Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Willie Mitchell

Knowing it's a rival game, we knew they were going to play way above themselves. We just didn't get the job done.

William Shakespeare

Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.

Rachel Platten

I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

Robert Frost

Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.

Robert Putnam

It can be heard even above the roar of a helicopter, which is important if you want to tell people anything. That's the problem with bullhorns ? over a helicopter, they can't really understand what you're saying.

Dan Shultis

He knows the game so well, he's above and beyond any player on the floor. He's almost like having a college player on the floor.

Michael Silverstein

Handbags are definitely a 'trading up' category. Coach has driven to $1.4 billion in revenues and a market value above $10 billion based on the phenomenon.

Arun Kumar

Growth must come from below. Growth coming from above will see a lot of fluctuations,

John Burdett

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

Pat Riley

He'd average 20 points a game if he was put in that role every night and I'll be damned if I'm not going to try to put him in that role - now. You forget a little bit about how good he can be if he gets good opportunities.

Andy Roddick

He kind of wrapped some presents for me and handed it over. I was average in most regards, but a win is a win. I feel like I'm on the verge of playing well.

Seth Shostak

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

Chubby Checker

Here I am the best batting average in the music industry and I'm a bye word in the industry. I really am. Compared to Rod Stewart, I mean, Rod Stewart big deal. I mean, I know he's good and everything, but I played a show two years ago and I had to star under Eddie Money.

Jim Ferraro

Her lower scoring average is a compliment to the rest of the team. I see it that way and I know she does, too.

Bill Gleason

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

Dave Maguire

He's got over 800 now. so if he continues his average of more than 20 points a game, he could do it. He's a great shooter that really has a quick shot. He has the green light to shoot whenever he thinks he can make it.

Ra'anan Gissin

He's got out of the dangerous zones and life-threatening situations more than the average person and, therefore, my belief is that he's going to pull through. Every day is another battle. The man is fighting for his life, but that's not the first time he's been doing it.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Larry Goldstein

Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or political lessons, or some combination of the two, I don't know.

Tomoko Fujii

Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than expected.

Brian Gendreau

I think you're seeing the market raising its estimates on economic growth, but that also may mean higher rates. So we're still digesting what all this means, and the result so far is a flat-to-lower market.

Gary Stern

I think the economic outlook is reasonably positive.

Bill Cosby

Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Ralph Kauffman

I think it indicates that the economy seems to be growing at probably the same rate in March as it was in February.

Lorenzo Codogno

Italy's economy has become a real problem and tackling the issues head-on will require a strong government, not one that may be forced into compromises.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down, ... I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

Carroll Robinson

I think it's going to be hard if everything stays the same, ... If the economy drops, it's going to be even tougher.

Alan Skrainka

I think the performance gap between the new-economy and old-economy stocks is like a rubber band; it seems to be snapping the other way. The new economy sounds very exciting, but you're still going to need food, medicine and electricity to survive.

Donald Selkin

I think the Fed meant to say something reassuring about the economy, but the result was very confusing.

Christoph Bianchet

I think the economy will be surprisingly strong in the first half. The real question is: What comes after that?

Robert Bigelow

Keep employment levels low, but keep freedom and innovation high.

David Lewin

It is all down to employment law. In the US if you are made redundant three or four times that is normal, but in Europe there is a stigma.

Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

John Davidson

The Federal Reserve's objective is two fold -- price stability and employment growth. All too often we think it's the Fed chairman's job to manage the stock market, when it's not.

Michael Driscoll

The employment numbers were a mild positive. There is a feeling of mild surprise that the market hangs in as well as it does with all that's going on.

John Hughs

The employment number can be in line tomorrow, but it can't miss,

Sarat Sethi

The employment news this morning provided some support for the market, counterbalancing the news out of Intel.

Jason Schenker

The employment index, however, declined. This could bode ill for October's payrolls.

Stephen Halmarick

The employment growth was slightly higher than anticipated, so it's a slight pleasant surprise.

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

W. Hull

Keep it out of the middle of the field, take it up the sidelines as far as you can and then shoot it at the net and hope it goes in off someone.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Steve Hammond

I think it's a first step. As far as we're concerned, we'd go for a three-buck limit.

Asa Hutchinson

I think it is very disappointing. Whenever you talk about the justice system, politics should be as far as imaginable from the outcome.

Zach Malvik

I think in the back of our minds we thought it was possible. That's just all of us being competitors and never saying we can't do it. I do think it's a surprise to all of us that we made it this far and accomplished our goal.

Paul Martin

growth rates that have far outstripped ours in the Americas.

Greg Cipes

'Turtles' was by far my favourite TV show when I was growing up. It would be the show that I would wanna watch more than anything. We'd record it on the big VHS tapes, and I'd watch it before school, after school, on the weekend, wear the costume, have all the weapons.

Stephen Colbert

The letters that say 'I'm getting the messages you're sending me through the television screen' are not great. But those are few and far between, thank God. I get wonderful letters, and people send me artwork.

Brad Turner

Jacksonville was faster and Forney was bigger, so we've seen different types of defenses, ... We feel like we can do some things.

John Thomson

Keeping them off my fastball made my fastball that much better. I think that's the big key for that lineup, because they're such a good fastball-hitting team.

Ryan Lochte

I tapped him in the gut when I was walking over to the starting blocks. I'm just going to feed off this the rest of the meet because what I swam tonight was pretty fast for me.

John Whitelavich

He was a linebacker last year and we were looking for a tailback and tried him there. He didn't know the plays very well, but he's learned them now and got faster over the summer. He's a tough runner.

Dusty Baker

He wanted the victory and knew we needed it. His fastball was moving.

Johnny Damon

He can set you up with a changeup, then throw an 88-mph fastball by you.

