Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Mark

The industry has argued for years that consumers don't care about fuel economy. I think they are finding themselves quite surprised by the level of public concern.

Wang Guangya

They argued for two tracks. On one hand you put pressure, on the other hand show a way out of this.

Herbert A. Simon

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

Alan Yamamoto

We've argued about it. ... We've gone around in circles,

Heywood Sanders

What has gone on in Pittsburgh is what has gone on in lots of other cities, which are often faced with convention centers that don't perform as their proponents had hoped or promised, and so it is argued that what you need is an adjacent hotel.

Steven Pinker

I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis.

David Rowley

Some people had earlier argued that it took, 10, 20, 30 million years before you got enough heat production to limit that strength.

Charles Kennedy

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.

Alex Honnold

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,

Tim Duncan

Just like the good, old days, when I used to make bank shots. Get his name for me. I need to consult with him.

Wayne Abernathy

Katrina will be a significant test of how flexible our bankruptcy rules are. Banks have a lot of experience dealing with debtors in difficulty because of natural disasters. The first focus will be on making sure people can meet their immediate financial needs.

Joyce Chapman

I think it is important for youth to grow up giving back to humankind, and West Bank enjoys getting behind the school and supporting them.

Peter Foley

He did everything right. Rado would get a gap on Seth by running low in a turn, but Seth knew better than to drop low with him. He stayed high, where he could ride the bank fastest, and just waited until he could pass him.

Ed Perkins

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

Gideon Gono

Guided by the ongoing consultations the Reserve Bank is carrying out with all stakeholders concerned, as well as strong representations by the banking industry, it has become necessary that we suspend indefinitely the introduction of this proposed measure.

Zhou Shengxian

Groundwater near both banks of the river is in accordance with national standards and it's safe to drink.

Muhammad Yunus

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

John Hammond

Katie's a really nice person. It's unfortunate she had a conflict of interest.

Dave Mitchell

I think it is a conflict to a lot of people. As far as perception goes it is a real problem.

Patrick Dougherty

There are six different things that conflict, ... And some of them are in the same paragraph.

Chris Cook

I think it's just a reminder of the high price our friends and relatives are paying in this conflict.

Bernd Pischetsrieder

There is no conflict between Porsche and Volkswagen. The idea that Porsche could, or would, prevent us from doing something that we think is the right thing to do, is simply not on.

Kofi Annan

hundreds of thousands more people are likely to become displaced as the conflict spreads and the drought worsens in the next two or three months.

Thomas Lee

He was up here to find someone he had a conflict with in the past.

Vladimir Putin

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.

William H. Seward

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

Charlie Cook

It can't hurt the president to remove himself from the current context of scandals, miscues and partisanship and put him in a statesman setting.

Paul Tagliabue

Guaranteed contracts, within the context of a salary cap, takes it away from a player who is playing and gives it to a player who is not playing.

Laura Linney

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

Arlen Specter

I think that it would be very, very difficult for the president to explain that, in the context of information leading up to why that would be so,

Stuart Rothenberg

In the context of American politics, this is a pretty big deal. It symbolizes the influence and growth of a key voting group -- Hispanic voters -- in Democratic politics, but also in American politics.

John Orrico

In the context of a better market we would have seen the drug group rally. The negative market psychology is overwhelming.

Annie Potts

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

Wayne Pace

I like the position we're in within the context of the overall industry,

George Bodenheimer

I'm only looking at it in the context of what it does for my company.

Kevin Ford

Harris Interactive has been diligent in creating a voting panel that is balanced, statistically valid, and representative of all I-A conferences and independents.

Jiang Zemin

There are still in this world a few interest groups which always want to seek gains by creating tension here and there,

Derek Damon

His numbers speak for themselves. He hasn't let up a goal in the NCAA tournament. So obviously we are going to have to make sure we are creating a lot of traffic for him.

Lenny Klompus

The people themselves feel they are part of something and they are helping to make something and are creating the initiatives that the governor wants to do.

Stephen Allen

What I'm actually doing is proposing to invest in Indiana. I'm actually talking about creating jobs here.

