Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Kay

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.

Mark Zuckerberg

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know - not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that's kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

Bruce Cockburn

I think if I really put my mind to it I probably did think I would be, but under what conditions, ... I expect to be doing this until I drop or become incapacitated. I don't make any more defined plans than that.

Ha-Joon Chang

Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

Ha-Joon Chang

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

Lee Evans

I'm a lot more confident, ... I think more so this year, my role is defined and I know what they expect of me.

Chris Eigeman

I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.

LeBron James

I don't think so. I got the first two years out of the way, and that's when you usually do it. I don't want to be defined as being in the slam dunk contest, it's just not me.

Jim Nicholson

have defined my life, shaped my abilities and my desire to serve.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

Jim Gallagher

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

F. Sionil Jose

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Roger Altman

The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.

Arthur Levitt

The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the American people.

Bill Grant

That would be great. The more economic development you have, the better it is for the region.

Rainer Guntermann

We have a more mixed picture (and) that would have made some people rethink economic prospects maybe towards the end of the year.

Paul Hubbert

We could have another economic downturn. We need to maintain a reserve.

Mike Schussler

We know that with a lot of the strikes, if they last only a day or three, we can make up that lost production. If it lasts a week or longer we make up only some of that production. That's when it starts having economic consequences.

Wim Duisenberg

Wages, import prices, bottlenecks in shortages in the employment market

Mark Vitner

We haven't seen that much improvement in employment of hourly workers because the job market for lower-skill workers still has a lot of slack in it. But if you look at skilled workers, it's a much different picture. We're starting to see some real shortages in some sectors.

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.

Stephen Roberts

It does take a lot of pressure off the Reserve Bank. It's hard to get persistent inflation without wages pressure, and hard to get wages pressure with employment easing.

Gus Whitcomb

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

Alan Blinder

One of the reasons for all the happy faces in retail this holiday shopping season is that gas prices are going down, down, down. Employment and income are doing well.

Michael Every

For the Reserve Bank, this is likely to significantly dampen any thoughts of rate increases going forward. With higher oil prices and a weakening housing market, employment growth should be much more moderate ahead.

Martin Baily

Historically, in the U.S. and in other countries, periods of rapid productivity growth have been periods of strong employment growth.

Robert Bigelow

Keep employment levels low, but keep freedom and innovation high.

Bill Evans

We have a mandate ... to protect ... the treaties, to ensure that they're there and that we don't give up any of our rights from the treaties,

Bill Richardson

We have worked with refiners to help them with transportation, with numerous other logistical initiatives so that they can get more product into the market, ... I will be meeting next week with refiners, with petroleum executives, with many others -- heating oil suppliers, to ensure that we get this product reserve into the market.

Marquis de Lafayette

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

Craig Fields

We have the necessity of government intervention to ensure the free exchange of ideas.

Steven Galson

will lead to greater improvements in regulatory and drug development science and in how we evaluate and ensure the safety and efficacy of the products we regulate.

Scott Baker

We need something better than peaker plants to ensure energy. I think we can do better.

Don Brown

We are not prepared to make that prediction quite yet. We are still working with our network teams, investment planners and technology vendors to ensure speedy deployment of a high-quality television service.

David Bradley

We fought hard to ensure that this provision was retained in order to protect the rights of carriers, and I'm extremely pleased that at the end of the day we were successful in having this section transferred to the HTA.

Ehud Olmert

I will very much try to ensure the formation process is calm.

Celso Senise

The political factor is what's most influencing the market. It's just a few participants who are pushing the market around.

Willie Randolph

The overriding factor for me is if he can help our club.

Oliver Plana

The peace and order situation is the primary factor that is weighing on the market right now.

Bikram Choudhury

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.

Valerie Fellows

That was the one major factor that, when they discontinued its use, the numbers recovered.

Scott Johnson

That will be the sole factor in whether I stay or go.

Rick Woodard

That will be a new twist. I don't see weather being a factor this year.

Colin Riley

We know that the determining factor is usually a visit to campus.

Sharon Harris

Most health professionals don't factor in differences in metabolism when recommending a calorie restricted diet, but knowing your metabolic rate can help you to succeed,

Tim Pawlenty

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

Doug Elmendorf

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Ethan Harris

Usually the federal government takes a much more limited role in natural disasters.

William Millar

It is fitting that the TTI study on traffic congestion is being released the same day that the federal surface transportation program known as TEA 21 expires.

Bob Johannessen

We are obligated under federal law to return that money. That is what we did.

Andrei Kostin

We are now working with the Federal Property Ministry, Finance Ministry, and the government apparatus. I think our proposals will be ready in April.

