Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Shapiro

We were at the tail-end of a championship run. Instead of letting that run naturally just play out and transpire, we abruptly traded good players and artificially created an upper-level in our farm system.

William Manchester

Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.

Falun Gong

For a professional artist to be taken so abruptly without consultation with the company is of great concern to the safety of citizens travelling in China,

Russell Coutts

It was symbolic of the prevailing attitude at the time that locks to the base were changed abruptly so that sailors, who had been with Team New Zealand for more than a decade, including Brad, found themselves humiliatingly locked out.

Mark Vitner

Back in late 2000 the Chicago PMI weakened a month ahead of the ISM survey. The weakness then also came quite unexpectedly and soon afterwards the Fed abruptly reversed course,

Michael Ignatieff

After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?

Kevin Hunter

Southern California is a place of relationship fiction and friction ending abruptly without warning. Here you have a city that is all about looks, but when you look deeper, there isn't much else. Here in L.A. if you've lasted in a relationship for four years and it ends you say, "Oh, we had a good run.", like it's, "The O.C." or "C.S.I." - From the book by Kevin Hunter, Jagger's Revolution

Ian Shepherdson

This is a significant decline in confidence, ... Presumably the combination of higher interest rates and stagnant stock prices lies behind the moves, but the key point is that the steady rise in recent months has abruptly begun to reverse.

Hanya Yanagihara

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

Harry Belafonte

We've watched her be abused in the past, and she's overcome, stood strong. We're not going to be absent or indifferent to the fact that she may be abused again.

Keith Trauner

We expect very significantly higher prices, higher deductibles and tighter terms and conditions as a result of Katrina. For the next year or two, underwriting results, absent another large catastrophe, should be very, very strong.

Robert H. Connelly

A bank also seems absent from lists of possible buyers, which makes an investment-grade rating harder to achieve and lessens the need for a sale.

David Katz

Absent these fundamentals of public health preparedness, no computer model will help us.

Andrew Melnykovych

Absent some major decline in demand or some major increase in supply, I don't think anybody is thinking we're going to see $4 gas again.

Michael Mello

Absent serious constitutional error, which we know from this order Sessions isn't going to find, I don't think Sessions has any choice but to sentence Fell to death.

Justin McNaull

Absent Rita, we should have seen gas prices continue to fall.

Barclays Capital

Absent new developments in credit, the continued synthetic demand, the hedge fund bid, strength in the leveraged loan market, stability in U.S. Treasuries, and credit appetite from Asia will likely continue to support the market overall.

Stephen Johnson

Absent is a guiding strategy in foreign policy, and we haven't had one for 15 years.

Scott Phelps

We always are in conversations with Southwest Airlines to expand their operations at Sky Harbor. With Southwest having the largest single operation at Sky Harbor, we talk with them constantly.

Bruce Raynor

The potential for exposure to bacteria on airline blankets and pillows is a very real issue for millions of Americans,

Kurt Ebenhoch

We are prepared to operate the airline with our new maintenance structure indefinitely.

David Novak

We've also cut five other witnesses ... that were going to testify from the various airlines so that there would be no issue about taint based upon Ms. Martin's contact with their attorneys.

Jake Brace

We are a vastly different airline than we were in 2002,

Terry Trippler

Where I think the controversy will be, is when the first airline announces you will be charged for checking bags.

Mark McClain

There is no point in saving Northwest Airlines if a significant number of our members lose their jobs.

Chris McGinnis

Until the airlines are able to guarantee the bags are going to be at baggage claim within a certain period of time, the tendency is going to be to carry on.

Floyd Hall

What a lovely honor it is to have Spirit Airlines dedicate a new plane to our islands. We are most appreciative and wish Spirit Airlines wonderful success.

Jacques Diouf

We also would encourage that resources be allocated to compensate those poor farmers -- and most of them are poor farmers -- who are raising these poultry ... and who, if they are not given the right incentive, will tend to hide what is happening,

Ken Jr.

It's just one of those things that it's there, you know it's there, and I just don't want to get to the point where I'm out for a longer period of time because I did something else trying to compensate for it. This way, (we) get it done, get it over with and I look forward to May.

Rusty Hardin

It's just a horribly tragic thing. Their lives are forever changed. There's never going to be enough money to fully compensate them for what happened.

Martin Besieux

They have full legislation to compensate people. They have obligatory legislation on how to take away asbestos.

Sergei Kupriyanov

Ukraine is taking the gas from our European partners. We decided to compensate the stolen gas for our partners.

Denis Oswald

As long as they can still compensate with work on Saturdays and Sundays I think it won't be a problem.

Zinedine Zidane

The sooner we find the net the better. We know that we must slot a fair number of goals to compensate for a possible away victory by the Swiss.

Duke Cox

Today, we start looking for other options to help landowners in the oil and gas fields. The oil and gas industry proved this session that they do not want to negotiate with landowners and compensate them fairly for damage to private property. This controversy isn't going away.

Ross Walker

To some extent jobs created in the public sector will compensate for job cuts in the private sector.

Charles Dickens

Discipline must be maintained.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God.

Chinua Achebe

Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal.

Edward James Olmos

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do

Edward James Olmos

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them

Edward Gibbon

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

David Hilbert

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

David Dixon

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

William Shakespeare

Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

Michael Hensley

Your lives are fading in the shadows of time, but your legacy lives on,

Anna Seward

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

Tom Waits

Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.

Mark Steyn

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

Donald Yacktman

Now that the worst lawsuits are fading it seems a golden opportunity to do that. Kraft is limping.

Landon Donovan

I looked up and (Glen) was kind of fading away. So I just tried to put it in a good spot and he finished it. I don't know if he meant to, but he finished it.

Sophia Young

My shot wasn't falling. I was just fading away too much.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

NeNe Leakes

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Gerald Pruitt

It started off as a hobby. I was never one to do much fishing and hunting. On occasion I did. I was mostly a homebody with a fairy tale marriage. To tell you the truth I was an egghead growing up. I was a bookworm. I kept my head in books, a sort of introverted type person.

Hines Ward

It's a fairy tale come true for him.

Sasha Roiz

There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

Jeremy Bulloch

The 'Star Wars' series is a fairytale told in space,

William Shakespeare

And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.

Kurt Vonnegut

Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

Charles Tennyson Turner

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

William Shakespeare

Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!

Carl Jung

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

Benjamin Franklin

He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors

William Shakespeare

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

Tom Connor

There's a lot of optimism that the interest rate hikes have slowed the economy.

David Powell

These are the first hints that the end of the hikes may be coming.

Terry Jones

No doubt, 13 straight hikes by the (Federal Reserve) and the prospect of at least two more have also hurt.

Andre Bakhos

Investors are looking for a sign as to when rate hikes are going to stop.

Alan Skrainka

If you read the speech, he seems to imply that those hikes aren't enough.

Marc Pado

We're not going to feel the impact of these rate hikes for quite some time.

Roberto Galvan

The markets are seeing that opposition to tax hikes is very strong. Practically all sectors of society are opposed to the budget.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Chang-Rae Lee

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

Charlie Kaufman

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

Calvin Trillin

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

Dick Cavett

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Edgar Degas

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

Ben Affleck

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.