Famous Quotes & Sayings

Klaus Toepfer

I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,

Ron Kaufman

I think that he approaches government differently than perhaps his predecessors, but I don't think it has anything to do with the White House, per se, but his management style.

Scott Gottlieb

There is a disconnect between the investment we're making in discovering treatments and the result in practical treatments that are reaching patients. We think that there are scientific approaches we could be taking that would help us learn more about drugs in a shorter time and for less cost.

Gary Shaw

Today, I have signed a 'platinum chip' world-class champion whose persona transcends sports and approaches folklore in the Philippines. I feel privileged that Manny has chosen me as his promoter.

Aburizal Bakrie

Partial approaches to donations only causes more burdens.

Jack Roth

In time, targeted gene therapy may help improve the outlook for many types of cancer. While we have a long way to go, I am increasingly optimistic about new gene therapy approaches to earlier treatment and, ultimately, to a strategy that may help prevent cancer development.

Geoff Pemble

In the process, we found we had a lot of common songwriting approaches and we seemed to collaborate well together. We thought we were writing some great tunes too, so we decided to make a go of it.

Jim Silver

In order for the toy industry to survive, companies will have to deal with Wal-Mart. It has to be understood that Wal-Mart doesn't make deals with everyone who approaches them. Ultimately it's Wal-Mart who chooses who will be in their stores.

Steve Holland

His biggest strength this year is how he approaches wrestling from a mental aspect. He's very intelligent and has a great deal of wrestling knowledge.

Charles Schumer

I hope and pray that the president chooses to unite rather than divide; that he chooses consensus over confrontation.

Joyce Maynard

I have not chosen to live a particularly private life myself, I respect the decision of any man or woman who chooses to live such a life.

Carla Gugino

I'm really fascinated by someone who chooses worst-case scenarios as a profession. Someone who obviously thrives on crisis,

Source Unknown

A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.

Mick Johnson

It's just not the way that this administration chooses to do business.

Tim Smith

seems so basic, but unless you require it, there will be that small minority that chooses not to for whatever reason.

James Grant

What the MOVE index measures is the level of complacency or confidence in the interest rate world. The market chooses not to see much risk in anything.

Craig Barrett

When a major corporation like Intel chooses to relocate, the other corporations will follow.

Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Wade Jones

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Alan Foreman

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Chris Davis

I think that gives companies some pause -- that the folks that might purchase their shares think this is an important issue of corporate management and governance.

Peter Schultz

Jaco signed a three-year deal with NEC and it's unlikely they'll release him.

Dave Musgrove

Jack the Ripper remains an iconic figure today, and perhaps is seen as the forerunner of the serial killers that society has had to deal with since.

Richard D. James

I would say the Borg presented us with a great deal of imagination.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Lee Mazzilli

Joe is the master in terms of dealing with people. But that has come with experience. He has a way about him now he may not have had before.

Larry Dixon

I think it's a little different when you're in the middle of the points deal for the championship going into Pomona with everything going on,

Garrett Jones

He dealt with the entire process better than most would. But you can tell that he's just so glad to be back to playing again. He always wants to be out there on the field hitting. He's smiling more and just having fun.

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Steve Atkins

He deals with it well, and it makes things run that much more smoothly. He's also very forthright. He knows how he feels and tells you how he feels and that makes the process of governance that much easier.

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Steve Atkins

He deals with it well, and it makes things run that much more smoothly. He's also very forthright. He knows how he feels and tells you how he feels and that makes the process of governance that much easier.

Joe Cooper

I thought this program was very eye opening and very informative. It deals with issues that we don't often think about, but that we should.

Ziggy Marley

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Restaurant deals always do really well because the come out at different times of the year. There are very few, they are unique. I have high hopes for this one.

John Barth

really not out of line with other deals that have been done in this industry, but this will stand on its own merits.

Armin Lang

I fully expect some blockbuster deals to hit the tape in the following months. M&A is here to stay.

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat).

Jim Jarmusch

I negotiate my deals with a loaded shotgun. They were not on the set of the film.

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Erin O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Ben Wood

The industry will be lucky to get it out in 2008. Issues with rights, regulations and standards need to be overcome first.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

M. Wolfe

They are kinder and gentler to the industry than the Office of Drug Safety has traditionally wanted to be. I don't see this changing.

Cary Cooper

It's hypocritical. The industry saw the warning signs. Others saw the warning signs. Something should have been done sooner.

Edwin Whipple

Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Plaxico Burress

We've got to get things in order off the field, too.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Umberto Eco

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

William Safire

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.

William J. Brennan

If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.

Sonny Vaccaro

I've got a lot of toys to play with. I just turned 64, and I'm reinventing myself again.

Mo Ibrahim

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

Nicola Formichetti

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.

Laurell K. Hamilton

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Steven Wright

Do you have any toy train schedules?

Michael Bay

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

Larry Jones

But that's up to Toyota if they want to use it.

Jason Mewes

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

David Twohy

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Pope Francis

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Hilary Clinton

As I understood it, it was not, no,

Joan Van Ark

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.