Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Schmidt

I wouldn't be shocked if someone was interested in acquiring them since there is real tangible value.

Porter Goss

Having watched the pride of some countries in acquiring the world-stage status of having nuclear weapons -- and what that has meant for nationalism and leadership ... it becomes almost a piece of the holy grail for a small country that otherwise might be victimized living in a dangerous neighborhood,

Bill White

Today, I have talked with the senior FEMA official in the United States and the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. They have committed to review both deadlines for hotel reimbursement based on the hotel population and for acquiring needed apartments based on the supply and demand for apartments in Houston,

Bertrand Russell

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws

Paul Stanley

I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what's more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you.

Mark Nelson

There are numerous competitors who could benefit immediately from acquiring Palm. The opportunity to realize these benefits will surely erode over time, as will shareholder value. It is imperative the Board act in a timely and decisive fashion before the opportunity to do so is diminished.

Philip Green

I am delighted to announced that our third year, since acquiring the business in October 2002, has again produced an excellent set of results.

Chanakya

He who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowledge; and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification.

Sathya Baba

In the matter of acquiring food, different kinds of strength, abilities and skills are used by us but these very same skills are used by animals and birds as well.

Clyde Drexler

I was lucky. I spent almost 12 years in Portland and came to Houston for the last 3 1/2 years, which was a nice. But when you can spend your hold career with one team, that's a blessing.

Scott White

I was always amazed that he had this uncanny knack for being able to pluck a Canadian angle out of almost any overseas story. He was a very gentle man, but had a bulldog's tenacity when it came to chasing down the Canadian angle.

Robby Ginepri

I was almost there, so I feel that anyone on any given day could take out anybody.

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Brian Dawkins

I was almost in tears when I walked in there and saw that I was going to be a part of that, answering the phones and hearing the joy in peoples' hearts as they were giving.

Giuliana Sgrena

kept on talking and talking, you couldn't contain him, an avalanche of friendly phrases and jokes. I finally felt an almost physical consolation, warmth that I had forgotten for some time.

Kurt Barnard

Kmart is in a condition of repair right now, ... It is almost surprising they are down only 2 percent. They have a huge amount of over-age inventory they have to unload.

Kelvin Sampson

I wouldn't pay a lot of attention to what they say. If I were putting together a 64-team (field), I think it's almost impossible to say Colorado does not deserve it.

Jack Rio

I would think it would be out of character for a guy who has been a successful coach for as long as he has. It almost sounds desperate.

Katherine Paterson

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

Sean Brown

I wouldn't say everybody gambles. Probably a large number of the population does. When you are talking about millions of dollars, that's when it becomes a big deal. Fifty bucks here and there is not that bad, but when you have big money and when police get involved, it's serious. The police just don't get involved for nothing, for no reason.

Jim Craig

Katrina was the worst disaster probably in U.S. history. It becomes a question of capacity more than training when you have a disaster of this magnitude.

Mick Ebeling

Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable.

Malik Peiris

Just the introduction per se (of the virus from wild birds to poultry) is not a major risk but if it becomes endemic, that is the problem,

Mark Wilde

I think it's about an even-money proposition that UPM will come back with another offer. The concern in the market is that either side is going to end up stretching it to $80 per share, and then it becomes a little more difficult to justify.

Hidenao Nakagawa

I think it can be resolved through dialogue whoever becomes the next leader of this country.

Freddy Adu

It becomes very, very, very, very tempting to look ahead, and as a matter of fact I am doing that right now, ... I always have to make the best decision for myself first, and, you know, I'm just looking into things right now, so we'll see what happens at the end of this season and we'll see where my family and myself are headed.

Gary Williams

It becomes very important that you have as many players as possible.

Paul Wolfowitz

I think it is important, this issue of voice, which is shorthand for how, to have particularly developing countries have more of a say in the operations of institutions like this one. It is a very important question,

Sebastian Thrun

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Teju Cole

There are many people who know nothing of a world in which we take the reality of the 'other' seriously. I'm running on that platform: other people in other countries are really, really real, and there has to be a way of presenting their reality that is not condescending to them or about our psycho-social needs.

Tim Adams

There are still some countries out there that have yet to lend their full support.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.

