Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Smith

The bucket doesn't get filled up without the drops. We have acquired 23,000 acres, that leaves 130,000 (acres) to go.

Dennis Ross

They acquire a kind of a momentum and we have to blunt that. I would like to see the president talk much more about those kinds of stakes because this is a way to explain what we're contending with, what we're fighting.

Jon Katz

I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.

Tori Amos

You can't control your popularity; I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go a lot more places, but I'm not.

Jose Canseco

Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what way, shape, or form, and when, and with what supplements? Yes. Absolutely.

Peter Latham

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

Pat Riley

We are very fortunate to have been able to acquire a player of Gary Payton's stature, ... He is a proven veteran and will be a big addition to this team.

Pat Riley

We are very fortunate to have been able to acquire a player of Gary Payton 's stature. He is a proven veteran and will be a big addition to this team.

Christine Pisan

This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose of developing her intelligence, or raising her heart to serious things, not of widening her field of ambitions, dethroning man

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Glenn Loury

I was a hot commodity, ... Being African-American didn't hurt me - I was one of the leading young theoretical economists of the generation.

Lakshman Achuthan

The not-too-hot, not-too-cold 'Goldilocks' economy envisaged by many economists could turn out to be a mirage.

James Glassman

Usually economists are figuring things out after the fact, especially the Fed chairman.

Edmund Phelps

In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.

Andrew Buchan

I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Baltasar Gracian

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

Billy Bragg

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Rita Moreno

I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.

Tony Blair

I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Uzi Landau

We must not give in to the prime minister's regime of intimidation.

Kamisese Mara

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

Mahatma Gandhi

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.

Dan Zimmerman

This is the prime time right now. They're there.

Ray Waddell

There is no substitute for the live experience,

Deepak Chopra

Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet.

Andrew Carnegie

Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"

Andre Gide

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

Patti Page

The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...

Gordon Bethune

The substitute for knowledge is money.

Phil McGraw

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Joan Bonvicini

We didn't have a lot of options. We tried to substitute as much as we could.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Jamie Dimon

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Bruce Henderson

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Edmund Hillary

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Britney Spears

Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.