Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ignacio Bunye

The president believes she has a mandate based on the 2004 elections...Maybe at a later time, we can talk about transitory provisions.

Srikumar Rao

Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this happens, then I will be happy. And I'm suggesting to you that we live our entire lives based on that model, and that model is fundamentally flawed.

Alan Doss

We are doing and will continue to do cordon and search operations based on intelligence tip-offs where we go and raid premises to recover any hidden caches,

David Dobson

Many of these biographies are based on rubbish that just isn't true, ... All the traditional stories came from Daniel Defoe, who of course wrote a lot of myth and legend.

Samuel Bodman

Many oil producing countries do not operate in a manner consistent with U.S. federal law, but they are not based here.

Pat Scales

There are people who want their kids to read books about gays and lesbians. Therefore, we have an obligation to have those books. We select those books the same way we select all others -- based on their literary merit.

Andrew Strait

Obviously, the seeding is based on a lot of different things. They were a great team, they played in a tough league, they've beaten a lot of good teams this year.

Jacob Lew

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

Steve Ballmer

Businesses are based on people. Software is a tool that can empower those people. I think Microsoft software is fairly unique in the way that it can do that.

Jonathan Vaughters

The prize money is a bonus. You split it between eight riders and mechanics and then you have enough to buy dinner.

Richard Davis

We show them how they can invest the money in real estate and earn 12 to 15 percent, through us. We typically buy a house that is 50 to 60 percent undervalued, put some money into it and sell it for 100 percent of its real value.

Wynona Redmond

We understand that grocery shopping is a local experience. People buy their groceries in the same communities where they live and work. So when it comes to giving, our customers expect us to make a difference locally, and we do.

Steve Nickerson

The conversion of 'I think it's unique' to 'I will buy it' is much higher for HD-DVD.

Jim Sullivan

When the price of Coke goes up, you can say, 'That's too bad; I'll buy Pepsi.' But you can't do that with gas. We have to take it on the chin and pay it.

John Antioco

We want to be the place where people can rent, buy or trade movies or games, in store or online.

Sen. Constantine

The fact of the matter is when you're dealing with a refrigerator or any of these other energy efficient (appliances) you don't just buy it in October. You buy a refrigerator when it breaks.

Jack Baker

What is the compelling reason to buy stocks right now? There isn't one. If you're looking out six, 12, 18 months, there are some good ideas, but right now there's no incentive to buy,

Robert Barry

What investor wants to buy a company that sells plastics to GM when plastics are going through the roof while the prices GM pays go down?

John DiFucci

This is a financial acquisition primarily. Oracle is buying PeopleSoft for its maintenance stream.

Phil Noblitt

This has been happening, this sort of erosion of our buying power, if you will, for decades.

Steve Anderson

It's usually driven by who's buying whom, personalities and their influence with the board.

Janet Reno

Forcing PC manufacturers to take one Microsoft product as a condition of buying a monopoly product like Windows 95 is not only a violation of the court order but it's plain wrong,

Joel Naroff

Forget the decline from the June pace. What is important is the level of activity, and that is extraordinarily high, ... This market is showing no sign of weakness. With mortgage rates so low, it is no wonder that people are still out there buying homes. And with demand strong, construction is not going to fail.

James Norton

For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me.

John Pickett

There was tremendous buying momentum at the close, especially in the last 20 minutes. The shorts jumped in, the institutions ... It was a technical buyback. But it still was a very encouraging day as far as I am concerned. People are feeling more confident about this market now.

Bill Cheney

It reflects that people mostly still have their jobs, still have their money and people are still buying houses.

Kate Warne

This is the time to be buying integrated oils.

Sergio Garcia

You're a little more relaxed on Thursday. Once you get closer to the end, if you have a chance to win you tense up a little bit.

Gil Patterson

You might say he didn't get a chance because his fastball wasn't fast enough, or his curveball wasn't crisp enough, ... But he can do a lot of things.

Chris Healy

You might have a better chance in the Truckee Meadows where there is existing, but rapidly disappearing (due to development) marmot habitat.

Alex Honnold

You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.

Rob Blake

You never want to give a team life - especially a team as good as Dallas. They've got some momentum now, but we've got a chance in the next game to take it away again.

Ken Dryden

You never want to give a fan a chance to find out whether it was passion or habit. I think for the great majority it's still a passion, but others have discovered that maybe it was something else. And so, as much as this can be problematic in the U.S. and that's where it's usually talked about, I think it's also a problem in this country.

Bill Legg

You play two different quarterbacks during the year, you're going to have problems with consistency. You hope Curtis Painter continues to grow and improve, because we think he has a chance to be awfully special.

Chris Patten

You only have one chance of making a success of a donors' conference and before you have a donors' conference you need to have sorted out a lot of problems.

Tim DeRuyter

We've set such a low standard. But now we have a chance to be the most improved team in the country after this week.

Kathy Christie

No matter how good your intentions are, you still have to find the money. That's what states are struggling with.

M. Thompson

No matter how good the show is, a 2-inch screen is still not same as big screen TV.

Chrissie Fit

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

Matt Mullenweg

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

Lorraine Bracco

So that's been very good for us, the long hiatuses.

Pat Jones

Soquel did a good job of double- and triple-teaming her when she got the ball. They played to win.

Christopher Howell

Some were good plays on his behalf. We have to make those plays.

Delia Smith

So often much of the flavour and nutrients in vegetables are near the skin, and with a good peeler you really are only removing the skin.

Raul Rodriguez

So now we're back to square one. Hopefully we'll come out next week and have another good race. But it's not over 'til it's over.