Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Jennifer Jackson

The students are forced to be accountable for their actions and their grades every week and that forces them to show improvement.

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Vincent Van Gogh

There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don't k

Tom Rath

No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer.

Bob McGehee

We had a very successful year in 2005, with ongoing earnings of $3.33 per share, significantly exceeding our 2005 guidance of $2.90 to $3.20 per share. These positive results reflected the benefit of positive weather as well as actions our management took to manage costs.

Richard Boucher

Best of our knowledge at this time, none of these actions have actually been implemented,

William James

To make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy . . . we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.

Bill Gates

avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.

Ben Adams

(ADR) allows parties to control and design the outcome of their disputes by crafting creative solutions that avoid the randomness of trial decisions, ... Schedules can also be controlled, reducing business, professional and personal disruption.

Lynn Jurich

With Zipcar, consumers avoid the upfront cost of buying a car, not to mention gas, insurance, and repairs. Plus, they reduce the number of polluting vehicles on the road. Suddenly the planet-smart carless option is also the convenient money-saving option.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire, and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Donald Selkin

Cyclical stocks should really not do well if the economy is going to slow, and you can see, look at the cyclical components of the Dow, a stock like International Paper, Du Pont, all at multi-year lows. I really don't see much there, I would avoid them.

Melvin T. Reid

An investor is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in business, and how to avoid them.

Rig Veda

During times of war it is the responsibility of every citizen to inspire the valiant to engage them in war. One should avoid waiting for invitation. One should always be ready to strive for welfare of others. This is the path of truth itself.

Eric Fry

Even if it manages to avoid breaching its covenant this quarter, the company may not be able to forestall the debt-covenant day of reckoning much longer, as long as its EBITDA continues to erode, ... And that is the substance of our story - that Gap is flirting with a serious liquidity problem.

George McPhee

We have done everything we could to avoid this step, but we felt we had no choice but to now seek a legal remedy.

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

David Sanborn

The music is going to change anyway, whether or not the record companies get behind it or not. The music is there, and it's happening, and it's going on out there.

Mohammad Khatami

Something that pains me, and for which I pity the American people, is that their leaders have fallen behind the times. They are not living in their times,

Bob Mattison

Someone told me about the house with a shop behind it. We came up and thought it was ideal.

Toba Beta

Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone. When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none, or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

Tobias Levkovich

Tech has been the biggest factor behind the latest bull run, so the fact that stocks are down seems fairly reasonable. I hesitate to sit back and say this a great buying opportunity.

Roy H. Williams

Quentin had a tough night, but I still believe in him and still believe that he's going to be able to do some good things for us. He's got to put that behind him.

Lee Ferridge

It was a knee-jerk reaction after the reports of an earthquake. The logic behind the move is that a natural disaster in California could damage the U.S. economy.

Dave Vestal

It was a huge play. Playmakers make plays and he got a chance to come back and make one. That's the sign of a very good player, someone who is able to come right back off a disappointment and put it behind him.

Gregory Schulte

As a first step, we envision a call (by the council) for Iran to cooperate with the IAEA and take the steps identified by the board to restore confidence.

Hayley Hasselhoff

Straight sized boards are models size 0-6. Plus size boards are models starting at a 10. If a size 8 girl was 5' 11 and curvy, she'd be on the plus sized board, because there's nothing in between.

Larry Martin

One day, coming through town, I saw a for sale sign in the window of the former hardware store. I had members of the co-op board visit the location and we all thought this was a good place to try it.

Dan Fisher

This is ... a wonderful program and we have just touched the tip of the iceberg with the potential in this Greencastle community and we hope in the next year or two that others will jump on board with it.

Richie Adubato

That's where it all starts for us because they will pound the boards and create second shots for themselves, ... That has killed us at times this season. Our bigs have to box out and match up with them for us to have a chance.

William Scranton

We did not decide as a board to expand any of the lands for industrial use in South Wallingford.

Kathryn Blehart

We developed a team to select a board and took it to the commissioners and that's how the library (at its current location) got started.

Charles Peck

There is a push to make boards more diverse but people without large corporate salaries, such as academics, would be reluctant to become directors without guaranteed payment.

Jerry Friesen

We hope to make it a real success and get people on board to have a fun and fit holiday.

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Joe Gillis

What we've done is we've closed the units to outside visitors in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.

Jeff Allen

I can't even get in to watch it. I have been wanting to. But, it's a closed debate.

Cristian Zorzi

It didn't seem real, it seemed like a dream. I closed my eyes several times to try to see if I was dreaming.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Ed Bailey

We may have actually closed it early than it needed to be, but we picked a date that we knew would not be interrupted. We planned events all the way through to the end with a large plan for the last run up to the closing.

