Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Iggo

The story from the corporate sector is still fairly positive in terms of earnings and at the moment interest rates going up is more of a fear than a reality.

Michael Otto

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Patrick Cescau

Performance is what matters, not the niceties of the corporate structure, as far as I'm concerned.

Barbara Roper

The SEC doesn't have the resources to do its job. In 1980 the SEC reviewed all corporate financial statements every year. In 2000, they reviewed about 15 percent. Enron's statements hadn't been reviewed since 1997.

Howard Silverblatt

These shares have not been retired. They sit in the corporate treasury, where, subject to regulator timing, they can be reissued at the discretion of the company.

Chris Iggo

I've been somewhat surprised by the weakness of investment levels in the U.K., particularly given the strong position the U.K. corporate sector has been in.

Howard Davidowitz

This is an era in which corporations want to be lily white because corporate governance is on the front burner.

Chad Clanton

This is another example of President Bush's powerful corporate friends doing his dirty work,

Sean Smith

This is a story that hasn't been told in the last couple of years - his record of standing up to the big corporate interests on Democratic issues. And this is a big one.

Monique Roffey

'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.

Steve Winwood

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.

Brian Eno

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Ron Nelson

We lost all our pitching from last year, but we got a team ERA of like 1.1 right now and I just never imagined that.

Christopher Paolini

Eragon. Is that all you say? Yes.

Christopher Paolini

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

Yoshinori Ohno

We are in fact opening a new era

Nancy Green

We are in an era of increasing intervention. Much of that is good. Mortality rates have gone down for infants.

Kevin Flanagan

Those (low) yields are not sustainable even in an era of if shrinking supply.

John Boehner

Putting all the pieces in place takes a long, long time. You've got to do the planning up front before you lay it out on the table.

Connor Franta

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

Marshawn Lynch

The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot.

Elizabeth Morgan

I've seen a sprinkling of it over the years, but it's out front this year.

Diana Ross

I've spent a lot of time on makeup in my life because I'm always in front of the mirror, getting ready for shows and performances.

Wayne Chism

I've played in front of him (Pearl) before. The second half I was able to get my head together and play well (in front of Pearl).

Lincoln Kennedy

It was very embarrassing. You're in front of, what, 60 million people? Worldwide TV? We had to get a quick score on the board. You can't get a goose egg.

Chris McDonald

It was a little tough tonight. Every time we would get in front of (Jones), they would lob it over or he would have good position.

John Fernandes

These were nothing more than a front for distributing marijuana.

John Gay

Adieu! she cries; and waved her lily hand.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

bell hooks

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

bell hooks

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.