Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Douglas

As effective as he's been. I agree with that (decision), I think it's an effective cost savings move. Our office largely deals with three department heads directly.

Rafael Ramirez

Of the 32 (companies), we have agreed with 30. We believe this was a mistake on the part of Total and Eni.

Jean Todt

So we can say that an agreement has been made.

Mike Ramsey

I've talked to Rick Causey myself, and I don't believe he willfully did anything wrong. I don't believe he would agree to plead guilty to a crime when he didn't commit one.

Dionne Marsh

These are the type of games where we all have to step up, and we just didn't do it. I didn't agree with the foul calls, but I shouldn't have fouled out. And all of us had to score more. We all know we didn't do enough to win.

Jacques Chirac

The United States will continue to have an approach of respecting nations that agree with us and respecting nations that disagree with us.

Jimmy Vaccaro

Alan speaks his mind, whether you agree or disagree. For me to get a spark out of the first contest like this, I couldn't get just anyone.

Brooke Warrick

You write values questions people can agree or disagree to, and then you use some fancy statistical routines to be able to characterize who's in what group.

Brian Carr

You take this loan and agree to pay a slightly higher mortgage payment because you want the renovations rolled in -- but then since you've got the instant equity you can turn right around and refinance to lower your monthly payments,

Steve Bruce

When he was leaving Celtic, Gordon Strachan said to me: 'You'll not work with a better centre forward'.

Pat Cox

The only serious issue for an economy as developed as the Irish economy is how to stay ahead. The dynamics of that debate have to centre on the 'race to the top'.

Michael A. Stackpole

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

Faure Gnassingbe

But the contract stipulates that the workers must receive a daily wage of 3000 FCFA,

Julie Rochman

It is not surprising that public officials in Louisiana are trying everything they can to recover dollars for those whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But insurance contracts are contracts.

Rashard Lewis

The type of contract I'm looking for - I feel like this is my last really big deal - I don't know if they'll be willing to pay that.

Herb Hunter

There are people disappointed out there. We thought the last five and a half years of the ESOP would make a difference in these contract negotiations.

Cathy Mann

Once all the facts were fully examined, it is clear, and now confirmed, that KBR performed this work appropriately per the client's direction and within the contract terms.

Ernie Merrick

Daniel and Steve are very good, solid young players who deserve contract extensions after their performances last season.

Robbie Fowler

It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994.

Mark Blondin

They won themselves a pretty good contract offer. The members said 'no' and stood up. ... Eighty-six percent sends a message.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Oliver Perez

Everybody knows it's how you finish, not how you start. We're not winning now, so we're going to forget this game. We know we can start winning games. It's part of baseball. This happens to the good teams.

Paul Pierce

Everybody knows it's for the region championship but at the same time, you've got to go play the same game you've been playing all year. We're excited about the opportunity and we look forward to the challenge.

Torii Hunter

Everybody knows if Shannon stays healthy, he's going to set the table. He's the igniter, and we need him in the lineup.

Claudio Vargas

Everybody knows I didn't pitch well here the last two starts at home, but tonight I felt better and I fought.

Alex Kovalev

Everybody knows how the fans in Montreal reacted every time I stepped on the ice,

Juan Pierre

Everybody knows he's going to be special. It's just a matter of time.

Antero Niittymaki

Everybody knows he's been a little sore. It happens, it's not a big deal. We've won without him before so we felt pretty confident.

Yao Ming

Everybody knows he's a super scorer, ... Also, he's a great passer. He had some turnovers tonight, but in a few games, those turnovers will turn into assists.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Richard G. Scott

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Mircea Monroe

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

Joshua Cohen

Books were in my family - books were my family.

Suzanne Somers

Browsing our local farmer's market is one of my family's favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you'll reap the nutritional rewards.

DeAngelo Williams

Breast cancer, whether I like it or not, is part of my family's story. That's why I am so passionate about raising awareness, because I have seen firsthand how it can impact others.

Josh King

Everything happens for a reason. I thank the Lord my family is safe; just really thank the Lord.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Bruce Cutler

Every day you are a free man is a good day.

Doug Armstrong

Beau really made some big plays late. He got inside and got 12 rebounds and he made the key free throws down the stretch.

John McCallum

As the prime minister made very clear, we are very serious about the United States respecting the rules of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement),

Richard Price

At some point I started wondering what it means to teach for free in an inner-city school - what's in it for me?

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

James Canning

It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.

Lukas Krajicek

This is big. Every shift is going to be crucial, so I have to be ready to show what I can do.

Jim Gordon

We're as ready as we're going to be.

Benny Hinn

Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge... you are god.

Larry Pleau

Until he tells us he's ready ... We'll see what he says on Sunday.

Chen Yunlin

We will be ready for any complicated situation.

Chuck Klosterman

I am ready to be alone.

Angela Lansbury

You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen.

David Platt

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

Chris Bailey

We need to back-off for a little while, ... This is what we've been shooting for all year and I want us to be ready but rested as well. We need everyone at their best, no excuses.

Arthur Koestler

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Abdallah II of Jordan

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

E. M. Forster

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

Dylan Thomas

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

Doug Stanhope

We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.

Dwight L. Moody

Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about.

Dora Russell

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Albert Einstein

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Albert Einstein

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Bela Karolyi

What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.

Ashley Wagner

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

Colleen Laukka

You are the Magnum Opus you've been trying to create.

Charles Mengel Allen

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

Ben Johnson

At 2-2 in the count, I was trying to shorten up my swing.