Gerald Johnson

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Mordechai Vanunu

After that I didn't develop the films. I keep them closed because I knew that if I develop them, someone can report me to the Shin Bet.

Bo Ryan

It's kind of like the free throws we've given up. We've lost a couple games because (against) Michigan and Northwestern, they (didn't) miss a free throw down the stretch. We just closed out (a victory) the same way.

Jeff Fager

People don't want to leave it. They want to stay, even though covering Katrina has been so difficult and painful in so many ways.

Dan Hill

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

Tracy Byrd

I wanted big landscapes and mountains and things and it ends up the cover doesn't have a mountain it,

Lois Schiffer

Royal Caribbean's crimes -- including dumping oil into our oceans, lying about it and trying to cover it up by obstructing justice -- are serious offenses that require serious punishment.

Donna Doherty

It was very forgiving at that time, there were a lot for women in the sport and covering it. It is the hardest sport to cover in terms of accessibilitythere are no teams and some players just don't have any incentive to talk to the pressbut there were great people to work with.

Alexis Curry

They always cover the floor well and they dig well. Our strength is our outside hitters and they defend the outside hitters as well as anyone. What they lack in height they more than make up with their service and by covering the floor.

Yoko Ono

they always cover Paul's songs and never mine.

Jack White

The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

Rajesh Balkrishnan

The women who used foundations to cover these kinds of marks reported having a lower health-related quality of life than did the women who didn't wear the same kind of makeup.

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.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Hosni Mubarak

These elections come at a turning point in the history of our country, which is facing new challenges,

Teodoro Petkoff

Elections without any opposition and with low turnout aren't good for anyone, not least the government, which should evaluate the anti-democratic impact.

David Brehm

There is no immediate rush for a special election.

Craig Jenness

The United Nations is of the view that these elections were transparent and credible.

Callum Henderson

The expectation is that Koizumi will win by a reasonable majority, that reforms will go forward and the opposition to the Japan Post sale will be crushed.

Marisa Etmanski

The premier didn't mean to say that there would be national elections for senators this fall. He clarified (to me) that there would be discussions this fall on Senate elections.

Mohammed Habib

If the elections had taken place in a good way, like the first stage, 35 of those would have won.

Joschka Fischer

Germany is going to vote for the resolution. It is important now to stick to the schedule that is to lead to free and fair elections by January 2005 at the latest.

Brigalia Bam

It is encouraging to note the overwhelming interest by South Africans in voting even after six successive elections.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Sumner Redstone

We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment,

Barbara Stewart

It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Christopher Cox

Our purpose here today is to help investors keep an eye on how much of their money is being paid to the top executives who work for them. It is about wage clarity, not wage controls.

Angela Ahrendts

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

Anthony Carmona

Don't we realise that the student of today is the executive of tomorrow?

Caterina Fake

We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

The Eagles

It's been a total headache, ... We had trouble getting officials because the state (LHSAA) ruled New Orleans officials were unacceptable this season because they have not been going to their weekly meetings and they are supposed to be working for other associations in Thibodaux and Hammond.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Shane Carruth

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

George Henderson

I am very appreciative the members thought enough of me to make me their president.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

Frances Wright

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family...

Sellapan Ramanathan

My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Brenda Smith

The right tools can really open up Scripture to you.

Dean Acosta

That's not the way we operate here at NASA. We promote openness and we speak with the facts.

Richard Daynard

At this point, it's really open season on the industry,

Svetlana Kuznetsova

This year, I've wanted to go out and play like (the) U.S. Open champion. I put too much pressure on myself and tried to be too good.

Peter Graf

We're very opportunistic when it comes to open source.

Taylor Dayne

We were raised to be open to unusual and culturally different art.

Jon Evenson

We want to be open with the public.

Kay Yow

Offensively, we never got it going. We didn't play well on the inside. We didn't play well on the outside ... (FSU) played very well defensively.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

David Rossi

At this point in the semester our students would have already been suspended outside of school 700 days.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Mike Parks

We just had one today outside a restaurant.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Jackie Kennedy

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

John Reynolds

He's outside the country, and we'll make him stop right away.

Tim Shea

One of the things I'm trying to do, and we all need to do, is look outside our public schools.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Claire McCaskill

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Michio Kaku

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Glen Richardson

I am very pleased. This is a win for public schools.

M. Wolfe

Are they going to have Victoria's Secret selling underwear?

Carson McCullers

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Anthony Trollope

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Dustin Pedroia

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

Doug Liman

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

Anne Rice

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

David Foster Wallace

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

Alice Foote MacDougall

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Anais Nin

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.