Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zeng Jun

Property investing is one of the best method for acquiring wealth.

Mark Twain

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Sathya Baba

Earning money cannot be the purpose of education. Acquiring good qualities can be the only purpose of education.

Christian Overland

Even before the museum opened in 1929, Henry Ford was acquiring artifacts.

Gordon W. Allport

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

Daniel Loeb

Brendan, it's time for you to put your money where your mouth is. If you are sincere in your statement that a premium bid for the company is not worthy of discussion, then we must insist that you demonstrate your conviction by acquiring shares.

Paul Di Filippo

Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities.

Robert Irwin

Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy.

Doug Wilson

Every day is a trade deadline to me, so there's different ways of acquiring players. We look every day at options and opportunities that are there.

Jeremy Bulloch

Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.

Charles C. Mann

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

Scott McCown

The Ruiz litigation transformed our prison from a backwards Southern plantation-style system into a modern penal system." ()

John Roberts

The sheriffs have just bent over backwards offering to help,

Robert Butler

The state statute bends over backwards to protect the property owner's rights, ... We have to be very careful.

Natalie Pukas

The whole process is taking us backward in attitude. We're looking at special education costs versus operating costs. I wish the state would consider doing something about special education funding in small towns such as ours. It would make a world of difference.

James Woods

This is a total shock, ... This is really a step backwards for us.

Julie Walters

This isn't what we thought would be the outcome today. Today we kind of took a step backwards in our execution. When we create opportunities for good teams, they are going to finish them.

David Shambaugh

The U.S. right now is bending over backwards to engage China on a wide variety of issues.

Jesse Berger

As Doug invests in Charlotte, he begins to transform himself, and she has to transform herself and survive while preserving pieces of history for us.

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Tim Evans

Profit-taking was the most widely employed term for what (happened Friday), but we see the potential for this simple turn to develop into a much more substantial decline, as the fundamentals behind the push higher were not all that strong to begin with.

Dwyane Wade

Our defense is coming along. We're getting our rotations down. The communication is better. The main this is we're all beginning to understand what everyone is doing.

Joey Kalmus

People should not judge us on where we stand at the beginning of the season. If we start 3-7 in our first 10 games, it's OK if I see promise.

Brad Cashman

An unintended consequence of such liberalization has been the often-reported blending of the dark-colored home-team jerseys and the light-colored visiting-team jerseys, creating confusion on the part of players, officials and spectators. Beginning in 2010, that confusion should be eliminated.

Lori Bennett

I've already put a new roof on the main building and repaired the roofs on the other two buildings. Now I'm waiting on insurance money for the rest of the repairs. I've been ready to begin for three months, but the insurance company has been very very slow and resistant.

Lenora Wooten

I wanted her to begin her suffering for what she did.

John Paul

A few of them were missing to begin with. Now all of them are gone. In one night.

James St. James

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not part of the scene anymore. I'll always be interested in what's happening downtown, and I try and keep up with the changing faces on social media.

Joe Leone

Our demographics have been changing the last few years - with three sales in five years, that will mix you up a little bit.

John Hurt

The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so many toys involved. They are fun for directors who like toys, like Ridley Scott, but they are not a lot of fun to make. A lot of hanging around, changing this and that.

Melissa Cook

Someone's hair is the first thing I notice about people, and I want to learn how to help them look good. I like changing my own hair, and I want to know how to do it correctly. I'd like to start my own salon some day here in North Carolina.

Ken Clarke

Some rain will be heavy. It looks like it will be very, very wet for the Rose Parade on Monday. That's what they get for changing the date.

E. B. White

Specifically in the human lineage the transcription factors are changing or evolving in their expression at a faster pace than in the other lineages, particularly as compared with chimps.

James Browning

Sounds to me that the rank and file players need to be a lot more vehement in terms of changing the system so that it does reflect positively on them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.

Kevin Sorbo

I want a feature film career, as most actors do. It's funny, because things are changing and the better writing is now in television.

Maya Angelou

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Maya Angelou

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

Bob Clark

If you do encounter that, it would be wise probably to swim elsewhere, ... Just be mindful of your and their environment.

John Green

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

James Graf

We're right on the money right now, heading toward our encounter with Mars.

Daisaku Ikeda

A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life

Dilip Shanghvi

Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.

Ronnie Arnold

You never know what's going to happen next. People just don't perform the way you expect them to perform some just exhibit poor judgment from time to time.

Karen Ferguson

We did get a look at a lot of young players, and their experience in these exhibition games will be invaluable as the season goes on,

Billy Childish

Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that - because I wasn't prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place.

David Brown

The painting was only outside France once, in 1955, when it was in a Giorgione exhibition in Venice.

Bobby Bowden

I am Exhibition B. Joe is Exhibition A. That's all we are. There's a game in there somewhere -- Penn State and Florida State are playing.

Richard Hamilton

I guess we have to get used to it. In the exhibition season, it seems like they (referees) are trying to make a statement.

Mike Freeman

That's a spending habit that he would exhibit for the rest of his life.

Kylie Minogue

Part of me is a sexual exhibitionist.

David Hall

You do see things instantly as they change.

Anne Michaels

History is the gradual instant

Viktor E. Frankl

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

John Thorn

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

Heidi Range

When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

Jack London

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

James DePreist

I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.

James Callaghan

There are no instant solutions.

Jim McGrath

It puts into instant peril the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument and the Mall itself.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Billy Corgan

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

Rene Descartes

There is nothing so strange or so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another

Shaun White

What a strange bunch. Where would one find a Fabio cutout?

Dolly Parton

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

Ally Condie

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

Albert Camus

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

Albert Camus

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

Clemence Poesy

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

Ashley Madekwe

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

Jim Veltman

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

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

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,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.