Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Victor Hobson

It would give us something to hold onto. We can't say, 'Wow, if we do this, we'll make the playoffs,' but to be a top-10 defense, that's no small accomplishment at all.

Ayn Rand

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

Powell Clayton

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Albert Camus

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Tom Lehrer

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

Smiley Blanton

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Charlie Denson

Nike soccer represents one of our top three businesses today, an incredible achievement from where we started in 1994. We have great momentum. In the past four years, we have more than doubled Nike's soccer business worldwide, and we have established brand leadership in the hearts and minds of consumers. We are confident that Nike product innovation and our connection to players and consumers will continue to drive significant growth.

Ed Sarpolus

People in Michigan, by a 2-to-1 margin, blame President Bush rather than the governor for Michigan's economic problems. While her job approval ratings are up from being below 50 percent in August through October, they are not at the 60 percent level she once had.

Chuck Todd

If he gets his approval ratings up to the mid-40s, then at least Republicans can fight on their own.

Bruce Myers

I think the contract started out at maybe $500,000, and they had a change order to get it to $700,000, but they ended up paying like $1 million, and there was no evidence of any other change orders or any other board approval for that last change.

Marvin J. Ashton

A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Chip Dickinson

The thing I like most out of our girls in both games is ... the girls didn't get down. Their maturity level between last year and this year is a phenomenal difference.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Dave Ramsey

Once you agree, then pinky swear and spit-shake that you will both stick to the budget.

Jane Lindskold

The sad thing is that, for many writers of fantasy fiction, the inclusion of magic seems to mean that logical ramifications and real-world laws both go out the window.

Dan Davis

The school records are both within reach for her. She's capable of going lower in the 800. We think she's capable of winning both of those events in the state meet, also.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Bob Corscadden

This is an invitation for people to get a better glimpse of who we are as a company and what we stand for.

Carol Bartz

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

Bill Smith

We have a pretty big house, so we didn't mind all the company. They had no place to go and we are all family, so we enjoyed each other's company for a while.

Steve Peterson

We're a small company with 130 people, and I think we probably had 40 people get involved in that.

Stephan Wulf

E.ON is optimizing how they deal with a good problem for a company to have: they have a lot of money and they have to find a use for it.

Winson Fong

Driven by national interests, the company will be on the lookout for acquisitions.

John Titler

Essentially, the whole thing is literally a refinancing mechanism. It's just pure plain and simple, the company needs to be recapitalized.

Robert Craig

Essentially, it was not a good deal for Onyx as a company and for Onyx's shareholders. We would have had to issue a huge number of shares, and the net effect would have been grossly diluted shareholder value.

Chu Sik

Excluding the exchange rate variable, the financial results were on the whole reasonable.

Gary Weiss

I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

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,

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.

Atsushi Osa

Most of the Japanese automakers have a lot of exposure in the U.S. and it's important for their overall performance how the U.S. market performs.

Bill Self

Today couldn't have been scripted much better for Kansas. This did a lot for our program from an exposure standpoint. Playing well was icing on the cake.

Flula Borg

More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Lee Humphrey

This is a new year, and a different team. We're looking forward to making a run.

Eric Patterson

The only time we'll have to play a Broward or Dade team is if we play them in the state championship. We're looking forward to that.

Gary Smith

Bret Harte stuck it to us last year. We learned a lesson. Our kids are looking forward to playing them again.

Saurav Ganguly

Now we look forward to the Test series.

John Lombardo

Now that I can taste third place in the championship, Ill be doing everything I can to keep it, ... Buttonwillow seems to be a track that suits our Van Diemen so Im really looking forward to getting back out there.

John Lombardo

Now that I can taste third place in the championship, I'll be doing everything I can to keep it, ... Buttonwillow seems to be a track that suits our Van Diemen so I'm really looking forward to getting back out there.

Peter Greene

Next week may be a little more challenging. We're really looking forward now to third-quarter profits and the market could be in a trading range until then.

Freddy Sanchez

Getting away from it all was nice. I'm looking forward to a fresh start.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Chuck Jones

CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

Prabal Gurung

I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally.

Sherry Sylvester

Neither man ever met a tax increase they didn't like.

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Andy Garcia

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Albert Einstein

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

David Wright

We had a lot of support from the state and from individual investors and from institutions.

Christina Hendricks

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Stephen McCausland

In order to get an individual profile, you have to register.

Chris Rawlinson

It's my point of view that it would be unfair for her to be picked (in the individual 400m) after last night's race and I know Jana agrees with that.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Kenneth Lay

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Greg Ryan

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

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.

Sean M. Carroll

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

Ben Mendelsohn

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

Ayn Rand

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Miley Cyrus

There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb

Bella Thorne

I like 'As Long As You Love Me' and 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber. It gets you moving - you just can't help it! And 'Teach Me How To Dougie' gets Zendaya and I every time.

Daniel Gilbert

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

Bobby Farrelly

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

Brit Marling

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

Eduardo Galeano

A pretty move, for the love of God.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.