Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Seesel

A seller with lawfully acquired market power including market power arising from an act of God can charge any price the market will bear, so long as this seller does not join with others to set prices or restrict supply.

Ray Smith

The bucket doesn't get filled up without the drops. We have acquired 23,000 acres, that leaves 130,000 (acres) to go.

Bhagavad Gita

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

Joe Green

Prices for hotels rose significantly during 2005, but we believe that we still will be able to acquire premium-branded hotels at reasonable capitalization rates. In attractive markets where hotels are selling in excess of replacement costs, we will consider development on a highly selective basis.

Julien Pain

The more equipment is acquired and produced by a repressive regime, the more important anonymity is.

Brett Miller

Dell is doing a pretty good job on their own but in the long term they have to acquire a professional services organization. On the high end, they really do need a consulting firm to be a major player.

Brent Scowcroft

compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein had acquired nuclear-weapons capability.

Andreas Herren

Companies who have acquired these rights of course deserve to be protected against this so-called 'ambush marketing' by free-riders.

William Rehnquist

A public library does not acquire Internet terminals in order to create a public forum for Web publishers to express themselves, any more than it collects books in order to provide a public forum for the authors of books to speak.

Gary Ozzello

Primarily what you're trying to do when you build a compensation package is not that different in some ways from the recruiting process - you want to come up with as attractive an offer as possible to be as competitive as possible.

Jim Marks

People retreat to the sidelines, licking their wounds. The whole process is not as attractive anymore.

Takahide Kiuchi

People's sentiment is changing. They don't mind spending more for attractive goods.

Robert Ray

Offering a BIG Dow contract with a $25 multiplier is very attractive to a broad spectrum of market participants.

James Awad

North Fork Bancorp stock is selling at about 20. We think its fair value would be about 30. But meanwhile, you're getting a 3 percent dividend yield and it's selling at 10 times earnings. Demographically, it's a very attractive area. So, your risk in buying North Fork is that you're a little bit early and the market doesn't care about value stocks for a while. And of course, in a period of rising rates, financial stocks don't do particularly well. But, ... if you buy it and put it away, you'll end up making 50 percent from current levels over a 12 to 18 month period.

Markus Steinbeis

Oil and gas shares are shining at the moment: Rising oil prices are lifting the shares which are also undervalued and offer attractive dividend yields.

Dawn Keezer

Once we enacted statewide tax credit legislation, that has made (Pennsylvania) a lot more attractive destination. We're on the radar now.

Mark Sutton

Despite the expectation for continued if not increased market volatility, we also expect to see returns more in line with historical levels, or approximately seven to ten percent annually, which still makes the markets very attractive for investors.

E. Hurley

A prepaid tuition plan is attractive to a family that just wants to make sure they've paid for the future tuition at a public university and they don't want to worry about which direction the markets are going.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Gary Zenkel

As good as (Internet) technology is and the choices it provides, nothing will ever replace the shared experience of watching the Olympics on television. We do believe that.

Andrew Booth

As good as Cassie and Jen are, they are even better people. They are humble and soft-spoken but they can dominate games. But they truly believe they can't do it alone.

Josiah Royce

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.

John Fahey

As for the source of the music, I believe it comes from the unconscious; that there is no such thing as talent.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can believe that you are the reason for a show's success, but these things are a brand name now. They're like Coca-Cola. It's like, with or without you, people are still gonna drink it.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

Robert Sweeney

As a social service agency, I don't see a slackening, ... After 9/11, we cut off solicitation to New York and D.C., but the giving has come back. I don't believe our success or failure will be determined by these natural disasters.

David Emanuel

As costs come down, we expect to see others follow suit with free services. We really believe there's a demand. It's the fastest way people are getting on line.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Malcolm Speed

Australia, Bermuda, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and the West Indies have indicated their intention to be considered as hosts for an inaugural Twenty20 event while England, Hong Kong, Nepal and Scotland have also expressed an interest in hosting future events.

Ken Williams

I've always thought it's kind of disrespectful to the guys that have gotten you in the position to consider a move, ... So if you come out and say I need X, Y or Z ... they deserve better than that.

R. Robinson

So often space is wasted, or dead, in a house which the owners consider too small. First, you need to take away the name of the room, and then the space is liberated for a variety of new uses.

Bill Cherpak

I've never seen Nate play a better game - ever. I told him before the game: 'If you want to be considered a big-time player, this is where you do it. I saw Nate take control of that huddle in the last drive. He took over.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Johnny Depp

This is a rumor-filled society and if people want to site around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation.

William Blake

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

Arthur Koestler

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

Juvenal

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Democritus

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

William Blake

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

Benjamin Franklin

Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.

Jean Anouilh

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

Alexander Hamilton

It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.

Albert Camus

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

David Ditzel

And when we go to our highly integrated chip, we're going to take off another 44 percent. So we think we've got a substantial lead today, and we're going to keep that.

Douglas Johnson

We couldn't think any more highly of him.

Bob Bratkowski

Being the third-down back is a highly skilled job. There's pass protections, route running, variations of protections. He's getting better at it every week.

Ian Stacker

At the end of the day John was the one who started that whole incident so I can't speak more highly of him about it.

Ehud Barak

We highly respect (Syrian) President (Hafez) Assad and if he needs some time before the negotiation is resumed we will respect it and we will wait. We will be there when they are ready.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Vince Young

Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Bret Michaels

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Edgar Allan Poe

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.

Edward Abbey

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Edward Abbey

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Amy Lowell

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

Amy Winehouse

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.