Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Ted Stevens

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

Olli Rehn

It is high time that Serbia reaches full co-operation with the ICTY. That is the way to avoid the disruption of the negotiations, that the negotiations would be put on hold when the next round takes place.

Paolo Canio

I will avoid certain situations, but I will continue my battles, without second thoughts and with even more decisiveness.

Mary Karr

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.

Tuomo Ruutu

We have to avoid the penalties. It's too easy to fall behind big with them. You make a few mistakes and you're down two or three goals.

Phil Keinzley

If we come out of those three games on the right side of the ledger it will be a huge plus, and anything could happen then. But if we lose all three it will be an uphill battle we want to avoid that.

Jasmine Tookes

I don't have a specific favorite product, but I deep condition my hair regularly. When I can, I'll avoid heat styling and wear my hair in a bun.

Muhammad Abdullah

It benefits me more because I'm more in the box. It puts me in the position where I can make more plays and bigger plays for the team.

Mike Kraus

I think we have new life now. The kids are really excited. We get to play on a college court in a state tournament, and when you're 10-13 that's a big deal. But forget about the records. These kids have worked hard all year long and now they're reaping some of the benefits from it.

David Englin

Renters don?t get tax benefits from renting, but renters are the ones who need help the most. This is a way to equalize the benefits a little.

Joe Walsh

Pioneer Solutions use of the Simulation Application Suite illustrates the benefits of using a broad range of the tools offered in the Simulation Application Suite enabling them to facilitate an innovative new solution to the Design/Analysis integration issue within Product Development,

Hal Joseph

Part of my objective next year is to make a tally to see who is not using the zone benefits so I can go out and knock on their door. We still have a vast majority of our land that is still underdeveloped and unused. We have a long way to go.

Clayton Christensen

If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the benefits of having integrity time after time, it really changes your heart, not just your head.

Judy Clark

If you didn't get the letter or you're not sure . . . call the benefits manager for the former employer or union.

Dan Fogleman

If you look at who offers insurance, it's fairly uncommon to offer benefits to part-time employees.

Gregg Thompson

Being realistic in a year of budget crisis, Holliman's bill is the version that offers the benefits without too much burden on the state.

Brian Smith

There are some guys we would have liked to have seen in the finals and a few others we would have liked to have been No. 1, but you take a look at the bracket and realize it was meant to be. You realize that next week is what a lot of these guys were looking to, and they wanted to make sure they got there.

Ruth Staples

We were just out of gas in that last match. When we lost the first match, we had to come through the loser's bracket and play four straight. We were tired, but we played well.

Tomas Flores

Holding the rate in December was just a pause.

Sergei Kupriyanov

We are fully prepared to restrict gas supplies to Ukraine after December 31, if there is no contract.

Doug Short

The guys have worked hard to be in this position at the end of the year. We had a tough schedule in December and they pushed themselves to get here. We are a young team and it has worked through some tough times, stuck with it and focused on the end-of-the-year goals.

Paul Butler

Donations got off to a really slow start in December and we were really concerned.

David Hahn

We're looking for quality yards that can deliver quality product in time for December (2008), and I think we've got a big obligation to the people of the north to see that take place.

Brian Giorgis

Once we got it going in December ? the Idaho win was huge ? we thought we were good.

Jesse Moore

December 20th was the last time we had any appreciable rain. We had about a quarter-inch over the area. That wasn't enough to help that much.

Paul Dergarabedian

November and December are pound-for-pound just as important as the summer, ... You see about 20 percent of the gross for the year in about seven or eight weeks. And this year looks to me to be a strong finish to a year that has really had its ups and downs.

Vyacheslav Davidenko

Following a request from its sponsor (the ESA), the launch has been put back from December 26 to December 28.

Bob Paduchik

Ken Blackwell is either a huge hypocrite or very incompetent.

Shimon Peres

It can't happen as long as there is still shooting. Either there is shooting or there are talks,

Brad McClellan

He should either be running for office or be an impartial elections officer and not try to fool the voters that he can be both.

Clint Hurdle

Hitting a Major League baseball. I wasn't that good at either one. I think I've got the marriage thing nailed down now and that took me three tries. I know I can't hit the fastball anymore.

John Hobbs

It could have gone either way. It was pretty volatile there for a while. Thank God it didn't turn out to be a free-for-all.

Geoff Stump

It could have gone either way. It was close. I knew she had to be in the top two.

Jon Karkow

It could go either way at this point. There is some pessimism and some optimism. It's going to be interesting the whole way around.

Neil Shubin

It could either push itself straight up and down or pull itself forward. It more likely flopped around like a seal rather than walked like a horse.

Tom Hansen

We're pretty much in the range that's been publicly discussed, ... Four games plus either a fifth game played concurrently with them, or the 'plus-one' game, those are the major structural differences we're looking at. Or you could do both. Or there are various subsets within that.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Mitsushige Akino

Higher oil prices and a strengthening yen accelerated selling.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Albert J. Nock

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Jiang Baoguo

The restaurant name means soaring higher and higher.

Steve Andrews

This is a very mainstream issue that should be raised to a higher profile.

Richard Franulovich

It's not a big surprise. A lot of the things we were looking at such as lower oil prices and higher Boeing deliveries have all conspired to make it a better number.

Chris Mennis

It's probably going to go higher from here.

Angela Cummings

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Jim Palmer

He was such an important part of my career, and a large part of our success in the 1960s.

Bill Sandusky

I have done a number of large paintings, but nothing this large and nothing this time consuming.

Michael Eisner

in a large scale, not a one-off scale.

Robert McKinley

If you're looking to transfer a $5,000 balance, you need to look to the largest issuers.

Dan Woods

The largest need right now is to move students out of there,

Joseph Allen

God's timing in moving me down here was perfect,

Alan Black

This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

Rob Reiner

When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want it to go, you're making it up as you go, and you're acting it.

Richelle Mead

You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.” He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste.

Richelle Mead

i will always love you." "no you won't. you'll move on. So will i.

Richelle Mead

It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.

Richelle Mead

What do you mean it wasn't anything? Didn't the earth move or the planets align or something? -Rose to Lissa on sleeping with Aaron

Ryan Lochte

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

Rose McGowan

I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode, which was massive culture shock to say the least.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Jay Leno

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Laurie Colwin

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Paul Krugman

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Malcolm Gladwell

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

Jim Leach

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Josh Thomas

When we thought of taking a stand, we automatically thought of communism.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.