Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hardy

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Ibrahim Babangida

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Emma Goldman

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Alan Stern

The payload that we're flying is a much more advanced payload than we could have flown, for example, in the last Jupiter launch window ten years ago.

David S. Goyer

'Call Of Duty' initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradually advanced to the end of the Cold War, but you can't keep doing the same thing over and over again. And I think that because 'Call Of Duty' cut its teeth on presenting 'realism,' in quotes... verisimilitude.

Victoria Strauss

There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.

John C. Calhoun

None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.

Bill Cosby

I'm one of those who cut off seeing people after a certain time, when the weight is gone and they sound like the dementia is very advanced - I don't want to see that. I don't even go in to look at the body. That's not my last memory.

Michael Armstrong

The acquisitions and investments we've made over the last year will transform AT&T from a company dominated by a single product line -- long-distance voice - into the leader in a new generation of advanced communications, information and video services.

Shelley Smith

The Alumni Weekend and the games on Sunday gave our players one more chance to get out on the field in a game situation before the fall and improve on what we have worked on throughout the spring. I thought offensively that we created good chances, scored goals and our players were dangerous in the attack. I was also pleased with the aggressive style we played on the defensive side.

Lorenzo Romar

That was a typical University of Washington versus Arizona State basketball game. Very physical, emotions running high. They're real aggressive and we play an aggressive brand of basketball, and when you put the two together, sometimes tempers flare. Our guys did a good job of maintaining their composure.

Peyton Manning

That was a little bit of an aggressive call, ... That was a run, but I kind of got tired of handing off. I did change up . . . . But I'm doing pretty good for the most part.

Kerri Gardin

That was a learning experience for us. We'll be aggressive instead of digging ourselves a big hole.

Lamar Odom

That was a great move. He's real athletic, so you can just throw the ball by the rim and he'll go up and finish it. We're trying to find him. He's real aggressive underneath the basket. He's protecting our paint, and we love the job that he's doing.

Trisha Wall

That was a great momentum changer for us because we really started hitting well after that play. We were certainly more aggressive and confident at the plate.

Jason Stanford

We have an aggressive fund-raising strategy that will pay off this month, allowing Chris to communicate his optimistic ideas with Democratic primary voters.

Barry Hyman

We have an aggressive Fed and an aggressive Justice Department thinking perhaps that all things technological, that have a dominant share of the market, could be considered anti-competitive.

Jeff Lebo

We need to have him score for us. We struggle to put the ball in the basket. He's got to be very aggressive on the offensive end, which he was tonight.

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Imelda May

'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

Walt Mossberg

Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

Virginia Postrel

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

Elizabeth Warren

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

Patrick Holden

The pioneering companies that developed the market -- the successful ones -- are now making a lot of money. We are now seeing the second tier of companies that are currently marketing conventional foods realizing that they've got to get involved.

Stephen Levy

The overall trend is that companies can do very well, without it spilling over into job growth. I think 'modest' is the correct word.

Hal Stratton

The penalty process is just one piece of the process by which we keep families safe, ... The idea is not just to penalize, but to publicize those penalties to serve as a deterrent to those companies that might not meet safety standards or constitute substantial product hazards.

Roger McNamee

The PC industry is having a terrific year, particularly if you are one of the big four producers. Those companies are growing twice as fast as everyone else in the industry and gaining very rapidly.

Justin Welby

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

Park Seung

The polarization between households and the corporate sector is a phenomenon seen in the course of the economic restructuring process.

Mary Rich

That was the first time that any of us knew that our plan was no longer protected. I think the corporate people knew but were keeping it quiet.

Eric Kuby

We've gotten good reports from a variety of companies, supporting the thesis that corporate earnings are going to increase in the double digits this year.

Bob Parker

We've lost a third of our corporate contributions.

Chuck D.

Valuations are getting stretched, especially in the technology sector. There may be some recovery in the economy, but the notion that it will translate into a big jump in corporate profits - the jury is still out on that.

E. Hurley

Most of the corporate money in Newcastle goes to the Knights.

Paul Browne

Members of our corporate security network informed the police department of the e-mails' existence days prior to any announcement of the threat.

Don Hays

You'll see most of the corporate earnings out of the way,

Gordon Graham

will include a significant reduction in Bell's corporate support structure.

Robbie Robinson

We're waiting on a few final documents before it's ready.

Scott McCormack

Most of the documents are going to be false." ()

Juan Fernandez

We have an obligation to submit all the documents requested by the authorities.

Richard Butler

We'll need to do the whole spectrum of our work. Documents are part of that, ... We also need to do our inspections, and they're off and running again. It will be a little while yet before we have the whole spectrum of our work done.

Jean Paoli

We are acknowledging that end users who merely open and read government documents that are saved as Office XML files within software programs will not violate the license.

Stephane Dujarric

We are pleased that these documents are out now. This is one part of the program, this is one part of the story.

Arthur Stein

Personally, I've scanned all my important documents and keep them on a disk.

John Cornyn

only reinforces the fact that the archives' efforts to be thorough in the production of documents are unprecedented.

Yuriy Yekhanurov

I have already issued instructions that the necessary documents be prepared, and on Wednesday (March 22) we will resume negotiations.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Dave Douglas

We have a marketable, manageable resource, and it's going to waste.

Mark Lawrence

I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.

Adrian Wydeven

Wisconsin has had its management plan in place since 1999, so we're ready for this.

Steve Sampson

Management has never told me that, but regardless of what management's expectations are, my expectations are to win the trophy,

Richard Windsor

Management has been very slow to recognize there's a problem and do anything about it.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Brad Goreski

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.

Ruth Bernhard

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.

Joe Wiegand

We are not printing a newspaper. We are doing a television advertisement.

A. J. Liebling

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Ulysses Yannas

Olympus has no printing capability. Opal and Onyx would give them the printing capability.

Dennis Potter

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Charles Revson

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Darren Gibbs

It will be a while yet before we are printing better numbers.

Andy Serkis

Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Todd Swindall

We're not just providing shelter, we're providing housing.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Yoko Ono

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Hugh Godsey

I think they realized if they didn't do that they we were going to the house.

John Magnie

We realized we really do better when when we're all together.

Tyler Houwelingen

We realized there were some shortcomings with the model. I thought we'd have the whole thing done right now.

Greg Devers

We realized there was no way we would be able to win it at that point.

Courtney Lewis

We realized that we had to be the leaders.

Nate Whitaker

We realized that most of the breakdowns were things that we were doing. It wasn't because they had more talent than us.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Charlie Gilson

We're working on a Web site right now.

William Heine

We're really trying to make it more useful. We want to make the Web site a window to Monmouth County.

Watson Okubo

Unfortunately, our Web site is not where we want it to be.

Robert Austin

One of the first and most important steps that a student can do is visit the Web site of the university.

Chris Bartlett

I'd be called to one site, 'Oh, Chris, we need you,' and then the other site would need me too.

Tom Rathbun

Work at that site has just come to a standstill.

Sarah Hall

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

Andy Goldsworthy

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

Teresa Medeiros

Our Web sites and our e-mail lists are the two things that we control.

Mark Brown

We have been working for 10 years to get new tools for infrastructure development.

Steve Sobolewski

We have all the right tools on this team. No one can touch us.

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Dominique Wilkins

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Dhani Harrison

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

Chief Seattle

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Chief Seattle

All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.

Ban Ki-moon

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

Donald Miller

If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.

Vandana Shiva

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

Noam Chomsky

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

Keith Teare

Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.

Serena Williams

With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.