Famous Quotes & Sayings

The League

We've already been looking at - for the past six or seven weeks - a number of hunts and we will now be deciding on which ones to put our resources into. We will definitely be monitoring hunts in Wales.

John Sullivan

With the meltdown of the Net and the rise in unemployment, we'll see a return to punishing job hoppers. That's mostly because when the power shifts back to human resources, HR people with no power seem to get off on deciding what is acceptable,

Mitsuru Sahara

A strong CPI figure could be the market's deciding factor for a rate rise in March.

Brad Blank

About half the league would like him to visit. But it's his turn to start deciding where he wants to go and how many teams he wants to talk to.

Tim Reed

It's just a matter of when it's going to happen. I'm seeing it right now, that people are deciding to use an alternative fuel.

Charlie Christie

It's now about how we react to the defeat in our cup-tie on Saturday and then the three or four league matches after that. They will go a long way to deciding our top-six aspirations.

Steve Bonney

It's an issue of government is out of control, government is deciding for the people what the issue should be.

Stephane Dujarric

The relatively high voter turn-out and the fact that the polling was conducted in a largely free, fair and peaceful manner attests to the determination of the Congolese people to participate in deciding their nation's future.

Dries van Noten

I have my own office, and I'm there during the evenings and weekends. But during the week, I'm sitting in the middle of my studio, talking with everybody, deciding together every detail, every pallette, every yarn, every colour.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Hit-Boy

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.

Herbert A. Simon

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Alan Rickman

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...

Alan Greenspan

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Chambers

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Jardine

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Akio Morita

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Akio Morita

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Jeff Turner

We started out playing well, but we had a mental meltdown in the second half.

Tom Schatz

Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington.

John Hart

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Dan Oziminski

They have a tremendous defense. It was mostly my fault. I let it get to me. I should have slowed it down a little bit.

Chris Klein

It's not like a swap meet. It's mostly new goods.

Ellison Chu

There's a lot of selling. I think it's mostly from China.

John Cordes

South Elgin is a first-year program with mostly sophomores and they struggled. It was all right to have an off night, but I am disappointed we didn't shoot better. Everyone has to pick it up a little.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

Cate Blanchett

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

John Carr

You mostly come to these things to support other musicians,

Ernie Els

Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.

Armstrong Williams

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

Eiichi Katayama

We still see no prospect of a return to net profits.

Tom Bittman

Where I do my word processing, how I collaborate, maintaining my social network . . . those things are shifting away from Microsoft.

Roland Nash

When it comes down to it, it is a net positive. But there are so many more important things.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Steve Hill

There may be some (impacts) here and there, but I would be surprised if there's been a net loss.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Glenn McAninch

It was a very intelligent goal. Take the shot before they are still trying to organize and she just walked up and smacked it in the net and it was a nicely placed shot.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Khalil Gibran

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

David Brainerd

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

William Shakespeare

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

Catherine Helen Spence

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

Jack Holmes

Would I like to return there? Absolutely. But it's sponsor-driven, not heart-driven.

Bill Gross

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

Russ Borman

We'll see them again, and we'd like to return the favor.

David Butler

They need to sell a lot of stuff to get down to the shrink-wrapped size they need to be to make a return to stockholders,

Imron Cotan

There will be no prosecutions if they return home, back to Indonesia.

Marat Safin

It wasn't my day today on the serve, Gisela was returning winners on my serve so it was kind of embarrassing for me,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

William Congreve

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Andrew Mitchell

There don't seem to be any surprises in here.

Ken Koelbl

As I watched, it didn't seem like they missed.

Maureen McClay

As we look at it now, it doesn't seem to work for us.

Mark Hatton

It's just didn't seem like that. We got the shots off.

Janet Anderson

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.

Scott Gomez

It seems like it's early. But it isn't. We need these points.

Jeffrey Cohen

It seems like a wonderful thing to do.

Jim Smith

It seems like a simple business. But it's as complicated as it can get.