Jeff Southard

What you're doing is creating an expectation in the public that you're doing something that VDOT won't be able to fulfill. You're setting VDOT up for failure. You're setting VDOT up to take the fall.

Cameron Rast

I thought we looked very sharp and started the game very quickly. We did a good job of forcing the issue and creating opportunities and we found ourselves up by three goals early. If I had to say there was one thing I feel we need to learn from this match, it is how to play with a lead. We weren't as sharp in the second half and didn't quite force our flow to the game.

Sam Smith

We may end up spending what the governor wants to spend. But if we do, we are creating a massive hole for next year.

Ronde Barber

We looked at that standard of Hardy (Nickerson) and John (Lynch) and the Rufus Porters of the world. Those guys laid the foundation of the standard that we're trying to live up to. We know we have to get back to it. It's that physical type of football. Safeties capping off piles, creating turnovers. We're getting there. We're getting there.

Juan Pierre

Just to see the wheels fall off, it's a tough one to swallow, especially this time of year. This is one to think about. It's a crucial game and we put forth an effort like that.

George W. Bush

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.

Paul Little

Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.

Greg Brunner

(Hansen) has made some crucial plays for us. That's what seniors do. He picked it up.

Mike Trapasso

He's a crucial guy. He's one of those guys you realize quickly what he does for you, particularly defensively. We've had plenty of injuries and this is one we'll have to deal with. Guys in his place will have to step up.

Doug Guillory

He's a three year starter for us who knows how and when to make crucial tackles throughout the game.

Randy Carlyle

We took some penalties at crucial points. We just didn't defend well. We had our opportunities, we just didn't manage to get the puck past Nabokov.

Silvan Shalom

Today everything needs to be done to unite the ranks, ... It's crucial to try to keep everyone together.

Jill McCorkle

I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.

John Yoo

I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that.

Willie Jackson

I think it comes and goes, ... It all depends on the situation at the particular time.

John Walters

It also finances our enemies. To fight the terror inflicted by killers, thugs and terrorists around the world who depend on American drug purchases to fund their violence, we must stop paying for our own destruction and the destruction of others.

Tony Banks

He usually knocks those down. He is a dependable kicker. Those things can happen to anybody.

Pat Gillick

He'd be the most likely guy in the group. But a lot depends on what we do leading up to Spring Training.

Jacques Bernard

Haiti's future depends on this vote. Good elections are the only solution to saving our nation.

Hassan Shehata

Hassan is someone you can depend on to raise the team's spirit. He might not play a main role on the pitch but we need him to lead the team during the competition.

George Pierce Baker

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

Long Yongtu

There are still a few months. It depends on WTO members.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Larry Goldstein

Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or political lessons, or some combination of the two, I don't know.

Tomoko Fujii

Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than expected.

Brian Gendreau

I think you're seeing the market raising its estimates on economic growth, but that also may mean higher rates. So we're still digesting what all this means, and the result so far is a flat-to-lower market.

Gary Stern

I think the economic outlook is reasonably positive.

Bill Cosby

Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on.

Jon Gruden

It could be a few weeks. It could be the end of the season. We don't know for sure. I'll just sit here and wait until I'm told the extent of this injury.

Matt Mullenweg

I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.

Jim King

I think to the extent that property values go up out there it will have nothing to do with the arena.

Jackie Speier

In terms of transparency in total compensation, we need to look at what's a reasonable number, and to what extent it's appropriate.

Emily Oster

The enjoyment of work - to the extent that you have any - is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you are fresh, not tired, working on the most important things.

Tito Mboweni

These wage developments reflect to some extent entrenched expectations that inflation will remain within the inflation target range.

Dan Fogelberg

not only misrepresent(ed) the extent of my illness but also the treatment involved.

Dan Taylor

It's horrifying to see the extent of the human suffering,

Esther Dyson

It's sad. The kids are growing up. They've lost youth and innocence. Now they have to start being grown-ups and playing at least to some extent by grown-up rules.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Christopher Shays

Katrina taught us the hard lesson that, as we prepare for future emergencies, it's important we include in our plans ways to protect our pet owners and their pets.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Douglas Coupland

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

George P. Shultz

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Q'orianka Kilcher

Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.

