Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toshihiko Fukui

Asset price fluctuations have important implications for promoting more efficient resource allocations and achieving sustained growth in the long run.

Neil Watkins

As world leaders gather in New York, we are still decades away from meeting the modest Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty. A critical tool for achieving these goals is debt cancellation. A recent study by U.K. charities found that at least 62 low-income nations would require full debt cancellation -- in addition to more aid and trade justice -- as a first step towards achieving the goals.

Gail Richards

As women, we're generally faced with the challenges of living, including having a family, a career and pressing issues that sometimes keeps us from moving forward and achieving our dreams.

Bob Slaughter

The most effective means of achieving this goal is continued reliance on market mechanisms, not price regulation.

Sandra Cusack

It seems to us that people are really healthiest, and happiest, when setting goals and achieving them, and it's a process that has to be ongoing in life.

Allison Feaster

Although, it's under tragic circumstances I'm here, I just hope this will be able to motivate Tykala to keep working hard in achieving her goals,

Sanjay

This award re-affirms our execution strategy of achieving significant success in a highly competitive Indian telecom market and then taking our packet-aware optical transport products to international markets,

Ginni Rometty

For CEOs today, it's all about achieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models, process, culture and management.

Sam Allardyce

You don't want to waste knocking the cup holders out, certainly not in the next round. We put so much effort into achieving that feat and want to go as far as we possibly can in the competition.

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Andy Watson

The personnel in the support offices know they are doing their jobs well when they never hear about themselves, because that means Soldiers have their food, equipment and issues squared away, ... If you look at the basic needs of Soldiersfood, shelter, a means to survivethen you realize that a Soldier cant eat, communicate, or have the equipment they need to do their job without logistics having a hand in the operation.

Ehud Barak

the perception in the world was that they tried to strangle us. In Lebanon we violated this basic rule and we were unable to hold what we took.

Sue Zimmerman

The percentage of Americans at basic and below basic level is as high as it ever has been.

Ann Veneman

Unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene habits play a major role in child mortality. Bringing basic services to Africa's women and girls could transform their lives and boost child survival in the region.

Jim Calhoun

The person who believes less in Josh is Josh. It's a daily progress with him to get him to believe.

Tom Reilly

We are at a crossroads - young people are moving out of state. Our future is disappearing. You need a governor who believes in Massachusetts. There is nothing wrong that can't be fixed.

Martin Seligman

Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche.

Holly Holm

I can't even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me.

Dave Brat

We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

Jon Meacham

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

Kim Sears

Universities, colleges and business schools get that information on students. He believes military recruiters should too.

Marek Hlasko

At first, one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost.

Robert McDonald

At Emerson we never use the term 'lobby,' ... We use the term 'educate.' Our management believes that if we can educate elected officials to the global challenges that American businesses face today ... that hopefully they will make better public policy decisions.

Rob Portman

We always come closer every time we talk.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Bob Grove

We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.

Jamal Qureshi

We're in a world that faces serious problems with political stability in several key regions. People want to hold more supplies closer to home, and that's going to keep demand high for purchasing imported barrels.

Lorenzo Jones

We started out good, but we had a lapse in the second half. I was able to play everybody and it would have been closer if my big girl had not fouled out.

Jack Sturgeon

We stabilized there and showed some life. We didn't fold the tents. Offensively and defensively, we got our heads back into the game. It wasn't an 11-3 game. We're closer to them than 11-3, but there are some things we have to work on.

Dan Webster

When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

Susan White

When you think about it, it makes sense, ... People are living closer together in the dorms.

Kevin Keating

We want to provoke heat and debate and a closer look at the man and leader in full, not just the leader who has been raised to secular sainthood.

Chris Young

A lot of personal information actually functions like a password and, as such, needs to be robustly protected,

Tucker Martin

The whole system functions better when those who are participating are compensated fairly.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Tom Davies

If these functions are transferred to another agency...are we saving money or just transferring costs?

Mark Sinderberry

We need someone who understands the Premiership - its demands, its pressures, the way it functions with its built-in risk of relegation. Probably, we need someone who actually knows what it is to work in this environment.

Robert Kelly

Longer term, the vision is to put all functions on the Internet.

Venancio Figueroa

What do you mean, the system functions as designed?

Alfred Hitchcock

Paramount functions practically as a studio setup for him.

Joe Manchin

We're still sitting down in Houston. He (Perry) wants us to try to take these people, ... Every governor is getting frustrated, We will help if they'll just let us.

Doug Scofield

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Mark Hansen

A tax increase is a tax increase. We do not want the governor to include any of them in the budget.

Rick Thigpen

At a time when the governor will be promoting austerity, it would be inappropriate for him politically to, at the same time, spend a lot of money.

David Bowles

It is truly astonishing that the governor is trying to put the state into the insurance business.

Keith Miller

It's not his responsibility to get these people off the list. That's Mental Health and the governor and the Legislature.

Anthony Coley

The remarks are insensitive and intemperate. The governor has spoken to Mayor James, and he is reviewing the situation.

Scott McCallum

This is the state of Wisconsin. It is very important to our reputation, what we are trying to project, and yet our governor is silent.

Tom Savini

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

Chris Bell

When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Nathaniel Rateliff

Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Sen Skelos

Anything that provides school property tax relief is welcome.

Suzanne Kuehn

It would be a property tax rebate program.

May Yan

The whole property sector has been quite hot.

Don Bowen

We feel like it's tea time again. We want our property back.

Bill Giles

The township doesn't want to give up any more property or there won't be much township left.

Sophie Kinsella

If it's in the bin, it's public property.

Matthew McConaughey

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

Kurt Knauff

We're treating it, where we weren't treating it before. We were just protecting her.

Veronica Roth

You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Bear Grylls

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

Derek Jacobi

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

Bill O'Reilly

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

Jared Zabransky

When you see a big safety back there, it's more of a threatening presence.

Chesley Sullenberger

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Chen Guangcheng

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

William Shakespeare

I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

Carol Peters

The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.

Patricia Vance

The system is working effectively now. There's nothing broken.

Tim Donohoe

The system is really creaking and probably unsustainable in the long term.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Michael Chertoff

This is a system desperately in need of repair,

Ruth Ginsburg

That's just not the way our system works.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Alexander Yakovenko

envisages a two-tier system of electing a president.