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.

E. Helm

As for Mr. Milosevic's future, I don't care one way or the other if he lives out his days in sunny Cyprus or if he will agree to step aside and make way for democracy in Serbia, the important thing is that he be removed from power, whether voluntarily or not, and now,

Jia Qingguo

As for Beijing, the 'One China' principle is the political basis ... that the two sides must agree on before they can engage in any kind of dialogue.

Patrick Ramsey

As Coach said, I don't agree with the decision, but the decision has been made.

Larry Gossett

As an elected official, I genuinely agree with that statement. It needs to be challenged.

Billy Tauzin

Anyone who looks at that objectively would agree you had a horrible flawed process in place. If those numbers are accurate, why would Firestone not report that to headquarters? ... How could you possibly have not known in 1996 that you had an obligation to recall those tires...how could you assume that a one-out-of-10 failure rate was not significant enough to issue a recall?

Sergey Lavrov

The British draft is not that clear and it is basically suggesting a procedure which would lead to deterioration of the situation further, and we cannot agree with something that would not be realistic.

Ian Macfarlane

Australia is already fully committed in terms of uranium production through until about 2008, bearing in mind that the signing of this agreement means that this is really only the start of the process.

Brian Lara

Australia came out victorious but I'm sure you'll agree we've got a good group of young players, very exciting players, and guys who want to represent their country.

Kay Crites

Anytime anyone would get near them, he'd perch forward and watch them closely.

Amy Clark

Anytime anyone can do something academically, then kids see it everywhere. Now with ISTEP it's not just English, language arts and math, it's also science in fifth grade. That will trickle down eventually.

Joe Wilcox

Any time anyone asks for your credit card number online when you already have an account, consider that to be a fraudulent spam mail.

Peter Black

As far as we are aware, this is the first time that anyone has identified this association between lung function and vitamin D.

David Sullivan

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who is not worried about our results and position in the table is crazy. The time to start worrying is now, not with five games to go.

Roger Payne

As far as I know, the use of the word 'slave' has never been even proposed by anyone as offensive.

Joe Thomas

as good at their positions as anyone in the country.

Benny Gray

As hot as it is, I can't imagine anyone wanting to burn. Hopefully, we'll get some rain before the first of October.

Robert Taylor

Ashley is as good as anyone we've had here, including Melissa.

Frank Tursi

The sites are chosen to capture a variety of land uses.

Ken Bacon

These men should be freed. They should not have been captured in the first place. And to the extent they're still there, that's regrettable.

Janet Watermeier

Southwest Florida will capture its fair share of boomers. But we'll have to deal with transportation issues, work-force housing issues, water-supply issues, and health-care and retirement care will get reshaped.

Bob Stiles

Teams can capture where they park, how they spend, what they buy, and use this to market to them even before the game.

Larry Terry

You're always looking for the guy who can capture your heart as a player and who can capture the team's heart. That's as important as the guy who can make decisions. I'd say it's still pretty close. I don't want to reveal my hand yet.

Gavid Hood

When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.

Carlos Gutierrez

We want to grow where consumers are going and we want to follow consumers, ... We know consumers are eating more snacks and more portable food. We want to capture that and what we have needed up to now was a powerful distribution system.

George Akerlof

Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.

Kevin Hunter

Energy costs are going to be driving a lot of the way we are thinking. We need to start looking at other car-based products -- cars that capture the fun and excitement of trucks.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.

Jennifer Grey

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Tadahito Iguchi

As far as the playoffs themselves, there's not really much difference, ... The fact I was able to hit this home run this first year playing, I'm very happy.

Jimmy Carter

a saving factor was that there was no nationwide pattern to favor any one party.

Ed Gillespie

As I've said on your show repeatedly, the fact is the president will be up. He will be down, ... Inside Politics.

Martin O'Malley

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

Kevin Colbert

People say we haven't signed big free agents, but they lose sight of the fact that we signed significant players of our own.

Rick Honeycutt

People say we have no true ace. The fact is, we have four veteran guys that all have had good levels of success.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Don Rittner

As an historian, what I do today doesn't matter to me - until tomorrow.

Stewart Tuttle

As a matter of policy, we don't talk to terror organizations.

Marcus Thomas

As a matter of fact, we're going to have to enlarge Scoop.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Fernando Vargas

As a matter of fact, I have to have my snack right now.

Tony Terry

Aubrey pitched well. No matter who's pitching, they'll put it into play.

Scott Baker

A win is a win. It doesn't matter if it's the Royals or the Indians. Every win is important.

Wayne Perry

As long as I've been here, it's going to come. It's just a matter of when. We'd like to get it out of the way so we don't have to worry about it anymore. But I know, as a a staff, we haven't talked about it at all.

Matt Hasselbeck

That was a combination of pain and frustration,

Carl Forti

People understand bureaucracy and they understand sometimes it's a pain in the butt. And any time you're going to start a new program, there's going to be some problems.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Jamie Wyeth

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

Jonathan Simon

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Wayne White

sorry, truly sorry for the pain that I caused.

Sterling Marlin

So now I have somebody to share my pain with.

Rich Vallinaggi

It was a pain putting them all up there.

Greg Collins

The whole thing is to paint me as anti-business and no-growth,

Brad Pitt

It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

Jane Goodall

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

Jamie Campbell Bower

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line.

Caprice Bourret

Men tend to be selfish.

C. S. Lewis

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

Barry Goldwater

...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

Antonio Gramsci

It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

Dale Carnegie

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

Claude C. Hopkins

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

George Meredith

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

Rumi

You transform all those who are touched by You.

Oscar Wilde

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Philip Roth

I was back in touch with my place,

David Zuniga

I wondered what could I do to make a hands-on film that could actually touch people.

Chris Hillman

You don't ever want to touch that money,

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

J. K. Rowling

Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.