Famous Quotes & Sayings

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I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.-Carrie (Sex & the City)

David Delainey

Having to admit we were a very large trader, and frankly a good one, would put significant pressure on Enron's stock because the investment community does not put a significant multiple on trading revenues.

Warren Christopher

I think the country will come together, but we have a rocky four years ahead, and maybe admitting that, and not being too euphoric about that, is the best way to face this. This is going to be a very evenly divided country, and we'll need to find centrist coalitions that can get things done.

Joe Biden

I think we have a six-month window here to get it right. But I have to admit that I think the chances are not a lot better than 50-50.

Jarome Iginla

I will admit I was pretty excited about it,

Ma Lik

We have to admit that the majority of the public supports democracy, but democracy can't be monopolized by anybody.

Shayana Kadidal

We can file this aggressive motion because we have proof that the spying program is illegal. The bottom line is the defendants have incriminated themselves -- President Bush admitted that he authorized and oversaw an illegal and unconstitutional program.

Paul Ritter

Interoperability is more important than any of the three companies admit to publicly.

Cyndee Williams

I guess I was in denial for a while. I didn't want to admit that there were certain things that I could no longer do.

Uday Kotak

We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

Mark Thompson

I don't have the assets to back up one these homes.

Jane Greer

I'd always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.

Trent Duffy

President Bush participated in briefings, phone calls and conversations throughout this process, and his administration was focused on making sure that the federal assets were in place to help the people of New Orleans.

Jim Hankinson

Our mandate is to operate our assets as efficiently and as cost-effectively as possible. We don't see a sound business case for returning Units 2 and 3 to service.

Matthieu Giuliani

Investors are confident, and there's a reallocation of assets in favor of stocks. Earnings have been better than expected.

Alan Greenspan

investing Social Security trust fund assets in equities compromises the efficient allocation of our capital -- which?is so essential to raising our standards of living.

Eric Maskin

In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

Michael Shapiro

Intangible assets are not subject to taxation in Michigan.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Carl Gipson

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Had the outcome been better, it would have increased speculation of higher consumer prices immediately ahead, so it seems that investors are taking a weaker reading as a positive.

Edward Fox

Restocking fees are more prevalent in consumer electronics because the merchandise tends to become obsolete very quickly.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

Marty Cunningham

Investors are very reluctant to hold positions in an environment like this. People are anticipating that if the data on consumer sentiment is fairly innocuous, the day could be over at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Larry Snow

What with the referendum were they truthful about? The taxes people had to pay? No. The finances? No. How much debt we had? No. How much did they get right?

Greg Zandlo

Going into debt is never easy and, in your case, going deeper into debt is a necessary evil.

Samuel Johnson

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Phil Angelides

California's level of debt is far greater than when the governor took office 23 months ago. And the state is facing deficits as far as the eye can see,

H. Hunt

In Japan, for example, the debt deflation started in 1990 and price deflation started in 1992 or 1993. That's what we're in for right now.

Max Lawson

The IMF realized that the world was watching and they couldn't deny millions of people the promised debt cancellation.

Stephen Green

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) was looking for domestic debt at year-end 2005 to be worth 19.6 percent of GDP. That can now be revised down to about 16 percent.

James Goldsmith

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

Hubertus Pellengahr

The Germans have a different consumption mentality: They don't get into debt.

Rick Barnes

He is the difference in this team. We know he is going to give us everything he?s got, and he does every night he goes out there.

Carlos Rivera

He's a great person. He has helped us so much this year. You can see a difference from when I first started three years ago.

Norm Gagne

It hurts to lose. What we did, the things I didn't want to see us do, stay out of the box, and that's what killed us. The two five-on-three goals, that was the difference in the game.

Jocelyn Thibault

There is a difference but I don't think it's going to be a big deal. I have been using the new equipment since the summer. I got used to it pretty well. It will be different, but we're all on the same playing field.

Charles Haynes

There is a difference between what is required and what is the right thing to do.

Noah Hawley

There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much.

MaChelle Joseph

We talked about the fact that rebounds would be the difference in the game. We were getting out-rebounded at halftime and to finish the rebound with over 50 rebounds just says so much about our heart, effort and determination.

Fred Jones

What you saw was the difference between a veteran team and a young one like ours. The veteran teams do the right things down the stretch to win games. They make the right decisions. We're young and we didn't do the things it takes to win.

Doc Rivers

I thought the difference in the game was that we had two turnovers in the second half, after going for a record it felt like in the first half. We scored 29 points off of turnovers ourselves and that is why we won the game.

Mary Shapiro

I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues.

Randy Sharp

I think no question this will have a financial impact on American Girl.

Timothy Smith

The financial office still has the power to request financial information from these organizations so we're still not running the risk of giving money to financially unstable organizations.

Oliver Friedrichs

The general trend is that attackers aren't concentrating on 'far and wide,' worms, but on financial gain.

David Stern

It's our preference, our strong preference, to have the Blazers in Portland, in Oregon, playing at the Rose Garden and being able to be a financial success.

Kathleen Smith

It's important to have a product that investors like. That is a real positive they have going for them. Their financial statements also look good.

Jason Burke

It's interesting that someone the people of Ohio had looked to oversee the financial institutions in the state did this.

Tom Shaheen

We're not going to induce people to play. We're not going to promise financial gain by playing the lottery.

Paul Samuelson

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Floyd Hall

Kmart's sales for the month were on plan and we are pleased with our progress in a number of key businesses.

Mike Stebila

I thought that was the key to the game. We wanted to take Deckard out of the game.

Reza Aslan

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

Vince Young

Preparation is the biggest key right now.

Robert Orben

Individuality' is the key to success.

Sarah Dessen

There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.

Rohan Bopanna

Discipline has been a key factor to my success.

Wil Wheaton

I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused,

Ronald Reagan

Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Zig Ziglar

You measure success by how much good you do for others.

Iqbal Sacranie

This is a long overdue measure but nevertheless is a welcome first step.

James Morris

This is a measure we should simply never have to take.

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Juliana Hatfield

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

Tom Peters

What gets measured gets done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

James Hayes

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Bruce Kasrel

The network shouldn't have to make much difference. It's going to happen.

Joe Wilcox

It is the most visually oriented social networking application I have seen thus far.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Eiichi Katayama

We still see no prospect of a return to net profits.

Roland Nash

When it comes down to it, it is a net positive. But there are so many more important things.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Greg Evans

Every human-being has the propensity to be an upstanding citizen.

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Denny Rinehart

Gonzalez will be a factor. Erica Hicks can run anything she wants to.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Al Wolski

We're on our way back. We're going to try to run the table and see what happens.

Andy Johnson

I think we tried to play at their pace, and we can't run with them. It got away from us in the second quarter.

Frank Beamer

We have to be able to run it and throw it,

Keith Ellison

If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Chris Carr

It's just crazy. This is worse than 9-11, with everything that's going on with that.

John Updike

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Jeff Johnson

I can't think of a worse place to put a church,

Eric Greenberg

I'm worth $300 million, and I'm 34 years old,

Mother Teresa

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Eddie Einhorn

All the frustration, it's been worth the wait. It's a generation-long wait. I mean, that's a long wait.

Robby Rodriguez

It probably did about $25,000 worth of damage.

Corey Pavin

I've never done anything like it, ... It's more than worth it.

Marissa Nowakowski

It was well worth the wait. (Being a senior) made it all the better.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Henry S. Haskins

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!