Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Clark

Having an endangered or candidate species on your property should be a good thing, something a landowner can be proud of, not something to avoid. With the administrative reforms we have made to the Endangered Species Act, such as safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and candidate conservation agreements with assurances, ranchers, timber companies and other landowners are able to participate in the conservation of at-risk species without the concern that their future plans may be delayed or halted.

Randy Levine

We're in the process of negotiating agreements that we think are going to be very significant.

Richard Boucher

It is important to us to be able to keep working with the parties and try to do what we can diplomatically to calm the situation, get back to implementation of the agreements of the cease-fire.

Glenn Tilton

We look forward to continued cooperation with all of our unions and employee groups as we work to reach consensual agreements that will help us redesign our business and compete more effectively in the long term.

Shashi Tharoor

If there weren't a United Nations, it would have taken the U.S. decades to reach agreements with 191 countries to do that.

John Ferguson

The implications are what they are. It's made it more of a challenge to reach agreements with players in that category. But it was collectively bargained. The parties saw fit to include the provision and it's an aspect we're dealing with.

Tasneem Aslam

A joint statement, to be issued at the end of the president's visit, will highlight the importance of agreements and understanding to be reached during his talks with Pakistani leaders.

Joe McInerney

The hotel industry is committed to fair contract negotiations for our workers in each city. We want to reach agreements that benefit our employees. But the 'Change to Win' campaign and recent leafleting in 60 cities is designed to pressure companies into signing these 'card check neutrality agreements' and deprive our employees of the right to choose for themselves.

Eliot Spitzer

The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Ariel Sharon

has no business here, he has never had any, and I don't think he ever will have.

Carl Tobias

He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majority of senators whose votes he needs.

Michael Metz

He is very well respected, and he would be confirmed quite easily.

Syd Kitson

It confirmed people are looking for a community. A safe neighborhood where there are a lot of eyes on the kids.

Shinobu Asagoe

I thought the (seventh) game was finished and when I askedthe umpire, she confirmed it, ... Then they started counting the points and nobody could rememberthe third one, so in the end it looked like it was all my fault.

Kevin Gould

CMBX has been designed to provide investors with an efficient means to gain diversified exposure to the U.S. CMBS market. The standardized nature of the index, coupled with the fact that trades can be confirmed through DTCC, will pave the way for a liquid and operationally efficient market.

Clive Woodward

I only heard last night that it (a citing) might happen and it was confirmed this morning,

Tsutomu Takebe

I heard a parliamentary officer contacted my son and confirmed there was no such fact.

Mark Kimmitt

I know that your reporter may have confirmed it to you. But that's what your correspondents have been doing for the last few days, repeating and confirming lies,

David Hewson

The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Ted Sarandos

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

Caroline DeWaal

The message is not to do away with fish in your diet. What's needed is a shift away from high-mercury species to those with much lower levels. That should be easy to do for most consumers if they had the right information.

Jeff Arnold

The merger will give us technology to enable consumers to interact with their physician and health plan.

Laura Powell

The Internet has really revolutionized travel and travel booking. Consumers are now able to find great deals at the last minute a lot easier.

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Jack Wyant

I think it'll be nice because we get the courts all to ourselves. It's our show.

David Cardwell

I think it is a very diverse court that represents the diversity of Florida.

Kim Clijsters

I think I stayed very focused and very patient throughout the whole match, ... Even when I was 4-1 up, I was playing really well at the start. I was moving around, just from side-to-side, opening up the court a lot.

Jerry Summers

He (Cooper) does maintain his innocence and will defend himself in court if indicted.

James Wood

Golf takes me out of the crap of a sick world. Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

Anthony Kennedy

It involved a constitutional issue of the gravest importance decided 4-3 by a state court on a federal issue that it was our responsibility to take the case, ... Sometimes it is easy, so it seems, to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of our court.

Jim Higgins

I'm feeling personally that 24-hour operation is going to be a detriment to the neighborhood.

Arlen Specter

your adversaries to speculate on this issue to the detriment of your nomination.

