Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Stefan Molyneux

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

Angus Campbell

Despite the U.S. earnings commencing in earnest this week, the recent inability of indexes to sustain their highs has led many to believe that there is impending weakness. For new highs to be set U.S. companies will have to report superb results, far outstripping expectations and things did not get off to a great start last week.

John Pike

The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible, while discouraging them from working on things that we believe to be quite promising, ... The U.S. continues to fund work in this field, despite the fact that it contravenes known laws of physics.

Scott Maddox

The stakes in this election are simply too high ... I have increasingly come to believe we cannot prevail if we are divided.

David Shore

The show is not about his personal life, ... but you get curious about that, so we wanted to get a greater glimpse into who this guy was. It's really tricky to find someone to play opposite him, to stand up to him, somebody that you would believe this sort of character would be interested in, and would be interested in this character.

Alex Cena

The telecom equipment sector, and wireless communications, in particular, has very huge swings in relative valuation, depending on the comfort level that investors have in a company. The pace at which we believe the margin improvement will occur in mobile phones is not at the level that we had anticipated. On the infrastructure side of the business, we are still optimistic.

Chuck Schumer

The Tea Party elites believe government is evil. Everything about government is bad, and they blame all problems, even non-economic problems, problems that were caused by the private sector, on government.

Hu Jintao

China is forever an important force safeguarding world peace. China have never sought hegemony, and never will in the future,

Michael Whitaker

China is a very special market, a very important market.

Aphaluck Bhatiasevi

China has learned from the SARS experience and has been more open and more willing to respond to disease outbreaks.

Chong Quan

China has a competitive edge in the labor-intensive shoe manufacturing industry. They have ignored the fact that 98 percent of the shoemakers in China are privately owned.

Luo Bingsheng

China expects the 2006 global iron ore price to return to the level previous to the dramatic price hike.

Chen Xingdong

For sure by 2006 China will become number four and by 2010 it will be more than Germany.

Alan Greenspan

Further development of China's trading relationships with the United States and other industrial countries will work to strengthen the rule of law within China and to firm its commitment to economic reform,

Mark Brewer

is all but a China company at this point, and he's turned his back on Michigan.

Li Peng

Such a system may be suitable to the West. However, China has its own conditions. We are a developing country with a large population,

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Duane Grant

The work they do continues to be on the cutting edge of bio-energy.

Claes Fornell

The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.

Howard Dean

Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses; we are on the ballots,

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Scott Mossman

I definitely think he can play at the next level. He's got the size, the shot and the desire. If he continues to grow, someone is going to give him a shot.

Assemblyman Gregg

This administration continues to be fiscally and morally bankrupt.

Koji Suzuki

There will be dips as players take profits ... but the market continues to set its sights on reaching $600.

Peter Cardillo

There's been a technical erosion and it continues to feed off of itself,

William Daley

Despite the progress we have seen over the last week, we still do not have the 218 votes yet to win it, ... In the end, I am optimistic we will pull it out.

Patricia Ryan

Despite some of the closings we've had, we seem to be doing all right. With the rain and everything, there was some question at first, but we seem to be holding our own right now.

Michael Cox

Despite our directive to the National Journal to replace the ad, it was not replaced as requested, which resulted in its publication this week.

Amy Ziff

Last year was a massive year for holiday travel. The summer kept going in that direction, and we have the same expectation for this year despite fuel costs. If you wait until November, I think you run the risk of not getting what you want or paying a whole lot more to get what you want.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously it negates the theory about Dow 1,000. What (the new milestone) tells us is people have a lot of confidence. Money is still flowing into the United States despite some question marks about inflation. Nothing has changed.

Rosa DeLauro

Poor people are going to get the short end of the stick, despite all the public sympathy. That's a great irony.

Chris Paulson

She really showed me a lot of guts and got after it despite the weather.

Lisa Presley

I live with selected people I've sort of made into my family and that's my kind of fortress. I know that I'm safe, despite what else is going on in the outside world.

Wayne Puglisi

I feel we're prepared. Despite an overall lack of experience the kids are playing well together and I'm comfortable with their progress.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Jeff Holland

Quite honestly, I don't know anything about (the fungus). I guess it just reiterated the fact that it's important to be careful.

H. Hunt

The sad fact it is could have been anybody. My feeling is that whoever is involved in this is still walking free.

James St. James

I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.

Deena Kastor

The fact that I won makes it a little sweeter.

Brenda Frese

The fact that it has never been done before in a conference, to have three teams is really special. I think it really validates the three teams and the conference.

James Mercer

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Edward Meir

Commodities seem to be a rather popular alternative (to bonds, equities and the dollar) for funds searching for a trend.

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Pete Stark

That money is being put into a fund that can be used for defense,

Chen Hong

This is a fund product of high risk and high return.

David Snow

It is safe to say that an Internet-focused fund launched in 1999 registered a poor performance, because a lot of these firms made investments at peak valuation.

Scott Meyers

There's been a lot of fund and local trader selling here after we hit $69 ... there's major profit-taking from the big funds and locals.

Prince Royce

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Joan Laporta

Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.

Jack Ablin

You needed to be a meteorologist to make money in this market.

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Justin Flom

Don't spend money on extravagant things like cars and big vacations. Spend it on things that are really fun.

Daawna Moeller

We're going to walk and raise money for research.

Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

T. S. Eliot

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Plautus

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

John Piper

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Don't waste your time on life.

David Hawkins

He told me not to come here to waste anybody's time; he told me to make the team,

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Anna Jameson

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Alex Steffen

There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

Doug Larson

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.