Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

Christopher Cox

There is no question that the People's Republic of China and the People's Liberation Army are intent on acquiring U.S. military technology.

Kevin Schultz

With the new tools included in the Vision 8 Development Module, NI has released one of the industry's most comprehensive software packages for acquiring and processing images. The collection of tools includes drivers for IEEE 1394 cameras, world-class algorithms and easy-to-use software, all at an affordable price point, making it well-suited for end users and machine builders wanting to improve their system efficiencies and quality control.

Gitesh Pandya

A lot of the genre divisions are acquiring and releasing movies with black stars and black movies and most of them seem to be working. It's a very attractive audience, very large and loyal and they come out and spend money on good films. It doesn't matter what color the people are if they come out and spend the green, that's what movie companies care about.

Richard Anderson

They have been acquiring smaller assets, which the larger competitors are not seeking, and moving their growth needle.

Mike Malone

They had anticipated this transaction when they initially purchased shares of KTM in August. KTM recently increased its outstanding capital stock as part of a transaction that resulted in it acquiring the interests of a minority shareholder in one of its subsidiaries. The purpose of the additional share purchase announced today is to maintain Polaris' 24.9% interest in the capital stock of KTM,

Kerry Killinger

This acquisition is a logical step in continuing our effort to build out our mortgage business and its increase fee income without acquiring additional mortgage servicing rights,

Stephen Ng

It's too early to say whether we will bid, but we are interested in acquiring all sports content, including English Premier League.

Dan Culloton

It's the first primarily broker-sold fund family acquiring an ETF family.

June Shrewsbury

We also see the potential for 100-200 additional F-16 sales over the next few years. The F-16 has a bright future and continues to provide great value and capability to our customers.

Mark Holden

We are very focused on improving our fleet's velocity and creating additional capacity for our existing and prospective customers by applying economics, which maximize the utilization and performance of our fleet. Ultimately, by improving the velocity and utilization of our fleet, we lower the cost to the shipper community for barge transportation.

George Vasic

The potential for additional gains for stocks is limited given that we've had such a good run-up. We've been telling people to pare back a bit and reduce equity holdings.

Tim Hardaway

The post-game concert series is a tremendous additional entertainment feature for Florida Pit Bulls games,

Anita Steeves

We appreciate that the DPUC had responded to some of the concerns we had expressed about the draft decision. This additional revenue will defray some but not all of our increasing operational costs.

Dean Breest

We appreciate Judge Gropper giving the parties additional time to work out their differences.

Michael Brown

We've already started calling in additional troops that we have available to us like the Coast Guard Auxiliary, ... We have plenty of resources, plenty of people.

Randy Falco

We've already amassed the ratings equivalent of a Super Bowl and we still have two weeks to go. Sunday night has become the toughest night on TV, and it speaks to the power of the Olympics that they bring so many additional viewers to the television, who otherwise wouldn't be watching.

Andy Miller

We are pleased to award additional grants in support of project planning and evaluation, expanding our support of community-centered, cancer survivorship initiatives.

Lucas Till

Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them.

Geoffrey Kors

The point of the commercial is to continue to build pressure on the governor to sign the bill. His legacy and his place in history is very important to him. We need to remind the governor he is at that place.

John Stone

The point is to find out what would it take to build an interstate.

Bill Seltenheim

The point is inventories are building over the ideal 60-day marks. They've maybe reached a point where the market is getting saturated.

John Burnside

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

Chris Boone

The plaza is a culmination of about two years work designing, raising funds, and the building the plaza. Originally we had planned to do this in the fall, but because of the hurricane it was sidetracked.

David Bahlman

Until a building is known for its architectural importance and for the threat that exists to it, it's very hard to galvanize public opinion. Once people understand that's happening, it's a different story.

Larry Lawson

We are proud to build such a sophisticated, 5th Generation stealth fighter that can do things better than we ever imagined.

Denise Garcia

We are pleased to see this building develop into a new opportunity for the Pueblo community to grow and prosper.

Alan Bennett

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Al Ries

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

Akio Morita

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

Akio Morita

The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

Akio Morita

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

George Foster

We want the players to have a framework to evaluate business opportunities put in front of them. The sporting theme (inspires) much more passion for a lot of people, but a lot of sporting ideas go bankrupt, so passion is not enough. You've got to have revenues come through the door and you've got to contain your cost.

Richard Williams

We want them to have a real-world experience, which means working with people from other schools and cultures, which gives them an experience of diversity. Some students never would have considered a career in international business and exportation without this kind of exposure.