Grover Norquist

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

Ric Williamson

We followed the rules and regulations of the federal government. The process that has been followed in the last year was as open and as transparent as the law and the regulations permit.

Bill Rogers

We have a very good shield law in South Carolina, but we don't have a federal one.

Yoko Ono

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

David Steinberg

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

Bill Cosby

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

Rick Pitino

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

Bill Burr

You're not chasing syndication any more. It used to be a big thing. "Let's make 100 episodes and we'll get paid for life". You know? And what does the sheer amount of content that's being made do to syndication after a while? It just seems like there's more content than there is hours for everyone to watch it. But it's some of the best content that's ever been created.

Jason Green

Well, really it was a huge waste of time, when we got here we just sat around for two hours doing nothing.

William Shakespeare

We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I count only the hours that are serene.

Paul Tagliabue

You can go back and look at whether we'd have a team in L.A. had we done something different in 1994-95. But I think if you look at the big picture, it's one of strong accomplishment. There are only so many hours in the day.

John Bryan

We have traditionally had inspectors who really know a lot about the business. They seem to be getting the job done. And while we've seen some improvement in permits, we're still a long way from where we should be.

Steven Wood

Wholesalers had been struggling with bulging inventories through the winter and spring, ... However, plunging sales had largely thwarted their efforts. July's improvement is a welcome respite in this struggle.

John Lonski

I think this testimony is much more confident. His worry that the improvement will not be sustained is less pronounced.

Dick Bennett

We have not shown the improvement I expected.

Serhan Cevik

Whichever variable you look at, it's a big improvement.

Maureen Caddigan

Basically, his job is on the line unless we see some sort of improvement here.

Jack Rio

From '03 to '04 there was improvement, from '04 to this year there was more improvement.

David Ganey

He showed improvement all season long and that paid off with a trip to the state tournament.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Martin Mull

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

Kathy Deck

We are seeing some serious imbalances in the market. When you have price increases with inventory increases, something's got to give.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Adams Oshiomhole

Our traditional method of striking has not resolved the problem of price increases and other socio-political problems in Nigeria.

Laura Ahearn

Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing.

Stephen Byers

We need to recognize that many people feel they are living in a

Bill Ferris

Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

Sally Stohler

I'm sitting in my living room wondering why I have so many clocks.

Christopher Ricks

The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever

Robert H. Grubbs

Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

David Lord

We do this as a service to our clients, ... We're not in the exorbitant mark-up business. We're living on margins of 25 percent.

Robert Taylor

Here's a picture of the singlewide trailer we were living in.

Daniele Audetto

We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.

Fausto Bertinotti

We are in the moment of the maximum uncertainty.

John Spratt

We are pushing the envelope. We are using our troops pretty much to their maximum utility.

Sean Taylor

For us to win we needed to (capitalize). We needed to have maximum possessions.

Dan Boone

It can be a maximum of 25 percent of what you owe.

Amity Shlaes

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

Dick Cheney

Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.

James Sinegal

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

Felix Gonzalez

This is one of the most destructive hurricanes. We are on maximum alert.

James E. Faust

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life's objective is life itself.

Rudolf Steiner

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Kent Houser

We played it for three quarters at the pace we wanted.

Jacques Rogge

We are pleased by the pace of progress now,

Pete Carroll

For the second week in a row we just were on a torrid pace to self-destruct in the first quarter.

Chuck D.

We're on a record-setting pace for second-quarter warnings.

J. C. Watts

He had an 80-yard run called back. He was probably on pace to run for 400 yards in that game.

Sean Smith

We started picking up the pace and that's the type of team we are.

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Christopher Hill

We are going to have to pick up the pace if we are going to get there,

James Young

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

Ashton Kutcher

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

M. Wolfe

We are rating UPS 'attractive,' ... Our price target on this stock is $70; it's at about $56 right now.

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.

Allen Sinai

I don't think we have price stability any more.

Roy Turner

I don't think price gouging is going on here.

Dan Niles

For those who thought the price war was aggressive, you haven't seen anything yet.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Harvey Johnson

Mrs. Knox will be produced at the proper time.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

John H. Reagan

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation.

Klaus Kleinfeld

It comes down to the long-term stability of this corporation,

Bernard Laporte

Our success comes from stability.

Valentino Rossi

For sure tomorrow will be difficult. We are still struggling with stability and grip.

Darcy Regier

A year ago we were just trying to survive. Now we have a sense of stability and direction.

Gene Robinson

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Jean-Claude Juncker

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

Ben Howland

He's righted them with stability and direction. He's done an outstanding job.

Frances Newton

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.