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.

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.

James Rouse

An inspired, concerned and loving society will dignify man; will find the ways to develop his talent; will put the fruits of his labor and intellect to effective use; will achieve brotherhood; eliminate bigotry and intolerance; will care for the indigent, the delinquent, the sick, the aged; seek the truth and communicate it; respect differences among man.

Nicholas Burns

The situation has changed fundamentally on the ground, certainly this week, but I think in general over the last couple of months in Bosnia, ... If the Bosnian Serbs felt at one time they could achieve a military victory in this conflict, they certainly don't believe that today and no one else does either.

Richard Boucher

The secretary made quite clear that our goal is to have the smallest footprint possible that was consistent with a need to achieve the mission,

Ho Chen

The strength of electronics output and exports were one of the pillars supporting the Singapore economy in the first quarter. Services grew strongly as well and that will help the Singapore government achieve its growth forecast this year.

Masaaki Kanno

The strength of domestic demand seems real. I believe Japan will achieve roughly three percent growth this year.

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Bob Wright

As CEO and then chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television.

Jared Diamond

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Mark Watson

The board structure among banks is still pretty poor. We're critical of boards that get too big and directors tell us that smaller boards are more effective.

John Ridley

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

Mark Savoia

Barberton and Wadsworth are the two strongest teams in the league. It should be a fun battle. It should also be a battle for third place among Revere, Green and Highland.

Robert Shapiro

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Thomas Harrison

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

Richard Lloyd

People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I'm gratified it stuck to the wall.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Philip Virgo

The big raids will be for project management staff so you need to ensure these staff are content and that means providing clear career paths and training opportunities. Many firms haven't been doing this because over the past few years they haven't felt the need to, but that is going to change with all these public sector projects.

Ron Hill

a very good example of a company that cares deeply about their community.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Leila Smith

Ray had promised me back in 1940 that I would never have to work again. And I never had to. My son always took care of me.

Nick Harkaway

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.

Pamela Stephenson

Prior to setting sail, I'd taken survival courses and become proficient with firearms. Knowing I could take care of myself really changed me.

Stephane Dujarric

As far as we're concerned the planning is going ahead. We're talking to the AU.

Arnie Owen

People are still concerned about the Asia-Pacific Rim, there are noises from some of the brokerages that PC demand is starting to slow -- that is what's sending investors looking for an alternative place to put their money,

Michael Town

North Carolinians should be very concerned about what is going on with (regards to) Virginia.

Peter Kretzmer

The thinking that has surprised us has been that the markets and the Fed have been more concerned about the impact on inflation expectations than they've been about real growth.

Louis Thompson

The thing the SEC has to be concerned about is if it's fraud --they can't tell analysts how to run their models.

Gary Dellaverson

The MTA is quite concerned that we are now down to the last day before the union-imposed deadline.

Jim Hall

The move in commodities is overdone and not sustainable. I'm concerned about rates picking up, which will have a big impact on stock valuations.

Katsuhiko Kodama

After gaining for four straight sessions, investors are concerned that the Nikkei has risen too quickly,

Gary Ruskin

So the question is who else is going to know. We are concerned about the invasion of privacy related to corporate advertisers knowing your position.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Sean Snaith

Developers see no sign of a 'bubble' bursting.

Gurpal Samra

Developers come in, they build, then they leave. But we have to live here, so we wanted to name the streets.

Scott Woodgate

Developer response has been pretty cool, ... just their middle tier.

John Powers

The software development kit enables developers to grid-enable their applications very easily,

Lesley Blackner

The system is gamed to give the developer what he wants. It's ridiculous.

Anders Hejlsberg

I value simplicity over everything. I always look for simplicity. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity.

Mariella Smith

Some people had no idea that they were talking to a developer about a development.

Porter Goss

So we have to, within the law and within all the requirements of our professional ethics in this profession, develop agility. And that means putting a lot of judgment in the hands of individuals overseas.

Wendy Wong

The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more,

David Dye

The simple, cost-efficient, just plain effective things, those are the things we are most likely to mandate first.

John Chamberlin

The state law neither has effective teeth nor good enforcement mechanism.

Elliot Regenstein

This is some of the most effective spending the government does.

Ban Ki-moon

The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

Cardinal Ratzinger

the unity that is required for the church's effective redemptive service in the world.

Kent Hendershot

That's what we wanted to do, we wanted to go out and jump on them. I thought our pressure was pretty effective tonight. We threw a lot of stuff at them and I don't think they ever got in any kind of rhythm.

Peter Power

That turns out to be an effective way to make the region more competitive vis-a-vis China.

Bill Doran

You would have to evacuate at about 72 hours from landfall to have an effective evacuation.

Paul Carvel

Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance.

Pope John

eliminate the specter of hunger from the planet.

Ed Morgan

We want to eliminate the myths about hiring people with disabilities.

Bruce Dick

You eliminate 16 teams; a lot of good ones are going to show up.

Richard Clarke

There's no iron law. But the law enforcement side, the intelligence side, will always want to eliminate the leadership.

Bob Goin

There's no way to eliminate the memories of the fantastic performance of Kenyon Martin. He is a role model as someone who works hard. We're always going to use him as a role model. I have tremendous respect for Kenyon Martin. I am saddened by his reaction.

Jim McCrossin

Is there a chance? Obviously there's a chance. You never want to eliminate the chance. But it's a long shot." ()

Giovanni Bisignani

Unfortunately, there is no mechanism to eliminate existing capacity.

Mike Frazer

I feel like we played a solid game, we just have to eliminate those little mistakes.

Rod Graves

He planted the seeds for that, and I think that we'll see the fruits of that a lot more next season. By having players like him that have been in winning situations, they have a lot to offer in terms of helping your younger players grow.

Bob Ellis

The fruits of the pastor's labors have been truly appalling.

Christopher Meeker

They've been putting a ton of money into their marketing and we're starting to see the fruits of that spending.

Ashwin Sanghi

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

Ayn Rand

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

C. S. Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

Craig MacDonald

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Brandi Carlile

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Clive James

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Clint Eastwood

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Adolf Hitler

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Albert Einstein

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

Horace

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.

Drew Matus

There's no sign of inflation, and the labor market is still weak. There's still plenty of room from the Fed's point of view.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Tim Heekin

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Thomas Graham

If it wasn't for union workers and labor unions, there would be no 40-hour work weeks, eight-hour work days, pensions or vacations,

Paul Gurgol

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

Bill Scott

We have some of the weakest labor laws in the industrialized world.

Horace

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

Donna Mills

I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

AnnaSophia Robb

Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.

Rita Mae Brown

As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

Susan Polis Schutz

I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life.

George Eliot

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Richelle Mead

And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too.

Anthony Smith

A lot. It's a lot better than '93. We won. It's a very special thing to be a part of, and I'm not quite ready for it to be over and done with. I'm loving it.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Jill Soloway

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Jim Hopson

We did find ourselves in a position of having to go back and manage our customers' expectations.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Sammy Morris

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Alan Dershowitz

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Britney Spears

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

Elizabeth Bowen

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Matt Giampietro

There is so much respect for that name.

Henning Kagermann

You have to respect that there is a law.

Rumi

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Malayan Proverb

If you have, give; if you lack, seek

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Michel de Montaigne

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Nathan Rosane

In U.S. ways so that when we leave, we don't have to come back.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Andrew Jones

It's really sad, but in a lot of ways it was time.

Warren McCormick

Not at all. But there are ways to do it properly." ()

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.