Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kovacs

This is the first time going back to 1890 in which the key assets of the company to be broken up consist of human beings and ideas. Who can predict what these people will do, and how effective the entities will be?

George Goncalves

Let's take it one step at a time. Let's take the 30-year and see how that goes. We haven't had such long- duration assets in five years, so let's not go from one extreme to the other.

Richard Jerram

Generally what needs doing with them is the assets need selling and they need to be closed down.

Bruce Schneier

But with that connection comes new threats: malicious hackers, criminals, industrial spies. These network predators regularly steal corporate assets and intellectual property, cause service breaks and system failures, sully corporate brands, and frighten customers,

Britton Banowsky

Houston certainly has the assets to support a major-college bowl game. The market is very important to us.

Brenda Buster

How can you morally support a bill that allows government to pawn our state assets like a junkie each time it needs fast cash?

Ben Bernanke

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

Thomas Shannon

I don't know if Seattle had the assets or the queer community to make it a reality. There was an informal need but it wasn't the right time.

Tom Anderson

Most of this country's wealth is in real estate and small business ownership. And investors over 40 are clamoring for the tax-deferred or tax-free benefits of holding their tangible assets in IRA accounts.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Jiang Zemin

The Chinese nation will realize a great rejuvenation,

Hu Jintao

The Chinese motherland and the people are proud of you!

Theresa Hitchens

The Chinese military has enormous stress about U.S. space plans at large. There is a debate about what they should do.

Chuck Schumer

The Chinese manipulate their currency and the administration should not have ducked the issue,

Michael Griffin

The Chinese have offered an opportunity ... to discuss cooperation.

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.

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.

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.

Dana Gardner

Technologies are being developed at a faster and faster pace, and that disrupts companies and markets constantly. Companies will have to reinvent themselves, and they will have to do it in two years, not five. Things are better, but there will not be much of an opportunity for tech companies to sit on their laurels.

Bob McDonald

Scores of foreign companies have tried to establish themselves in Japan, and scores have failed, ... But if we can win in Japan, we can win anywhere.

Ralph Mendoza

Safety of home medication is a key health issue for governments, consumers, and sustainability-driven companies around the world.

Patricia Chadwick

Right now, we're just digesting. The market is waiting for companies to start saying that future quarters are going to look better.

Keith Butler

He's just a good guide. He encourages us, but it's really what we put in to the workout.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

John Ryding

Energy prices do matter, especially to the public's perception of inflation.

Peter Beutel

Every time energy prices triple we have a major recession in 1½ to 2 years.

Tony Fadell

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

Troy Mattson

We tried today, we just didn't have the energy. We should have won one of these games this weekend. We lost a lot of energy because of our short bench.

Arron Afflalo

We just played with a lot of energy at the end. Obviously, it was desperation time. We were very fortunate tonight.

Jake Krause

We just stressed that the kids had to have more energy. They were a little lackadaisical in the first half.

Rafer Alston

We have to find a way to shoot better at home. We have to have more intensity and more energy and less mistakes.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Edmund Burke

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Edward Norton

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

Edward Snowden

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

Edward Snowden

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

Billy Crystal

I'm married - I've caught my limit.

Ray Stevens

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

Stirling Moss

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

Marianne Williamson

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

Mac Thornberry

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I push myself to the limit.

George Eliot

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Arnold Rothstein

There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Rosa DeLauro

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Thomas Friedman

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Peter DeFazio

There is no free market in oil.

Sherwood Boehlert

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

Nigella Lawson

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

Miranda Kerr

I will not go a day without coconut oil. I personally take four tablespoons per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.

Michael Moore

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

John Pomfret

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Roy Oswalt

They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.

Tony Curtis

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

Steve Martin

All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

Sam Levenson

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

Tim O'Reilly

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

Vanna White

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

Vanna Bonta

Pay me for my work, but I dont do it for the money

Suzanne Collins

Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Frank Verrastro

My sense is there's going be another price spike.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Rachel Barnard

You can't put a price on that kind of publicity. It's huge.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Michael Right

It's not a question of if, but when (the price will drop).

Malayan Proverb

If you have, give; if you lack, seek

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.