Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverb

A twig is bent while it is green.

Chinese Proverbs

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it

Austin Ligon

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Paul Sarbanes

Companies that go public should understand that there are responsibilities as well as benefits to going public,

Kurt Kuehn

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Chicago now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Chicago as well.

John Stumpf

Demonstrating the benefit of our diversified business model, most of our consumer business showed strong growth this quarter and helped to offset the decline at Home Mortgage.

Marc Schenker

The teaching that complements these research efforts will benefit the next generation of public health specialists, as well as local, state and global health agencies.

Keith Edelman

The tax bill is slightly larger than one would expect it to be because we have had employee benefit trusts and there was a decision in the House of Lords we've provided for. We're just being cautious.

Alexander Haig

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

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.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

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.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Tony Kennedy

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

David Rosen

These differences are not significant from a forecasting perspective.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Barbara Kingsolver

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Aubrey McClendon

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Jane Byrne

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Miley Cyrus

I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.

Catherine McCormack

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

Craig Finn

The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right.

Brian Clough

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Brit Hume

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

Susan Orlean

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

Marlene Dietrich

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

Eugene H. Peterson

The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.

Bill Shankly

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.