Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

Trevor Manuel

I wasn't even the ham in the sandwich. I was just dragged out of the sandwich, abandoned by left and right!

Darrel Good

Most analysts are on record with expectations of a decline in corn planting intentions and an increase in intentions for soybeans. The debate generally centers on the magnitude of the changes. Acreage of spring-planted crops, however, could deviate from intentions due to escalating spring wheat prices; potential for abandoned hard red winter wheat acreage to be replanted to other crops; changes, if any, in price relationships of spring-planted crops; and spring weather conditions.

Stephen Jones

When that effort failed, they abandoned the canoe and attempted to reach shore. They were in voice contact initially, then the water began to take its toll on them. The struggle was then to try to get out of the water themselves.

Paul Farmer

We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa. We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success.

Mel Pearlman

This is an issue that will come up in the next generation in Four Corners. In Four Corners, it's going to be particularly difficult to incorporate. Under Florida law, a city has to be in one county, and Four Corners is in the confines of four counties.

Judy Johnson

Don't know the future, don't know when the city will be re-opened, don't know how to get back to my house to pick up my belongings that are important to me,

Marcus Samuelsson

Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

Robert Garcia

Even a small city like ours will feel a major impact if this (bill) is passed in the Senate.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Thomas Campbell

Every day, he would drive into the city at noon and sell all day, ... He returned to West Warwick most nights around 8. It was a job for him.

Jason Schwartzman

To be honest, I'm happy in LA because my family is there and I think that's a great reason to live in a city - to be near the ones you love.

Howard Schultz

With less than a month to go, it's very clear to us that the city and state officials are not showing us the kind of respect we feel we deserve.

Peter Boylan

With Kalona being only 18 miles from Iowa City and the uniqueness of the community, I can see tremendous potential here.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Tony Ciriello

Boy, what a great guy he was. He went around and talked with everybody and shook their hands. He was a real treat.

Tony Stewart

Everything that I had heard about him and everybody that I talked to about him said he was a good kid and somebody that they thought had a good future. I wanted to be a part of that.

Jerome Williams

Eventually, everybody is going to have to pay their own bills.

Pete Prisco

Besides, are there really any secrets in the NFL anymore? Everybody knows what everybody is doing.

Joe Gibbs

Being what we are, human beings, the natural tendency is that when everybody brags about you, they write good things, you kind of read about it and you back off a little bit. We couldn't play with them last time.

Mike Hackett

Being a scientist, I don't want to get everybody excited and say this is all wonderful. But following two small plantings on less than half an acre, this spring we'll find a 40-acre piece and see what happens.

Juan Gutierrez

Big surprise for me because I don't know that everybody is going be here you know.

Ryan Harris

Everybody knows that we had 11 yards rushing last game. That's just unacceptable. That's nowhere near where we want to be as an offensive line. We've come a long way.

Lee H. Hamilton

The status quo failed us. Reform is an urgent matter, and reform must not wait until the next attack.

Dave Rice

One thing this team has never failed to show is resolve.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Jay Leno

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.

Sharon Stone

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Adrienne Bailon

I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.

Max Clifford

Now people are famous for doing things that 15 years ago they would have tried hard to keep out of the papers.

Carrie Coon

I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories.

Shane McAnally

I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous.

Susanne Boyce

She's famous around the world, but Pamela will feel right at home in Halifax.

Esther Williams

She had gone from famous to infamous to notorious and was now regarded as something of a menace to polite society.

Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Nasim Pedrad

John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever.

Roy Brown

She's the kind of student we want at this University. She's a role model whether she likes it or not.

Merle Friedman

She mentioned that she likes shopping a lot.

Scott Parker

I think they really like him and he likes them.

Severin Bozung

I like a girl-do you think she likes me?

Kurt Vonnegut

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Karisma Kapoor

My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

Aaron Sanchez

Nobody likes sweaty coleslaw.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

Georg Hackl

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.

Harry Harnish

The turkey vulture has a V-shaped wingspan and a white head. Unlike eagles, vultures tend to glide for longer periods of time.

Peter Frampton

The Longer You Love,The Longer You Live,The Stronger You Feel,The More You Can Give.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Christopher Shays

We will come and make a longer trip soon,

Sheryl Lehr

We like it here, we want to live here for a longer time. We don't want our town to die.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.