Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zhang Yadong

Our confidence are not based on the performances at the recent National Games and East Asian Games, but come from the disappointments over the last few years, like in Athens and at this year's worlds,

Alexis Herman

Of greatest concern to me is the relationship of the manufacturing sector to the Asian market and the need to bring stability to that area,

David Thurtell

Oil could ease back a bit today, though the hurricane season runs into November so we're not out of the woods yet. Asian demand is still pretty strong, so we're likely to see some buying if it goes much below $60.

Jeremy Stretch

The statement was a lot more forceful than the market was expecting and that has given Asian currencies a strong boost. Japan is going to have to tolerate a stronger currency, like the rest of the countries in the region.

Jens Nordvig

You're likely to see Asian currencies participate even more.

John Boultbee

We should be pleased to have avoided some of the heavyweights of Asian football. It's a good draw.

Haruhiko Kuroda

Now that many of the East Asian countries have enough reserves, there is no need to massively increase the reserves from here for many countries.

David Mitchell

People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

Ivor Heerden

We need to recognize we may be about to experience our equivalent of the Asian tsunami, in terms of the damage and the numbers of people that can be killed.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.

Jennifer Grey

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

Gore Vidal

As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.

Ayad Allawi

As far as Germany and France are concerned, really, this was a regrettable position they had, ... I don't think the Iraqis are going to forget easily that in the hour of need, those countries wanted to neglect Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld

normally ministers of defense visit countries where there's that type of activity.

Sue Kelly

The United States must remain ever-vigilant in finding and freezing terrorist money around the world, and we need to demand similar vigilance from all countries around the globe,

Audrey Tautou

When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I got more offers from different countries so it is great to have huge luxuries for an actor to work and to have the choice. But after, in life, I can't enjoy anonymity. But I can hide myself.

Alex Thiermann

Countries have far exceeded what is science-based and they have further complicated the losses to the industry.

Liu Jian

Countries around the world shoulder major responsibility for development.

Christopher Painter

Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws. But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

James Woolsey

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

David Steinberg

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

Argus Hamilton

Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

Benigno Aquino III

Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

Dave Uhrich

We did have some people place high, but for us it wasn't as much about placing as much as it was about just competing. In track you can measure how fast you run, how far you throw, or how high you jump week by week. So we were just looking at having everybody progress. Our ultimate goal is to have everyone be competitive at the Big East level.

Ben Harper

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

Doug Phillips

East Liverpool gave us all we wanted tonight,

Gordie Kerkman

East Aurora is struggling right now but if we have to play them next Friday, I'll guarantee you they'll be playing a lot better than they have the last month or so. It's going to be tough for us.

Tim Ross

We knew East wasn't going to lay down. We knew it was important to them, but it was important to us because we wanted to win.

Tara Walker

This was just one of the many goals we set for ourselves this year. The first goal was to get a bye into the Big East Tournament. Making the NCAA was the next goal. But the season isn't over. There is a lot more to be done.

Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.

Mark Knold

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

Maureen Allyn

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

Ralph Solveen

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

John Silvia

An economy in neutral has started to move forward.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

Mark Zandi

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Melinda Gates

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

Peter Drucker

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Simon Le Bon

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Tinie Tempah

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

Mike Grell

That's not even a question. You go with what you grew up with.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Lori Petty

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

Susan Linn

We all grew up with Scholastic. They are really thought of as educational.

Alkaline Trio

We all grew up skateboarding, ... I don't know that we were ever very good.

Phoebe Tonkin

I grew up on the beach. It's just a way of life. You don't seek out that lifestyle; it's just day-to-day.

Phoebe Tonkin

I grew up watching 'Dawson's Creek,' and I started watching 'The Vampire Diaries' when I was auditioning because I wanted to get a feel of it... then I totally got hooked!

Philippa Gregory

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.

Stanislas Wawrinka

I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.

Nate Feltman

The whole plan is a statewide plan, so Northwest Indiana has as much potential as any other part of the state.

Corey Maggette

I don't think Indiana is a better team than us. They just executed better than us.

Dee Brown

I'm just looking at Indiana on Sunday. You just have to worry about yourself. You have to win and see what happens.

Steve Alford

Indiana went about it a little different in how they did their search. I never got a phone call. I was never contacted.

Dayananda Saraswati

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

Anupam Kher

I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Steve Spurrier

What we know about them is they had a tough, struggling year last year, but that year is history.

Roy Hattersley

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Alderman Mokros

If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.

Jean Cocteau

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

Vlade Divac

but I couldn't find the ride that would take me there.

Laura Melisi

He couldn't get her out of his life. She wouldn't leave. She wanted everything, and he didn't know how to get rid of her because of her threats.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Kevin Mahaney

If you're going to ride a bike, the ultimate ride is the Tour,

Joey Graham

I'm not going to be nervous, it's just like riding a bike,

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Florence King

Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

Chris Eyre

bedroll to bedroll about the size of a single sleeping bag.

Candace Bushnell

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

Henry David Thoreau

Live the life you've dreamed.

Susan Sontag

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute