Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Verlaine

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

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.

Henrik Rasmussen

There's no trodden path here. We can't go back and look at what other companies have done because no other company has done this.

Emery Simon

There's nothing companies hate more than unpredictability. Injunctive relief poses a very disruptive force to our industry.

Bob Master

The trends are all the same here, that no matter how profitable these companies get, they still are trying to downgrade these jobs. That's what we are trying to draw the line against. And we hope that the public will understand.

Ernie Goss

The trend in economic reports from supply managers in our survey has been fairly positive since October of last year following some of the negative shipping impacts from Hurricane Katrina. Companies with strong ties to the state's growing ethanol industry reported solid growth for February but were very optimistic about future economic growth for this sector.

Kirby Jones

The travel industry is sitting on the last virgin territory in the entire world. Americans want to go there for the same reason that dozens of companies around the world have. There's money to be made.

Charles Gallagher

What happens is that companies usually don't plan succession,

Jim McCamant

What happened is we went through a long period that was very difficult for biotech companies to raise money. Once this window opened, a lot of people decided that they would go ahead.

Jim Farrell

What did these insurance companies think? It's not a . . . toothache where you can pull the tooth and be done with it.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Donald Brashear

I had my hands down and he threw a big left hand at me and he got me. He got me buzzing. You learn quick that if you keep your hands down, you better get them up quick.

Friedrich August von Hayek

In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.

Katherine Heigl

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

James Martineau

We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.

James Macdonald

When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision of our sovereign God.

James Macdonald

While you can't keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in its face. With God's promise in your hand, that's exactly what you are able to do.

James Madison

The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Judy Cornett

I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.

Dwyane Wade

The triple-double is nice and all. But I wish I could have done more to help my team win.

David Reeves

These kids need a breakthrough. They are ready. We just need to help them get one. I think it will open the floodgates.

Kwame Kilpatrick

You've got to help me solve those problems, ... We need each other in this city, in this region and in this state more than we've ever needed each other before. But the region can only be strong if you have a strong Detroit.

Orrin Hatch

You've acted, I think, with the highest honor as White House counsel. I stand ready and willing to help you.

Ron Garrett

And she got some help with makeup to give her more of a Vegas look and feel.

Sean Howard

And I would tell our vanguard organization leaders back home: stop holding press conferences, get down here and roll up your sleeves and help the people.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Howard Rheingold

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Hyman Rickover

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

Gloria Naylor

The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.

James Gleick

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!

J. R. R. Tolkien

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

William Goldman

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

Waylon Jennings

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

William Stafford

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

Walter Gilbert

I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. ... Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument .

Walter Gilbert

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

Winston Churchill

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Winston Churchill

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Rhonda Byrne

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.