Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeb Bush

People should not take anything for granted. You have to assume the worst.

Bruce Latimer

Oil is down, silver is down, so we have to assume those stocks will be down. I think we'll be a little weaker out of the gate.

Ray Peck

Somebody's got to work with me. We have to assume responsibility not as party members. Somehow, we've got to get together and somehow we've got to do something. I'll do everything I can to support any reasonable proposals.

Jen Kirkman

Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the parents would invest their money wisely because they're smart. And people like me would just go buy candy.

Joan Didion

The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it.

Loretta Worters

You should never assume that your homeowners' policy covers your home business. In most cases, it doesn't.

Lord Melbourne

You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

Robert Hartwig

You should assume that as charitable as it is, you have total liability for these individuals, in the same way as if a stranger came to your house just invited for a dinner party. If they slipped and fell, you're going to be liable for them. You do not enjoy any immunity from liability. It's a sad statement, but that's the world we live in today.

Jamais Cascio

You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written - assume that the information in the book is at least a year older than the copyright date, and possibly two.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

Mimi Belt

As a culture, we're very emotional and I know that's a generality, but it's true. We need to believe that those folks on the screen are part of our household, and then you've got a hit.

Mike Pence

As a conservative, I believe the only real check on government is a free press, ... And as someone who believes in limited government, I believe nothing is more conservative than promoting and protecting the principle of a free press.

Kevin McCall

As a company, we believe that competition is a positive thing. Competition brings better service and better prices to the community.

Roy H. Williams

As a community, we believe that here is our chance to show the NBA, viewers, the world that we are a market that can support a professional team,

Stan Kroenke

As a matter of fact, believe it or not guys, you can actually lose money in sports! I know that you'll find that shocking.

Irv Slosberg

As a father, you can't believe that your kid cannot come home tonight, but this happened to me. This happens all throughout the state of Florida ... It's a real, real unfortunate situation.

Frans Mustert

As a destination resort, you must always search for ways to exceed your guests' expectations. We felt it was not enough to simply limit the number of smoking rooms, or designate smoking areas. We believe the best experience for our guests is a luxury resort that is completely smoke-free.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Cyle Hankerd

As a team we have to work together and play well. One day we don't throw strikes and another day give them the best opportunities. We just have to work together.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Brendan Shanahan

As crazy as this sounds, having the hockey people off for a year gave us time to step back and re-examine the game. ... And this may have been the best thing to happen for our game and our fans.

Reggie White

As a senior, she's given us more experience. She's a really good defender. She's able to (guard) the other team's best perimeter player. That's really helped us.

Jon Gruden

As a runner he has incredible vision, tremendous stamina. He has great competitiveness, and he can run with power. In my years of coaching, he is certainly the best ball-carry back I have been around.

Gary Guadagnino

As a freshman, he is learning that and he is continuing to get better. You have to learn to wait for the board to come up.

Gregory Schulte

As a first step, we envision a call (by the council) for Iran to cooperate with the IAEA and take the steps identified by the board to restore confidence.

Patrick Fitzgerald

Officers and directors of publicly traded companies who steer shareholders' money into their pockets should not lie to the board of directors to get permission to do so.

Maika Monroe

Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.

Rick Fried

The three of them rented boards at the concession at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Seeing no signs, they went into the water.

Christopher Moore

The Sousa era was also the same time as the boarding-school era when the Oneidas were shipped off (to be educated in white ways, as opposed to the tribal ways). They learned the Sousa music and took it back with them when they were done with boarding school.

Joan Bonvicini

The thing that really hurt us was turnovers and shooting percentage. We didn't get much from our posts. We were out-rebounding them at halftime, and they just dominated the boards in the second half. This was a very disappointing game for us.

Tom Shepard

The ones that happen at events like this are always good board meetings.

Hayley Hasselhoff

Straight sized boards are models size 0-6. Plus size boards are models starting at a 10. If a size 8 girl was 5' 11 and curvy, she'd be on the plus sized board, because there's nothing in between.

Elizabeth Thompson

As a Panhellenic whole, we do not support one candidate or the other, ... Part of exercising the right to vote is exercising the right to choose. We always hope for a good turnout at the elections, and we expect to see a large number of women participate this year.

