Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Bowman

Reaching this milestone is an incredible accomplishment for the entire C-17 team. And hitting one million flight hours more than a year ahead of the original plan is a testament to the aircraft and our customers' confidence in it.

Martin Indyk

promotion of U.S. interests in the Middle East, especially in support of President Clinton's efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace.

Mario Draghi

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity, to create a solid, sustainable foundation for wage increases and to ensure the country's development, for ourselves and for future generations.

Nathaniel Branden

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause

Andrew Gould

(Producers') plans have already been put in place to achieve this, but it will take several years of sustained activity to develop the new production that can reliably replace today's supply.

Joseph Ratzinger

proclaim forgiveness and reconciliation, which are the only way to achieve stable harmony.

Clayton Christensen

People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term.

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.

Brendan Foley

Our technologies allows us to learn about the past in ways that we couldn't achieve otherwise. We're not looking for footnotes any more. We're looking to write new chapters, and are convinced that in 10 to 15 years using these methods, we will have changed history.

Michael Greene

That FDA advisory is one of my all-time pet peeves.

Dave Allen

Using a private contractor and outside advisory team will help expedite the process.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

Hanya Yanagihara

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Joe Thornton

I talked to Nick and Rayzor (Sunday) and they want to be here. They both want to play here. I think it's just a matter of time.

Dina Graves

I think it really well. We were both really tired. We were just trying to keep the kids running in and out, switching them out so they could rest.

Rudy Carpenter

I think it puts us, to be honest, in a tough spot a little bit, only because we're both competitors competing for the same spot. We both want to play. We came here to play.

Manny Lawson

I think it goes both ways. I think we complemented each other.

Rich Brooks

I think it gives both schools an opportunity to go out and play someone different.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

David Vitter

I'm very excited to be at least some small part in the effort, ... This is a great, state-of-the-art facility that can be used for many events, especially the equestrian and 4-H activities. It also is a broader resource for education and economic development.

Hiroichi Nishi

The impact on the broader market will be short-lived.

Robert Martin

We're not doing this because we think there will be no jobs and this will be a safety net. We think it's what musicians should have, what young musicians deserve and need. Our view is that musicians need a broader education.

Jim Melcher

the market is, and has been, for the last five years driven by about the same 100 companies, but if you could see money moving down to the broader market, we've got some real values, a lot of good companies selling really cheap.

Kofi Annan

There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers also in the group, let's be quite honest about that, ... I've tried to get them to understand that in our interconnected world, we need to look at issues in much broader terms rather than narrow national interests.

Evan Walters

There were some unforeseen things like a lot of communicating between the company and manufacturer. It gave us a broader view of how business is run. There were bumps. It wasn't a smooth ride. We had to go back and correct things.

Peter Jankovskis

It might be part of a broader gaming strategy. Maybe his next acquisition will be some sort of video-game company.

Jerry Jasinowski

It really is a broader international issue that requires the general consensus of countries that intellectual property protection is critical to growth and productivity.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Jaspher Ombati

It is not our intention to violate people's civil rights. Our intentions are noble -- to save people's lives.

Michel Bonnardeaux

Hundreds of civilians have fled the fighting and the militiamen have been torching houses as they disperse.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson

Gary Chaison

In organizing itself I see a tremendous increase in the reinventing of the labor movement as the heir of the civil rights movement. I think it's the recasting of the labor movement in a way that I haven't seen in many years.

Helen Clark

In particular, I would like to pay tribute to Mr. de Mello. He was one of the finest international civil servants,

Richard Blumenthal

Civil unions performed in other states are entitled to full faith and credit in Connecticut. ... Out-of-state same-sex marriages have no legal force and effect here,

Ted Taylor

We were fortunate to come out on top; it could have gone either way. It is tough to come to Meridian and win. I just have to commend our kids, especially for their second-half effort.

Debbie Davis

I'm so impressed with the research that went into this book. I know Joel is a solid reporter -- after all, he did great work for us in the late 1980s -- but I want to commend him for a truly fine work of journalism.

