Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liam Fox

This is an extremely good result. I am delighted to have polled well above predictions. I go into the next round with real momentum.

David Buck

This is an exciting proposal. We have not found a comparable project with housing above (it) in a (similar-size) community.

John Bucher

This is a positive industry outlook that is perhaps slightly above our 2006 estimates for infrastructure and devices.

Andrei Illarionov

This is a state model with the participation of state corporations, which although they are public in name and status, are managed above all for their own personal interests.

Giovanni Bisignani

This is the first time in a year we have seen two consecutive months of freight traffic growth above 5% which points to a resurgent world economy.

Myles Brand

This is not Lake Woebegone, where every student athlete and every team can be above average. The 50 percent rate, while not sacrosanct, is a good rate to measure whether we're making progress.

Dale Murphy

This is something I have wanted to do for a long time, ... Athletes have a huge impact on so many people. Occasionally, some of them need reminding how important their example is. Frankly, we are all tired of the profanity-laced interviews and the overall perception by some that they are above the law. It is time to step up and take seriously the chance we have to make a difference for good in the lives of others.

Deborah White

The weather has become increasingly mild and the forecasts are for now much above normal, for example 17 (degrees Celsius) in Los Angeles -- this is extremely warm for the end of December.

Arvind Mediratta

The WHO has confirmed that eating cooked chicken is safe. The cooking temperature for poultry meat should reach 150F/70C and at KFC, we cook our chicken well above the minimum temperatures required for safety. Also, the chickens are routinely inspected to ensure that they meet or exceed all public health and food safety regulations.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Kurt Barnard

Are consumers buying more? I don't know. I think what Wal-Mart said about people spending less of the rebate money this year in stores is significant. It shows people prefer to save any extra money than spend it.

Kevin Norrish

This is definitely not about buying up oil resources in order to ship the oil into China.

Tony Dwyer

We could pull back a bit, but it will be limited to about a 5 percent decline and it will be quick. This market rally has not been about buying interest, but about the total lack of selling interest.

Ed Eastin

We wanted to come out and be as physical as we can. The kids are really buying into it.

David Cole

If you've got a customer in a car dealership, you don't want them to walk out without buying something.

Joe Wilcox

In the U.S., only about 60 percent of consumers have Microsoft Office on their computers. That's a lot of opportunity for sales there. They have a pricing advantage. It offers comparable, or better functionality for less. For the consumer and small businesses, value and price will be major factors influencing buying decisions.

Michael Porter

In the future, ... buying a single country fund will be akin to buying an Iowa fund or a Massachusetts fund.

Mitsushige Akino

In the current market, high techs are not exactly the target of investors' buying interest. Under these circumstances, it wouldn't help at all to post disappointing earnings.

Kazunori Jinnai

The Nasdaq gains gave a gentle nudge higher to a market that was ready for a rebound after last week's losing spell.

Sophia Bush

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

Plautus

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

Philip Roth

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

Adlai E. Stevenson

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Pasquale Pistorio

Sequential and year-over-year gains were recorded in all major product groups and applications, reflecting primarily increases in unit volumes.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Kit Spring

Return on investment in PPM is increasingly uncertain.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Jim Young

When it makes sense for my shareholders, when it makes sense for my customers, we're willing to put the investment in,

John Sims

The investment will take place in three stages - $155 million, 185 million and $180 million.

Joe Gibbs

It's smart. If you are going to make an investment of millions and millions of dollars, you would research them.

Mike Winer

It went from a terrific value investment to a terrific arbitrage.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Anna Lee

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

John Wall

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Mike Birbiglia

I have a following, but it's small. I have this level of fame where people spot me in the airport, consistently, but they always think they're the only one who ever has. People will think they win a prize when they recognize me.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Todd Tripp

We'll get after it in practice next week. It's regional time. We'll see what happens.

Joe Newman

We'll do better next season. We'll have statistics and up-to-date standings on our Web site. And we'll probably have 16 teams in the playoffs. I think 24 teams this season is too many.

David Whiles

We'll let that percolate for the next 30 days.

Chris Masoner

You'd like to stop them all, but sometimes there's not much you can do. You just have to get ready for the next opportunity.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

William H. Gass

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Michael Owen Bruce

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!