Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Creech

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

Natalie Merchant

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Peter Kreeft

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

Peter Gabriel

It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

Phoebe Snow

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

Phyllis McGinley

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Philip Pullman

You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

Kofi Annan

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Les Paul

No, working is what will keep you alive.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Kevin Caron

We've held out that, as you move through the third-quarter earnings, the companies that report will show strong growth, ... Stock prices have been so compressed that it give investors reason to step in and pick up stocks at depressed prices.

Rick Billy

We expect the sum of the two companies to be worth meaningfully more than the current price.

Bruce Lanni

We don't think oil prices are going to rebound sharply. I think the deal that Mobil's doing is suggesting just that. I think most companies are hunkering down and they expect that prices are going to remain low for the next possibly one to three years. In this event, you may start to see more mergers occur.

Sam Stovall

We think investors should own companies like Wal-Mart, like Alberto-Culver and Neighbors Industries because they have good fundamental prospects in a recovering economy,

Amy Martin

We're going to be a virtual network of companies existing primarily in cyberspace.

Ralph Mervine

We're very encouraged that there is this much interest. Normally, these companies don't even consider a project that's less than $500 million.

Michael Dell

We see a healthy industry in the year ahead, ... Major demand drivers, including processor transitions and component cost reductions, remain solid, and consolidation is separating top companies such as Dell from the rest of the field.

John Bruton

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Heather Casey

I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did with her hands got her something she wanted.

Frank Martin

I'm at peace with understanding that I'm at a crossroads. I'm at peace understanding that it comes with the profession. ... But whenever you face the possibility of change, there's always a nervousness to it. We all want stability.

Ray Smith

Thats part of playing the professional game, ... Youre going to face good opposition day in and day out ... and thats why you value every at-bat. You want to make every out a tough out.

Tony Russa

It makes it a lot more personal, ... I mean, whoever you're facing, you know professionally what's at stake. But when you face a guy who's been such a great teammate, we have experienced so much together, it makes it a lot more personal.

Sidney Crosby

It's frustrating. I go out for five minutes, come back in and get hit in the face from the same guy.

Lilla Crawford

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

Kabir Bedi

There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

Pat Summitt

That's a slap in your face. It's a slap in our program's face ... and I don't understand it.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Dan Harmon

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

Douglas Coupland

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

Adam Savage

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Adam Carolla

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

Adam Carolla

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

Anna Wintour

Go get a job. Whether it’s working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it’s a reality of life. In the end it’s going to be helpful to you and so many others.

Angus T. Jones

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

David Harvey

The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Andrew Pyper

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Anne F. Beiler

To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

Chuck Reed

We need those officers. We pay them well in order to keep them, and that's why they got raises.

Kathleen Huddy

Unfortunately, over the years, manufacturers and retailers, in order to sell more sheets, have pushed thread count.

Rita Mae Brown

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

Thomas Browne

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Robert McNamara

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

Richard Branson

Consider getting smaller in order to get bigger.

Michael Caine

You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

Mason Cooley

Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

Mason Cooley

Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.

Michael Gove

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

Michael Chabon

As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.

Michael Josephson

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do

Martin Sorrell

If I were to be super critical, I would say Formula One is too tactical and not strategic enough. And that brings us back to the digital issue: you may have to invest in order to gain - sacrifice some short-term effects in order to make high returns in the future.

Martha Raddatz

I cant pretend to be objective when it comes to service or sacrifice.

Mark Ruffalo

Activists must be admired for the sacrifices they are willing to make for those things they hold dear. I would say those kinds of ways of looking at life enrich the value of life, and that is a good thing.