Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Huang

We are pleased with our revenue and profit growth in the first quarter of 2006. Our US and Canadian distribution teams performed well and built on the momentum they generated in the second half of fiscal 2005. We look forward to further executing on our fiscal 2006 goals throughout the balance of the year.

CEO Luxton

We are pleased to be able to report that the operating loss in the first quarter narrowed significantly over the previous quarter. This reflects a reduction in selling and administrative expenses due to cost savings measures that we have implemented since the fiscal year began. With further cost-savings still to take effect and with a significant increase in new order intake since Dec. 31, we foresee much stronger operating results for the balance of 2006.

Kevin Quinn

We stress balance. Balance is key. I think what's hurt us in the past is we had one really good line and if they didn't come through on their chances to score in big games, we weren't winning because we couldn't fall back upon the second or third lines.

Seth Evans

We spread it around pretty well and the defense was strong, too. The good balance was nice to see.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a reader. I'm always trying to find a way to balance characters and theme.

Carlos Castaneda

We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

Carlos Castaneda

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

Yoshinori Katori

We want to realize from the Japanese point of view a more equitable and balanced way of burden-sharing. This question we will pursue irrespective of the discussion of permanent seat of the Security Council.

Brian Barnhart

We have seen an incredibly balanced level of racing the past few years in the IndyCar Series and look forward to even more of that in 2006. Extending our current chassis program with Dallara and Panoz provides our teams maximum value for their investment.

David Icke

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Paul Phillips

There are cases where new evidence causes doubt, but this is not one of them.

Rocco Buttiglione

There are cases of waste and privileges that must be seriously restructured,

John Mogg

Where the report has found evidence of market abuse, we welcome the Commission's commitment to pursue such cases urgently and vigorously.

Mark Kennedy

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

S. Hughes

We're going to offer them contracts. They are really important players for us, and we've very hopeful in all three cases of getting them signed up and resolved.

Kendrick Meek

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

John Love

What we're seeing initially is a reduction in the number of cases allowed. Many of these will eventually get a patent, though.

Milan Hejduk

We always have a chance to win every night. I'm looking forward to the upcoming season and this new NHL era.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Chad Hurley

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Lee Scott

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Heather Williams

The point of it is to get people to sign it. We really want to give individuals their chance to voice their support.

Jose Gonzalez

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

Joe Toy

We've already hit some plateaus in the last few months, and in 2006 we are going to see things moderating. But even with that, hotels are going to be full and there will be a good chance of a record year in room numbers.

Wayne Rooney

We've a better chance than last season, said Sir Alex.

Carlos Boozer

Until they say we can't make it, we'll keep chipping away, and try to win and hold up our end.

John Lutz

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

Don Hamson

It's facing more and more competition each day and that's going to keep chipping away at profits. It's an ugly position to be in if you're trying to sell half the company.

Paul Kurtz

They've been working hard on their games this year. I had them doing a lot of short-game practice. We practiced on the par 3 course, a lot of chipping and putting, really concentrating on the short game, trying to eliminate some strokes. Everybody has cut three or four strokes off their rounds this year. We'll keep doing the same things we've been doing all year and hopefully it'll work out for us.

Larry Bullington

They started chipping away. There were some things going on (minor altercations in the crowd and hallways) and we kind of lost our concentration. You've got to give them credit. They didn't give up. From the middle of the third quarter on, they outscored us.

Billeye Rabbe

They start chipping right after Christmas. If there's only a few trees there, it's because the parks department keeps it clean.

David Darst

There was no real breakthrough to the positive side. Each one of these little nicks has been chipping away at investor confidence.

Anthony Chan

The report illustrates the fact that housing is not defying gravity and is not likely to do so this year. We're going to see chipping away of housing.

Joe Clabby

It was good already, and IBM keep chipping away at making it easier to use - so that lowers management costs.

Eddie Izzard

If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are a lot of negative people who were enormously determined. All the Nazis were determined. They wanted to murder everyone. Everyone with a bad heart, who doesn't care about people, I wish they hadn't started.

Earl Warren

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

David Rockefeller

It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

David Hume

These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as well as the other, be solid and satisfactory, and that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions.

David Hume

In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the questions cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind. If any false opinion, embraced from appearances, has been found to prevail; as soon as farther experience and sounder reasoning have given us juster notions of human affairs, we retract our first sentiment, and adjust anew the boundaries of moral good and evil.

David Hume

And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.

