Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Gieselman

There are some end results that show some folks could start applying technology that, frankly, is available to help control some of the emissions.

Michael Dell

We're increasingly applying the Internet to our entire business, from component design to end-user support, in the process making it easier to do business with Dell, enhancing relationships with customers and suppliers and reducing costs for all of us,

Wilson Edwards

We're gaining more confidence on offense. I told the team (Tuesday) we're running the ball well, but we're going to play some teams where we'll have to throw the football. Josh (Miller) had his best passing day in practice that he's had all year. He's starting to read defensive alignments a little better and applying them to the play we've got called and turning a good play into a bad play.

Paul Campbell

This is a case of applying best business practices. We're fully utilizing our assets.

Fiona Apple

For a while I was looking forward to having to get another job, ... I had this fantasy about applying to this place in upstate New York, Green Chimneys. They do occupational therapy with kids, using farm animals. I thought that was something I could be passionate about. But music just kept on coming back.

Eric Roberts

It is worrying that companies are applying for licences that cannot possibly be granted. It will potentially waste time and money by people attending hearings when the applicants have no chance of succeeding.

Craig Hutson

This latest news that they will be applying more of the employee discounts on the '06 model flies in the face of that strategy. It may depend on how many models we are talking about here. If it's a small number, it doesn't concern us that much.

Luis Diaz

This is why people need to try to enter the U.S. legally by applying for a visa, ... Better to have time go by and be safe than to be taken to the morgue.

Josh Lerner

They're really applying the principles of entrepreneurial management even if they're not making a profit.

Noam Chomsky

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

Richard Holbrooke

The Security Council has taken a critical step toward helping Congo and the region come to the peace that it so desperately needs,

Alex Morrison

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.

Hassan Shehata

Congo is not easy by any means. From now on, all the matches should be treated like cup (finals) and we have to take every game one at a time. ... We do not underrate Congo. We have seen them play.

Brian Urquhart

No one on the Congo side had been given any experience whatsoever in how to run a country, ... There were (only) 17 people with university degrees in the whole Congo in those days.

Charles Davis

Having a journalistic presence in a place like the Congo is about more than merely the daily story; it's about Congolese officials knowing there is daily scrutiny of their actions. Now you have corrupt officials, and they feel no eyes on their backs.

Louis Michel

The peace process in the Congo is my priority,

Wayne Abernathy

Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.

Gary Schatsky

They are signing on for large debts with low initial interest rates that can skyrocket ultimately.

Spanish Proverb

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make

Stephen Rand

This is some of the debts of some of the world's poorest countries. And we have been campaigning for that 100 percent to be 100 percent of all the debts of all the world's poorest countries.

Zeng Jun

Leveraging on debts is definitely a useful method for gaining more wealth. The issue is, do you have your own set of risk management system to ensure you do not take on more debts than needed?

John C. Calhoun

What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own?

Joseph Stiglitz

The US economy has lots of vulnerabilities in debts and deficits.

Charles B. Rangel

A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.

Junyi Eng

We always say, don't let the debts go to the New Year. It's good to pay debts.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

Alan Ayckbourn

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

E. B. White

I told him I would have too see about paying him, ... He told me not to worry about it.

Sean Quinn

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

Brian O'Donnell

After all the work, now we'll see how it's paying off.

Michael Zenker

One could say the Spaniards are paying a price for U.S. hurricanes.

Brandon Phillips

It was trading at $13, they're paying $18. That's not bad.

Mark Cuban

That shows you how much I had been paying attention.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Michael Martin

You're already paying $3.49, so you should be able to do whatever you want.

Phil McNichol

It was shocking today. I just wish it was shocking in the other direction.

Michael Nicosia

This is shocking to me, I thought we'd be up.

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Jane Smiley

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

Maria Semple

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

John Roberts

This would be shocking even in a Third World country.

Jim Goetz

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

Ann Marsh

It?s shocking to the family, it?s shocking to the friends.

Timothy Sr

It is very shocking because it is a very close-knit neighborhood.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Carl Jung

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Edmund Wilson

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Edna Ferber

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

Bill Gates

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Bob Seger

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

Garry Kasparov

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

John le Carre

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Kofi Annan

The status quo cannot work.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Slash

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Lakpa Sherpa

I think this is a very wealthy country.

Fred Lawrence

I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money. I never was and never will be a wealthy person.

Charles Potter

This is a very big drive, and this is not a wealthy area,

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Lucy Parsons

We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live

George Twigg

We don't want to be a place where you have to be wealthy to live here.