Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. Hodge

There are some businesses that have weeds and grass growing in front of the lots, cars with flat tires and cars parked on the sidewalks. We want to encourage the owners of the property to take care of that and clean up in front of their places.

M. Hardman

We started back then and then worked on getting the support of the city council. The most important fact was that the businesses in downtown supported us. Out of the 24 businesses in downtown, 22 supported us.

Nick Woodman

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

Tom Eid

There is no one-size-fits-all approach, because all businesses are not set up to run the same way.

Nancy Kaylor

We're starting to see more employers introduce flexibility into their workplace. The workplace is starting to look a little different. Businesses are finding they need to do it to retain the workers they have.

Brent Hayes

We've got hopefully a couple of new businesses that will be in the mall by early spring.

Ken Stein

We'll be counting on the continued generosity of businesses and individuals to hit our fundraising goals, but we can sure promise them a priceless entertainment experience and opportunity to help the community in this time of need.

Michael Alter

We'll see small businesses growing around all of this.

Robert Reich

We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation,

Cheryl Strayed

Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

William Powers

Until we get more clarity for further resolution to the investigation, it will be difficult for the stock to move forward. Our net view is that we expect it to trade in a pretty tight range now.

Carl Jung

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

James Corden

It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.

Rick Meckler

There isn't enough good news right now to really get people involved. Most professionals and individuals are just holding, looking for some clarity on the transition in Iraq, looking for some clarity on the presidential election, and, perhaps more importantly, looking for some clarity from the Fed on rate rises.

Robin S. Sharma

I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive.

Robert Philips

And there's a lack of clarity about the economic impact of Katrina.

Jeffrey Lacker

The most important about thing transparency is the clarity of the public's understanding of our intentions.

Antisthenes

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Charles Pradilla

We're not going to see a significant upside until we get a clearer sense of how companies make their money and how it is accounted for.

Michael Novacek

We respect people's beliefs, and conversion is not necessarily our goal. We hope that every visitor will have a clearer idea of what Darwin did and, for that matter, what science means.

George Ellis

What we're looking for is a sense of uniformity. It would be clearer and less confusing to be operating under similar standards.

Joe Agnello

Work is behind, but 65 percent is not that far behind. Whether or not we'll be able to open the highway on time remains to be seen. The situation will be clearer in a week or two.

Ian Shepherdson

A clearer demonstration of the unpredictable havoc Easter plays with seasonal adjustments you could not hope to see,

John Roberts

Then they had tremendous popular support. This time it is clearer that the high prices are essentially out of the government's control.

Mark Shapiro

It might be an easier deal to do next year because we'll have a clearer sense what the value is heading into the first year of arbitration.

David Kelly

There's clearly a lack of interest in investing while the economy works through these Katrina issues, ... We need to get a clearer sense of when gasoline prices are going to come back to normal. When I talk to retail investors, a lot are frozen by the level of uncertainty those issues create.

Gothom Arya

Normally by this time of the day we have a clearer picture.

Pierre McGuire

Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux created a whole new genre of players.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.

Lisa Jakub

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

Michael Steele

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Ghazi Hamad

The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.

John Brown

the people who create it want the most to protect it.

Aaron Guillen

We've actually tucked the elementary school back with the industrial to create a little more buffer.

Eric Keller

We spread the offense to spread the opposing defenses and that really creates running room.

Omar Vizquel

Wherever he goes, he's probably going to create a lot of controversy. That's why he's one of the greatest.

Bill Gates

The potential for all these exciting devices, smart objects and services to enrich and enhance the way we live is truly amazing.

William Winkenwerder

We are prepared to provide a significantly enhanced effort, a major effort, if needed,

Nicolas Roeg

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

Raymond Moore

We have assembled one of the most powerful strategic tennis partnerships possible, and this will ensure that the event stays here for many years to come. We look forward to working with them to improve and enhance this already terrific tournament.

Bill DeWitt

We felt it was an investment in the franchise, and it would enhance not only 1997 but also future years.

David Hall

As we did the previous two years of this partnership, Rock Financial will do many things to help enhance the game day experience. We'll be involved in pre-game tailgate parties, ticket giveaways, contests, premium giveaway nights and the Rock Financial parachute drop. We also will provide opportunities for fans to win trips, tickets and merchandise during the broadcasts and in-game.

