Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Diouf

We also would encourage that resources be allocated to compensate those poor farmers -- and most of them are poor farmers -- who are raising these poultry ... and who, if they are not given the right incentive, will tend to hide what is happening,

Ken Jr.

It's just one of those things that it's there, you know it's there, and I just don't want to get to the point where I'm out for a longer period of time because I did something else trying to compensate for it. This way, (we) get it done, get it over with and I look forward to May.

Rusty Hardin

It's just a horribly tragic thing. Their lives are forever changed. There's never going to be enough money to fully compensate them for what happened.

Martin Besieux

They have full legislation to compensate people. They have obligatory legislation on how to take away asbestos.

Sergei Kupriyanov

Ukraine is taking the gas from our European partners. We decided to compensate the stolen gas for our partners.

Denis Oswald

As long as they can still compensate with work on Saturdays and Sundays I think it won't be a problem.

Zinedine Zidane

The sooner we find the net the better. We know that we must slot a fair number of goals to compensate for a possible away victory by the Swiss.

Duke Cox

Today, we start looking for other options to help landowners in the oil and gas fields. The oil and gas industry proved this session that they do not want to negotiate with landowners and compensate them fairly for damage to private property. This controversy isn't going away.

Ross Walker

To some extent jobs created in the public sector will compensate for job cuts in the private sector.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Zach Errett

We wrestled fairly well today. We wrestled at the Bo Henry Tournament last week; we wrestled really well there. Today, we didn't wrestle as good as we could've and I think the guys realize that; I think they kind of figured out that there may have been a few matches we lost that we should've won.

Tom Davis

We're still in discussions with some of the other sports. Hockey, in our judgment, has a fairly weak system.

John Anania

We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.

Casey Pace

We're hoping, of course, it's going to be fairly minimal since a lot of that fruit had already been picked.

Joe Blankenship

It's fairly valued now -- I wouldn't be selling it short,

Eddy Bresnitz

It's fairly unusual that we would do this.

Ray Velboom

It's fairly unusual for someone like this to go missing.

Pat Sajak

It's fairly low-key: 'Hey, it's Pat,' ... I can still shop and go on with my life.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Charlie Munger

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

Alan Greenspan

While (Japan) has made some important efforts, it has yet to make significant progress in diversifying the financial system,

Ben Bernanke

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Ben Bernanke

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

Bill Toomey

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

Natalie Coughlin

The year after the Olympics is always an interesting year,

Roland Rust

There's a lot at stake for the Winter Olympics now.

Evan Sayet

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Emily Hughes

The Olympics are such an unexpected competition. You never know what can happen.

Bonnie Blair

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

Gary Zenkel

There's no better lead-in to the Olympics than the Olympics.

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Nicolas Cage

It is satire, but it remains in the realm of the real, as opposed to something like 'Dr. Strangelove,'

Sarah Reeves

They're self-portraits of the way that I feel about myself physically as opposed to the way society makes me feel about myself.

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Larry Baer

As opposed to the word 'celebration,' I would say it's really more of a tribute.

Malcolm Gladwell

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

Chris Burke

The style of play will be to our advantage. They'll have to make the adjustments to us, as opposed to vice versa these two games.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Harvey Pitt

they shouldn't be paid when they don't produce.

Ron Nadicksbernd

There were times when I couldn't do anything, and when I did, I paid for it.

Richard Owen

This may be a way for producers to get paid to do something they already practice.

Rich Collins

This is what you should grow,' he told me. 'I paid $4 a pound for this stuff.

LeRoy Cain

There's a lot of things to think about, ... There's a lot of things to worry about, and that's what I get paid to do is to worry - and I do it a lot.

Fred Funk

It was one of those things where you're thinking you've got to do more than you had to do. I tried some shots a little too aggressively and paid the price.

Paul Holmes

It was a lunch. It happened. I paid my share.

Will Anderson

It was really awkward. They paid us in pictures.

Bill Coleman

People's pay is a sensitive topic, and most people probably don't want to be told that they're already being paid what they deserve.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Ian Rosenberger

Watch for someone else to screw up, and then quietly point it out to everyone else,

Ben Nelson

We're going to run like we're 10 points down,

Dave Garza

We're going to put some big points on the board.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Walter Mare

Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him.

Joseph Estrada

They never stopped intimidating and ridiculing our poor countrymen,

Stacey Stevens

It's not like we've had poor seasons. We've had poor finishes.

Richard Seivert

They are the poorest of the poor in the Western hemisphere.

Chogyam Trungpa

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Edward Gibbon

The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.

Edith Wharton

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

David Horowitz

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

David Hockney

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

David Hockney

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

David Brooks

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

Denis Leary

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

Denis Leary

I wanted a more female point of view.