George Robertson

What will come out of today's summit will be the united resolve of European countries and all the NATO countries that (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic is going to be defeated,

Chris Hurt

What we've seen with the mobility of labor, particularly from Mexico, has enabled that industry to stay in the United States. It's entirely possible that if labor had not been mobile that parts of the industry would have to moved to other countries like Mexico.

Milton Friedman

Have all these countries found a genius like Greenspan? ... What the foreign experience suggests is, you don't need a genius. You just need someone willing to make fighting inflation his top priority.

Ted Heid

Here, we've developed an obsession for the long ball, just because we can. Other countries don't have that luxury, so they play a 'purer' form of baseball.

Kelly Brook

In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Claire McCaskill

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

Thomas Fuller

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Mark Phillips

Katie has gotten healthy. She is stronger and more fit than she was at any time during last year's cross country season.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Mary Osako

Just like any other global company, Yahoo! must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based.

Anna Lindh

I think it is very dangerous if the U.S. is supportive of the Israeli government and of the confrontation Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has tried to use in the latest weeks instead of supporting peace talks,

Michael Cohen

it can be quite dangerous if you end up with a medication that's not the intended drug.

O. Singh

He could be a pretty dangerous person if he gets his game going.

Lou DiBella

He could be a lot more dangerous now, ... People look at his record with the (19 wins) and five KOs and think he's got nothing. He's going to sucker someone into a real good fight. I can see him going from this next fight to a guy like Oscar Diaz and then onto DeMarcus Corley.

Ozzie Guillen

He knows how to hit. Because he doesn't have a big name and make a lot of money, nobody talks about him, but he's a dangerous hitter.

Joe Carroll

He knew we were worried, but he used to reassure us and say that it was not as dangerous as people outside think,

Derrick Johnson

He is one of those individuals who can intellectualize discrimination, which is the most dangerous sort of individual to this country.

Ralph Neas

He is one of the most dangerous judicial nominees that we've seen yet.

Kenneth Trump

The only thing that is more dangerous than a gang member with a weapon is a parent or an educator in denial. There's no excuse for parental ignorance. Turning their head and looking the other way can lead the kids into gangs in the first place.

Jerry Yang

The relevance of search is still the Holy Grail for any search application,

Scott Prince

We have 30 big steps to the holy grail again. You take one step at a time.

Tim Gallagher

The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

L. Lionel Kendrick

We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.

Kevin Armstrong

He loved God, and he loved the community, and he couldn't leave one for the other. He saw that neighborhood as holy ground. For him, that meant staying in it and cultivating its talents.

Matt Cookson

He'll throw holy water out onto the vineyard.

William Vickrey

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Rowan D. Williams

If you think of intersecting circles, holy wisdom is that point at which the realities meet, overlap, intersect, interpenetrate.

Frank Wood

I just don't want them to come back in two years and say they are turning the lights out at Holy Trinity for good.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

Laurence Sterne

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

William Wordsworth

The holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration.

Myles Munroe

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Clinton Portis

Having that one losing season made me take on more of a leadership role,

Jeff Gaucher

Her senior leadership has really made a difference. She has the mentality that she's going to get her points. She's going to do what she has to.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

Kevin McKeown

There is a leadership vacuum in this community. I want my candidacy to be about participating in the local government, to participate in the community.

Terry Murphy

knowledge, optimism and inspiration in people living with cancer.

Thomas Mesereau

He is permanently living outside of the United States.

Robert Taylor

Here's a picture of the singlewide trailer we were living in.

William Boyd

It is probably no exaggeration to say that she is Britain's preeminent living novelist.

Sathya Baba

It is not the standard of living that is important, but the manner of living.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Kelly Slater

I was just living in the moment, ... That's something I've been trying to do this year. I wasn't worried about anything that I couldn't control.

Louie Fernandez

He was living in a dark, small, wet efficiency. He seemed unaware of his surroundings.

Dick Vermeil

I don't know who wrote that, but it's bull. You can quote me on that. Just like I was run out of St. Louis, that's ... people make a living on speculation. They're an embarrassment to the media.

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Charles Price

Golf, especially championship golf, isn't suppose to be fun, was never meant to be fair, and never will make any sense.

Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

Natasha Richardson

I think it's just how it was meant to be. You can say it would have been a different film. As it is, this is the movie we made and the past is the past.

Matthew Ashford

It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable.

