Famous Quotes & Sayings

Constanze Stelzenmueller

Some people saw (the 1-euro jobs) as a welcome way of working and achieving some form of dignity. But those who had grown up in the German welfare system found it humiliating to be doing serious work and only paid a euro.

John Roth

This program did not have any impact on the final results for 1998. We are on target for achieving results that are in line with our guidance for 1998 and 1999.

Ron Dennis

We want to be the best and the only way of achieving this objective is by attracting the best people.

Rod Lache

The problem with a lot of cars introduced is achieving differentiation. Most new vehicles rather quickly have to have price concessions. This thing is very unique.

Rig Veda

Those who are intelligent tread on the path of truth and adhere to all the rules and vows strictly. They are the ones who become successful in this world and become famous. They succeed in achieving everything they desire.

Chuck LaMar

I apologize to the ... fans for not producing the championship team that they deserve and take full responsibility for this organization's not achieving that goal.

Daniel Vasella

Based on the robust results, we are are confident of achieving our full-year objectives for new record sales and earnings.

Lance Armstrong

I look forward to achieving my goal of a seventh Tour de France (victory),

John Mack

Morgan Stanley has tremendous strengths as a global financial services firm, but it is clear that our current level of profitability is unacceptable and we need to improve our performance, ... Our overriding goal for Morgan Stanley is to be the clear leader in offering premier, innovative financial services to our clients, while delivering superior returns to our shareholders. The decisions to keep Discover, divest the aircraft leasing business and strengthen our retail business are our first steps toward achieving that goal.

Steve Pogorzelski

The Monster Employment Index has shown strong, steady, upward growth throughout most of 2005, with a noteworthy growth trend over the past four months, ending in an expected seasonal dip in December. The past month's decline indicates the slowdown in online hiring registered in December of 2003 and 2004, as employers typically wrap up their seasonal hiring activity and await approval on 2006 budgets. Despite this anticipated seasonal slowdown, almost all industries, occupations, regions and states show much higher levels of online job availability than a year ago, demonstrating solid growth over the course of 2005. This certainly bodes well for job seekers as we enter 2006.

Steven Schwartz

Preliminary evidence suggests that these compounds may have some biological activity in slowing the growth of bladder cancer cells.

Ned Riley

This is one of the most challenging periods for markets I've seen in a while. Short-term fundamentals are improving, but socio-political overtones are pulling people away from the positives. Even with closing a little higher, today's (Wednesday) activity was just an extension of what we've seen the whole week.

Cynthia Saccocia

You need individuals coming together that have a good business understanding of the activity or transaction that occurs at any given step of the process and then articulate that for IT to find the right solution.

Thomas Skains

We are talking about activity 100 miles or more offshore that will not be seen, heard or smelled.

Frank Newman

This quarter's disappointing net loss occurred during one of the most severe global market dislocations in the post-World War II period, ... Equity markets declined, risk premiums in debt markets widened, and investment banking activity slowed markedly. Bankers Trust sustained significant losses in emerging market debt, high-yield debt and in our equity holdings.

E. F. Benson

To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

Yun Qian

The pollution (that) resulted from human activity may have created a haze which absorbs and deflects the sun's rays.

Bridget Riley

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.

Eric Liu

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

Juan Pablo Galavis

Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of Fame. My job is to go to all the MLB stadiums and to talk to and collect articles from all the Venezuelan players in the big leagues and those Americans that played in Venezuela.

Mike McCue

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

Ralph Fiennes

I'm an avid reader of magazines like The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books , ... Sometimes they have articles about what big corporations are up to.

Gregory Craig

We are confident that the senators, once they see and hear this defense in this opening phase of the trial, will conclude that the articles do not justify or warrant conviction or removal from office. We remain hopeful that this matter can be resolved expeditiously and fairly.

David Gibb

The kids have done a great job picking up the scheme. We had to teach them responsibility on defense. Sometimes you want to play for yourself as opposed to other people. The first thing we did was talk to them about being selfless, as opposed to being selfish. We printed out articles and gave them the definition to put in their lockers.

Eric Steinbach

I remember the newspaper articles and even the coaches when I visited there. They said they were really interested. I was thinking if I'm available, I was going there. And then they took Jeff Faine. I kept waiting. That's the game you've got to play.

Bruce Cleveland

Over time, all of our solutions sets will be offered on all platforms, We're going to integrate the user interface so tightly with Microsoft ( Profile , Products , Articles ) Office that Microsoft Office can actually serve as the primary interface for any user.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Michael Hendricks

Progress was slow at first, but the evidence is mounting that restoration is working.

Brent Bracelin

This is further evidence of a deterioration in their business.

John Gorman

We turned that down. We thought the evidence was that this was a felony.

Jack Straw

So far there is no evidence of any transfer of the virus to human beings.

Bill Belichick

I didn't think there was enough evidence to warrant the challenge.

James Rubin

If, however, there is any new evidence that emerges, we would want to see the Salvadorans vigorously urge the government...to investigate and, if warranted, to prosecute those implicated.

Ahmed Nazif

I don't think that we have enough evidence to prove the second assumption, ... So for now we are taking things as they really look and looking at the people living there.

Mark Potok

I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes.

Richard Murray

I don't see much evidence of overall planning and guidance.

Tasnim Aslam

It is a fabricated story and motivated by vicious intentions.

Richard Fisher

As a result, we are in a tightening phase of monetary policy,

Stephen Harper

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Khaled Hosseini

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

Moby

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.

Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Joshua Slocum

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

Scott Hatteberg

The whole series was tough. When I look back on things, yeah, I wish they were different.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Joe Berlinger

Each film stands on its own. But we have a series that hangs together and is visually arresting.

Pat Murray

We fumbled on our first series and then threw the interception on our second,

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Albert Pujols

winning and getting back to the World Series and getting a ring.

Aileen Anderson

This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.

Courtney Gains

I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.

Dan Quisenberry

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.