Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Colter

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

Henry Paulson

As a public company, Goldman Sachs will have the financial strength and strategic flexibility to continue to serve our clients effectively as well as to respond thoughtfully to the business and competitive environment over the long term.

Avi Greengart

As a one-shot deal; this frees RIM to go back to its business without any further complications.

Vicki Denfeld

As an independent hotel, The Churchill relies on its reputation and personal service to fulfill the high expectations of its guests. Jeanine's knowledge of the Washington, DC business community coupled with her vast sales and management experience provide ideal leadership for delivering on our guests' expectations while supporting our excellent sales and marketing team.

John Szabo

As a value-added distributor, we're in a lot of routes to market with our business partners, and we have a pretty deep portfolio in retail offerings with our distribution partners.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

Edward Lanphier

As a business person, if I offered you $2.5 million in stock in a private company versus $7.5 million in cash, just in the up-front deal, which would you take? The numbers are unambiguous.

Robert Shillman

As a businessman, if we are to stay in business around the world, we have to seek to make products as inexpensively as possible. What that means is that American workers will shift from doing jobs that other people can do more cheaply to jobs that other countries can't do more cheaply.

Horace Mann

As a government employee, I was always fighting for financial resources, new staff, new everything, ... (Now,) I have to make sacrifices every day (as a business owner).

Kevin McBride

This win was for the pride of Ireland, ... I proved everyone wrong tonight.

Alain de Botton

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Brian Weiss

You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.

Blaise Pascal

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…

Elbert Hubbard

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Elbert Hubbard

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

Edward Abbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Brett Eldredge

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

Brett Ratner

You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.

Brett Ratner

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

Brett Favre

I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.

Brandon Routh

As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Brandon Sanderson

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

Ben Mendelsohn

Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.