Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Boyer

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

M. Thompson

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

Ken Tower

These are things that people can be nervous about and, yes, they're concerns. But let's face it: the world has trouble almost every day. It's probably not a major factor for our market.

John Pratt

The richest man in the world got wealthy even though his company sells almost nothing tangible.

Paige Patterson

This is definitely the most demanding role I've ever had. It's almost like a job. I've found myself having to do research and really work at this character. It's much harder memorizing lines when they're all in a thick Irish accent.

Asma Jehangir

This is definitely one of the most terrible stories I have ever heard and we deal with women victims of crime almost every day.

Rob Enderle

This is an initiative to create a high level of integration and is almost a complete reorganization of the Microsoft architecture, ... But I haven't seen anything new they've done that has gotten me excited.

David Koo

This is an exceptional period of time for astronomy, because for the first time we are able to combine data from almost all of the important wavelengths.

Ann Miller

This is an umbrella kind of conference, meaning we cover almost anything in communications. We'll ... have 18 different sessions focused on topics like wireless networking, security and quality of service.

J. Hoover

We've really worked hard and pushed ourselves. We've done a lot of team plans on bars and beam to emphasize consistency throughout the whole lineup, and I think that's shown us that we can work harder that we have been.

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Allen Kenitzer

This was very minor, based on the report, but we look into all crashes whether there are injuries or not.

Jon Mills

This was an unfortunate outcome but, based on the facts and circumstances that our providers had at the time of the case, their response and care were completely appropriate.

Casey Luskin

This was an unfortunate decision based on false fears. These people want to censor information from students.

Tom Kelly

We try use the right level of security based on each individual branch.

Bill Martin

We try to sell what we have based on the fact that it is a good deal. If someone's looking for a (gold) piece, now would be a better time to bargain-shop.

David Chon

With long-bond volatility , the dollar all over the map, and the Dow swinging from one extreme to the other based on perception of macroeconomic numbers, the question becomes how much (of) Latin equities do you want to trade in that kind of environment?

Patricia Ireland

We do not intend to encourage higher courts to consider and possibly create legal precedent that would injure everyday women in the workplace, based on the allegations and evidence of a politically charged case,

Kevin Towers

We felt we had a chance to compete based on the rest of the division,

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Mario Pescante

There will not be a change to the law, but we have found a solution to the law, a provision, something like that.

Jon Burnham

This is an incredible thing that's going on in these stocks and it's going to continue for a while until something happens to change it,

Ed Ableser

This is going to change my life a lot.

John Slenker

This is the big story - the change from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy.

Sami Moubayed

This is part of a grand picture of change to conduct political reforms that are needed and that have been demanded by Arabs, foreigners and Syrians for the past five years.

Bryan McCarty

The weather won't change anything for us. It should be fun for the kids.

Simon McBurney

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

Ken Anderson

This data isn't so out of line that you would expect any change in what the Fed's going to do.

James Joyce

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

James Russell Lowell

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

James Russell Lowell

Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

Luc de Clapiers

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

Longchenpa

Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

John Clare

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

Lurlene McDaniel

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.

John Betjeman

And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky

Robert De Niro

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

Samuel Johnson

Money confounds subordination.

Samuel Johnson

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

William Howard Taft

We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

Warren Buffett

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

Warren Buffett

The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.

Warren Buffett

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

Warren Buffett

Investing is simple, but not easy.

Warren Buffett

Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.

Chris Larsen

Some people would say we're being overly-conservative. But I say we're being realistic for our first year planning.

Source Unknown

Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.

Harry Wang

Some people will not be tolerant about this.

Jill Lepore

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

John Cassidy

Some people were frightened, ran to their basement, or ran out of doors.

Michelle Lombardo

Some people watched the show just because of the wardrobe, ... That's exciting.

Tracey Emin

Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Sigmund Freud

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Sigmund Freud

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

Neil Gaiman

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

John Tillotson

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

John Tillotson

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

John Stuart Blackie

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.