Leo Bosner

As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state emergency officials have turned down the job of FEMA Director because it is under the Department of Homeland Security. Everyone says FEMA needs a top-quality director, but how do we get one when the top candidates won't take the job?

Matt Smyth

Raising money can be the toughest thing for a candidate to have to do, and it can be a factor that leads some people to decide not to get involved in politics.

Vitaly Mutko

Officially I can say the following: we have a candidate in place, and his personal terms have been agreed.

Mark Baldwin

Depending on the school culture at the site where they student teach, our teacher candidates are either very involved in faculty meetings and workshops, or they are not involved at all. We want to improve this because one of the most critical parts in laying the foundation for a quality teaching career is the student teaching experience.

Paul Maryniak

Perhaps at no time in the recent past has the need for quality city leadership been more critical to Mesa than it is now. We want Mesa residents to know as much as possible about the people who are running for a chance to provide that leadership, and The Republic's forum gives citizens an excellent chance to eyeball the candidates and give them the kind of job interview necessary for an educated vote.

David Olson

I showed empirically that in the general election those crossover voters stayed with the candidate they had crossed over to support in the primary. A lot of Republicans preferred her in 1976 and stayed with her.

Oscar Aguilar

They are all going to be making the same promises: more education, better economy. But if one candidate is more marketable, or comes out with a killer line, that could mean a lot.

Thomas Insel

The way I see it, there are three types of studies in science: one that moves a theory along, one that closes it and another that opens a new door altogether. This one opens a new chapter, introducing an entirely new molecular candidate for the study of anxiety, and we're going to be hearing a lot about it in the next 10 years.

Casey Silver

As chairman and CEO for the past three years, I am very proud of the films released during that time and I'm especially pleased with the films scheduled for the next 24 months. I look forward to working with the company in an independent capacity.

Anne Mulcahy

As CEO of Xerox, I am ready and privileged to lead a team of dedicated employees who are as sharply focused and committed as I am in the successful turnaround of our company.

John Challenger

Some expect CEOs to be chained to the desk. Most put in 12 or more hours a day, often working seven days a week. But we should want leaders in high-pressure situations to have time to decompress.

James Lowry

Some people would rather be the 100 percent owner of a $100 million company than the partner of a $200 million company. They feel comfortable being the CEO and the sole decision-maker.

William Crowell

There won't be a lot of resolutions passed here today, but the key is to get the dialogue open and to get CEOs interested in providing their customers with protection.

Lynn Turner

That's indicative of a company with an imperial CEO and very poor controls.

Paul Graham

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

John Laughlin

With Lithia, you have a CEO who is not only the major stock owner but the person over the last 20 years that has taken all the risks by deciding to do the expansion he has done,

Edmund Phelps

There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Brent Johnson

Our confidence is higher now. I wish we could be going to the playoffs right now, to give our guys something to look forward to.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

James Huguet

Our economy is stronger than people have been talking about all year long. I am not surprised to see consumer confidence pretty high. The market typically does well when consumers are spending.

Michael Hegarty

Our fall results w ere outstanding. But it seems that we finished stronger than we had played all semester, which gives us confidence that our spring will be another step forward for us.

Kip Anderson

Our expectations are always high. They are learning how to win, and I feel like they'll do that in the second round, because they are playing with such confidence right now and that makes a difference.

Richard Giannini

People shouldn't conjecture when they don't know what it is, ... Jeff Bower has done a tremendous job over the years disciplining his student-athletes. I've got tremendous confidence in his ability.

Yolette Etienne

People feel completely abandoned. They don't have confidence that someone is there to protect them when they vote.

Dante Cunningham

Oh, I don't know. Off the court, I definitely still feel like a freshman. But I know I need to step up. I want my teammates to know they can count on me. I want them to have confidence that I'm working as hard as I can.

Fouad Ajami

a phoenix. His faith in Iraq and in himself has been incredible.

Steve Jobs

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love... So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

David Lennon

We're here to give our gift for the holiday season to the tourists of New York. We're here on good faith to play. We intend to go to work.

C. S. Lewis

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

C. S. Lewis

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

Miley Cyrus

Faith is the main thing. That's kind of why I'm like here in Hollywood: to be like a light, a testimony to say God can take someone from Nashville and make me this, but it's his will that made this happen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Richard Whately

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Bram Stoker

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Richard Robinson

Once you start, you'll probably be hooked. Because everyone that I know that's ever done it gets hooked, so to speak. They look forward to doing it again.

