Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

Nazmul Hoque

We have been urging the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources over the last few years to meet our demands. After a long discussion the adviser of the ministry agreed to fulfil our three-point demands recently, but the commitment has not yet been fulfilled.

Dave Goldberg

My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

Matt Thornhill

Most large financial service companies have rushed new marketing materials to help boomers start thinking about retirement planning?and all are based on the financial services company focusing on you and your life, versus them and the products they want to sell. Where it falls short is when you call the financial services firm and interact with a planner or adviser who only wants to sell you products. The training hasn't filtered down from the marketing professionals to the front-line client-contact people.

Raymone Bain

Michael is very, very, very saddened to learn of the passing of Bill Bray, who was a longtime friend and mentor to him and very trusted adviser to him.

John Demming

To date, we are not aware of any specific link between the inquiry and Wellington's management of Vanguard funds. Vanguard has a long-standing relationship with Wellington and remains confident in their abilities as an adviser of our clients' assets.

Gerhard Schr

he will go into some form of business heavy industry, old-fashioned, lots of back-room dealing, etc. You may find him as an adviser to French, Chinese or Russian companies these are countries in which he is highly regarded.

Joseph Lieberman

He has a very difficult task before him, ... I fear that as an adviser who lacks statutory mandate, Senate confirmation and budget confirmation and budget authority, he will not be as effective as we need him to be.

Arun Sarin

He has deep experience of the sector and knows us well from his role as an adviser over many years.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

Chris Janowski

The picture that is emerging is very grim. There appears to be a policy of expulsions of ethnic Albanians.

Christo

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

Richard Rohr

I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate.

Kevin McCarthy

(The) 2006 outlook appears less robust than we would have thought.

David Rogers

The acquisition climate appears to be slowly improving.

Mark Zauderer

The appellate court said there's a lot of evidence to bring the case again. But the risk is it appears to look vindictive. And if they lose, it puts in jeopardy the government's theories on obstruction of justice. They've already heightened the public consciousness about the necessity to preserve documents. A loss could communicate the message that it's difficult to prosecute these kinds of cases.

Bill Dreher

The announcement by Neiman Marcus...makes us as concerned as we have ever been that this Christmas will be extremely lackluster. It appears now the high-end consumer is beginning to scale back their purchases, which does not bode well for the holiday season. This type of thing is clearly going to have an impact on other high-end retailers.

Bill Carroll

That was the test to see if they still had a big enough following to carry over to Sunday night. And it appears that it didn't.

Stephen Hadley

The Pentagon is looking into them. To the extent that kind of behavior is inconsistent with our policy, it will be stopped.

Nicholas A. Christakis

It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science.

Nick Jonas

As far as One Direction goes, and Mindless Behavior and all the other bands, I'm all for it, and if there's ever an opportunity to work with them, that'd be great.

Emily Dickinson

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Jennifer Kern

The assumption, I guess, that propels this is that once you randomly test students, they'll just stop experimenting. But behavior is really complex. It doesn't always work that simply.

Rick Santorum

There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.

Ian Blair

We have to look at the impact of this kind of behavior on impressionable young people and if there is evidence, something should be done about it,

Ian Blair

We have to look at the impact of this kind of behavior, and if there is evidence, something should be done about it.

Oscar Wilde

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people

Jim Williams

That would really harmonize things at the border.

Liu Jianchao

With the development of the Internet, there has been some harmful and illegal content.

Ben Bernanke

might have done much more harm than good.

Joel Greenberg

will harm a lot of individuals who need a new start.

John Carroll Lynch

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

John Baker

Pop used to be as safe as it could be. Today it's radical to hear harmony and melodies.

Edward Scolnick

I was sick at the thought we were doing harm to patients.

Nick Hornby

I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.

Bernie Worrell

If a person would study-not extensively, just hands-on, real instruments, and study a little harmony and theory, you could take it even further.

Richard G. Scott

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

Edie Falco

I was here when it happened. I need more time, but that's just me. I'm personally not ready for it.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

David Davies

Personally I'm gutted for Grant. We get on well and it will be a real shame that he won't be there.

Sarah Richart

One thing I won't personally do is wedding invitations.

Dale Romans

I wouldn't have taken it personally even if he was. I've got more important things to worry about than what he does with his horse.

Linda McCarthy

I did not know Mick personally but he was part of the town.

Nick Bostrom

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Ice T

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

Sebastian Thrun

That was a turning point in the race.

Dwane Casey

That was a turning point in our season. I think it took a little starch out of us.

Nick Burgess

That was a turning point in his career. He had the ultimatum to quit or work harder. You can see which one he picked.

Bruce Bochy

That was the turning point of the game.

Jeff Lebo

We could never really get it to that point where we made it interesting.

Joseph Garcia

We could have had 50 points in the first half.

Curtis Shaw

We have a lot of Marriott points that we'll never be able to use.

Pat Metheny

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Chris Zimmerman

We're working on what the specific policy would be.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Condoleezza Rice

We recognize any policy will sometimes result in errors, and when it happens, we will do everything we can to rectify it.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Nina Easton

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

Bill Vaughan

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Bill Vaughan

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Howard Dean

We know that the president wasn't truthful with us when he sent us to Iraq,

Elaine Sanchez

Typically, the president is on a very tight schedule.

Donald Powell

Today the president is requesting another $1.5 billion.

Tom Ridge

will be a president we can respect and we can trust.

John Kasich

We aren't going to do this alone, ... We're going to go out there and tell the president 'look, the ball's in the president's hands.'

Donald Rumsfeld

The president has not suggested that that is going to be needed,

Emma Bunton

We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working.

Pete Rodda

We are not putting anything out that is not public record.

Kathy Nelson

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

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.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Gary Hudson

For us to come out on top again, we've got to play hard, smart, and unselfishly.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.

Gary Wright

We're on top of each other. It's very crowded.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Alex Berenson

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Carrie Chapman Catt

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Carrie Fisher

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,

Bertrand Russell

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Don Cornelius

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Don Cooper

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

Don Cooper

With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.

Dave Chappelle

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.