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.

William J. Perry

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.

Abraham Lincoln

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

Emma Goldman

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

Elizabeth Warren

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

Elizabeth Warren

We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.

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.

Bradley A. Blakeman

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Bruce Jackson

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

Donald Trump

It's my life. It just continues to go forward from 'The Apprentice.'

Rick Rubin

I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.

Dale Buvid

Timely hitting continues to be an issue. We had a great time, the weather was great and we got everybody into the game.

Bruce Arena

Tim continues to be a very talented goalkeeper that we think, given time and the right opportunity, is going to continue to improve and be a terrific goalkeeper at the international level. One day he will be the No. 1 goalkeeper for the U.S.

E. O. Wilson

We've learned that the crimes are greater than anticipated and reach as far as Southern California. The number of victims continues to grow.

Paul Tang

US import growth continues to slow as we see home sales there have peaked and interest rate hikes continue.

Paul Tagliabue

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

Jessica Nevarez

The pilot has been delivered to the network. We're excited and have high expectations.

Bee Wilson

The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

Noah Feldman

The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.

Joel Rassman

The 400 to 700 home reduction in our projected fiscal year 2006 delivery guidance should reduce our earnings growth projections for fiscal 2006.

Nathan Anderith

The actors memorize the sonnets and deliver them usually in an ostentatious manner. As big and proud as possible. There's lots of prancing around.

Rebecca Garang

The 50 years did not deliver anything to us, so we are starting now on January 9 ... I think that is the start of the independence of Sudan.

Jonny Lee Miller

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.

Leonard Ryan

We can then deliver them to all platforms, TV, internet and mobile.

David Bear

We can't guarantee delivery at that price anymore.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

Joel Silver

The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.

Brady Quinn

That was how it was designed. It wasn't a last resort. It was designed to be a run.

Peter Nygard

When I'm creating, that's my heaven. If I haven't designed something every day, it is a failed day - that's how much I love fashion.

Michael Dunne

We have a long history of supporting statewide issues designed to improve the quality of life here in Colorado,

Bruce Schneier

Microsoft's operating system was never designed with security in mind. For Microsoft, security is always an afterthought.

George Williams

We just were not designed to process 200 families in two to four weeks as we did with Katrina.

Kwon Chan

Windows 98 was designed and developed in the mid-1990s when engineers didn't take the Internet into consideration seriously. Subsequently, it is vulnerable to online hackers.

Mark Frauenfelder

Windell Oskay is the co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, a Silicon Valley company that has designed and produced specialized electronics and robotics kits since 2007.

George Allen

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

William K. Sessions

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.

David A. Bednar

Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.

Ray Comfort

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

Richard Engel

I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.

Dan Jenkins

Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.

Christine Callies

Most of the essential catalysts for a significant rebound in share prices are present.

Antonio Costa

It is essential to pool our resources because we have fires in Portugal, but tomorrow there could be others in Spain, in Italy, in Greece.

Wallace Wattles

It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.

Clint Eastwood

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

Gregory Smith

We need to wait a month or two until our finances are clear.

Mayor Bingham

I will be giving a harsh look at all the finances in the city.

Jan Hatzius

There is a more plausible explanation for the spending slowdown, namely the withdrawal of fiscal and monetary stimulus from a household sector whose finances remain stretched,

Jody Brown

She practically ran all the finances for my volleyball camps. She's so meticulous. ... She can't come into my office without straightening things up.

Mitchell Daniels

The government's finances are in extraordinarily strong shape.

Bob Hatcher

Finances and scholarships will all take a different form.

Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

Kathy Anderson

This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and make small changes.

Mario Monti

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.

Judd Gregg

Were we able to fully meet every need? No, given fiscal constraints, we focused our limited resources on eliminating the most serious and detrimental vulnerabilities of our homeland security,

Jim Flaherty

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

We have not exchanged notes for fiscal 2005, but this does not mean that the money flow itself will be stopped.

Alan Greenspan

I find it utterly inconceivable, frankly, that we can have the type of potential fiscal outlook, which now confronts us over the next 15 to 20 years which, unless addressed, will not have a significant impact on long-term interest rates,

Chris MacMillan

I don't think it's fiscally possible to do.

Tom Jennings

There is no fiscal problem at the school.

Shari Brannock

We've been very fiscally responsible in the past. Our taxpayers can look forward to that.

David Walker

We're on an imprudent, unsustainable fiscal path, ... The status quo is not an option and we're not going to grow our way out of this problem and the sooner we get started the better.

Steven Kaye

The 401(k) can get you where you want to go, it's just a shame that you have to fund it yourself.

Craig Bryson

The $64,000 question: nobody knows where the rest of the funding is going to come from.

Shawn Gumataotao

We're working with Mr. (Juan) Flores to find funding for payroll.

Warren Huff

We're working with funds where individuals are putting money into deals.

Prince Royce

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

Travis Reindl

When state funding goes up, tuition increases go down. States are putting more money back into higher education. We don't know how long that's going to last.

Joanne Vavrek

We have only restored 81.5 percent (of the 2002-03 funding allocation) this year.

M. Wolfe

It did work out a little better than we thought. But you have to remember that one key part of all this is that we're still using our fund balance.

Jim Gibbons

We can always do better and we will by making sure government respects the wishes of those who fund it ? the hardworking taxpayers,

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Bill Vaughan

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Lukata Mjumbe

The applicants will still be responsible for their bills. The program will only help them up until March.

E. O. Wilson

The association earns money by helping to sell them and working at the store on the day of the event.

Emma Bunton

We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working.

Pete Rodda

We are not putting anything out that is not public record.

Kathy Nelson

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

Bill Vaughan

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

W. C. Fields

Go back to reform school, you little nose-picker!

Tomoko Fujii

He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

William Shakespeare

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

Jin Renqing

The reform also contributed to the resolving of the imbalance development of the world economy,

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Barbara Mikulski

There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

Alexander Hamilton

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.

Tomoko Fujii

He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Pranab Mukherjee

Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

Matt Rosoff

A lot of the Windows Live services are things that had already been in development by MSN,

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.