David Hume

Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to form the most distant idea of it, consider'd as a quality in bodies. Either we have no idea of necessity, or necessity is nothing but that determination of thought to pass from cause to effects and effects to causes, according to their experienc'd union.

David Hume

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?

David Drake

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

Charles Spurgeon

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

George Eliot

There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life

Maurizio Giuliano

Whether this looming humanitarian disaster will be averted, will ultimately be determined in major world capitals.

Hosni Mubarak

We remain most willing and determined to do all we can,

Michael Redd

We were determined to start off well. Loved it. We need that every night.

Shawn Rojeski

We were determined to get ourselves up, to play well for a medal.

Jim Yonts

Through intelligence sources we determined there were a large number of insurgents in that area,

John Mercer

We're really excited that we hung in there after losing the doubles point. I saw six very determined singles players today. We gave a great effort and I think this team grew up a lot out there.

J. Taylor

We've won one game. We won four last year. We've got a ways to go before we match last year. We haven't proved anything.

August Wilson

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

Adrian Moss

We always get better in practice because we have four strong, physical guys. It's got to be real hard to play against.

Diablo Cody

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.

Don Flanagan

UNLV plays four guards. So using four guards was something we were looking at doing anyway.

B. F. Skinner

We are practicing with Hartland and they will get us prepared. They've been there the last four years and we should learn from them. They are a great program.

Jim McCann

We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.

Caryn Jeffreys

We are a fluid, but large group. We do a lot of plays and four shows a years.

Fred Hartsfield

We stood up for four plays and shut them down. The game turned right there.

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Doug Gay

We are looking into it. There was something that did transpire out there.

Dave Rose

We are looking into installing them because of a rise in vandalism and graffiti at the schools during off hours.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

David Walliams

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Chin-Ning Chu

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Charlie Munger

We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.

Charlie Munger

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

Earl Browder

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

John Devine

As we stand today, we don't know what the outcome is for Delphi, that's their call,

Tim Coghlin

It was a surprising outcome from everybody's standpoint.

Bertrand Russell

Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.

Joe Pavelski

The outcomes have been really good. I just like playing here.

Deepak Chopra

Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome.

Jeff Lerg

They made smart plays going to the net.

Sam Blank

They have come through all season. I know I can rely on them to make the plays when we need to.

James Stokes

They don't run a lot of plays but they run them well.

Dan McDavid

They put some pressure on the quarterback and made some plays for us.

Andrew Bogut

It's not one of those plays you can't really practice. It just worked out.

Lindy Ruff

It still comes down to a speed game. You're not going to have a lot of time, especially on the rush, to stop up and make a lot of plays because that back pressure is going to run you over. So it'll be interesting in that sense. He still has to skate. You can't pull up and stickhandle.

Peter Forsberg

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

Bobby Jones

There were a lot of plays where we got the short end of the stick.

Jeff Tedford

There were a lot of plays to be made and we didn't make them.

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Mike Keenan

The position Olli is in had nothing to do with it,

Whitney Watson

We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.

Larry Harris

At each position we're at least two deep,

Steve Thomas

A councillor's position is not judicial. It's emotional.

Todd Elmer

A lot of this comes on the back of year-end profit taking on what has been a successful position for the market.

Larry Brown

They were exhausted, that was one thing. And two, I didn't want to put them in that position yet.

Kim Priez

It's very controversial and we don't have a position on it.

Chad Johnson

It's the position now, the position to play.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

Brian Davis

This is UT's year, or so we think. OU has just enough talent to turn this into a nail-biter.

Don Flanagan

They have the most talent in the league.

T.O. Sterrett

There's a lot of talent around, but sometimes talent can't find opportunity.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Swen Nater

The talent is better but your teamwork is not.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Thomas Jefferson

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Bill Maher

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Bill Bailey

Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!!

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Frank Molinaro

It's exciting. We just try to get one another to turn it up a bit.

Shannon Davis

They did that for me, (so) why turn my back on them?

Mike Piazza

You don't want to turn away from it. You may want to and no one would begrudge you if you did. But you shouldn't do that. I think I'm a better person because of what I went through.

Leighton Reese

This is turn 8 and 9, you want to take them in one big arc.

Marc Chandler

There's been a turn in psychology. It has been buy-the-dips. Now it is sell-the-rallies.

Nick Hunter

As Don Meredith used to say, turn out the lights, the party?s over.

Randy Stone

As it turns out, ... he just can't spell.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Charles Dickens

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Charles Spurgeon

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

Charles Spurgeon

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

Charles Spurgeon

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Charles Spurgeon

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.