Joel Davis

I'm so impressed with the research that went into this book, ... I know Joel is a solid reporter -- after all, he did great work for us in the late 1980s -- but I want to commend him for a truly fine work of journalism.

J. C. Watts

I would like to commend Mrs. Matheny, ... I'm sad for her.

Gerard Arpey

I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous sacrifices by our employees. We have our work cut out for us; we are not out of the woods yet.

Bob Barr

I commend you for standing up to the nonsense ... that you have had to put up with today.

Lauren Johnson

I commend you all for being here because you want to learn further.

Mitt Romney

I commend the Senate president and the speaker on their leadership, ... I look forward to making Melanie's bill, Melanie's law.

Dwight Brunoehler

Our protocols already meet or exceed the current European standards and regulations. We commend the European Commission on their forward thinking and proactive approach. This is exactly what the industry needs to secure a stricter set of worldwide guidelines.

Herschel Sandler

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Wade Boggs

I talked to Wade and he said he regrets that he had other commitments and could not be here,

Tim Kearney

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

Bill Buford

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

Michel Therrien

He's a leader of that team. He's a great example for young players, with his work ethic. He makes a huge commitment to fitness. He makes a huge commitment to what it takes to become a great player.

Neil Callaway

I think the commitment that Shock made to come back makes him a special type person. A lot of people would have bolted, but he hung in here with us, and we're grateful for that.

Peter Ragone

Today he informed the mayor that he is going to take on that role. The man should be lauded for his commitment to the city.

Steve Collins

I think a lot of this is self-driven. The kids see what it takes. The kids see the commitment it takes (to be successful).

William J. Clinton

The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

David Watson

Be prepared. The stress and the pressure can make you run in all sorts of directions for any job out there.

Steven Thomas

feel comfortable with the direction the district is taking, but we're not satisfied.

Jack Templeton

Father's hot-button issue is donor intent. Foundations are too often taken in a radical direction.

Helen Johnston

The plans and the policies that are set out are generally in the right direction but where we have been less successful is being able to drive through the implementation.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Craig Brown

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

David Kelly

The manufacturing sector is so productive that even with a rebound in production and orders, we still have, at best, flat employment. This is encouraging, but manufacturing employment remains a sore point in the American economy.

M. Wolfe

You wouldn't want to see much stronger employment growth without a big gain in the labor force.

Jared Bernstein

The full employment situation reinforces itself.

William Whitson

Good jobs are the lifeblood of a community. All the land can't be just taken up with houses. There needs to be employment centers.

John Silvia

Manufacturing output is up, yet employment in the manufacturing sector is down. This result suggests that the firms are producing more in the U.S., but doing it with fewer workers.

Bruce Arena

I would imagine I'll find some kind of employment after the World Cup. If not, I might want to be a sportswriter.

Gus Whitcomb

We fill a void that is very important in the employment arena.

David Penn

For some of them, it's pretty straightforward. Like manufacturing. That's its own classification in the employment statistics.

Kathy Lively

I don't think the unemployment figures fully reflect the situation of seasonal employment in the retail field. Unemployment will be down now because of seasonal, holiday work that started in October and is just ending.

Ayn Rand

Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

Bertrand Russell

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

Ludwig von Mises

To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

Aristotle

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Gustave Flaubert

Equality is slavery. That is why I love art.

Bhagavad Gita

Everything has been accomplished in this very life by those whose mind is set in equality.

Liu Jianchao

We think that the two sides should respect each other and follow the principle of equality and properly handle the issue in accordance with World Trade Organization regulations.

D. H. Lawrence

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

Samuel Butler

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Greg Toczydlowski

Industry experts predict that hybrids could make up nearly 15 percent of total registered vehicles within the next decade.

Robert A. Heinlein

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Karen Hill

They give out loads and loads of information, and give you an opportunity to hear many experts who teach these seminars, and many provide worksheets to put your ideas down on paper,

Rosette Lerias

For as long as the rescuers who are on the ground, who are the experts in what they are doing, say that 'we will continue', then we will support them.

David Grisman

This music is very eclectic, ... It's tough to find musicians who are experts in 15 different styles.

Bjorn Lomborg

Im no expert on American politics.

