Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. Hurley

A prepaid tuition plan is attractive to a family that just wants to make sure they've paid for the future tuition at a public university and they don't want to worry about which direction the markets are going.

Sean Connery

I've always loved woman. Blonde, brunette, but preferably foreign. They're more attractive than Britons.

Wayne Kramer

To preserve and improve (these properties) is the desired outcome. We want Elkhart's neighborhoods to be attractive and welcoming. The primary focus is to improve the quality of life.

Tadashi Tsukaguchi

Even as the Fed is expected to raise rates tomorrow, it also means they are one step closer to the end of rate hikes and that is making Treasuries attractive to investors. We are looking for opportunities to buy Treasuries around yields of 4.75 percent.

Steve Johnson

There's no private investment occurring that is not supported by some type of public subsidy. The rail may make it more attractive to do ... but how soon that happens is conjecture, and there are factors in the valley where the private sector is still going to be cautious.

Scott Bender

We've put together a first-rate team that has considerable experience in designing casinos that are visually attractive and fun for visitors.

Rich Marcello

We'll offer stuff that will make it attractive for them to go forward.

Nicholas Lea

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

Rick Perlstein

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

Larry Barnett

People should not be under the illusion that the city is in a position to shoulder the financial burden of a new swimming center, ... We just don't have the money.

Jon McMullen

People that do these sorts of things are a burden on all of us quite frankly. We all pay higher insurance costs. We pay for security systems. Thieves should be locked up as far as I'm concerned.

Leon Smith

It would just be another burden on businesses.

Susan Crawford

This issue is one of burden and also of feeling bullied.

Tullian Tchividjian

The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don't need to live under the burden of trying to appease the judgment we feel.

Patrick Murray

As the campaign gets under way and voters take a closer look at the candidates, property taxes will be at the forefront, ... have to convince the voters that they are serious about lowering the property tax burden and that they can do it without significantly raising other taxes.

Kathy Lawrence

We don't want students to be a burden on families. When (our family) hosted a student, we didn't feel an impact on our family budget.

Steven Nissen

There's only one way -- through good science. We know the burden is upon us to do this right.

Robert Malley

There's still time to forge a genuine national compact and promote a national identity, but institutional restraints that so far have prevented a break-up are fast eroding. The main burden is on Iraq's leaders, but they need all the help and pressure the US and others can muster.

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Don Logan

The narrowband business is a highly profitable business, and it's going to continue to be so for a long time to come,

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Paras Adenwala

Demand for power equipment is very much there but supply is not. It is a good situation to be in. Business prospects are good.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Avi Arad

The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.

James Joyce

We did do very well in the transactions over $100 million that we chose to pursue, signing 11 and losing only one competitively, ... But the consistent deferral of mega-deals resulting from customers caution about their own businesses in this economic environment has had a significant impact on the growth of our outsourcing revenue.

John Lee

Diversified businesses are growing at a faster rate than we thought.

Craig Lesser

Different businesses have different needs. But most are concerned with finding a location close to their customer base.

Mary Bono

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

Russell Simmons

I'm a creative guy. And I only do businesses as a result of like I've - I'm try to find what my gifts are and give them immediately. As soon as I get them and I understand, I give them back.

Don Carson

The reason most businesses fail is because they are not properly financed. In today's world, increasingly the first guy to get to critical mass might be the one who wins the game.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

John Gerzema

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Chuck D.

Companies are willing to pay a higher price to be in those locations.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Joseph Beaulieu

Companies that do really well either minimize something like prices, or maximize something like luxury. It's the companies in the middle that are going to be squeezed.

John Caldwell

Companies that are reporting good results are being rewarded, but it's not really having too much of a carryover effect into other stocks,

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Jan Egeland

The way it is now it can not continue. We need security, which we do not have. We need a government that enables us to work and does not create obstacles to our work. We need a guerrilla (force) that does not specialize in hijacking relief trucks and fighting each other and displacing new people, which has happened in the past few weeks. And we need funding.

Tim Ryan

This creates a love of learning. We need to develop a love of learning in general ... that will help us be a competitive country.

Elliott Abrams

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

Alessia Cara

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

David Brock

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

John Tortorella

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

Pete Hoffman

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

Toby Bickel

We've struggled the last half of the season off and on. I was pleased with our effort and our execution, for the most part.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Janet Guthrie

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Troy Ellerman

We're a rodeo association, not a bull-riding association. Our efforts should be focused on making our rodeos better.

Laurel Scherer

As hostile as they've been it would not be a good working environment.

Peter Charlton

As long as there are no major shocks and the interest rate environment remains the same, I expect it to go on into the first half of 2006 at the very least.

David Minsker

The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school will have.

Rex Tillerson

This is an industry that lives in cycles. The price environment we're in today is not sustainable.

Chad Calabria

The University of Iowa was the talk of the town. There were no pro sports. It was a nice environment and seemed like the right place for me.

Camila Alves

A lot of people, sometimes they're so stuck on, 'I gotta get married, I gotta get married.' They forget that the really important thing is to have a healthy home, a healthy family, a healthy environment for your kids and to have everything going in a good, peaceful way.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Kerry Healey

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

Doug Dacar

Environmental issues have always been important to me.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Linda Sherry

Be prepared for some runaround when trying to find out the fees for foreign transactions. A lot of representatives don't have a clue, so you have to be persistent.

Madeline Albright

But we have to do it in some way that does not harm our overall foreign policy interests,

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Bob Doll

Without question, foreign stock markets are doing better than the U.S. market.

Rafael Correa

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.

Markus Steinbeis

Telecoms and tech stocks (also) still get hit by France Telecom's sales warning.

Bonnie Wright

I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy.

Mitt Romney

we'll end up being the France of the 21st century.

Jerome Bonnafont

France wants to be a partner in the development of Saudi Arabia.

Napoleon Bonaparte

France will always be a great nation.

Leslie Fiedler

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

Alain Juppe

This is the trial of a man, but it is also that of a system and a regime. France must look its past in the face,

William Shakespeare

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

Tom Freston

As a global media platform company, we are looking at various projects in many parts of the world.

Carlos Ghosn

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.

Lorenzo Codogno

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

Dave Edwards

The world has become global on everything else. Why not this? ... NASCAR used to be a Southern sport. Now it's coast-to-coast.

Matthew Davis

This isn't something we're going to solve overnight. The problems of global warming have just begun.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Dan Latendre

You can't be global without leveraging technology and the Internet.

Richard Grasso

to make them more competitive in the global arena.

Tommy Franks

We're taking part in a global war on terrorism,

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Daniel H. Pink

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Daniel H. Pink

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Daniel H. Pink

We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Amy Sedaris

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Ban Ki-moon

Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Babette March

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Damian Lewis

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation,

Tony Robbins

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

Tony Robbins

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

Ricky Ponting

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

Margaret Drabble

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Maya Angelou

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Christian Dior

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

Greil Marcus

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.