Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Joseph Suhayda

Anything above a couple of feet per second is extremely difficult to wade in. To operate a boat in anything close to 10 to 15 feet per second is extremely difficult. Being in (that kind of) water is tantamount to being dead.

Chu Woosik

Anything 40-inch and above is still quite expensive for the consumers. We are making very active investments to bring the prices down.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Avi Arad

The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.

James Joyce

We did do very well in the transactions over $100 million that we chose to pursue, signing 11 and losing only one competitively, ... But the consistent deferral of mega-deals resulting from customers caution about their own businesses in this economic environment has had a significant impact on the growth of our outsourcing revenue.

John Lee

Diversified businesses are growing at a faster rate than we thought.

Craig Lesser

Different businesses have different needs. But most are concerned with finding a location close to their customer base.

Mary Bono

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

Russell Simmons

I'm a creative guy. And I only do businesses as a result of like I've - I'm try to find what my gifts are and give them immediately. As soon as I get them and I understand, I give them back.

Don Carson

The reason most businesses fail is because they are not properly financed. In today's world, increasingly the first guy to get to critical mass might be the one who wins the game.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Gilberto Madail

Of those 12 cases, there was a response to only one, and that response was to close it for lack of proof.

Leif Johansson

now investigating the matter more closely to determine what has happened.

Bill Wright

Some were already hung, but many were stuck away in a closet on the second floor, in various states of disrepair and deterioration.

Dusty Baker

Running is the hard part. It's getting close to having to make a decision.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Stephen Jones

Dead men don't tell tales. We don't want a Lee Harvey Oswald here. We don't want an Oliver Stone movie. We don't want a Warren Commission report.

Jacques Chirac

Is it normal for the commission to be disinterested in a problem? ... This is one of the reasons that explains the current rejection of Europe. It is a problem that must be looked at.

Nicole Corcoran

This was an issue update on education. This was an e-mail that was sent out. It was a new, electronic way to get a message out. Actually, we look forward to some guidelines from the ethics commission on something that's totally new. No one has addressed what's OK with an e-mail, what's OK with a link to a Web site.

Dan Randolph

We're very much hoping the commission doesn't reopen the noise rule, and would be surprised in many ways if they do.

Abdullah A. Badawi

We will not have any role in its work as we want the commission to be really independent and free of any form of government intervention.

Jyoti Basu

Let (the) Election Commission do whatever it likes, but we are going to win this time also.

Ken Toole

We need consumer-oriented people on the PSC, ... I have demonstrated that commitment over the years and look forward to talking with the people of Public Service Commission District No. 5 about my experience and ideas I have for the future.

Rick Garcia

I found her to be just a really good commission member and embody what the commission is all about.

David Vitter

We need a Katrina reconstruction commission headed by a no-nonsense, nonpolitical, businessman manager so that we all have something lasting to show for this spending,

Bud Lachel

Competition is a good thing to have, but you have to keep everybody happy.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Chuck D.

It was a huge step forward for our program and our school for the type of competition we're in.

Todd Bertuzzi

I sincerely hope Steve Moore continues to progress and is back in competition soon,

Julie Withington

They also have year-round swimmers, and they give us some good competition. We expect to have another good meet.

Steve Olson

We have a pretty good shot at doing well at the regional on Saturday. We've wrestled strong competition all season, and that helps this time of the season. Realistically, I would like to think we can get eight or nine guys through, maybe even one or two more.

Paul Buck

We have pretty good competition between about 10 guys,

Eddy Cue

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

Alan Greenspan

Competition is the necessary driving force toward delivering a superior product or service, ... We should not shy away from it.

Stanley Arkin

Often times, criminal complaints are a signal of some kind of deal in the offing.

Lee Corso

Tell them to get over it. That's the rules everybody plays by. They shouldn't be complaining about that. Bowden didn't make them up. Paterno didn't make them up. But somebody made them up.

Tom Inman

We're playing in the semifinals and you can't complain about that.

Eliot Spitzer

we have received a complaint and we're reviewing it.

