Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liam Fox

This is an extremely good result. I am delighted to have polled well above predictions. I go into the next round with real momentum.

David Buck

This is an exciting proposal. We have not found a comparable project with housing above (it) in a (similar-size) community.

John Bucher

This is a positive industry outlook that is perhaps slightly above our 2006 estimates for infrastructure and devices.

Andrei Illarionov

This is a state model with the participation of state corporations, which although they are public in name and status, are managed above all for their own personal interests.

Giovanni Bisignani

This is the first time in a year we have seen two consecutive months of freight traffic growth above 5% which points to a resurgent world economy.

Myles Brand

This is not Lake Woebegone, where every student athlete and every team can be above average. The 50 percent rate, while not sacrosanct, is a good rate to measure whether we're making progress.

Dale Murphy

This is something I have wanted to do for a long time, ... Athletes have a huge impact on so many people. Occasionally, some of them need reminding how important their example is. Frankly, we are all tired of the profanity-laced interviews and the overall perception by some that they are above the law. It is time to step up and take seriously the chance we have to make a difference for good in the lives of others.

Deborah White

The weather has become increasingly mild and the forecasts are for now much above normal, for example 17 (degrees Celsius) in Los Angeles -- this is extremely warm for the end of December.

Arvind Mediratta

The WHO has confirmed that eating cooked chicken is safe. The cooking temperature for poultry meat should reach 150F/70C and at KFC, we cook our chicken well above the minimum temperatures required for safety. Also, the chickens are routinely inspected to ensure that they meet or exceed all public health and food safety regulations.

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Gary Jones

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Dwayne Johnson

If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.

Daniel Tammet

I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

Daniel Suarez

For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

Albert Camus

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Sherry Sylvester

Neither man ever met a tax increase they didn't like.

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Andrea Hirata

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

May Sarton

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

W. S. Merwin

I offer you what I have my Poverty

George Gissing

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Kirk Douglas

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

Pam Grier

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Henry Fielding

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Johann Kaspar Lavater

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,