Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Rollins

Dell continues to make investments in facilities, employees and communities here in the United States and abroad so we can exceed our customers' expectations at every turn,

Jalal Talabani

These criminals who come from abroad have declared a war of extermination or destruction on Iraq.

Ben Bernanke

Quantitatively, outsourcing abroad simply cannot account for much of the recent weakness in the U.S. labor market and does not appear likely to be an important restraint to further recovery in employment,

Laurie Colwin

My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.

Emraan Hashmi

I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after I completed my course, I wanted to go abroad and pursue it. I used to sketch a lot and was rather serious about it. But all this was until I joined films.

Jim Smith

The privilege to vote abroad comes with the corresponding duty to follow practices adopted by the state of Florida to assure timely and fair elections, where an overseas voter has exactly the same amount of time to vote as a voter here at home.

Anthony Chan

The fact that U.S. officials cannot rule out further attacks will keep consumers here and abroad in a deeply uncertain state.

Edward Lazear

On the other side of the trade deficit, of course, is the capital surplus. We are buying more goods than we are selling, but, on the other hand, the capital account surplus means that the United States is such an attractive market...that individuals from abroad are investing in the United States...at a record rate.

Chen Xingdong

China's trade surplus will remain a sticking point between China and the U.S.. It's hard to close the trade gap because there's very little China can buy from abroad that it doesn't already make.

Henry Harris

The temperature reached as high as 2,500 degrees Kelvin during the tests. High temperatures mean high acceleration.

Rebecca Kane

Sophomore year was a total 180 degrees from my freshman year. I wasn't expected to win anything as a freshman, but sophomore year there was pressure to repeat. I like that kind of pressure.

Dasha Zhukova

Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.

Buzz Peterson

I've been surprised to a degree by how well he's doing. But when you look at his work habits and see what a gym rat he is, you're not surprised. Jack works on all kinds of stuff. He has a friend in the gym rebounding for him all the time.

Daniel Walsh

This is not a 'whodunit' case. It is for you to determine his degree of guilt.

Steve Maviglio

There is a reasonable degree of flexibility. Where there is a will there is a way.

Diane Neal

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Ben Jonson

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

Tom Beekman

At this point in time it is not our intent to stop the project. This project has legs. The degree to which those legs can run is dependent upon whether or not we can reach a local agreement.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Mahmud Abbas

after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land.

Don Allen

Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.

Ray Gilmer

This is not a deep, hard freeze yet, but that may change.

Michael Schroeder

This governor got a free pass from conservatives for two years. The party is over.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Peter Briggs

The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Mike Sanders

The stock numbers and political problems around the world aren't helping pull this market back at all. We've reached last year's peak summer highs and it's only April. That's somewhat scary.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Peter Diepenbrock

They all helped out on (Gordon). From top to bottom, this was truly a team effort.

Randa Haines

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

Peter Davis

I suited the music to particular images on the film.

Ruckett

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

Halle Berry

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film, ... This movie was all about shedding inhibitions for most of the cast, really, you know, saying things and presenting images that were risky because you never know how people are going to take them.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Sammy Cahn

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

Tom Perkins

We have a new projection technology that we think will make the image immune from a teenager sitting in the (audience) with a video camera,

Zhang Jianmin's

But my sense of image is still good. I don't want to give it up.

Norman Black

We see this as something that threatens the image ... of the Olympics. I think that is the way most sponsors feel.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Dale Carnegie

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Albert Einstein

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Steve Robinson

That's what we want to do. We want to put some pressure on and just run, run, run.

Paul Brinkman

This puts a lot of pressure on us. It is unfortunate, but that is the way it is. It could be pretty rough for students.

Derrick Brooks

We wanted to stop Willis McGahee. If he's able to run the football, then that takes a lot of pressure off a young quarterback.

Jack McMahon

We wanted to start off and rattle them with the press early. We got some quick baskets and got ahead.

Roger Ortmeier

We just jumped on them right from the start. We put the pressure on them, which was good.

Allen Iverson

I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.

Tony Parker

The pressure is there, ... Especially when you're trying to win the championship.

Jack Ferry

The press release speaks for itself. At this time we're reviewing our liquidity needs.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Victor Garber

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

M. Wolfe

Are they going to have Victoria's Secret selling underwear?

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

Carson McCullers

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Anthony Trollope

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Dustin Pedroia

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

Doug Liman

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

Anne Rice

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

David Foster Wallace

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

Alice Foote MacDougall

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Ron Kaufman

Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Ron Kaufman

Preparation clears a pathway for success.

Steve Jobs

The customer is the final inspector.

Max Brooks

The highest distinction is service to others.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Jack Nicholson

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

Henry Ellis

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Jack Canfield

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Delta Goodrem

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

Edmund Burke

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Brian Greene

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.