Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Butler

The adoption rate in the region is slow, but we forecast that it will pick up gradually. Just like managed care originated on the West Coast and worked its way east, we think there will be a similar pattern with that here.

Kevin Knox

The adoption of Windows 2000 has been slower than we anticipated initially, but it will be one of the drivers that keeps PC demand going in the future.

Wayne Smith

Not only is no-till good for the soil and environment, it can also help facilitate adoption of carbon emission reductions by companies. Companies will pay farmers to reduce carbon through no-till conservation practices.

Melissa Harwell

A child that is free for adoption or may become free for adoption would likely be placed in our home before it would be placed in a home that was not adoption motivated. This prevents the child from being moved from place to place unnecessarily. If a child in our home does become adoptable, we would have the first opportunity at adoption.

Wang Guangya

Even with the adoption of this IAEA resolution, it is the belief of most of the members there that a diplomatic solution is the way out within the framework of the IAEA.

Nina Easton

Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church - will respect their choice.

Caroline Leavitt

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

Andy Parsons

Anytime we have seen people try to accelerated adoption by lowering price, they have gotten their heads cut off.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

David Krell

When the markets get frothy they can disappear. When the markets are frothy is exactly when consumers need them.

Amelia Torres

At present consumers should be considering energy savings.

Alan Davidson

Consumers won't use systems they don't trust. Location services monitor movement and habits, something many consumers may not want known.

Steve Case

We do not intend to limit content diversity on any of our systems. If we limit content, if we do not promote a diversity of voices ... then consumers will waste no time migrating to other Internet and media services.

Richard Lobb

There's nothing more that consumers should be doing that they aren't doing already.

Gore Vidal

As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.

Ayad Allawi

As far as Germany and France are concerned, really, this was a regrettable position they had, ... I don't think the Iraqis are going to forget easily that in the hour of need, those countries wanted to neglect Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld

normally ministers of defense visit countries where there's that type of activity.

Sue Kelly

The United States must remain ever-vigilant in finding and freezing terrorist money around the world, and we need to demand similar vigilance from all countries around the globe,

Audrey Tautou

When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I got more offers from different countries so it is great to have huge luxuries for an actor to work and to have the choice. But after, in life, I can't enjoy anonymity. But I can hide myself.

Alex Thiermann

Countries have far exceeded what is science-based and they have further complicated the losses to the industry.

Liu Jian

Countries around the world shoulder major responsibility for development.

Christopher Painter

Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws. But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

James Woolsey

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

John Bennett

He needs to feel like he can still drive, and I think it's pretty important to him not to be dependent on someone to drive him around all the time.

Jim Paine

I?m not totally dependent on the BlackBerry. I still do heavy e-mail work at night from a laptop.

Dan Lipinski

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

Rex Norman

This is a forest ecosystem that has lived with very frequent fire. The ecosystem here has developed and is dependent on that. There is no ecosystem replacement for it.

Reghan Cloudman

It's all dependent on the weather. It can happen at any time of the year, and we're just realizing that now.

Charles Koch

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

Donella Meadows

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

Nicola Sturgeon

There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.

Jan Schakowsky

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Robert Kiyosaki

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

Andrew Sullivan

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

Jennifer Hudson

Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'

Veerappa Moily

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Ray Neidl

The fuel was a little higher than expected, but the revenue was a little higher as well,

Dave Barthmuss

Our goal with the partnership is to make more fuel available.

Don Yaeger

Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Peter Mueller

The short end was pricing in too many rate hikes from the ECB. Yields are high enough, and I see more potential for recovery in the short end than the long end.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Sarah Clarke

There are more than 786,000 uninsured people in the state of Maryland, and less than one-half of 1 percent works for Wal-Mart.

Mark Pope

Every year, when I'm with a new team, that's one less team that doesn't know that I can't play.

Richard Rose

The results are less important than what's going on in Rajasthan.

George Rupp

The result is that we are less prepared than we would like to be for what could be a very serious humanitarian emergency.

David Wright

There's going to be a lot less pressure on Carlos this time around. That's why it doesn't matter where I hit. This team is going to score runs, period.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Jim Pate

We'll need no less than 10 volunteers a day and no more than 25 a day, and they must be prepared to be self-sufficient for one to two weeks.

Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Allen West

I'll give you a great example of an issue that no one brought up during this Florida primary, the fact that we're going to have a Chinese made oil rig put in place about 60 miles off the coast of Florida.

Daniel Yergin

The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.

Sylvia Earle

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Rick Santelli

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

Rick Perry

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

Tony Blair

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit

Rudolf Diesel

The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Scott Hartnell

We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.

Kelley Cradduck

We understand some don't do it intentionally, they're just not paying attention. But in the end, they end up getting stuck in the intersection.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Rich Vallinaggi

No one wanted to volunteer, so I did. I thought I'd try it. They were paying for the course.

Tom Smith

If this is what we are paying $192 a year for, then we just got taken for another ride.

Phil Angelides

People making under $100,000 are going to be paying more,

Brett Hoselton

That's a very costly program. You're paying people not to work.

Aditya Mittal

As our stock price improves, so does the value of the offer.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Paul Walker

As things stand at the moment, I would have said a realistic rally in the price is up to $500.

Janet Ray

The record price we see today, I believe, is not the end.

Matthew Alexy

Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds.

Frank Verrastro

My sense is there's going be another price spike.

Kay Johnston

I feel they raised the price too much at one time. They should have done it a little at a time.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.