Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Fidel Castro

We have no objections at all to the three officials visiting us, to know their assessment and exchange views on these matters, ... We won't close the door.

Bill Ackman

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

Shane Rattenbury

We're making an assessment of our food and fuel and our own energy levels, it's very exhausting being in small boats in such a hostile environment.

Cooter Failla

We started the process in October, had 12 candidates which we reduced to three, then two, and today was the day the decision was made.

Peter Wong

We're in talks with about three to four Chinese candidates for a joint venture brokerage, and we should be able to set it up sometime this year.

Phil Price

We want to run candidates (for City Council) that will dissolve the city.

Stephen Minarik

There is no question that John Faso and I have different opinions of who should be our candidate for governor this year that is clear. But at least our party is providing John an opportunity to seek the nomination.

Lynn King

Whether she's going to be a candidate or not is her decision.

Ed Patru

What we're seeing around the country is a concerted effort by Democrats to manufacture momentum by talking up a lot of candidates with no resources.

Steve Ross

What this decision stands for is that there is a limit to the circumstances under which the federal government can dictate to the citizens of Nevada who they can or can not have as candidates for state or local office,

John Thune

With this much clutter out there and this much money being spent on the airwaves, the candidates start losing control of the message,

Ben Affleck

would make a superb public candidate for public office in the future.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

David Wald

We are pleased with the decisions. It clearly established the constitutionality of the Internet Registry Act.

Dave Roberts

There are clearly stated problems that we have to identify and have to uncover. The overlying theme is things that would lead to sudden incapacitation,

Rod Smyth

We're in a market that is clearly in a little short-term decision box. It's the debate whether core inflation remains low, which allows the Fed to stop raising rates, or whether core inflation is not able to be contained. We'll get a progression of data and numbers that will help resolve this somewhat, but until then, we're in the box.

Carol Marlow

We spent longer than we had planned in Fort Lauderdale, which meant that the itinerary has had to be changed, and we do regret that sincerely and clearly we do recognize there's been a lot of disruption.

Lucas Black

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

Gordon Brown

We have said very clearly that not only is the rebate justified, but if in the national interest it was necessary to do so we would have to use our veto.

Charles Prince

We have said pretty clearly that our focus is on extending the franchise transactions.

Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Mark Thompson

The outcome of the incident is pretty severe and it's tragic that (White's) getting screws in his face and plates, and you put a guy in hospital like that, I'm sure he's feeling about that. We want him to play really competitive hard footy on the weekend too.

Jonathan Klein

The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.

William Gray

We are going to see the return of some of these types of storms. People have to face up to it. The insurance industry has a major problem.

Scott Hand

Where Inco has operations, it has legacies, and we are going to have to face up to them in a proper and responsible way,

Luke Nosek

I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.

Bertolt Brecht

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Carolyn Porco

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,

Carolyn Wells

Circumstances alter faces.

Duncan Edwards

They get down and dirty. It's kind of The O'Reilly Factor of football.

Sheldon Jacobs

They say 'Most of the shareholders are in IRAs' and taxes aren't a factor in IRAs, ... They say 'I'm being paid on overall performance.'

Craig MacTavish

It's maybe the most important stretch we've had in a number of years. It can be a little overwhelming, but how we handle the pressure is going to be one of the big factors in the success that we're going to have.

Al Goldman

The number one factor next week will be the market's own internal dynamic. In other words, how much more momentum does the market have after going up 1,000 points in one month?

Stuart Ellis

Then there's ocean survival. That is a very likely an explanatory factor in how come you can have a relatively good return of jacks and suddenly the adults don't materialize out of that.

Michael Carty

It's one of these choppy days, where there are a lot of different factors at play.

Rick Clancy

It's not that we're getting out of the market. It's that we will be obtaining tubes from other Sony factories in the world, particularly in Singapore and in China.

Jay Sferra

It's only a factor if you make it a factor.

Paul Dernier

This means the world to us. It helps keep our factory open.

Brent Scowcroft

A number of presidents since Nixon have come to office with negative views of the Chinese. They always end up supporting the thrust of the policy established by President Nixon.

David Moskowitz

A negative outcome in this trial is more magnified than a positive one.

Alan Ackerman

The tech news exacerbates an already negative feeling,

Scott Sprinzen

Public sentiment regarding such vehicles has turned more negative than previously.

Jeff Joerres

This is one of the most negative outlooks in the wholesale and retail sector since the first quarter of 2004. They're going to be very cautious.

Chad Pennington

You need a big play to give you a spark, ... After that, we didn't have any negative plays on first and second downs.

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

Paul Maurice

The only negative was that we didn't score on the power play.

Katherine Styponias

While the studio's performance in the quarter will look dreadful, we don't think it reflects a significant negative turn in Disney's film business.

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Alan Green

I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!

Ed Begley, Jr.

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper...

Ben Stiller

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

Arthur Rimbaud

I could never throw Love out of the window.

Antony Hewish

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.

Louis C. K.

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

Charlotte Bronte

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

Charles Baudelaire

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.