Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Hurdle

Having a winning record at home or avoiding finishing last weren't motivating factors for us. When you are 27 games under .500, can we really expect to be better at home?

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

John Toshack

I will now not see these players for about four months so there is no point in not saying how I feel. I have never been one for avoiding the issue,

Bob Stein

He's been working hard, but is under the radar screen and avoiding big media events. His campaign people are making very targeted invitations to likely primary Republican voters.

Mary Kelly

I am ideologically opposed to involving private businesses for the purpose of avoiding prevailing wage rates.

Peter Tatchell

He is deliberately avoiding public engagements in order to deny us a chance to confront him,

Wayne Dyer

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

Bible Bible

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. (1 Timothy 6:20)

Mark Stahlman

Previous management understood what needed to be changed, but they were unable to make it happen, ... To actually make these changes is a massive challenge. It can't be done quickly. There will be people who will resist. There's no avoiding a good deal of internal conflict.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Tony Stewart

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

Max Spevack

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

John Davidson

What we've seen has really been priced into the market. At this point we need to see evidence of rising spending on capital and businesses hiring employees.

Deborah Dowdell

What we don't like is private developers... seeking to get for free what small businesses in New Jersey have had to pay for.

Rod Donald

Good businesses have nothing to fear from the Greens.

Shannon Sessions

He's hit ten different businesses in Lynnwood, Edmonds and unincorporated Snohomish County. He runs in with this mask on, waving around a gun and demanding money, then running out.

Jerry Nolder

I think it's extremely important that we make sure the companies and businesses already here are getting our full support. I am making sure my door is always open to them. I will do whatever I can to make sure they remain a viable part of this community.

Tim Ghriskey

It certainly has worked for Wal-Mart and Target. Sears has a good chance at making a name in those businesses and capturing some share, but it's not going to be overnight.

Natasa Kandic

In my opinion, many commanders of police stations were involving or ordered killings in Kosovo.

Jason Giambi

You couldn't have done that without involving me?

Fiona Apple

This a real but minor issue involving a vendor-quality problem in a small number of units,

Susan Cruzan

It's a comprehensive program involving all the parties.

Joseph Darby

a large number of pictures involving prisoners and poses with prisoners.

Catherine DeAngelis

You might wonder why we'd publish a study involving two patients.

Ed Atorino

The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder.

Jennifer Laster

Online shopping, anything involving pictures, downloading music can use up too much of a taxed system.

Estelle

My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Courtney Barnett

I'm self-deprecating - I spend a lot of time telling myself that things are OK, as opposed to having to tell myself to get over things.

Dan Rice

I'm not opposed to it. I just don't know that much about it.

Jim Arthaud

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.

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.

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.

Dana Smith

He is returning to the private sector. Any announcement about his replacement will be made in Washington.

Shannon Flaherty

His tight schedule deemed these private travel arrangements necessary.

Nick Velasquez

I think that raises questions about what he has done in the private sector. What's he trying to hide?

Carlton Forrester

It has everything to do with governing. It has nothing to do with private life.

John Logan

I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.

Tom Hank

I remember the first time he saw 'Saving Private Ryan,' ... That was special to him because of his name.

Rob Thomas

In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.

Novak Djokovic

I've had my ups and downs in my private life.

Paul Zimmerman

It should never be used to take one person's property and give it to another private person.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William Matthews

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

Sarah Brady

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Sara Gilbert

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Christopher Cox

It is about wage clarity, not wage controls.

Henry Ford

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Robert J. Garagiola

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

Mike Rowe

We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.

Karl Marx

No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

Milton Friedman

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

John Howard

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages.

Jim Rohn

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.