Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Sherrie Williams

He was extremely dedicated to the zoo. It was really his life.

John Rhodes

He was extremely dedicated and disciplined. Through the years, he took on great responsibility.

Dave Cook

It's something they've been doing for the last two years. They've got a great organization and have been very dedicated to doing what needed to be done to get hockey to this level.

Alan Young

They worked hard to not give labor a dedicated slot today.

Kathleen Turner

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

Jennifer Hinson

All of these runners are great. This is just a phenomenal group of students. I see the love that they have for running and that's a special breed. There are really dedicated to the sport and they've been very helpful to me.

George Clarke

The members of Selected Independent Funeral Homes are dedicated to honoring and preserving the memories of those who have gone before us,

Dave Tuttle

It seems that most of the people who have them are very enthusiastic about them. It's kind of a dedicated following.

Michael Harper

At Harper Arrington Publishing and Media, we are dedicated to giving young people the tools they need to make their dreams come true.

Jay Eisenhofer

He's a very intelligent guy, very dedicated, very principled.

Jay Robinson

It involved a whole lot of hard work and dedication from us both.

Penelope Cruz

He's completely different from the others, and he has a special dedication to his actors.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen

John Bingham

Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

Eric Hoffer

The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory..

Eric Hoffer

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

Amanda Tobin

Not only is this a savings, and a safety benefit, Alaska's dedication to this project has had an influence on the FAA.

Allan Smith

Designing for sustainability requires a dedication to evaluating a product's long-term effects and lowering the environmental impact at every stage of a product's life--from materials extraction to end-of-use.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Alan Ackerman

Investors are likely to say, 'Aha! Merrill tried to pull the wool over our eyes,' ... It will make them even more suspicious and cautious.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Barry Goldsmith

It won't wipe out stock fraud, but it will give investors a much better tool,

Hugh Johnson

They come to me because they want special treatment, ... There is nothing that irritates substantial investors more than paying taxes.

Rich Yamarone

It's more important what investors believe, because those people are willing to put their money on the line like that.

Kenneth Lay

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Kenneth C. Griffin

there won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

Carl Peterson

If one of them is in for a three-and-out, that's a pretty short series.

Sheila Newman

I had short hair. And I was a whole lot younger.

Jim Springer

I'm not an expert, but I don't think in that short of time you are going to be contacting that kind of disease.

Wayne Huizenga

I know there are some short sellers out there, but that just makes us work all the more,

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Ludivine Sagnier

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

David Daniels

He's got to be smarter with his pitches.

Bob Dylan

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Education doesn't make you smarter.

Tibor Kalman

You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

Kevin Heath

I'm a lot smarter than I was a year ago.

William Dugan

We're a lot smarter now than we were in 1999 and 2000.

Brian Billick

I think Marvin would have been the smarter hire, but I'm biased,

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

Dan Shechtman

Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.