Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bob Johnson

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

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Don Cheadle

We cannot stand here in a free society, proclaiming that we care about human life, and do nothing in the face of this, in my opinion,

Khaya Ngqula

We cannot stand by idly and watch our customers suffer the consequences of this fuel shortage.

Hilary Rosen

We cannot sit idly by while these services continue to operate illegally, especially at a time when new legitimate services are being launched.

Rodger Schlickeisen

We cannot sit by and watch the only public lands devoted to wildlife protection wither away. There's simply too much at stake.

Kathleen Blanco

We cannot simply re-create what those storms destroyed, ... We must make the new Louisiana, smarter, safer and stronger.

Malcolm Miller

We cannot ship to them and we are not prepared to take on the risk ourselves. The situation gets resolved when they can restructure their debt and they can take product normally and we can get credit insurance normally,

Travis Strack

We cannot send volunteers in to get shot. That is not what they volunteered to do.

Franco Frattini

We cannot send back illegal people to countries where they will be subject to inhuman or degrading treatment,

Mitsushige Akino

We cannot see any upper limit for commodity prices given the tight supply. There is still room for commodity stocks to gain.

Gary LaGrange

From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orleans their city is back in business.

Gretchen Mol

She finds herself in New York City and she is making a living posing for photographs. A lot of it was her not really crossing the line and looking at what people were doing with the photographs.

LeBron James

I said when I was drafted (in 2003) that I would try to light this city up like Vegas. I said that from Day 1.

Sunny Mindel

People know him as the man who was the leader of an urban renaissance of the city that was deemed to be ungovernable. His legacy is sustained by the accomplishments as leader of New York City for eight years.

Glenn Thomas

People need to authorize that the city is not out any money. The money we refund is in lieu of money spent on infrastructure.

Kelly McCann

People in this city are starting to realize that HIV is everyone's disease.

DeJuan Blair

People in the City are counting on us, telling us, 'This is the year for y'all.' That's OK. We think we have a great chance.

Dean Torrence

Surf City has nothing to do with Santa Cruz,

Jerry Sanders

Some management positions vacated by these resignations will be eliminated, consistent with my plans to flatten and streamline City Hall bureaucracy,

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Mike Halpert

Spring is oftentimes very difficult to forecast. Tomorrow it might snow and a weekend ago, it was 85.

Peter Kwong

Living in this gentrification environment is much more difficult for residents. Actually, what they're doing is killing the indigenous culture.

Amanda Burton

I think this is a very difficult job, especially for women - there are too few roles around. I never let myself rest on my laurels.

Jon Kyl

I think this will be a difficult race,

Nick Skiming

I'm still positive on the market but the oil price is starting to tick higher and I'd like to get us through these earnings figures. We're actually entering the most difficult part of the year.

John Gorman

We never pinned our hopes on the legislative process. It's a difficult process. It's fraught with many land mines as you go through. We've hit a couple, but it doesn't mean we won't see a good bill.

Ken Holland

We'll be a difficult team to play against.

Mandy Moore

We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea.

Alan Johnston

That was the most difficult game we played this season.

Irish Proverb

Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.

Irwin Cohen

Purchases aren't so much 'needs-driven', ... People say, 'I want it.'

Irene Cara

The rumors emanated from people who are in a position of power.

Ed Wade

I've talked to players before about - you can't turn this around. It has to be about the fans. People have a right to boo.

Sally Thompson

I've seen people from Mississippi trying to get back home.

Charlie Green

I've never seen this like this before, people are not so much worried about the price, just getting the fuel.

Tom Burns

I've never seen the people who own DRS.

Karen Miller

It was too complicated for people to get.

Janet Belsky

These shows are so right psychologically they have to do people a lot of good.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Yvon Chouinard

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

Zac Efron

There's no point in being scared of just trying.

Zach Braff

Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.

Yuri Kochiyama

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Yuri Milner

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

Yuri Milner

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

Zhang Yimou

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

Ziggy Marley

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.