Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Sandy Baum

What it means is that they'll have to borrow a little more money and repay it at a higher interest rate.

Seymour Cassel

Many people came out and said, 'Boy I'd love to make a film that way.' Well, borrow some money, get some people together - you can get people to work for nothing, just treat them right, treat them as human beings, not stars, give them all an equal share, make them feel a part of what they're doing. There's no big secret to it.

Scottish Proverbs

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Dambisa Moyo

I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

M. Wolfe

It all comes down to the question of do you want to borrow the money, ... or have the money up front.

Leon Panetta

I think they're facing the largest challenge I've seen in recent history, in terms of an administration having to decide whether they continue to borrow and spend, or whether they face up to very difficult choices that have to be made to discipline the budget. I think we'll find out in the next few months what that decision is going to be.

Don Rahn

You can borrow more, but you still have to pay it back.

Brian Orol

You can borrow for college, but you can't borrow for retirement.

Mark Harmon

As an actor, you don't always know where a role is going, and part of the fun of playing this guy is that it changes and he continues to challenge me.

Eric Brown

Do you wish to challenge the legality of the extradition warrant issued for you by the governor?

Steve Campbell

Co-Lin has a great coaching staff with a lot of great athletes. It will be a challenge for us.

Mark Frauenfelder

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Howard Stern

Putting together this morning radio network was the greatest pride of my life, ... When they said I couldn't do it, I said 'You're all insane.' How do you not challenge the future? How do you not challenge this industry? I can't imagine why you would want to do it.

Thad Allen

Quite clearly, the No. 1 challenge right now is more pumping capacity.

Brian Sullivan

The scale of the challenge means that everything is on the table.

John Callas

The rovers went through all of the Martian seasons and are back to late summer. We're preparing for the challenge of surviving another Martian winter.

Don Montgomery

Theroretically, I think W&J is better than it was last year. I know all about their receivers and other skill players. It's a great challenge for us.

Benjamin Cardozo

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Brendan Fraser

Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.

Channing Tatum

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Jamie Bamber

When you start a new project, you wonder whether its the right choice.

Bojana Novakovic

I just want choices. Its not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; thats the last thing I want.

Anton Yelchin

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

Atul Gawande

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Dusty Baker

Back in our day, they called this 'salary drive,' ... Try and continue to have a good year and win as many games as you can win. You are playing for respectability right now. What I'm looking for is you play hard and play for love of the game and respect and try to finish as high as you can.

Hines Ward

A thousand yards? If that's how you judge me as a football player, then you need to continue judging me. Me not hitting 1,000 yards doesn't mean I'm any less of a receiver. This year, it was all about me ... playing consistent.

Richard Thompson

A thousand opinions by a court that a particular scientific theory is invalid will not make that scientific theory invalid. It is going to be up to the scientists who are going to continue to do research in their labs that will ultimately determine that.

Greg Salvaggio

As long as these investors continue to put money into our paper, does the inversion matter?

Donald Rumsfeld

As long as there remains a need to keep terrorists from striking again, a facility will continue to be needed,

Michael Chertoff

As long as the president wants me to continue to do that work and thinks I can make a contribution, I'm going to stay at my post.

Gerhard Schroeder

Ratification must continue. We must decide what to do at the end of that process,

Lord Mansfield

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

David Solin

A rate hike is not by any means off the table. The Fed may decide to make an insurance move of one-quarter point in June.

Emilio Butragueno

The situation of the team was such that it was decided we needed a change. The performance wasn't up to expectations. It was worrying for us and Madrid supporters.

Alexander Rumyantsev

The situation now is plain genocide. Genocide is when doctors have to decide who gets and who doesn't get medicine ... because they don't have enough. That's fascism.

Mitch McConnell

The Senate last week decided it wanted to go down this road, so my view is if the majority of the Senate wants to go down this path, let's make sure it's effective," ()

Chris Rupkey

The selling abated, prices stabilized and people decided the path of least resistance is up.

Niranjan Shah

The selectors decided this at a meeting on Friday night.

Edward Fleming

The shots just didn't go in. The inside game wasn't getting open so we decided to shoot it. I didn't think we were patient enough.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Neil Lebovits

During Presidential campaigns, politics is a highly sensitive matter, right up there with religion, and whether to talk politics at work is kind of a political decision in and of itself,

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Ron Gardenhire

A regular, everyday guy, yeah, were going to have one. But I don't have to make that decision until Opening Day.

Thomas Steg

A possible tie-up between EADS and Thales...would be a decision for the management of the respective companies, not one which would be steered by politicians.

Stan Heath

Auburn is a difficult team to play because they have so many different defenses. We wanted to make sure we had a high energy level. I thought we responded pretty well in the second half.

Rene Portland

Our energy was not the same. Ohio State pressured us defensively and made it difficult for us. Our offense never got going.

