Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

I would want us all to put real collective pressure and sustain it on President Milosevic in the hope that we will get an agreement and he will understand the implications of any escalation,

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.

Bruce Allen

He's a special guy. He wanted to be a Buccaneer and we wanted him to be a Buccaneer. And in just a few days of conversation we were able to reach an agreement that we think will ensure his future.

Andrew Sorensen

He's doing an outstanding job. We're in 100 percent agreement on the terms of his service.

Christopher Hill

It is a good agreement for all of us.

Carol Raulston

I think the industry has literally been shaken by this month's events. There was a broad agreement that we really needed to focus efforts, particularly looking at technology and training.

Bill Daly

I think the importance of meeting quickly after the season cancellation in an effort to get a deal done as soon as possible is maybe we can take some germs of where there was agreement before the season cancellation and build on those, but time will tell.

Christopher Hill

I think the Chinese draft is an excellent basis for reaching an agreement.

Susan Petniunas

It is clearly time for the U.S. to honor its treaty agreement with Canada, and to end these illegal duties that continue to harm American consumers.

S. Walker

Relations between Beijing and London are pretty cool. The Chinese are not happy with the way power is being transferred. Britain doesn't really have any military, and not all that much economic, role to play in China in the future.

Tim Jackson

Beijing is clearly an important opportunity for us, as is London.

Zhao Jian

Sun's urine sample taken after the Beijing International Marathon returned negative results, so she can keep her title for the marathon race.

Mike Canales

I want this to remain fun. That's goal No. 1. No. 2, when this thing is all done and I don't know when it's going to end - no one's making any commitments to Beijing because a lot can happen - I want her to feel more positive about gymnastics than ever before.

Dave Salo

It's always going to raise suspicion if we get to Beijing and they haven't done anything for three years and all of a sudden we've got names that we've never heard of showing up in the finals.

Marc Andreesen

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

Greg Buzek

The market in the entire Asia/Pacific region is growing well, but it is extremely strong in China with the build-up to the Beijing Olympics.

Jiang Xiaoyu

The budget of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will not surpass that of 2.4 billion US dollars for the Games in Athens.

George Robertson

The strength of feeling that is on display in Beijing is understandable, but the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was an acknowledged mistake, and one that is deeply regretted, ... But it is important however to recall why we are engaged in this mission and why we had to reluctantly take action.

Gennaro Angiulo

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

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.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Mark Richt

Guys like D. J. make this business worthwhile.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Amanda Lindhout

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

Lyssa Jenkens

Growth will continue in education and health, which have been the only steady gainers in this century. But it is now moving into business and professional services, which holds many of the highest-skilled jobs in the economy.

Greg Brenneman

There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business.

Shakira

I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

Chad Anderson

This was a good confidence-builder for us. It gets us one step closer to the playoffs.

Rob Spence

I think it's closer to what we expect the offense at Clemson to be. I think there was much more mixture, different types of plays.

Richard Butler

I think we're getting hot, ... I think we were getting closer and closer.

Barry Trotz

It is hard, even as a coach, to say who's going to win it. There's so many teams that are a lot closer than you think. The point totals, disregard them. It's what teams are playing well, what teams aren't.

Peter Cardillo

I think we're going to see a very choppy market for the next few weeks, as we get closer to the election, unless oil prices move sharply one way or the other.

David Reeves

Like most mountains when you get closer to the top it gets a little steeper and a little tougher.

Bill Bradley

Under his leadership, we will come closer to solving the problems I mentioned earlier, and under the leadership of George W. Bush, it is not even close,

Nick Nolte

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

Bob Dixon

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

David Bodde

In my opinion, that has to change. If we are to grow as a region as a tech-based economy, and a knowledge-based economy, we have to embrace those ideas, or at least be willing to be open-minded or experimental about that. It's not a question of are we ready for this in some cultural sense -- enough people are for this to happen. It's one we have to embrace.

Stephen Perkins

It's a side of museums that many people don't see and sometimes don't understand when they see it in your budget. It's something that happens out of the way and it's not flashy but we're ensuring the long-term health of the cultural legacy of the area.

Margaret Anderson

They've gone to the trouble to try to educate people that there is a cultural taboo there,

Michael W. Smith

It's OK that there are cultural differences. I hope this movie sparks conversations that will turn into action.

Craig Robins

It's the most important cultural weekend, maybe in the country.

Juergen Pieper

There's a kind of cultural revolution going on at Volkswagen and Mercedes. They're doing much more than they've ever done before.

Mark Harrison

It pulls kids from every peer group, of every cultural background.

Ed Able

This is the greatest damage to and loss of cultural institutions and cultural patrimony in the history of the country.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

Mike Strong

We matched up well with them. We were able to push them back off that 3-point line and make them shoot deeper than they probably would have liked.

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Joey Fernandez

The guys are doing real good. I'm a lot deeper on the guys side than I am on the girls side.

Roy Romer

Education is much deeper than these technological machines and software, but I think technology is going to be a very large part of the system.

