Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Calhoun

Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.

Neal Asher

I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

Candice Johnson

The association will work to negotiate a contract that will cover everybody.

D. James

We have always stated our desire to do a long-term contract with the Colts, or work out a trade.

Lavan Gopaul

We've got seven normal trading days until futures closeout and there is a large open interest on the March contract of about 200-odd thousand. It is probably going to be one of the largest closeouts with the result that we can see rollovers and a lot of them.

Veronica Barrett

We're working to the contract, which means we're still working to last year's contract, and we're not putting in any extras. We're working the time that we are contracted for, and nothing more.

Alan Mulally

We're very pleased with today's contract ratification by our machinists and look forward to their return to work,

Tim Waters

We're unhappy about it. The contractor failed to meet his schedule.

Paul Tonko

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

John Jones

Most contracts should be easy to understand and written at an eighth grade level.

Bob Bowlsby

Those contracts are usually about the worth of the ink they're written in (though).

Bill Stoneman

Those are some of the players we have discussed offering multiyear contracts to.

Ron Ishoy

We do not encounter lobbyists trying to entice us to sign huge contracts for goods or services.

Tom Wychor

To gut our contracts when you don't know what the future fleet plan is going to be is irresponsible.

Jim Caswell

One of the reasons that they feel like they can reduce the exclusive-use contracts . . . is that they've got higher-speed, more mobile and larger-capacity payloads in the contract stream now.

Julien Pain

What we want is from now on, these companies, these contracts should be monitored by the Department of Commerce. That's the only way to make sure they don't collaborate on these kinds of human rights abuses.

Terry Ryan

He's creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

Robert Goldstein

I take pride in putting together contracts and providing a full range of services. I tell all my members, 'Distinguish yourself with services.' I'm not worried about it at all.

Imelda May

I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.

Colm Keaveney

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

Emma Watson

I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

Elizabeth Warren

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Cherie Lunghi

The lines on your face are your medals. You've earned them, so why shouldn't they be worn with honour?

Bonnie Tyler

I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn't have any qualifications. I ended up working in a grocery shop for about a year and then went to a confectioner, where I earned three pounds 10 shillings. I gave the money to my mother and father, but I also managed to save five shillings a week.

Bill Cosby

There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Mortimer Adler

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

Joe Martin

The pioneers are giving way to some of the big guys who can weather all the change.

C. S. Lewis

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Cecelia Ahern

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Carrie Snodgress

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

Bethany Hamilton

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

Bethany Hamilton

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Bernadette Peters

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

Ashley Tisdale

I never give up on things.

Arsene Wenger

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

John Bernett

We know that we have players who could be at other schools scoring 20 points. For us, we are just here to win.

Michelle Snow

We have a lot of players on this team that can make shots and when you have your veterans that are not shooting (well),

Robbie Nichols

We will recognize our players at the end of the season.

Nicole Scott

We wanted to make sure their post players didn't score a lot inside. That was important for us.

Steve Bender

We've made tremendous progress. Our inexperienced post players have come long way, and our freshmen.

Urs Linsi

We have to make sure the players don't suffer from burnout.

Bobby Cox

Usually you have two players for one position,

Rich Rodriguez

Most of our players have never been in there before.

Ron Zook

You have to do what you feel like your players do best,