William A. Ward

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Conard Fowkes

Actors don't do a good job worrying about their finances. It's difficult because you do not work consistently week after week. You may be very well paid for a job that lasts 10 weeks. Then you're unemployed and you haven't put any money aside.

Robert Montgomery

The momentum is increasing for a national program. This is especially important because it offers hope to patients who have compatibility issues that make it difficult for them to find suitable donors.

Doretha Edgecomb

An emphatic yes or no would be difficult at this time.

Joel Silver

The size of Audubon's anthologies made them difficult to carry, move around and store.

Jan Vandemoortele

The situation remains difficult but it's not critical. The rains and snow often make it miserable but not unmanageable.

Kevin Petrovek

Sometimes you see the talent that a kid doesn't see in himself. Ninety percent is just working out. If kids don't run enough miles, they don't get better. It takes time and discipline and putting in the mileage. After that, the races become the easy part.

Danny Sabbah

You need a unified view of what's going on. If you can't impose structure and discipline on (developer) practitioners, you're subject to chaos.

Bertrand Russell

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Celine Dion

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

Billy Blanks

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

Charles Peguy

The references you do not verify are the good ones.

Elihu Root

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

Swami Ramdas

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ray Giacoletti

As the head coach, I retain the right to discipline my players for a variety of reasons.

H. Auden

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

Jose Theodore

People talk a lot about Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh showed tonight they're really a good team. They have so many skilled players, it's scary to face them.

Fernando Ferrer

Oh, he went into the valley to do battle, and all the smart money was on Goliath. And, then, who had to face 'em?

Moises Alou

Anything can happen in the playoffs, especially when you face good pitching,

Armon Johnson

After a while, I think we got a hand in his face and cooled him down a little. But he's a great player. It's tough to stop a shooter when he gets hot like that.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

C.C. Sabathia

Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who we are. We don't have to see our faces on TV every night. As long as we're playing in October.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Ted Shaw

Quite a few of the men I've recommended for release have failed, and I've had to face that.

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Bobby Holik

The most important thing is limiting the goalie equipment. The last ten years, I was looking at the goal and there was nothing to shoot at. It was like facing a wall.

Lori Wada

You must register. Otherwise, you will be facing this kind of prison term.

Tommy Thompson

We have a real serious problem facing us in America. It's nothing to get real worried about, just be careful. If you are out, make sure you put some mosquito repellent on,

Ron Gardenhire

We were facing one of the better righthanders in the league tonight. We knew it was going to be tough, runs would be at a premium. He made it really tough on us. We really didn't have many opportunities.

Geoffrey Smith

We don't want people to panic, but they need to realize we're facing a very grave situation.

Brian Dawkins

We mixed it up. When you're facing that kind of coverage, maybe (Moss) doesn't go out and run like he usually would run. In his mind, he's thinking, well, I can't get past. It takes a weapon away from that offense.

Paul Wolfowitz

We are in a new era, we are facing new risks, and we must have new capabilities, ... As an alliance, we have never been stronger.

Jonathan Crisp

Let her go home, send her home, ... She will probably in all likelihood be facing this stigma for the rest of her life.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Dave Tragethon

People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be full. There are people who come up, make a few runs, come in and party a little bit, then go back out. Then there's those who come just for dinner, the party and the fireworks.

Lori Wachs

People pulled it off with few true disappointments.

Andre Caminada

People are taking some profit because it (the index) rose strongly over the last few days; that's normal.

Lorenzo Romar

People, for some reason, just because Arizona's lost a few games, think that they're down. They're crazy. They've kind of hit a stride. They're very good.

John Biggs

People come in and pawn a few things to get back and forth from work.

Enrique Pena Nieto

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Robert McKinley

If you're looking to transfer a $5,000 balance, you need to look to the largest issuers.

Dan Woods

The largest need right now is to move students out of there,

Joel Silver

(The) four-volume set is the largest project of its kind done up until its time.

Martin Winterkorn

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.

Howard Stern

Yeah, OK, Michael, ... That's why I've received the largest fines in history.

Kevin Nelson

We had 80 entries for the parade and about 150 vehicles and floats. This is probably the largest parade we have ever had.

Mark Hoppus

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

Wayne Pivac

I've been in touch with Nicky and will be doing the same over the months to come.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Granger Whitelaw

Now that we're headquartered here, you may see some announcements in the months to come.

Mark Gray

For three months prior to the event, we were printing around the clock.

John Stone

For three months now, we've had nothing but positive reaction.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Carl Willis

Tell me the youngest person you have ever seen play this game.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Claire Foy

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

Albert Jones

I seen somebody shoot. I can't tell you who it was.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Imtiaz Ali

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

Joanna Garcia

You have to be with the right person. It's so much more important to meet the right person, whether you're married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.