Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khaya Ngqula

Sometimes when travel agents claimed commission they would have 500 flights while we had 450, because people had later used tickets that the airline counted as cancelled. This new system will ultimately assist in improving our customer service.

Sun Tzu

The sovereign must have full knowledge of the activities of the five sorts of agents. This knowledge must come from the double agents, and therefore it is mandatory that they be treated with the utmost liberality.

Gerard Butler

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.

S. Walker

guarded by a couple of CIA agents and some Treasury Department guys.

Don Maloney

History has shown to us, especially in New York, that signing the 30-plus-year-old free agents without a very strong base is very risky. It has not worked for us in New York. You have to develop a core group, then you can go out and add.

Troy Williamson

You've got about 50 police officers and beverage agents who are in complete shock at this point,

Lawrence Kampf

This is like a shopping spree for local spaces and booking agents and arts administrators.

Barton Gellman

On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

Ronald Kessler

On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.

Marc Schenker

The teaching that complements these research efforts will benefit the next generation of public health specialists, as well as local, state and global health agencies.

Joe Wilcox

So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface.

Bill Church

It would have provided 100 jobs for the local community, provided $4 million a year in revenue that provides taxes. There's certainly an economic benefit to the city.

James Berg

These are tough issues. The cost of benefits has exploded.

Rick Fraser

This is a way for us to get them the tax benefits that they are entitled to.

Ryan Bedford

This raises an interesting question: Who really benefits from union representation?

Larry Fitzgerald

I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.

Mitchell Reiss

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

Jerry Ripperger

Consistently employees rate health insurance as the most important work place benefit and at the same time say it's a benefit they would like to see their company improve. Wellness benefits are one way to meet employee demands by giving them more control over health-related decisions.

David Thornton

Corey Simon can help us out a lot. He's a veteran to provide leadership and a big man who can plug things up in the middle, ... He'll help with the run defense and put pressure on the quarterback.

R. Inge

Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to evil, a Divine nucleus in the heart of the personality, which can take no stain?

Michael Sheldon

So far, we haven't seen a major increase in core inflation, all we've seen is a sharp rise in energy prices. It seems logical that higher energy prices should start to feed through to higher inflation.

Shai Agassi

People will take more risk with edge process than core processes.

John Ortberg

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

Jeffrey Lacker

On the one hand we've got some good core numbers in the last few months, but on the other hand, we're facing the prospect now of the possibility of the energy price surge passing into core prices, and we don't want to see that.

Richard Butler

But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.

Ed Yardeni

For two years, we've seen this tremendous increase in prices, yet the core inflation rate has stayed at 2.3 percent or less, and the only explanation for that is globalization means inflation is contained.

Stacy Stewart

If it goes just 20 or 30 miles inland, the core could be destroyed. A lot will depend on the exact track.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Don Allen

Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.

Ray Gilmer

This is not a deep, hard freeze yet, but that may change.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Byron Dorgan

The price of oil is to the free market system like mud wrestling is to the performance arts,

Juvenal

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Danny Miller

We go out and do our best, ... but we have to move on to our next missing person.

Alfred Kazin

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

E. L. Konigsburg

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Dorothy Dunnett

If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

Donald O'Connor

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

Danny Elfman

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Juliette Gordon Low

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

John Whiting

But I trust ours will be the most impressive.

Robert Anderson

We pulled into berth and made ourselves at home.

Bob Spencer

We pride ourselves in being a well-rounded, blue-collar group.

Frank Streshley

Ours are more regularly scheduled type entertainment. Theirs would be more special-event oriented.

Mike Glumac

We were going pretty well there for a bit. And all of a sudden, we've been sliding. We just have to find a way to get ourselves out of it.

Stan Sexton

We had some spurts and they had some spurts. It just seemed like ours were 4 to 6 points longer.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Mick Fleetwood

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

Faith Prince

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

Bill Sadler

It has become a lifestyle, a piece of the way we live.

John Mancini

You can get pretty much any piece in any wood, in any stain.

Chris Murray

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Ann Veneman

no specific position has been taken on that proposal.

Juelz Santana

After a year with him I got to a position where I didn't have to do nothing in the street no more. But you have to be willing to work hard.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.

Shawn Perkins

We were in position to make tackles. We just didn't make the plays.

Eric Schmidt

We are in the strongest position that we have ever been.

Silvan Shalom

I don't think its the real position of his party.

Nick Saban

I don't think it's just that position (quarterback),

Craig MacDonald

He told me that, ... He said, 'I know what you can do. You can play any position and when we need you here, you'll be ready to go.'

Graeme Murphy

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Asa Butterfield

I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.

Demetri Martin

There is no I in Team, unless you count the vertical part of the T.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Cadillac Williams

We want to be great. No question. Even more than that, we want our teams to be great.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Jamelle Cornley

We can play with anybody, teams know that.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.