Dan Hendricks

He can run, that's all there is to it. There hasn't been any faster horses in the races so far, and the next one there will be and it's a whole new game.

Jim Johnson

He is playing faster than I've ever seen him play.

Kevin McAvoy

He left a fastball right outside and I just went with it, did what I could with it.

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Shuchita Mehta

Growth momentum remains strong and that should lead to higher inflation and interest rates.

Zheng Jingping

It is fundamentally normal but it is at the upper end of the potential growth range and we need to take note of it.

Graham Cluley

There is going to be a real growth in 'pump and dump' spam.

Jack Horner

Historical science is being left in the dust.

Yasuo Fukuda

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Reza Aslan

The New Testament is not a historical document.

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Sarah Sutton

I like the stories with the historical themes.

John McGrath

I think in terms of income for Thunder Ridge and taxes for the county, it would be good.

Larry Bloom

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

Ric Keller

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Warren Buffett

Never depend on a single source of income.

Walter Russell

Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.

Francois Bourguignon

Remittances are hard-earned income that, in most cases, has already been taxed,

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

David Krings

The majority of my income comes from my consulting.

Robert Murray

Joy is increased by spreading it to others

Gale Norton

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Ibrahim Rugova

increased U.S. presence in Kosovo and for more protection on the part of the United States for the people of Kosovo.

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Robert Creeley

O love, where are you leading me now?

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our on-time performance was at its lowest point in the weeks leading up to the strike,

Robert Lane

I plan on leading this team to victory.

Robert Jobson

Camilla is well and truly in the fold. She has taken a leading position in the monarchy and is effectively going to be queen one day.

John Clayton

If somebody new was to come in, it might open it up. Of the leading candidates, three are with the league and the other (top candidate) is Rich McKay -- and they all share the same approach.

Rena Sofer

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Derian Hatcher

The pace we're on, sure, anything could happen.

Richard Ford

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

Doug Tumen

If you run every day at race pace you're going to get hurt.

Hugh Morris

If you have raw pace everything else can be worked on,

Margaret Beckett

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

John Flanagan

Erak. The one they call the Oberjarl," the Arridi answered him. Impulsively, Axl took a pace forward, raising his ax threateningly. You'll have to go through the rest of us to take him!" he shouted defiantly. Well done, Axl," he said. "You've just told them I'm here.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

Fred Wilson

Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

Hoda Kotb

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Robbie Coltraine

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Rob Sheffield

Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.

Richard Petty

You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.

Richard Posner

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

Richard Paul Evans

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

Richard P. Feynman

For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

Mark Rutte

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Richard Cobden

You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.

Paul Sereno

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,

John Carioba

There are not many prospects in the short term.

Yorvit Torrealba

I was in one big rush, that's probably why I'm taking so long. I should have just taken my time in Spring Training and I'd probably be ready now. I want to be out there. I wanted to throw more today, but we're going step by step.

Mitch Gilfillan

It all starts Sunday. Trust me, we'll be ready to go.

Sasha Cohen

It can be frustrating, ... But I am where I am, and everyone has their own trajectory. I know my time will come. I just have to be ready for it.

Mike Greene

Hamburg?s not going to show us anything we haven?t seen. I think we?re well-seasoned and ready for anything that can be thrown at us.

Barry Alvarez

He runs through a lot of tackles. He's a very strong runner. You're not going to arm-tackle him. You'd better be ready to gang-tackle him.

Terry Hill

He said he was ready to come home.

Mark Headley

He's always going to be well-prepared mentally. He's not a big talker, but he's always ready to play.

Thor Hushovd

It is about getting ready for Madrid. But for sure I will try to get a stage here first.

Tim Duncan

Whatever happens, happens. We'll be ready for whoever we get.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Mike Sherman

He seems to understand that this is a big year for him. And I think he wants to do something about that.

Rick Comley

He seems to be right on top of things and very alert. We've always had trouble with him.

Robyn Robichaux

He seemed like his usual self, ... Same as he always was.

Kevin Burton

He's had team success, but it seems like he's always come up a little short.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

Laura Evans

I went through three different titles before I settled with this one,

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Gary Forrest

He had a shaky start, then he really settled down and pitched well.

Yitzhak Rabin

Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.

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Or have they settled an affair? Then surely We are the settlers.

Kat Clark

All I have to do is turn off the TV, and they'll settle down pretty quickly.

Jennifer Miller

At first it was very nerve-wracking but we settled down and it was such a blast.

Mayme Olson

We all just settled here and stayed here.

Ray Willis

We just had to get a rhythm. They settled themselves down.

Jeff Bower

We took a step back on offense. We weren't very sharp at anything on that side of the ball.

Steve Roberts

He was real sharp for the most part.

Brad Richards

I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,

Sergei Fedorov

I'm not as sharp as I'd like to be,

Bob Williams

And all the new stuff has no chains, no hooks; everything is welded or on bearings so there's no sharp corners. And it's all low-maintenance.

Margaret Cavendish

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd

Brett Tomko

This is as sharp as I've been all year, ... made my slider better, my splitter better, made everything better.

Jerry Halstead

Dunn was sharp today in going the distance.

Joe Villani

There's pretty sharp cutoff of where it's snowing.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Richard P. Feynman

Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.

Robert Plant

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

Rohit Shetty

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Wietse Venema

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

Warren Farrell

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

Geoff Smith

And six Busch programs, three full-time, three part-time. And the part-time are all over 20 races.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

Ahna O'Reilly

When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Chris Edwards

What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Clark Haggans

He's got three rings. There's nothing else you can say.

Karen Woodall

We've been trying to get that back for three years.

Phil Jackson

We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.

Robert Meyer

It is phenomenal. When we first started, it was just me and three employees. We all wore many hats.

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.