping out with leg cramps and I think that later in the season we might have been able to give Herrin a better game.

Mike Tice

Defensively, we gave up a couple big plays. Most of those were physical,

David Reeves

Defensively we didn't execute a few things and I should have put us maybe in a couple of better calls,

Jeff Petrovic

Defense is where we've been struggling, but Cole made a couple of plays early on that jump-started everything. He without a doubt is huge for us as a senior leader. He energizes us.

Danielle Santos

Definitely. We're trying to do some big things this year. But earning respect is going to take more than just a couple wins.

George Gelnovatch

The start was not what I was looking for in terms of energy. I think in the second half, some things started to sink in and we took our level up a couple of notches. Once we did that, it really made a difference in our play.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Samari Rolle

The significance of this decision goes farther than where he suits up on Saturday, ... It will shape him as a young man.

Rick Edwards

The successful GTV flight is a major milestone for APKWS II. Our previous successful ballistic test vehicle flights and the many tests that led up to these were all important, but here, we were trying to hit a target for the first time and we did it.

Paul Turk

When you board, tell a flight attendant that you're sick.

Susan Moores

If it's three flights or less, take the stairs.

Akrivos Tsolakis

I stress that a flight reconstruction of this size has never happened before in Greece and I'm of the impression that the whole scenario of this flight has never happened before in the world.

Lori Garver

Human space flight is not the only game in town at NASA.

Kit Carson

He had the intent to shoot and a flight plan set up in advance,

Umberto Guidoni

And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

Jan Woodford

There was notification just before dusk that there was some concern. Our helicopters . . . fly during the day, so it was past the normal check-in time for the flight plan.

Sergei Krikalev

We want to say thank you, all of you. We are waiting for this flight for very long years, more than two years already.

Dick Vermeil

Normally, when you win a football game and you really feel good about it flying home, you look at tapes and it's not quite as good as you thought it was,

Grant Fairley

Speech recognition software is the stealth solution flying under the radar today that will revolutionize all our tomorrows.

Glenn Tilton

It would not be the end of United if we were to do so, ... We would be flying the next morning.

Joe Crede

We were flying last night and I didn't get to see much of it.

John Power

We fly over 120,000 passengers a year. This was very, very unfortunate.

Tobin Gorey

There's still money flying into the commodities markets in general. I think the market is still bullish.

Debbie Stabenow

Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

Christopher Walken

I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.

D. J. MacHale

It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Capt. Moad

Some witnesses have given us information that leads us to say that could be a possibility. Until we get confirmation from a doctor, though, we can't speculate.

David Ferrer

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.

Juan Cole

Perhaps that's why he was given such a good reception.

Atharva Veda

Satisfied and satiated, I remain steady within my heart, and now, I do not waver at all. The True Guru has given me the inexhaustible treasure; it never decreases, and never runs out.

Atharva Veda

Says Nanak, the Truth has been revealed to me. The Guru has given me the treasure; I have taken it and enshrined it within my heart.

Jon Gruden

The Saints have given us problems in the past.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

Johan Botha

The tests went all right, but I was very disappointed in the results.

Brigham Young

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

Stephen Jay Gould

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. We make and test risky predictions all the time; our success is not dogma, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth.

Mark Rosenker

We terminated the test because it was unsafe at that point.

Daniel Tosh

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

Alfred Bester

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

Timothy Leary

The universe is an intelligence test.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.