Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

Duke Ellington

Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

David Stern

Realm Realty is agreeable to the 'right in and right out' restriction and is awaiting the county's comments to that drawing. I would think that a deceleration lane, right in - right out, headache bar and sidewalk should appease most everyone. We do appreciate all the input we have received and have diligently worked to try to incorporate many of these suggestions.

Arlen Specter

The hearings will not start until there is a date agreeable to her, ... It would be unfair to start the hearings before she is ready.

Bhagavad Gita

The foods that promote longevity, virtue, strength, health, happiness, and joy; are juicy, smooth, substantial, and agreeable to the stomach.

Akira Suzuki

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

Alec Baldwin

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

Denise Willms

It's the principle of the thing. If there is an issue, why didn't the council ask us about it, so we could correct the issue or come to a mutually agreeable solution to the problem?

Henry Dyke

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with

Kathleen Hanna

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

Mark Turgeon

I was just asking our guys to get it close and put the pressure on them.

Roger Tamraz

I was introduced to the president, ... He asked me what I did in life, and I explained my project.

Diego Della Valle

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society

Jackie Borsanyi

Jacquie likes to take natural fibers and have them form a very contained universe. She uses a lot of materials that seem wild and unruly and she asks them to cooperate.

Scott Baird

Kate ran her best time, you couldn't ask for anything more than that. She was really disappointed she didn't go lower than that, but she ran well.

Tom Foley

Joe is a guy who is extremely prepared and extremely positive. He's a guy about relationships and about the team. If a player comes and asks him to sit down and have a few pops, he'll say, 'Let's do it.' He's a teacher who is prepared when he teaches and wants us to be prepared and get it right.

Ermias Belay

Is what is happening in Idaho an anomaly, a statistical fluke? That is possible. But once it exceeds 1.5 or 2 per million, you start asking questions. If they are all confirmed, it could be odd.

Daryl Dickey

He couldn't get to the practice field quick enough to correct some things and learn from his mistakes.

Clark Haggans

He just made some passes and they got some yardage, ... They executed better. But it's the third week of the season. We'll correct our mistakes.

Jesse Berman

He just got it wrong and corrected it right away.

Kazunori Jinnai

What we have been seeing today and yesterday is a rather normal correction after the nearly vertical rise in high-tech shares in recent sessions. Investors will be taking refuge in other sectors until high-tech stocks find a floor.

Steve Burtt

He's a grammar fanatic. He has a grammar fetish. He's the one who corrects everybody.

Peter Grandich

Gold's momentum is likely to take it to either side of $600, but then a serious correction is likely to unfold.

Irwin Michael

I think the market correction is a slow bleed. It's being nickel-and-dimed to death.

Tim Heekin

I think we probably need to take it even lower before the correction that we've been seeing is done.

Alan Ackerman

I think we've been in a type of correction since mid-June.

Kofi Annan

I think the important thing, ... is the council stood together and insisted Iraq rescind its decision before any other reviews can be undertaken.

Dale Graham

I think the council has good intentions but they need to really think this through.

Hoshiyar Zebari

What I said was in fact, we are ready as the new Iraqi interim government to resume our responsibilities, especially now that we have a new U.N. Security Council resolution,

Dennis Lynch

I do a lot of litigation and lot of municipal work throughout Rockland County, and the town was interested in getting the most experienced council they can.

Jonathan Moreno

If the president wants a council that serves as a public seminar in moral philosophy, indeed, that is what he got.

Ulysses Grant

I never held a council of war in my life. I heard what men had to say - the stream of talk at headquarters - but I made up my own mind, and from my written orders my staff got their first knowledge of what was to be done. No living man knew of plans

Barbara Wilson

I know what they are talking about. When I went to work I was told that I couldn't go to council meetings and that if I did it could mean my job.

Desra Percaya

The new Human Rights Council will have 47 member countries, not individuals, and the election will be held in May 9, 2006.

Richard Boucher

Syria maintains a sizable presence of military and intelligence officials in Lebanon in contravention of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559,

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

Jon Karkow

I think we're at the point where it isn't an issue now.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Laura Tyson

I think that's understood as a policy issue in China. I don't think it's understood as a policy issue in the United States.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

William Zinsser

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

Wang Jianlin

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

W. Clement Stone

When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you.

William Lloyd Garrison

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Tristan Tzara

In principle, I am against principles.

Wendell Berry

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Ellen G. White

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Roy Moore

I don't have a solution right now. I haven't studied that.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Andy Miller

We'll see. We are trying to find a solution that works for all parties' interests.

Fadel Gheit

And there is no near-term solution for any of these things.

Craig Brown

This is not the right solution to the problem.

Michael Vickers

Essentially what we have is a two-country solution to a 60-country problem.

James Wolfensohn

HIPC is not a solution to poverty. HIPC is one step.