James Dermody

Every year it happens. And, every year we hear the complaints.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton complains that Donald Trump took advantage of the tax code. Well, why didn't she change it? Why didn't you change it when you were a senator? The reason you didn't is that all your friends take the same advantage that I do.

Andy Rooney

I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.

Rae Tyson

We have a total of 428 complaints, but no crashes or injuries.

Richard Jefferson

The preseason served its purpose, ... I know guys like to complain about the preseason games, but they would really complain if we didn't have them.

Toni Sacconaghi

A workforce reduction of 10 to 15 percent (3,800 to 5,700 people) now seems more likely, but may not be enough to satisfy current investor expectations.

David Haas

The swap in principle is well-founded, but as it currently stands, some of the other processors represent higher-growth opportunities.

Bill Ayer

The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.

Kobita Desai

The mobile phone market will see a growth of over 50 percent year-on-year in the next two years. The industry will have 125 million subscribers by the current year end.

Olli Rehn

We should either have the constitutional treaty in force or we should decide how we amend or develop the provisions of the current treaty,

Sergey Lavrov

We think that the current situation permits us to develop this issue and do everything possible within the means of this organization, without referring this issue to other organizations now.

Derrick Brooks

This was about helping the team and putting us in the position to keep a lot of our players here that we currently have and, at the same time, give us something to go get a player that we felt could help us win a Super Bowl. That's the way it's always been when I've done this, a two-way street.

Taizo Nishimuro

The Tokyo Stock Exchange is currently implementing various reforms at a feverish pitch.

Blake Ress

Many of the people in the legislature send their kids to private schools and I think they would defend them, defend the current system. I don't know that we've done enough research where we can defend this before the legislature or in court. If we're going to go this way we better have some facts to back our decision.

Roma Downey

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

John Sutherland

These are six extremely different novels, all of them good in a very different way.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Shane Valdez

Luke is extremely hard to score on. He's got good solid takedowns, he's solid on top and he's very hard to take down.

Mike Bossy

I'm always extremely honored to be applauded the way I am when I get back here and have any kind of liaison with the fans. I'm humbled by it.

Shanna Briggs

I felt like we started out extremely flat. And we didn't do some things well defensively that we wanted to, and that's when they went on their run.

J. Taylor

Hiroshi is an extremely technical player with his passing and dribbling, ... He'll be a good player for us.

Jay Foreman

He stepped up big for us. They had put a lot of good shots on goal. He was solid in net. His reflexes are good and he is extremely athletic. He showed me a lot stepping in a tough spot like that.

Peter Castro

He's extremely concerned. And she's extremely grateful for that concern.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

Greek proverb

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

Malcolm Gladwell

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Pray God our greatness may not fail/ Thro' craven fears of being great.

George Weinberg

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Baha'u'llah

Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

Arthur Ashe

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Dan Lankheit

As I said, the head on this thing was unreal.

Eric Snyder

This weekend is really important. It's one of the weekends we've been working from the very first practice for, and this is where all the training and work we've done all season will pay off. We're one of the top teams heading down there, so we'll just hope we do enough to move on.

Stephen Chick

We think Home Depot is headed for a stall.

Mark Waggoner

There's going to be these lingering problems. There's still too much uncertainty in the New Orleans area. I think we are headed back to $70.

Elizabeth Campbell

We just had to keep our heads up and not quit.

Michelle Williams

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Mitch Albom

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

Harvey Pitt

We'll come down with a sledgehammer on any improper relationships, any improper conflicts.

Jason Kilar

The one thing that's important to know is Hulu's not looking for traffic to be sent to hulu.com from its relationships with Yahoo and Fancast and MSN.

Jane Birkin

I can't be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about.

William Schmitt

This is probably one (company) where that risk is the greatest.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Edward Norton

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Edward Snowden

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Chuck Palahniuk

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

Christopher Nolan

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

Angelina Jolie

For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Scott Westerfeld

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Zoe McLellan

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

Jayme Wilson

We know it?s going to be a challenge. We?re going to try to stick to what we do and give them a game.

Thomas S. Monson

Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.

Steven Moffat

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

Randy Quaid

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

Lorrie Moore

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Peter Smith

A lot of times you don't know who you're trading with or where.