Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely aligned as possible, with both an upside and a downside component. Too often, people talk about interests being aligned when the directors get the upside and shareholders get the downside.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be a good major league player. It's just that the time frame didn't align with how this team has matured.

Steve Crampton

What you have is an alignment of cases -- of the stars, if you will -- in favor of a dramatic shift in the U.S. Supreme Court that certainly holds great promise for the preservation of life.

Derek Walker

He's a rubber stamp for the national Republican agenda. That's going to be the fundamental choice in this campaign: a person who's going to align themselves with President Bush or a man or woman who's going to represent Marylanders.

Fabian Nunez

History will show that Gov. Schwarzenegger had a chance to end the last vestige of legal discrimination in our state, ... Instead of choosing the way of the future the governor has aligned himself with the enemies of equal rights for all.

Russ Blackburn

It could just be the alignment of the stars.

Dan Levitan

I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.

Martin Jacques

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Adam Schlesinger

We take the concept of corporate responsibility seriously and think it deserves more than lip service. For Audubon Condominium at Feather Sound we chose to align with the Make-A-Wish-Foundation because they do such a remarkable job in making wishes come true for children with life-threatening medical conditions.

Keith Urban

I wrote it and God said 'Well, I'm gonna' hang on to them and when you're going through this I'll give it back to you.' And that's exactly what happened.

Michael K. Powell

Keeping the rules exactly as they are, as some so stridently suggest, was not a viable option, ... Without today's surgery, the rules will assuredly meet a swift death.

Joe Clabby

I think it's a huge step in the right direction. It's exactly what they should be doing.

Kirk Smith

It always does increase in the winter, we don't know exactly why.

Matthew Johnson

He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist. He took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.

Matthew Johnson

He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist, ... He took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.

Todd Pletcher

He was a fresh horse and ran exactly the way we wanted him to.

Robert Dallek

He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal.

Janet Brown

He wanted to be exactly where he was when he made that phone call.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Erin Horn

I think it'll be a good series. We've faced good pitchers before and we did fine.

Jerry Hairston

Guys like Nomar (Garciaparra) and (Todd) Walker, we faced him in the American League, and we're like, 'I don't remember him being like that.'

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Kyle Davis

(Harang) helped by botching up the first two pitches. Then, I was going for the strikeout. I felt good about facing Freel because I've faced him in the minor leagues.

Jimmy Page

I think when you're faced with a plight that's inescapable, and there's something you can do about it, you hope you can make a difference.

Ray Nagin

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.

Robert Eenhoorn

When he went the second time through the lineup I thought it would be hard to get a hit off him. He faced hitters like Carlos Lee, and these hitters are usually very good making adjustments after seeing a pitcher for the first time.

Chuck Fehr

We've faced some good pitchers, but some guys have also been pressing and putting too much pressure on themselves. We finally had a good day at the plate.

Kathleen Hanna

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Robert Bennett

I would say so. It's part of my life.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Stanley Hauerwas

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Mark Fuhrman

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Tricia Helfer

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Roger Ebert

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

Henry Rollins

We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.

Kieron Dyer

Paul Scholes is literally on another planet

Paul Horowitz

It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets.

Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Pema Chodron

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

Sean Sweeney

I was kind of thrown in there after running scout team most of the year, and I wasn't really prepared,

Jay Jorgensen

keep the trains running smoothly and on time.

Robert Gilmore

It all starts with who we got running the country,

Andy Reid

He can run, ... This doesn't stop him from running the football.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Jack Pitney

It is 2006, and time is running out. There are only so many more setbacks he can absorb.

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Alex Jones

And everybody’s running around talking about ‘Zionists’ all day. Okay, just keep parroting that over and over again.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.