Lee Scott

That's when they become the experts and can help teach the other kids. It's the highlight of my day.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

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.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

David Ditzel

And when we go to our highly integrated chip, we're going to take off another 44 percent. So we think we've got a substantial lead today, and we're going to keep that.

Douglas Johnson

We couldn't think any more highly of him.

Bob Bratkowski

Being the third-down back is a highly skilled job. There's pass protections, route running, variations of protections. He's getting better at it every week.

Ian Stacker

At the end of the day John was the one who started that whole incident so I can't speak more highly of him about it.

Ehud Barak

We highly respect (Syrian) President (Hafez) Assad and if he needs some time before the negotiation is resumed we will respect it and we will wait. We will be there when they are ready.

Kris Benson

He's going to make a big impact on all of us.

Felipe Alou

It could be too late but an impact he'll make. It may not be visible big time, but it will be (impacting).

Bob Lohn

I think the practical impact should be quite small,

John Beck

To get a player of his caliber, they said they thought they were very blessed. They said he has the potential to be an impact player very soon.

Tony Tan

He has left an impact not only on the United States but on the whole world.

David Borden

His invention is ubiquitous and has had as much if not more impact than the invention of the piano. He's probably one of the most important musical instrument makers in history.

Tim Brown

I'm not Tiger Woods, ... but it's possible to have the same kind of impact on racing as he has had on golf. That is something to shoot for. But we'll have a rookie driver, and people who haven't worked together, so it will be a challenge.

Karen Hughes

I recognize policies have an impact on people's lives.

Rudi Koertzen

The chopper has not made any impact at all. We need a lot of sun.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Woodrow Wilson

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

William McKinley

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Tupac Shakur

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Robert Teeter

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

Virgil

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

Werner Herzog

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

Van Jones

Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.

Walter de La Mare

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Salma Hayek

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Kerry Packer

You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

Phil Robertson

Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.

Joseph Allen

God's timing in moving me down here was perfect,

Alan Black

This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

Rob Reiner

When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want it to go, you're making it up as you go, and you're acting it.

Richelle Mead

You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.” He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste.

Richelle Mead

i will always love you." "no you won't. you'll move on. So will i.

Richelle Mead

It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.

Richelle Mead

What do you mean it wasn't anything? Didn't the earth move or the planets align or something? -Rose to Lissa on sleeping with Aaron

Ryan Lochte

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

Rose McGowan

I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode, which was massive culture shock to say the least.

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Ron Chernow

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Travis Tritt

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

Regis Philbin

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

Reid Hoffman

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.

Woodrow Wilson

There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

William Weld

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

Rob Bell

I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such a short period of days you pick up on a communal energy, almost like feeling a giant heartbeat that everyone is beating together.

Trey Gowdy

I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

Sarah Wilson

In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Samuel McChord Crothers

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Abraham Polonsky

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

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.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Walt Harris

Our special teams is the most respected part of our team.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Roald Dahl

Two rights don't equal a left.

Valerie Jarrett

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

Wesley Clark

Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law — not the rule of force — governs relations between states. A world in which leaders respect the rights of their people, and nations seek peace, not destruction or domination. And neither we nor anyone else should live in fear ever again.

Sandra Fluke

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

Rudy Giuliani

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society

Phil Crosby

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Mike Torres

The service may be a little slow for a little while it stabilizes.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Les Garland

We want the Web site to be a storefront, as a service to our viewers.

Ron Kaufman

How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong?

Ron Kaufman

Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Laurie Colwin

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Paul Krugman

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Malcolm Gladwell

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

Jim Leach

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

John Clayton

He'll end up here. You're not going to see any other teams step up.

Brad Todd

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

Mike Dunne

I'm just concerned. No one's really stepping forward. It's a public-safety issue.

Colin Purdon

I'm nervous. But when we step on the court, it's down to business.

Richard Jewell

The first step was a long process, ... Go Braves!

John C. Maxwell

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

Liberace

Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

Andre Heard

Everyone just has to step up a little more.

Dan Selby

Everyone else has to step up. It hurts, but we can win without him.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Josh Thomas

When we thought of taking a stand, we automatically thought of communism.