Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Bruener

As a member of the organization, I have to roll with it, accept the change and know that we have to move on,

Adrienne Clarkson

A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society.

David Hawkins

No question, they're being tougher, more comprehensive in their audits, ... They're actually auditing transactions, rather than just auditing by interview. They're less tolerant of weaknesses in internal control systems, and not as ready to accept management explanations.

Pat Hayes

Once we get the public's acceptance on it, we're going to save some money. We've all used a pop machine, it's not that difficult, but people are still having problems with it.

Paul Thurrott

Apple moved to the Intel platform because of the future. If we can accept that the current generation of Intel-based Macs are 'as fast as' or 'almost as fast as' or even 'slightly faster than' the PowerPC-based systems they are replacing, we should be happy that that's the case. Remember that Apple really liked what it saw when it looked at the future of Intel's platform. They saw not just dual core chips, but multi-core chips. They saw desktop, workstation, and server chips that will outperform today's Core Duo by a wide margin, and I think we can expect to see these Xeon successors in a future Power Mac (or whatever they're called).

Jillian Aarsvold

A real man can see your problems & accept you for them; if he really cared, he would help you to the best of your abilities. A real man would not care how similar or different you are either; if he really cares he will hold you high in both his heart & mind no matter what you are or arent.

Ghassan Khatib

Arafat will not accept and cannot accept a final solution and an end of Palestinian claims if it doesn't include a solution to the issues of Jerusalem and refugees.

Terry Taylor

Any stories and photos produced by AP staffers belong to AP. We cannot accept this attempt by the LPGA to put such severe limits on AP's editorial use of its own work, and we can't accept any demand that AP provide free use of its material as a condition for being allowed to cover an event.

Lee Youngblood

The senator does not believe Mississippi or the rest of the nation will accept this.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

John Gerzema

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Chuck D.

Companies are willing to pay a higher price to be in those locations.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Joseph Beaulieu

Companies that do really well either minimize something like prices, or maximize something like luxury. It's the companies in the middle that are going to be squeezed.

John Caldwell

Companies that are reporting good results are being rewarded, but it's not really having too much of a carryover effect into other stocks,

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Takashi Ushio

Right now, the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results. But investors are also in something of a wait-and-see mood, as we have earnings from industrial electronics firms tomorrow.

Brian Gendreau

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

Walter Winnitzki

These stocks are pretty much earnings driven. If the earnings come through, I think the stocks are going to move higher and, on balance, I think we are in a healthy environment, which bodes well for stocks in this whole group.

Donald Selkin

The stocks that are benefiting most from better earnings are the small and mid-cap ones.

Rolf Elgeti

The valuations are still not a problem, earnings remain strong, M&A is still in the picture, interest rates in Europe are still not a threat, and this should help markets go higher.

Andrew Walker

This earnings increase is the highest we have seen since 1999. It has been growing much faster than inflation.

Howard Stringer

Sony BMG did not intend to punish the consumer.

Phil Gramm

Quite frankly, I'd rather go to the dentist. But I intend to go,

Gary Condit

I've been married for 34 years, and I intend to stay married to that woman as long as she'll have me.

Joseph Fuiten

This isn't something we intend to just let slide. In the view of a lot of evangelicals, they have overstepped their bounds. It's muscle time.

Edward Brooke

I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.

Alan Pardew

That's what I intend to do as soon as possible.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Jacob Frenkel

Not that (the justices) intended it that way. But it has that effect.

Ian Thorpe

It's not out of the question, but at the moment I intend to retire in Beijing.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Timm Bechter

There could be a lot less spending. Most of the network build-out for larger telecom players is already done,

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Dave Scott

It's a larger fumigation, but it wasn't the most challenging we've done.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Sarah Clarke

There are more than 786,000 uninsured people in the state of Maryland, and less than one-half of 1 percent works for Wal-Mart.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Mark Pope

Every year, when I'm with a new team, that's one less team that doesn't know that I can't play.

Richard Rose

The results are less important than what's going on in Rajasthan.

George Rupp

The result is that we are less prepared than we would like to be for what could be a very serious humanitarian emergency.

David Wright

There's going to be a lot less pressure on Carlos this time around. That's why it doesn't matter where I hit. This team is going to score runs, period.

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Jim Pate

We'll need no less than 10 volunteers a day and no more than 25 a day, and they must be prepared to be self-sufficient for one to two weeks.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Ayatollah Ali

Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Ross Mayfield

SAP really does the opposite of what we do.

Joe Girardi

The Yankees, usually they have one of the 25-man roster they're not sure who they're taking. We have like two that we know we're taking. It's about as opposite as it can be.

Archibald MacLeish

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Daniel Handler

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

Dan Barker

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

Edmund Burke

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Eckhart Tolle

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Ronald Reagan

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Steve Robinson

That's what we want to do. We want to put some pressure on and just run, run, run.

David Eckstein

That's what we try to do, put pressure on the other pitcher.

Paul Brinkman

This puts a lot of pressure on us. It is unfortunate, but that is the way it is. It could be pretty rough for students.

Carnie Wilson

If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Ari Graynor

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Derrick Brooks

We wanted to stop Willis McGahee. If he's able to run the football, then that takes a lot of pressure off a young quarterback.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Karen Friel

That doesn't matter. I would rather stay away from them this time of year.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Keira Knightley

I can't actually walk, but I can stand rather well.