Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orin Smith

Our third-quarter financial results demonstrate the ongoing strength of our business, ... Starbucks operations are functioning at a more sophisticated level than ever before. Our consistently strong performance positions us well to achieve our aggressive fiscal 2005 goals -- including an acceleration of store growth as we pursue the Company's expanding global opportunity.

Brad Blew

Our seniors have made it to this game every year, if not farther. This has been a successful group and I'm certainly disappointed for them that we didn't win, because we played so hard, but I could never be disappointed in this group. They've achieved so much this year and have done so much as a group, they'll always be special.

Pamela Dixon

Our families and staff share a common bond to protect and nurture these vulnerable children. The prospect of this type of crime in our midst is contrary to everything we believe in and strive to achieve every day.

Sam Allardyce

Our aim all those years ago was for Bolton to achieve European qualification, and then beyond that to do it consistently - we made it our ultimate dream to aspire to,

Yuriko Koike

People are worried that in order to achieve structural reform and postal privatization, LDP politicians will be less engaged in pork barrel politics.

Scott Horowitz

Offering these prizes allows us to engage a lot of people we may not otherwise reach to solve technical problems that will help enable us to achieve the Vision for Space Exploration.

Robert Merton

The moral mandate to achieve success exerts pressure to succeed by fair means, if possible, and by foul means, if necessary.

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Eytan Rockaway

Dream to create you aspirations and aspire to achieve your dreams. If you dream of the skies you will reach the heavens.

Eric Thomas

Our experience last year leads us to believe that the House will be more hesitant to adopt the reforms necessary to fix the H-1B and green card systems.

Vinod Kumar

Our aim is to provide shelter and clothes to all the affected people before the onset of winter. Therefore, it has been decided that Army will adopt two villages, while Indian Air Force, BSF, CRPF and ITBP will adopt a village each for reconstruction,

Isabella Bird

On the whole, I find that it is best to adopt as far as possible the travelling equipments of the country in which one travels. The muleteers and servants understand them better, and if anything goes wrong or wears out, it can be repaired or replaced.

Marcia Stewart

Oftentimes families will adopt two kittens, as they entertain each other while they are at work or the kids are in school.

John Mill

No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, than is made out for suppressing these practices in the eyes of those who regard them as impieties; and unless we are willing to adopt the logic of per

Rosanne Pane

Once there is significant evidence that the Fed is finished increasing rates, investors will begin to adopt late-cycle patterns.

Alex Neve

And there's a strategic moment now to adopt a new approach.

Mark Bryant

A re-analysis of pertinent figures at Monday's meeting led the board to consider and adopt the lower figure,

George Romero

A real program called Helping Hands... real monkeys are put in homes with handicapped or disabled people. They can get you your lunch, answer the door, turn the TV or music on... like having a little helper. They're raised on Discovery Island at Disney World, and you can adopt them!

John Wright

Australia obviously do have that settled identity and we've got to ensure that the players appreciate that they're playing for the world team and that means playing for the team.

David Keller

B&W has a long history of working with Kansas City Power & Light. We value that relationship, appreciate their confidence in our proven technology and construction capabilities, and look forward to continuing to help them meet their commitments to the environment and to their customers.

Clinton Portis

A year like that makes you appreciate things a lot more.

Edward Yingling

Banks -- which completely fund the FDIC, from its pencils to premiums -- will be pleased to see their money better spent. And customers should appreciate enhanced coverage levels.

Craig Walker

As of right now, I can't tell you if I will have 11 or 12 on the team, ... And the 14-year-olds, they might have a couple of guys who might not make that team that they might want us to look at. So we might do this one more time, with a couple of kids. I appreciate your patience. Everybody who came today is a very good baseball player. All of you guys are capable of playing travel baseball.

Kara Swisher

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

Eddie Johnson

People who have fought hard all their lives appreciate a guy that size who takes the hits he does. The way he plays has overshadowed all the other stuff he's had happen off the court. Not many players are able to combat that, but he's been able to.

Marshall Carlson

Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with those who lost loved ones. We're grateful for the support we have received over the past 15 months and appreciate the efforts of everyone involved in this process.

Louise Bennett

Our donations are down by at least $10,000. We're hurting for money. I know there's a lot of donor burnout. We do appreciate all the food and personal items that people donate but we need money to stay open.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Jim Leljedal

As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire.

Dave Lambert

As far as I can see, this looks a complete dog's breakfast of a clause as it fails to consider that many so-called 'hacker tools' have perfectly legitimate uses.

Toll Holdings

The business suffered from industrial disputation and disrupted grain shipping schedules. In addition, the proposal by Patrick to break up the business has created a challenging environment.

Robert Murphy

The break would help students study for exams or relax after having quite a few already.

Steven Johnson

The break was really good for me and the team. A lot of people used the time to heal up their injuries.

Steve Sawyer

The break in the talks is a good thing for energy.

Richie Adubato

The break in the schedule a week ago helped us . . . to get our continuity, to get our defense together, ... Our offensive execution is way better than it was. . . . The big thing is we've got a pretty good rotation now. They're starting to feel more familiar with each other's games, and that takes a little time. We're still not there, but if we didn't have the break in the schedule I don't think we could have been able to get to where we are.

