Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Jeb Bush

Where they didn't work, we had supply but it wasn't adequate. It was not adequate for the demand.

Edward Taylor

We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything concrete done.

Lisa Kelley

We want funding levels to be adequate to put conservation programs on the ground.

Mary Schiavo

There is no other way to force the FAA to adequately do its job of overseeing the carriers of this country and enforcing aviation safety.

Jim Harrison

Until the court has determined that they conducted an adequate search for my clients' documents, I think the document destruction should cease.

Max Heindel

There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.

George Andrews

This (the grant) will allow our department to respond more effectively to area fires with a vehicle manufactured to carry an adequate amount of water and fire suppression equipment.

Nancy Fox

We're going to enjoy a good semester or two of adequate parking at that time. We have ambitious plans to grow the university. So for the next five years or so, we're going to experience growth pains,

David Chavern

There are companies being told they have tens of thousands of material financial controls that have to be attested to, which on its very face is absurd. They can't all be material.

Kelly Chesney

There are some companies that use it for a direct mail piece they have within a community.

Claire Kent

The reason companies want to go public now is that (luxury good stocks) are at record high valuations.

Cummins Catherwood

We still keep seeing better-than-expected earnings. The important part of it to me for the market is that these are core companies and industries.

Kenneth Wong

We're in discussions with retailers in the upscale category, including traditional department stores, entertainment companies and restaurants.

Patricia Chadwick

We're in a zero-price environment. What really allows companies to earn is to cut costs and be in growth sectors of the marketplace.

John Palfrey

Where it is going to be tricky is in the gray area. That's where we will earn our keep. Where it's something unethical, but maybe not illegal, we want to put companies on notice that we're going to shine a light on them.

Long Nguyen

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

Olympia Snowe

Until then, the four companies will continue their work,

Richelle Reilly

We're going to have to keep developing our perimeter skills and shooting.

Linda Hall

We're just kind of leaving our options open, ... It's a matter of either developing the land or selling the property.

Leila Janah

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

Ron Dennis

It's extremely positive for Formula One, ... intention was to turn their share certificates into money. This new shareholder has an interest in developing Formula One.

George Bicher

This follows a natural progression of the company's strategy and the evolution of developing economies.

Mike Vellucci

They've done a phenomenal job of developing their team this year and the last two years and are one of the top teams in our division.

Joanne Davis

They still have a long way to go, no matter who is developing it.

Yan Xiaohong

For a developing nation like China, protecting intellectual property rights is a process ... We hope to shorten this process as much as possible, but it's difficult to eliminate it overnight.

Kate Fox

They're interested in developing this statewide and thought they would start with us.

Gerhard Schroeder

Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,

Tom Vilsack

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,

James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Amrit Bohara

At a time when the government was getting ready for a confrontation, the rebels' announcement has helped eased the tension and ensure that there will be no violence.

Greg Bird

It's entirely possible they get that money back. We just want to ensure that money is there.

Jim Zemlin

This certification lab will increase the number of Linux applications and ensure that Linux does not fragment.

Phil Heatley

I trust that the Auditor-General will ensure a swift, thorough and transparent investigation, and I look forward to seeing the terms of reference.

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Paul Bresson

As communications technologies develop, we must ensure that such progress does not come at the expense of our nation's safety and security.

Jerry Green

We have to get used to being examined and poked and touched.

Ned Vizzini

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

John B. Larson

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

Maurice Hinchey

The more that his ideas see the light of day, the better off we are, given the opportunity to examine them, ... Because I think most people, frankly, would reject them.

Thomas Insel

The study has vital public health implications. It is the largest, longest and most comprehensive, independent trial ever done to examine existing therapies for this disease.

Koren Zailckas

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

Peggy Altoff

Every grade level should examine these things, just in a different way.

Jeff McNeely

Every expedition that goes into a place that hasn't been examined before finds new species.

Dan Jurdy

To take away games, you really, really need to examine the specifics and wrestle with it. This is a really big deal. It's something that none of us should take lightly.

Michael Allen

They need to have sustained growth, so they can't concentrate only on the high-density market. What they've done for the most part is go into very big destination markets like New York to Southern Florida.

Frank Lesh

It's nothing more than a psychological spot; it's like 10,000 on the Dow. In reality, the markets themselves don't see anything special about that $50 level.

John Felmy

Right now, the short-term markets are going a little crazy. If there is little damage, they can reverse themselves.

Martin Winterkorn

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

Art Hogan

The way the markets have been trading this year,

Robert Brusca

There is a reason for stock markets to be worried. But I don't think we need to talk about recession yet -- it's not on the radar screen.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Agbeli Ameko

You have a transition to a warming trend. Because it's switched to warmer weather, we've seen the weather markets sell off and of course, the natural-gas markets sell off as well.

Robert Goodman

You may find there is more volatility in the various markets in Europe,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

John Lackey

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

Emmett Hanger

We've got more work to do there. In order to meet our targets for 2010, it's going to run us about $100 million a year.

Tim Collins

We're doing everything we can to meet the needs of our customers, but things are going to be kind of crowded.

Amanda Brown

We're doing everything we can to meet that goal.

Robert Worthy

We're really getting into the meet of our schedule. This is really important.

Dave Uhrich

A lot of track meets aren't scored. Going in, we didn't know that it was going to be a scored met, and we didn't plan on taking this meet that seriously. But we did end up doing well.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Chris Bauer

You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

Chris Brown

I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be,

China Machado

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

Edward Hopper

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Edith Stein

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

Chris Chocola

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Derek Jeter

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Larry Templeton

We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.

Chang-Rae Lee

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

Bill Walsh

Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.

Tom Daschle

What we're offering is real jobs, real opportunity and real prosperity -- a plan that works for our country,

J. J. Johnson

We've always been told that there's nothing we can do. We're told that the patients are the ones who need to complain.

Chris Hall

We plan to send 25 patients a week by the end of this year.

Rick Colby

Ultimately, I think the patients need to step up on this issue.

David Adamson

There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.

Billy Carter

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

Alex Berenson

HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.

Carl Griffith

We had patients throwing up. It was very ugly.

Dennis Hastert

What we try to do is to try to put patients first,

Michael Moore

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.

Jeff Alexander

It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products.

Dan Rosensweig

It's about providing a service that users really want.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

C. S. Lewis

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Carroll O'Connor

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Daniel H. Pink

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Brian Weiss

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

Brad Thor

Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.

Bruce Lee

The reward is found in the work.

Bruce Barton

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

Elbert Hubbard

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Martin Buxbaum

Did you ever think what the word 'vote' means? To me it means: 'Voice of Taxpayers Everywhere'.

Scott Walker

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Devin Nunes

To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

John Thune

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

Buzz Aldrin

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

Ben Wilcox

I don't see why she couldn't make a contribution out of her own pocket. I don't know why she has to use taxpayer money.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Ken Leavitt

That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated.

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Stedman Graham

How can I go out there and create value?

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

Philip James Bailey

The value of a thought cannot be told.

Michael Jordan

Nothing of value comes without being earned.

George Carlin

Where do we get our values from?

Frederick Douglass

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.

Chris Squire

The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Robert Chapman

He plots, he plans, he works in secret,

Andrea Giancoli

For some people, it works very well. For others, it can be very frustrating and too much work.

David Nash

If it works for you, then that's great. It's what makes you feel safe.