Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Skains

We are talking about activity 100 miles or more offshore that will not be seen, heard or smelled.

Yun Qian

The pollution (that) resulted from human activity may have created a haze which absorbs and deflects the sun's rays.

John Augustine

The trading and the underwriting activity looks favorable.

George Eliot

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Michael Bryant

Ontario believes that the sentencing provisions in the Criminal Code need to send the appropriate message when it comes to illegal firearms. This message should be one of 'zero tolerance' for illegal activity related to the possession and use of firearms,

Edgar Peters

Certainly seeing more merger and acquisition activity going on encourages people too because it's a signal to them that things are undervalued.

Carlo Pambianco

Certainly merger and acquisition activity will pick up. There are many small- and medium-size companies that need to consolidate to compete, especially in Italy.

Chris Jones

Certain cities are poised to become satellite commercial centers. White Plains is analogous to Stamford in Connecticut and New Brunswick in New Jersey. But New Rochelle will probably never reach that level because it's not as centrally located, and it doesn't have the critical mass of commercial activity to begin with.

Fadel Gheit

But when oil goes up, stocks go down. Crude prices have to crash, but it won't happen until about six weeks after the election. We'll see a lot of activity no matter who's in the White House.

Rick Mueller

As long as crude oil is still up in the high $50s, gasoline at the retail pump can't come down too much,

Bob Yawger

To a large degree, it's a result of the oil market. Crude oil is approaching all-time highs here. That should support natural gas.

Dan Vaught

It's very simple. The energy market was up real strongly. That's part of it, as people consistently make the link between crude oil prices, inflation and gold.

Jan Egeland

It is the first, crude way to get food there. It is not, however, a good way to get water and medicine distributed.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Andy Nash

As it goes down the mountain, it's accelerated. It results in stronger gusts of winds that you normally wouldn't have if the mountains weren't there.

Patty Griffin

There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.

Rene Descartes

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

Jackie Spinner

Frankly, you pray. My heart goes out to her family, her sister, her parents. I can only imagine what this must be doing to them.

Rachel Wacholder

I feel like every time we come out there, we think we can win. I don't know that they think they're going to win every time, either, and everyone watching isn't thinking, 'Oh God, here it goes again, they're going to win,' and it's good.

Robert Vaden

Hopefully he can get a job, and if he goes somewhere that's good enough for me, I'll be there with him.. I'm trying not to think about all these things right now. We've got a season we're still playing in and we're trying to make it to the (NCAA) tournament. That's all I'm worried about.

Ron Gardenhire

That always goes a long way, guys rooting for each other, pulling for each other, not pointing fingers.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Frank Beamer

These are all unusual things that can happen in a ballgame,

Freddie Shepherd

That's going to happen sooner rather than later.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Philip Larkin

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

Alfred Adler

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Ben Dogra

More than likely, nothing will happen on or before Sunday.

Michael Williams

Maybe the same thing can happen to me.

Mike Voss

Now we'd have to win out (to make playoffs) and there would have to be some strange stuff happen for us realistically having mathematical possibilities.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Brendon Burchard

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Lindsey Hunter

At this point, we don't even care. We know what we've got to do, and we know what we need to do -- and that's get the title back. That's our focus, our goal. All the other stuff, hey, people can say what they want to say or not. They'll put us on the prime-time or whatever. It doesn't matter to us. We just want the title back.

Donald Miller

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

Doc Watson

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

Deval Patrick

Don't tell me words don't matter,

Desmond Tutu

We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.

Derek Walcott

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

Delmore Schwartz

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Jasper Fforde

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

Javad Vaidi

But if the situation changes, we will have to review our oil policies.

Harry Browne

Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as protection in case you have a terrible accident or your car is stolen. You don't use homeowners' insurance to pay your electricity and water bills; you have it as protection in case a fire or other catastrophic event produces a large expense. Obviously, any insurance policy that promises to cover every small, ordinary expense is going to be much more expensive than one that covers only extraordinary expenses.

Gwyn Morgan

Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.

David Dreman

Stay in the stock market, in the oil sector.

Carl Pope

We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

Michael Foster

I think more people need to be doing it. There's a lot of oil that's going to waste pretty much.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Michael Owen Bruce

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

James A. Baldwin

Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

George W. Bush

I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that -- in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the -- of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House.

Franklin Pierce

After the White House what is there to do but drink?

Jennifer Granholm

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.