Famous Quotes & Sayings

Townsend Harris

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Kevin Rollins

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

Jim Rogers

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, high prices led companies to overproduce, leading to substantial excess supply and stockpiling.

Jim Rogers

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Richard Grasso

It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole.

Jim Cantalupo

You then get into a period a few years ago, where a lot of external factors that we didn't have anything to do with did hit, and some of them at the same time... devaluations, weak economies, you name it, in various parts of the world.

Steve Case

It's still a problem, and there's always going to be some divide when there's some economic disparity or technological disparity.

Jim Barksdale

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

Jim Cramer

I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Kevin Mawae

What Pop Warner does for kids on and off the field is great. It's nice to take part in events like this. It is all about youth football and it is the future of our sport.

Tom Williams

We will try to exploit our depth. We would like to send two kids (to state) in five to six events that can score. That's one factor we can control.

Jim Fuller

We won more than half of the events. That was one of the goals I put on them. To win more events than the other teams.

Roger Milla

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

Tim Farmer

Who knows how he'll do in other racing events in the future?

Jim Amoss

Like our readers, we're also the ones to whom the events happened, at once narrator and subject. The intersection of these two roles has been excruciating.

Rene Cook

I was very impressed with Cassie today. She hit on all four events and it's nice to see her do that.

Bruce Rueben

We must understand how and why these events happen and what must be done to keep them from happening again.

Debbie Macomber

Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

Andre Norton

There's no night without stars.

William Shakespeare

Ingratitude is monstrous.

Isaac Disraeli

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

Ellen DeGeneres

I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Dalai Lama

I am just one human being.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

R. C. Sproul

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.