Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Bob McGehee

We had a very successful year in 2005, with ongoing earnings of $3.33 per share, significantly exceeding our 2005 guidance of $2.90 to $3.20 per share. These positive results reflected the benefit of positive weather as well as actions our management took to manage costs.

William James

To make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy . . . we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.

Bill Wright

The auditor's report... did not suggest that any improper actions have taken place or that any funds were misused or lost.

Richard Stegman

These students need to learn that actions have consequences. We also take time to talk with students one on one about how these decisions will affect them down the road.

Lamell McMorris

The NBA's decision to remove a referee from officiating games based on a judgment call is in complete contradiction of the established NBA's officiating performance standards. Jackson's actions will definitely have a chilling effect on the high quality officiating presently provided by NBRA officials.

Renato Reyes

It's quite an irony that we're commemorating martial law and we see that the militarist mind-set is so deep in this administration, ... The standard response to protest actions are massive troop and police deployment. These things are obviously intended to intimidate people, short of what Marcos did in 1972.

Daryl Kimball

The next step is not clear. If the United States pushes for stronger actions against Iran, these targeted political and economic sanctions, and the Russians and the Chinese resist, then it is quite possible that the Security Council will be deadlocked. They will not be able to take any action. At the same time, that kind of scenario might lead some in the United States to argue that the Bush administration should take actions on its own. So we are moving in a very delicate phase here.

Alan Greenspan

That greater tendency toward self-correction has made the cyclical stability of the economy less dependent on the actions of macroeconomic policy makers, whose responses often have come too late or have been misguided.

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

James Hitchcock

Once we got to know who he (Nelson) really was, ... he was able to really bring out some extraordinary ideas.

Wayne Thomas

The theme will speak to the complete change God can bring in a person. Where you truly experience grace, you can never grow tired of singing about it.

John Enos

The old township hall was much too small. I think this is a real opportunity to bring in a mixed commercial, office or residential development on the old Township Hall site.

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Newt Gingrich

President Mubarak has been a leader in trying to bring peace to the Middle East.

Deborah Pryce

Perhaps it's time to bring the process into a new decade with more transparency.

Mike May

We have a real opportunity in Colorado to take a great step in Colorado. You should not have to have your health be damaged in order to have a job in the state of Colorado.

Ben Sheets

I felt that I've thrown as well as I ever did over the last two months, except for the Colorado debacle.

Michael Metz

This is the correction I've been talking about.

Ayinde Ubaka

We correct those two things and we'll be in the game.

Brian Crosby

I started with the study of Isaiah and the Gospels, trying to figure out the correct order and how it should be.

Richard Scudamore

There are people who work very hard and very correctly to make this fantastic game work in this country. I think we owe it to them to nail these allegations once and for all.

Brian Billick

Obviously it's hugely disappointing to play the way we did. All you can do is go back to work to correct it. There's no use in feeling sorry for ourselves.

Sam Harp

I don't think we're ever going to get it corrected until middle schools get a governing body.

John Paxson

I don't now if there's a correct answer.

R. Inge

It's not surprising -- they had a rapid move up and now there's a correction. This is the first major correction for this group and it's healthy.

John Hall

Our generator is keeping all our refrigerated products in receiving at the correct temperatures, as well as a few lights and our registers. It's going to be a major impact (on business).

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Laura Bush

is horribly disappointing and the sort of thing I normally expect from left-wingers.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Ray Gilmer

As the supermarkets come to expect those tomatoes and don't get them those prices are going to rise.

Kyle Whittingham

Did I expect us to play well? Yes, I did. Did I expect us to win 38-10? No, I didn't.

Travis Biggs

(Dickinson) did great. I'm proud of him, but that's what I expect of him. I expect him to hit .400.

Brendan Taman

Cory is just starting to come into his own as a player. We expect him to be a good special teams performer for us.

Orlando Jones

To be honest, I just didn't want to say ""Thank you,"" ""Please,"" and ""Come again"" for the rest of my life. I felt like if I wanted to do this - films and TV - I didn't have the expectation that someone else would write for me. So I started writing for myself. And for the most part, I lied.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Boris Kodjoe

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Sheila Porter

I found her walking in the parking lot this morning. She was wet, no shoes or anything, and I was just wondering why was she out so early.

Newt Gingrich

I found everything we've seen about Mrs. Willey's testimony ... to be very troubling,

Justin Hartley

I found a very comfortable style in that if I know everyone's job around me, it's going to make me better at my job.

Dakota Johnson

I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

Andy Kelly

I found a lump in my right testicle and thought that, at 44, I'd better get to the doctor.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Irish Proverb

You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,

Melanie Gruer

Mr. Murphy co-operated fully with the RCMP review and is pleased with the outcome.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Dale Carnegie

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E. B. White

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Robert Frost

For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.

Thomas Starr King

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

John Ruskin

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

John Steinbeck

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Mike Glumac

We were going pretty well there for a bit. And all of a sudden, we've been sliding. We just have to find a way to get ourselves out of it.

Albert Young

We're not putting pressure on ourselves like this is a must, must win. (Because) then we're not playing relaxed and loose. We're playing tense.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

David Mann

People are still not sure if we will see 8.11 (yuan per dollar) for the rest of the year or the rest of the week.

Ruth Rendell

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Bruce Feiler

People can see in him what they want,

Michael Vick

People can say what they want to say,

Lorenzo Booker

People can say what they want about the season.

Don Meng

People can just stroll and go into the shops. The decorations should be plentiful.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

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

Sallust

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

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.