Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Gillette

Some suppliers have tried to tell GM that not everybody needs to be global, not all the parts need to be global. But they just figure that's the way they're going to get the cheaper price.

Sathya Baba

The same person has come to Me seeking success at the examination, then a job, then a father-in-law, then a child, then a rise in the salary, a transfer in a cheaper place and a seat in the Medical College for his son - a never ending series of wants, until at last he comes seeking My Grace for an end to worldly pursuits and for initiation into the path of spirituality.

Ben Katchor

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

Will Rogers

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and his family. But he can't make a living for them AND the government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people.

Patrick O'Brien

Farm work is hard work, and a lot of folks just don't want to do it at any wage. This is not about cheap labor.

Mary Montagu

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Mark Goldman

If the county chooses to stay with the status quo, the new jail needs to be about 25 percent bigger. It is important to look at this seriously because interventions are always cheaper than incarceration.

Toby Hall

If this organization is so cheap they gave him $5.8 million contract, didn't they? All I know is, you look at a lot of these veteran guys in the league, I don't think they ever said that about the Rays.

Jan C. Ting

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.

Laura Mvula

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

C. S. Lewis

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Blaise Pascal

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Edmund Spenser

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Alain de Botton

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Dale Neaman

You can tell a difference in them from the very first month. Once they have been given permission to be a woman, the depression lifts.

Alexander Lowen

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

Andrew Solomon

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

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.

Mary McCarty

The way this thing is playing out, Commissioner Addie Greene holds this thing in her hands.

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

John Williams

The plans have been put on hold for the time being.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Tracey Baker

I'm always trying to hold her back from running, because she trips a lot.

Walter Winchell

No, I'll hold it. It'll make the show better.

Eric Takamura

Now we're starting to question whether this pipe will hold up three more years.

James Williams

If anyone's at fault, it's the shareholders who don't want to hold a stock for a decade.

Bengie Molina

I got a hold of it. I didn't think it was going to stay fair, but it did.

Hilary Clinton

I've been subject to quite a lot of illegal leaking,

Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brian Tracy

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Alberto Sanchez

They refused to come, and three times they told me they were not doing that service any more.

Don Helling

I've been saying all year that our strength is in the relays.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Philip Vannatter

Are you saying you didn't make that statement?

Toby Hall

Electric. His stuff was electric. That was unbelievable. Even some of their lefties were saying they had no chance.

Peter Ashkenaz

Pharmacists are saying there are still some bumps, but things are getting better.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He's saying that she couldn't see the evidence, couldn't see he was guilty.

Gil Gerard

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

Martin Freeman

If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.

Steve Ron

We all have to wait. We're in a similar situation.

Michael Zenker

There's a geopolitical overlay that's going to look similar to oil.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.