Peter Rosenfeld

DaimlerChrysler's goal is to develop deeper relationships and provide more opportunities to suppliers that are proven performers.

Roger Pilon

It's deeper than one mistake. There have been far too many mistakes.

Carol Dover

It's an equal playing field now. You'll only be responsible for your percentage of the liability. What they did before was always wrong. You may be 90 percent liable, and I'm 10 percent, but because I've got the deeper pockets, I end up being 100 percent. It just doesn't work.

Zeke Jones

It's great that people will be able to get a deeper look into the program.

Mark Bailey

Kansas as a whole is mostly rural. How can we develop this model in a much more rural population? How do you do this in Hays, Great Bend, Salina? That's the next big issue.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Susumu Tonegawa

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

Sugata Mitra

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

Sean Casey

There are still mixed emotions. Everything I've done as a big leaguer has been with the Reds. I see those guys over there. I'm a human being. I like the guys in the Pirates' clubhouse. They've been good to me. But I developed a lot of relationships over there, too.

John Schuerholz

He's a good young player and he's going to have a fine career. He'll develop like all of our young guys have developed -- at his natural pace. It will happen when it happens.

Randy Caldwell

Good developers have always known the value, but it's become much more prominent in the last five to 10 years that more developers are seeing the value of working around trees.

Tony Lewis

He's got a ways to go. He has the speed, but he's got to sacrifice in the weight room. The one thing about it, you can develop strength. There's not a lot you can do to develop the innate.

John Giannini

He's a very gifted player, and he's really worked hard to develop his skills. In the short term, we couldn't have had the success we've had (this year without him). He has helped turn the program around this year.

Mary Walker

It gives our workforce a great opportunity to expand their knowledge within the normal working environment.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Viola Spolin

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Wangari Maathai

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

Vladimir Putin

Radicals can be found in any environment.

Peter Kelley

In the near-term though, converting from gas-powered to electric-powered doesn't do anything for the environment...at this moment, you're still polluting.

Carlos Asilis

In that environment, it's only natural to expect the switch from labor into technology.

James Winchester

If you think this is a tough environment, the fire hose is going to be on full stream in the third quarter.

Robert Lutts

If you think there's going be a hurricane issue this season, oil services (are the way to go). If you throw another hurricane into that environment it's just going to get even better.

Doug Clark

I don't expect foreign exchange students to get a diploma, but I think they should at least get some recognition.

Jim McCormick

In the short term, this is probably not that significant. But it does indicate that they are putting all the pieces in place to have a more flexible exchange rate." ()

Masahiro Kawai

The individual exchange rates won't be supported officially...but if this index is relatively stable vis-a-vis external currencies then it's quite useful.

Mark Fitzpatrick

The dollar's a little weaker because Miyazawa retracted some of his comments, indicating there may be a need for foreign exchange intervention,

Kirby Daley

It's quite shocking. We don't really know how investors are going to react. We have to see how fast the Tokyo Stock Exchange can upgrade its system.

Emmanuel Munyukwi

It's quite embarrassing because the exchange is supposed to mirror the reality of the economy. We have benefited from the distortion of the market.

Mike Heimerdinger

It was pretty ugly. I don't think it was as ugly as last week, because we got the quarterback-center exchange this week.

Nobutaka Machimura

I want to exchange views with you frankly,

Svein Riibe

It took just about a week to set up the system and move existing e-mail from staff PCs and the hosting service server to the new Exchange Server at our KL office.

Jessica Abel

It's an incredibly supportive and friendly field. Older people want to foster and help younger people. Which is not true of all creative fields, but it is true of comics, and it is true of radio.

Angela Shelton

We were taken to a foster home and my parents were never prosecuted for what they did to us, ... And meeting these women let me see I wasn't alone.

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Mike Ackerman

I thought the team started out strong for their first game. I hope it will keep going from here.

Larry Finucane

I think we will improve. I hope we will, but we haven't really done anything yet.

Adam Greene

It got our attention. Before that, in our minds we weren't sure if we'd make it. It made me want to make it a lot more. I can't speak for the others, but I hope it worked the same for them.

John Kinsey

I think this is something we live with on a day-to-day basis, unfortunately, and hope that when we get these violent swings they provide an opportunity for longer term investors.

Arlen Specter

It is my hope that the president will now send us a nominee for Justice O'Connor's spot in the mold of Judge Roberts,

Winston Churchill

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Washington Irving

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time...

Steve Cram

Paula Radcliffe needs to be gutsy to win the London Marathon.

Mark Billingham

London now has its own John Grisham.

Ken Livingstone

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

Paula Radcliffe

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

Scarlett Johansson

[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.

Karl Pilkington

I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

Julie Burchill

It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all sides, we have the coast road in front of us and the Sussex Downs just 10 minutes behind us.

Christina Richmond

Partners are getting more and more savvy in services because they have to.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Reg Alcock

We view the public service as our partners in this,

Mohsin Hamid

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

George Carlin

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

Jamaica Kincaid

A tourist is an ugly human being.

Kamal

Without tourists come to me, I'm dead, do you understand?

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Zen Saying

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.