Danny Glover

The breaking point was to stand outside on 116th Street and have five cabs pass me up.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

Henry Paulson

As a public company, Goldman Sachs will have the financial strength and strategic flexibility to continue to serve our clients effectively as well as to respond thoughtfully to the business and competitive environment over the long term.

Avi Greengart

As a one-shot deal; this frees RIM to go back to its business without any further complications.

Vicki Denfeld

As an independent hotel, The Churchill relies on its reputation and personal service to fulfill the high expectations of its guests. Jeanine's knowledge of the Washington, DC business community coupled with her vast sales and management experience provide ideal leadership for delivering on our guests' expectations while supporting our excellent sales and marketing team.

John Szabo

As a value-added distributor, we're in a lot of routes to market with our business partners, and we have a pretty deep portfolio in retail offerings with our distribution partners.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

Edward Lanphier

As a business person, if I offered you $2.5 million in stock in a private company versus $7.5 million in cash, just in the up-front deal, which would you take? The numbers are unambiguous.

Robert Shillman

As a businessman, if we are to stay in business around the world, we have to seek to make products as inexpensively as possible. What that means is that American workers will shift from doing jobs that other people can do more cheaply to jobs that other countries can't do more cheaply.

Horace Mann

As a government employee, I was always fighting for financial resources, new staff, new everything, ... (Now,) I have to make sacrifices every day (as a business owner).

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Tom Rosenstiel

Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Mike Sivertson

The way to score with our system is to force turnovers and to not give up big plays. That is one of the reasons that the game went the way it did.

Robert H. Connelly

This government has previously used intimidation to force people to do self-censorship but this time they've gone too far.

Tim Taylor

That's why he was a spectacular force in the playoffs (in 2003-04). That's the guy we need.

Kyle Conrad

That one was like an insurance goal for the team. Once we got up 2-0, the whole game changed. We started taking shots right and left, and they started to force things.

Tom Wiley

You're used to it when you come here, but you have to keep reminding the kids to stay patient and stay within the offense. We wanted to push it, yet be patient and not force anything. St. Mark's is tough with the style that they play.

Bill Clinton

Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power.

William Williams

You sullen pig of a manyou force me into the mudwith your stinking ash-cart!

Jill Malko

You're not going to keep her to nothing, but you want to keep her to three or below. We have to key in on the other players and force the others to score for them.

Dave Elshoff

You're going to force the provider to give you the service that you're demanding. No unnecessary test, no unnecessary procedures.

Robert A. Heinlein

A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Friedrich Schlegel

Novels have a habit of concluding in the same way that the Lord's Prayer begins: with the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

Dick Van Dyke

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

Aristophanes

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Magglio Ordonez

You have to get used to winning. Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit.

Douglas Adams

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Douglas Preston

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Duke of Wellington

Habit is ten times nature.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Tom Lochner

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

Jim Bottorf

Our concern, of course, is for the people we won't be able to help during whatever time it takes us to get back up to speed.

Josh Young

People don't always realize how much we can help in these cases.

Delma Smith

Offer to help her with her house, if she helps you with yours. Then you're doing it as a team.

John Chaney

The national media hurts the A-10 more than any other league. We're always looked at as a stepchild. Our TV situation doesn't help recruiting. That's a major reason I play the type of schedule that I do, for recruiting.

Hayden Fry

The more down-to-earth things can help a lot.

Nick Exel

Definitely. I know I can help the team out more if I'm a little more aggressive. Basically, throughout this season I've been playing not to make mistakes, playing not to hurt the team.

Romeo Crennel

Dennis Northcutt was able to come in and make some plays that will help his psyche because I know he was a little down.

Ray Elliott

I've never seen an individual request more time,

Lindsay Whalen

I've been having that my whole life, where there haven't been a lot of individual awards,

Ron Messick

They all had their own individual abilities, but I could tell they were special players.

Masaaki Kanno

This is a new trend in Japanese politics. People are increasingly voting on the policies of individual parties. Now the manifestos of the different parties have become very clear.

Leonard Leo

that they were very interested in making sure that the president nominated a second individual who shared the philosophy of judicial restraint.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Jerry Colangelo

We wanted a team not of individual stars, but athleticism, shooters, role players and distributors.

Geno Auriemma

We don't score on sheer individual talent. Sometimes we run stuff just to run stuff without an idea what we're going to get from it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

William Poole

that one might reasonably regard as commercially significant.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Bobby Knight

Competitive drills enhance quickness.

Kevin Estes

She's quicker even though she's not as big as Gabby (Wade) or Sophie (Russell).

Karen Ostrov

It does work, but it takes time. It's not a quick fix.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Laurie Bowlin

That quick set they have is impressive. I don't know how you would stop it.

Jason Bacashihua

It was 1-1 going into the third. We were doing great. Then they got two quick ones and we could not recover. But we will turn this thing around.

Danny Morrison

It was a big win for us. We wanted a quick start to put them away early.

Kerry Collins

I've got to make decisions. I've got to make quick decisions. I can't manufacture something.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

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.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

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.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Heather Dougherty

If someone wants to play catch-up fast, that's the way to go.

Ivan Rodriguez

He's the manager. If he wants me to DH, I'll DH.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,