Paulla Solar

He offered her the opportunity to walk on and in the future there could be the possibility of a scholarship. She is leaning in that direction.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Steve Box

Jake did a great job defensively. The kid has been averaging 17 points a game, but we took him out of his rhythm. He never really got going until the last quarter.

Lawrence Summers

Jack Meyer did a great job for Harvard.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Viviane Reding

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

Warren Buffett

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

Warren Buffett

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Van Jones

America's government has to get the public investments right.

John Sims

The investment will take place in three stages - $155 million, 185 million and $180 million.

Shamkhi Faraj

The investment law could take some time and we are not prepared to wait for that long.

Fatih Birol

It's not about rocks or about reserves, it's about investment policy.

Eric Morris

It's really where we wanted to be at the beginning. We're very pleased with the start we've had because it was a big investment on the church's part.

Rep. Lawlor

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Sen. Nass

It is likely to not be successful when we come back in January. This is a promise that may not be kept.

Herb Kohl

Well, you're likely to be confirmed, as we all know.

Robert Hill

He'll more than likely have to go to counseling, get parenting classes.

Lorenzo Codogno

The underlying trend is encouraging and will likely continue.

Bill Gray

This is likely to go on for a while.

David Quammen

Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.

Peter Cardillo

Stocks are likely to be volatile Wednesday and through the end of the week.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

Rebecca West

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Woodrow Wilson

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Woodrow Wilson

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

Woodrow Wilson

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

Salman Rushdie

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

Wayne Dyer

Begin Practicing the Intention to be Authentic & Peaceful with Everyone

Saul Williams

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

Roseanne Barr

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

Igor Shabdurasulov

In Russia a revolution has taken place, a peaceful one, but a revolution all the same.

Mikhail Saakashvili

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

Naomi Wolf

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

Louise Hay

Peace beings with me. The more peaceful I am inside, the more peace I have to share with others.

Louise Hay

When you find Peace within, you create a Peaceful world around you.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

William Jennings Bryan

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

Dana Smith

He is returning to the private sector. Any announcement about his replacement will be made in Washington.

Shannon Flaherty

His tight schedule deemed these private travel arrangements necessary.

Nick Velasquez

I think that raises questions about what he has done in the private sector. What's he trying to hide?

Carlton Forrester

It has everything to do with governing. It has nothing to do with private life.

John Logan

I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.

Tom Hank

I remember the first time he saw 'Saving Private Ryan,' ... That was special to him because of his name.

Rob Thomas

In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.

Novak Djokovic

I've had my ups and downs in my private life.

Oswald Chambers

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.

Jim Mattox

He's been there 30 years, he doesn't have to prove anything to anybody,

Jim Funk

We've got to prove to the world that we are open.

Brian Carlwell

I think we proved that we can play with tough teams. I don't feel like we were lucky. I feel like we won the game.

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Bayan Jabr

I will punish them if (an investigation) proves they are responsible for any violations.

Giorgio Rocca

I don't have to prove anything to anybody. I just want to have fun, and you can see it in my results.

Dallas McPherson

I'd like to be the guy, but I don't have any expectations. I know I have to go out and prove myself all over again.

Sandra Day O'Connor

You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Karl Albrecht

Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

Bill Richardson

It is our view that this is a strong resolution with teeth that would send an unmistakable message.

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Benjamin Franklin

No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.

Ken Williams

I've never made a New Year's resolution before. I didn't think about it until now.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

Hector Garcia

I'd like to go back into another sector other than hospitality,

Jason Schenker

The manufacturing sector seems to be on a very solid footing.

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

William Hummer

The services sector is showing some inflationary pressure, and wages are starting to climb.

Lynn Reaser

This is another sign that the manufacturing sector is positioned for an upswing in the third quarter.

Robert Brady

There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.

Marco Rubio

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

Jon Burnham

I still like the tech sector very much,

Rod Stewart

I don't have any social life or anything.

Ronald Reagan

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

John Updike

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Eric Lefkofsky

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Samuel P. Huntington

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Whittaker Chambers

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

Zhang Yimou

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Mahatma Gandhi

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Eric Lefkofsky

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Octavio Paz

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Peter Jackson

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.