Paul Dergarabedian

But if it's a really fine film, it won't be a detriment to its success.

Chris McNeil

Our state representative has been in office for (nine) years, and we still have not gotten this roadway expanded to the detriment of all neighborhoods and businesses.

Thomas Piketty

I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.

John Snow

Rebuilding efforts will give GDP (gross domestic product), jobs and our overall economy a lift by the first quarter of next year,

Thomas Delare

Ordinary Iraqis, domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors have all been waiting for stability, predictability and greater security.

Charles Prince

International GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is expected to grow substantially more than U.S. GDP over the next few years.

Corey Stoll

In terms of my free time, I really don't have much. The time I do have, I enjoy being domestic and spending time with my girlfriend, hiking and playing tennis.

John Pomfret

In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.

Stephane Deo

I'm not talking about a massive acceleration, but little by little you can have more support from the domestic side of the economy in Europe.

Jack Greenberg

I remain very optimistic about our long-term opportunities to grow profitably in the domestic marketplace.

Liu Xiang

I had thought the year following the 2004 Olympics would not be so busy. But it turned out to be very busy. I competed in Golden League races and world championships and quite a few domestic races.

Javier Solana

Regarding exports of North Korean missile technology, export of technology is trade and if there are buyers, we'll sell.

Elliott Abrams

Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.

George Buckley

If you look at the underlying numbers you'll see that underlying trade has improved. It looks like exports have improved quite a bit.

Tsutomu Yamada

If you look at these GDP figures, exports are really strong...so of course, investors are going for high-techs, autos and machinery stocks.

Richard Boucher

The goal here is not to put someone on or off the hook ... stop exports of missiles. That's what really matters and that's what we have achieved.

Chen Xingdong

It's very hard for China's exports to fall any time soon.

John Edwards

The value of the exports hasn't been able to respond to the higher prices.

Richard Jerram

Exports seem to be stalling and there are some signs this is already being felt by industrial production,

Baba Kalyani

We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Joe Tiller

I would say it's the single most important factor of (a team), ... You hate to put it all on one position, but if you told me, 'OK Tiller, you're going to graduate 21 of your 22 starters. Which one don't you want graduating?' It'd be the quarterback.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move. That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move, ... That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Michelle Reinig

Just the fact that you're on land, and you know there's somebody out there and you can't do anything.

Haroon Lorgat

He is well established and respected as a senior member of the squad.

Jim Moran

I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.

Brad Dayspring

I think a lot of members will be supportive of the legislation.

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Michael Hopkins

He was never a member of this organization! That's all I have to say about ... Pete McGowan.

Hut Landon

I'd like to uncover some worthy recipients and I'd like it if the member booksellers nominated programs in their communities.

Westbrook Pegler

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Warren Cuccurullo

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

Don Stewart

I think that the staff are all very well versed in the process and in this particular nominee, but so are the senators. I think you will see, and already have seen, quite a lot of support out of the senators.

William Golding

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

Guy Ritchie

I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.

David Lee

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

Richard Cook

It is very much premature to say it is any particular cause.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

Scott Anderson

I try to find time to umpire and referee, but have had to reduce some of that, in particular the basketball.

Connie Sellecca

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

Stephany Sofos

It's all about convenience and pricing and Wal-Mart understands that better than everyone else -- that's why they are the No. 1 retailer in the world.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Jimmy Page

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

Charlie Ward

He said, 'You're welcome to come on full-time now,'

Samuel Rutherford

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.

Walter Wriston

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

Vladimir Putin

We always welcome when somebody says he or she is ready to work with Russia.

Kelley Armstrong

Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.

Yang Yang

You come. You will be very surprised. I will be there to welcome you.

Orlando Jones

All you mamas are welcome (in my car).

Paul Singer

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.

Laura Prepon

When I have to do a scene where I feel vulnerable as an actress, I always grow from those experiences, so I welcome them. Even though it may not feel amazing at first. You have to embrace it and use it to improve yourself.