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

W. S. Gilbert

We take pride in each other - we were meant to be together.

Rick Vanhoy

I thought that would be a little momentum shifter. It just wasn't meant to be.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

M. Wolfe

I would think he's worth it. They might not.

Chris Corrigan

I suspect it might be a while getting a suitable candidate.

Robyn Hitchcock

I think it might just be a record that people could put on when they come out of the bath... something they can put on when they've steamed.

Jim Edmonds

I think it might be why I struggled in the World Series,

Deborah Ann Woll

I always fancied someone might call me 'Red,' like Katherine Hepburn.

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He might be in the lineup tomorrow.

Bryan Smolinski

(Hasek) was the reason we won. It was really tough taking those penalties in the first seven minutes, but then we got one at the end and that might have taken the wind out of their sails.

Stephanie Mills

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

Katori Hall

I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.

Irene Smith

There are no nuclear tests planned or desired.

James Davis

He is a sophomore at N.C. State studying nuclear engineering.

Walther Bothe

Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

Robin Quivers

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything

Walter Kohn

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Wendell Berry

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

Andy White

In a carbon-constrained world ... nuclear plants have got to be in that mix.

Michael Scheuer

In this case, nuclear material, so by the end of 1996, it was clear that this was an organization unlike any other one we had ever seen.

Tariq Altaf

In a nuclear environment, this is obviously not a prudent course.

Sondhi Limthongkul

When he said 'No,' we can't resist, otherwise there would be clashes.

Elizabeth Langland

Otherwise you're like a three-legged stool on two legs.

Oliver Cromwell

Remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Melissa McBride

If there's something really, really bothering me about a script, then I'll say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

Sven Eriksson

The first thing is that he must start to play ... otherwise I can't pick him. You can't gamble.

Robert Rodriguez

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

Madeline Albright

These people have to go back, otherwise there are no people in Kosovo,

John LaFontaine

There were times we weren't ready for the rebound. Otherwise we'd have had two or three more.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Sam Neill

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

Jimmy Johnson

There are so many pieces to the puzzle,

Phil McNichol

He's got room to breathe. This was a very important piece of the puzzle.

Julio Mora

I think this devaluation could be just a little piece of the iceberg. We could have more problems to come.

Dave Ball

It is just one piece of the portfolio of solutions you have to look at.

Kirk Johnson

He was snatched away from us like a piece of candy.

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Richelle Mead

It was the most convulted, ridiculous piece of logic I'd heard in awhile... It was something I would have come up with.

Tony Womack

Just to play, for me, is special. I take pride in playing. I know I can compete.

Kerry Collins

I take pride in the way I play, ... This organization has treated me well. I still have a lot of fight. Every time I go out there I am going to give it my best.

Paul Hatch

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Kevin Garnett

I take a lot of pride in how I look,

Bill Freeman

I think it's just pride in the United States, period,

John Gramuglia

We take a lot of pride in what we do here at Wadsworth.

Deion Branch

We take a lot of pride in our defense,

Anton LaVey

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

Kelly Herndon

I didn't make enough plays, so I didn't play (well). That's the way I look at it, ... I tried to do what I can, but I pride myself on making plays, and I didn't make enough today.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Roy Wilsher

There are still some small bund (concrete container) fires, but the tanks are out.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Darryl Frank

There is a strong (talent) pool, but a very small pool.

Roy Blumberg

There is much more value in small and mid-cap stocks. Their multiples are much more realistic.

Mike Kennedy

We've done this every year ... It's just our way of doing a small remembrance of what went on.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Bill Cowher

I was just one small part of this, trust me.

Kofi Annan

The status quo cannot work.

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.

Ralph Sczygelski

He essentially has been victimized by Mr. Avery as well.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

James Baker

I haven't watched any of it. I've been in meetings.

Jim Nabors

I really never watched myself on TV. Now I know why.

Mike Leson

I just watched the important part, at the end when they go through the tournament.

Marco Rubio

In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.

Johnny Damon

It's going to be a very watched weekend.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Richard Crashaw

In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.

Richard M. Nixon

The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.

Sarah Shahi

I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.

Winston Churchill

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Ty Cobb

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Vladimir Putin

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

William Gurnall

We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.

William Gurnall

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.

Zygmunt Bauman

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.