Ray Stevens

They do a lot of things to help us enhance the visitor's experience,

Lori Doyle

The renovation is going nicely and the hotel will be greatly enhanced when it is completed.

Mari Ramos

This is the time of year when you're going to see the most rain ... because of the southwest monsoon. Right now, you're going to see that monsoonal flow enhanced somewhat because of the tropical storm.

Rodney Lovell

Our external experiences are what make us different. Our internal systems are what make us the same.

Jennifer Scott

People come here with a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and they wonder why those tricks are ineffective. They're assigning power to external things: the audience, their appearance. But true power comes from within. You need to live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.

Graham Moore

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

John Savage

You need to make the distinction between external motivation and internal motivation. While the former has short-term effects, the latter is far more important.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

Scott Cleland

The external trends are in Dorman's favor, ... while internal trends favor Stephenson.

Alberto Fujimori

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion, ... One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

Ralph Trine

To be at one with God is to be at peace ... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.

Bradley Whitford

Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Charlie Munger

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

Alan Greenspan

While (Japan) has made some important efforts, it has yet to make significant progress in diversifying the financial system,

Ben Bernanke

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Ben Bernanke

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

Bob Zelnick

the potential to inflame is greater than the value of the piece itself.

Richard Segal

We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.

Lucio Tan

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Noreena Hertz

I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.

Tom King

With this size pond, we get a greater dilution factor, so we will be able to meet those standards.

William Wordsworth

We feel that we are greater than we know.

Joseph Fiennes

Yes, in a way. Film is a by-product of my love of theatre. Theatre is for me the greater challenge. In many ways it requires more skill.

Vicki Kramer

The more standing water you have, the greater the probability for mosquito populations to develop.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Bob Schaffer

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

Bill McKibben

According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

Carl Jung

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Frank Fernandez

We're still in the upswing of one of these long M&A cycles, which tend to last several years. M&A growth will probably be up 15 to 20 percent next year.

Steve Snyder

We're seeing a lot of growth in the South.

Robert Mellman

We're looking for a little slower growth and a little higher inflation, but there will be a slower slowdown in growth than a pick-up in inflation.

Deepak Chopra

The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

Kevin Hamilton

The reason for that is if there is a strike, you want to be 1st in line to take whatever Northwest offers as a possible option.

Brett Lee

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

Keith Primeau

We're not going to survive with one line scoring goals. We need to get offense from other places.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Shamalene Broner

We have a solid defense. There's really no weak line out there. If they make a mistake it's mental, not physical.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Jim Sheridan

We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.

Charlize Theron

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

Charlaine Harris

I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

Alan Cooper

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Chogyam Trungpa

If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

Edith Wharton

The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.

Denis Waitley

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.

Mark Cuban

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

Agnes Varda

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

Charlie Chaplin

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

Charles de Lint

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

Chang-Rae Lee

I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror.

Andrew Wright

They plan to operate it as an apartment.

Bob Castellini

We operate it. We don't own it. That's a big difference.

Thomas Hansen

We operate in this state under a series of rules.

Meg Scheu

Street-runners have safety concerns, and crews get training to operate under special conditions.

S. Truett Cathy

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

Mike Matthews

Embassies are quite involved. They need to be able to operate as a separate entity.

Doug Hock

We feel we can operate within those (restrictions).

Carl Forti

Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.

Jeff Alexander

It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products.

Dan Rosensweig

It's about providing a service that users really want.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Jonathan Miller

Speaking for me, it's just another one of those reporting requirements. It's not that big of a deal.

Stacy Flores

He did nothing wrong. He was just a victim of retaliation for reporting a crime.

Anna Olson

There is no fabrication of snow reporting here. We have a reputation, if anything, for underreporting.

Randi Miller

Our independent, critically-minded spirit of reporting and editorializing aren't going anywhere. Their spirit symbolizes Boulder, and Boulder's where we're staying.

Mack Brown

It's unprofessional for someone to be reporting something that's not factual.

Dan Bailey

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

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Dan Levitan

In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

Craig Quigley

All the services know that this is coming. It should be signed in a day or two.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Charles Dickens

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

Alan Jackson

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke rising against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor, or did you just sit down and cry?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

Denis Waitley

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

Charlotte Bronte

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

Charles de Lint

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight...

Charles de Lint

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Charles Lamb

We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.

Charles Baudelaire

Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?