Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife? Trust me, it's not.

Vicki Taylor

They're dropping out because they're retiring or because people are moving out of county because of the high cost of living.

Gary Ruskin

There's an opportunity cost of using these machines. I'd rather we use them to spot a tumor and save a life than earn an extra fraction of a percentage from stock trades.

Dusty Auxier

We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us.

Charles Bukowski

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Timothy Simons

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

Debby Ryan

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

Tony Fabrizio

The fractures were always there. The difference was the White House was always able to hold them in line because of perceived power, ... After Tuesday's election, it's 'Why are we following these guys? They're taking us off the cliff.'

Rob Schelling

That's the difference between a good and great player, and those guys are great players. When you can do that on your own, when other teams know about you and they're keying on you and you can still score, that shows what type of player they are.

Matt Watson

It makes a huge difference in the service we can offer. We can say it's a 15-minute drive time and we pay a premium to say that.

Bowen Sargent

It is really a thin line, and it's that way every tournament, the difference between finishing third place and sometimes even ninth or 10th. Ten shots, which sounds like a lot, but when you are talking about five guys over three days, you're talking about less than a shot a round. It is razor thin.

Charles Caleb

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Jeffrey Tambor

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

Gary Player

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

Harry S Truman

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Scott Roemhildt

The focus of the event is education and fun.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

John Mayer

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

John Lennon

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Thomas Paine

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments...

Thomas Paine

Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

Thomas Paine

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.

Thomas Paine

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

Timothy Geithner

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

Thomas Jefferson

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

Thomas Jefferson

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Thomas Jefferson

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

Percy Sledge

I'd liked this girl all through high school. After we graduated, we got together for a while, but she left me for another man.

Henry Ford

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Robert King

This is all the money in the city, sitting right here,

Enid Bagnold

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

Bob Groves

The 'flex' money is an unusual, one-time expenditure. As for the rest, some of it would be spent over several years.

Richard Morris Hunt

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.

Gary Brown

You don't have to spend $300 today. Do it over time.

Napoleon Hill

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Ogden Nash

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Mayor Vance

If you don't take some time to dream, then you never have a vision.

Elie Cohen

If you get burned, you will take time before you try again.

Mark Ruffalo

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Dave Grohl

I like to keep things going, ... No breaks... We have such little time together!