Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Bennett

As expected, consumer tax revenue is only slightly above last year's level, ... This is because we continue to see an increasing portion of our tax growth coming in our third quarter. More customers are using our Web-based tax solutions, which historically have revenue peaks later in the season.

Justin Robinson

As a team we expect to be above everything. Our goal is not just the Vegas Bowl but even higher. With the players and the leaders that we have on this team, we have a good chance of doing it.

Father Thomas

As a great sign of this whole message truly coming from God, a marvelous miracle was worked in the sky above Fatima before 70,000 witnesses on Oct. 3, 1917, ... and that miracle occurred at the time, date and place that the children had prophesied in the name of Our Lady of Fatima.

Veronica Wiggins

As a freshman, she knew she had to step up to the challenge. Tiffany has contributed above and beyond this year. We just want her to stay in her zone.

Bob Gallagher

As a community, we honor the courage and dignity of those who rise above their injury and refuse to live their life as a victim. Rather, they live as a survivor. Living life this way demonstrates courage and determination and hope each and every day.

George H. W. Bush

As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region, as well, ... That poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America. We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action. So, let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday, and let us rise above the legacy of inequality.

Kevin Thomas

As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means (is) you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong.

Barack Obama

As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

Chuck Schumer

The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.

Chris Coste

Do they want an extra infielder/backup catcher who has never played in the big leagues? For them to choose me, it's a bold decision. So for me to win a job, I've got to do more than open eyes. It's got to be a no-doubter.

Thomas Fuller

Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.

Shelby Seyrafi

She was very bold when she said that she would hit that 12 to 15 percent revenue growth number, and she is hitting it in the first quarter after she said it.

George Borrow

Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

Carlo Goldoni

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Kathleen Blanco

We must give careful consideration to bold ideas while pressing forward with proven strategies,

Robert Latham

I don't know that I have a good solution to the problem. Now we have another challenge in public education: It's not about wind speed, it's about storm surge. I have some bold ideas but I'm not going to come and say this is what we're going to do. There's a certain percentage of the population that aren't going to leave, I don't care what.

Voltaire

Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Bible Bible

And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

Charles Peirce

Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false

Lon Anderson

Will numbers likely be reduced because of Katrina and because of gas? Probably so. On the other hand, Memorial Day and Labor Day trips are a cherished part of America.

Robert Charles Winthrop

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

George Eliot

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

John Tate

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

Alexander Downer

that there are some people on earth who are so wicked and so evil that nothing can be done but to confront them.

Mike Martz

I do know some of the player issues that we have, and the guys that played well and did not play well. That will be confronted and corrected, and if we have to make a change, we'll make a change.

Brian Greene

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.

William Westmoreland

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

Charles B. Rangel

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

Lawrence Woodward

Three independent bystanders said Marcus never had a gun in his hand. Marcus admits that those three said something rude to his girlfriend, and he verbally confronted them.

Henry Cabot Lodge

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

Richard DeKaser

extremely overvalued and confront a high risk of a future price correction.

Benicio Toro

Raoul Duke: I wouldn't dare go to sleep with you wandering around with a head full of acid, wanting to slice me up with that goddamn knife. Dr. Gonzo: Who said anything about slicing you up, man. I just wanted to cut a little Z in your forehead.

Mark Chmura

People who don't think that it's all about him are fooling themselves. With a quote like, 'What are they going to do, cut me?' It's all about him.

Eric Bass

Our shots didn't fall. We were 3 of 21 (three-pointers). We've never been that bad. It was our night not to make shots. In the third quarter we cut it to within four and our shots didn't fall. In the fourth quarter we cut it to within five points and our shots didn't fall.

Mark Slotsve

Our defense has been great and I hope it stays the way it is. Offensively, we're going to have to find a way to score some more points, because I don't think our offense in the West Region is going to cut it if we want to take a run at the title.

Gao Zhisheng

Our event is completely peaceful and legal. We're using our own bodies, in our own homes to do what we choose. Yet people who have joined the hunger strike are disappearing. I don't know exactly how many people, but this is expanding. I've been followed by the police for more than three months and now they've tapped my phones and cut off most of my communication.

Herbert Lau

People are switching to utilities because there is a lot of uncertainty in the market about how deep the rate cut will be.

Seth Grossman

People don't know how to cut spending if they don't know who is getting the tax money now.

John Hanley

People get injured fighting fires. Last night, we had a guy cut a tendon in his hand. He'll be off for six months. Somebody has to come in and fill his position.

John Hanley

People get injured fighting fires, ... Last night, we had a guy cut a tendon in his hand. He'll be off for six months. Somebody has to come in and fill his position.

Farida Karoney

It was about midnight when hooded men raided our offices and ordered the night duty staff to switch off the transmission.

Christopher Hill

We all felt duty-bound to continue, because I think there is a feeling that we have taken this further than we ever have in the past,

Oscar Wilde

Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

Albert Einstein

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

Andrew Johnson

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

Phillip McGraw

You have the duty and gift of living. You don't have the right to sit on the sidelines-use your life and get back into the game.

Richard Wagner

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

Stonewall Jackson

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

Stonewall Jackson

Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

George Robertson

a remarkable moment in the history of Macedonia.

Mike Jones

These letters are like touchstones in history to me. I really want to put them out.

Mark Blondin

the smallest percentage increase in the history of the pension plan.

Gene Stephenson

After Kris Johnson, all our pitchers pitched like they were scared. I don't know why. We were quite an embarrassment tonight, to the whole program and the history and tradition of our program.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

String theory has had a long and wonderful history. It originated as a technique to try to understand the strong force. It was a calculational mechanism, a way of approaching a mathematical problem that was too difficult, and it was a promising way, but it was only a technique. It was a mathematical technique rather than a theory in itself.

Bernie Sanders

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

Mark Schneider

Preval has to turn history upside down in Haiti.

Tyler Cowen

Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.

Anthony Romero

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Tyrone Brooks

Dr. King's legacy is as sound as a rock.

Brian Corcoran

What separates her is that she wants to set a legacy at Pope John. She wants to do things that nobody has ever accomplished. She's ready to show what she can do.

Nick Richardson

The track must be re-laid, as a legacy for the sport,

Duke of Wellington

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Sam Smith

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Bill Bradley

I'm trying to remain true to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,

Paul Slattery

The important thing is the legacy lives and Tom lives with us.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Doug Brien

Not too good. I've had this before, and it's persistent for quite a while. Now it's just kind of wait and see.

Albert Camus

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

William Shakespeare

And makes me poor indeed.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

Stuart Wilde

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

Margaret Drabble

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

May Sarton

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Oscar Wilde

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Edward Norton

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

Edward Abbey

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Donald Knuth

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Colin Powell

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

Adolf Hitler

The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality.

Andrew Weil

Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.

Anne Sexton

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

Anne Rice

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

D. H. Lawrence

It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Josh Rodriguez

I understood completely. If I were a coach, I'd do the same thing if I saw the stats I've had lately.

Brian Brohm

You saw once we got in there we can pretty much do anything we want to.

A. Hodge

You saw how it ended. I don't think you can say we are not able to play with them.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.