E. B. White

Once you get (a national title) once, you want to get it again. She is not the type to be satisfied. We are looking forward to the outdoor season and hopefully she can lead us and get another one.

Chris Hatcher

No two teams are ever the same. It's just the start of a new season. And as a coach, if you don't look forward to the start of a new season then you're in the wrong business.

Shawn Estes

Sometimes you want it to rain. Today wasn't one of those. I was looking forward to getting out there.

Sean Donohue

Ted remains a thriving part of United and we look forward to another great year.

Paul Tagliabue

Sometimes it seems we're taking two steps forward and one step back.

Todd Taylor

Roughly 13 million American taxpayers filed their tax returns over the Internet last year and the industry is looking forward to another year of double-digit growth.

Joe Perry

Practice has gone well and I am really looking forward to Sheffield.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Virgil

Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Edgar Mitchell

Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

Aristotle

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Marc Guggenheim

As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good.

J. J. Abrams

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

David Johansen

Arthur, be a good Latter-day Saint, do your job, and everything will be fine.

Stan Kroenke

Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.

Mark Johnson

The Buckeyes lose all their linebackers to graduation. So there is a good opportunity for me there.

John Purtteman

The big thing now is there were a lot of good pieces in place, and now it's keeping them on board. Tom did a great job.

Tom Izzo

The Big Ten's going to miss Dee Brown. He's good for this league. He doesn't talk it, he walks it.

Donald Rumsfeld

A very smart weapon, a good weapon might work 85 to 90 percent of the time. The rest of the time it doesn't work right. Now that's a very good percentage, ... But it means that there is one out of 10 that is not going to do what it was intended to do.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Scoville Jenkins

Rafael is a great player. This was a learning experience. He was what I expected, and a little more than I expected.

Ernie Harwell

Radio will always be with us because of its great portability. TV can't give you that.

Amity Gaige

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

Jarrod Cooper

Randy shows up to work every single day. I don't know what misconceptions people had (going into the season), probably the same ones I had, but he's a great leader, no nonsense, he shows up and plays.

Steve Rushing

Ramon is a great rider, but an even greater person,

Mark Recchi

Ray is a very smart player. Obviously he's got great talent, and we're hoping he's able to come back and make a difference.

Fred Couples

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Mark Twain

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Geoffrey Moore

And the number of ISVs is meaningless. The issue is what the power players are doing. Cisco and Microsoft have the strongest positions, so a solution that doesn't have their endorsement isn't likely to get very far.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Ron Klein

This is an issue that people are talking about. They want it fixed.

Patrick Kelly

This isn't an issue that's relevant to our research.

Asif Ali Zardari

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

Tom Arnold

That's funny, Mike Tice. Is that your joke?

Sylvester Stallone

Mike made a mistake making 'Rocky' and unleashing me to the public,

Tatum Bell

Mike is still the starter, so obviously he's doing something that I am not,

Deedie Dowdle

Mike Hubbard was not a part of that negotiation process. He was not at the table.

David Kelley

Mike did that completely on his own. I suspect it will be a 6-1 vote to keep him.

Joe Cunningham

He's Mike McCoy, his own player. He's trying to be himself.

Benmont Tench

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

Bible Bible

And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

Anne Robinson

They are always so pleased with themselves aren't they? I've never taken to them. What are they for?

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Bob Wynne

We are very pleased with the Commission's decision.

Steve Burd

We are very pleased with our 2005 results.

Dick Parsons

We are very pleased to have reached an understanding with Mr. Icahn.

Gary Muto

We're very pleased. We wouldn't be rolling out if we weren't pleased with our results.

Susan Tolchin

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

John Dunning

We feel like there's a lot of things happening. We've been pleased with what we've seen.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

George Somerwill

The situation has been resolved and everyone has been released,

Jeffrey White

Is it going to resolve the sectarian killings? No. Is it going to end the insurgency? No.

Michael Davies

I really thought this would have been resolved a while ago.

Alan Greenspan

It is risky, ... It's risky doing nothing. It's risky doing any other solution. ... I know no way to resolve this without risk.

Benjamin Franklin

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Jamie Dimon

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Celine Dion

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Joe Balogh

This was something we worked to get. It was important for us.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Art McMaster

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.