Mike Clasper

We want to streamline the management and admin staff of the business and get our managers closer to the business to deliver that better leadership and get the right people in the right jobs.

Ido Hartuv

We want to see who in the group supports his (Robertson's) statements. Those who support the statements cannot do business with us. Those that publicly support Ariel Sharon's recovery ... are welcome to do business with us.

Bob DuPuy

We want to stay in Washington. We're very pleased with the reception that people in Washington gave to the team. We're continuing to work with the mayor, we're continuing to work with the council and we're hopeful that we can get it done.

Giles Morgan

We're in continuing dialogue and we're hoping it'll be resolved as soon as possible.

Ted Saskin

We spent the last four days in small group meetings continuing to review and negotiate various systemic and economic issues. The two sides will resume small group discussions on Monday in Toronto.

Bob Graham

We have no intention to let this incident preclude us from continuing those flights.

Charlie Munger

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.

Jim McCafferty

This theme is continuing and not just in the mining stocks, but in any related sectors. This is a macroeconomic trend.

Jeff Todd

We've got guys that are young. They're getting a lot of experience at the varsity level, but with a young team you see young mistakes. Still, I see we are continuing to improve.

Richard Nugent

Yep, ... We'll be doing it on, I don't want to say a regular basis, but a continuing basis.

David Padgett

We're just starting to play like the way we want to play and the way we need to play, just getting up and down, scoring in the 70s and 80s. I think we're just passing real well and continuing to get better every day.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Arne Duncan

Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

Derek Bok

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Denzel Washington

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Denis Waitley

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Kevin Dineen

We are looking forward to the playoffs, especially with the gritty effort we have put forth on the road this season. The playoffs feature a lot of excitement packed into a series and just get ready to rock with us in the playoffs.

Ehud Barak

We are at the start of a very intensive effort and, in a way, the last one in this round to try to reach a breakthrough,

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Adam Allen

We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is really true.

Chloe Sevigny

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chita Rivera

I never feel as though I'm ever, ever alone.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Houssaye Houssaye

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

Richard Browne

It's a big number, it's about 4 percent of personal income,

John Buchanan

A U.S. taxpayer is subject to income tax on their worldwide income, ... These schemes do not give you any relief from that legally.

David Resler

People are still planning to spend, and today's income numbers tell us that they have the wherewithal to do so.

Koji Kobayashi

The size of the income surplus is approaching that of the trade surplus, and this is a trend worth watching.

Ma Xiaohe

The slower increase of wages for migrant workers, to a large extent, hinders rural families' income growth.

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

Bruce Sonnenberg

These are single moms who can't make it, it's too hard. They have no income and no way to make money.

Ed Slott

You've got to watch your income this year like no other year, ... Your Tax Questions Answered.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Rep. Heaton

What we're offering is a three?year program to increase the funding.

Jeff Rubin

What we're looking at this year is an exponential increase in interest in alternative spring breaks.

Carol Evans

We're seeing a big increase in these benefits. Flexibility is the number one program parents are looking for in the workplace.

David Gray

We are already seeing an increase in milk consumption.

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Tracey Mills

What's on the increase is kids getting on mailing lists.

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Romano Prodi

It's the logical consequence of a wrong decision,

Bob Geldof

It was to do with politics, not just fundraising and utilizing those things through to its logical end, to the ultimate seat of power. ... I think that probably started with George.

John Wanous

That's logical because there is no connection, ... They're paid by the hour, not by performance. It's a (union-) negotiated wage.

Aristotle

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Michele Quinn

We were doing so much with them already. It seemed like the most logical step.

Jim Goodman

This seems like a logical use for this property.

Louis Freeh

We will pursue this matter, ... to whatever end, to whatever consequence, to whatever logical and just conclusion. And you have my promise that I will do whatever I can to see that occurs in the years to come.

Jochen Zeitz

Fashion is a logical place to start to raise awareness for sustainable causes.

Alan Woods

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

John Porter

It's tough. My mortgage there is $2,000, and my rent here is $2,350, so we're not doing much but working and paying the mortgage.

Suze Orman

Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

Jennifer Ellison

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

Jim Butcher

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

Julia Gillard

I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.

Martin Lewis

It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it.

Chris Gabrieli

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

Carol Rebello

I made all my payments on time, but I never got a mortgage bill.

Dexter Holland

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

Antonis Samaras

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

Denzel Washington

One failed experiment is one step closer to Success

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Kathleen Nash

We've been able to step things up in big games.

Kevin Haggerty

What we're really in here is a race, and we're usually one step behind,

Bryan Clay

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

Juwan Howard

With Tracy out of the game, we all had to step up.