Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Stanislav Gross

Our agreement was such that no one would take action in the event of a leak without the assistance of our people,

Lee Iacocca

People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

HyunSoung Kim

People should help each other just like the ocean and earth help each other through the water wave which is an give and take action.

Albert Bandura

People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.

David Joseph

People should take action. Not just go on eating their breakfast, or continuing with their everyday lives.

Michael Goodman

People dedicated to committing piracy are going to find ways to do it. Lawsuits and other action by the RIAA serve to remind people that this is illegal activity and that they are being watched.

Robert DiClemente

People feel generally that we will see some equivalent forward-looking language that guides market expectations to expect action at least into the early part of next year.

Ron Gettelfinger

Delphi 's misuse of the bankruptcy procedure to circumvent the collective bargaining process and slash jobs and wages and drastically reduce healthcare, retirement, and other hard-won benefits or eliminate them altogether is a travesty and a concern for every American.

Edmund Phelps

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

Peter Stuyvesant

It would be altogether too tedious to insert here all the annual petitions for powder which were sometimes repeated two or three times a year.

Thomas Christie

I see this as the most viable of four possible options. We could do away with the matrix altogether and go back to an 8 year top-out. Or we could do nothing at all. Or we could use Dickerson?s suggestion, or mine.

Lew Wallace

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Leo Brincat

Eradicating gambling is as futile as trying to wipe out prostitution. But regulating well is another matter altogether and that is where government failed dismally in past months.

J. Maarten Troost

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

Joseph Heller

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Susan Love

This notion that we should just eliminate periods altogether is just crazy,

Ron Perry

Authorities are worried. Our fire conditions, as far as the grasses and the brush, in all of Texas except for the coast are in extreme fire danger.

Steve Pennington

I've noticed tournaments up and down the coast are all down because people are doing other things on weekends, like fixing their houses.

Ken Goldstein

The storms and flooding, and now the rebuilding and dislocations in the Gulf Coast area, are taking place in a weakening national labor market.

Michael Brown

I understand that there are pockets where people have not gotten the basics, and we're working with the Coast Guard to get those,

Haley Barbour

This is not just a coast calamity. All the way up in the state, there's terrific damage,

Larry Jones

This is the eighth truck for the Gulf Coast that Kathy has sponsored. And it further illustrates Kathy's dedication to helping those in need following the greatest natural disaster in the history of our country.

Eugenie Clark

It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.

Loretta Napoleoni

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.

Ted Turner

And you can coast on that reputation for a long time but if you're going to hold that position, which I think would be the most profitable position, too, you have to earn it.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

David Chokachi

After about two weeks, you realize everybody's human, and everybody puts their pants on the same way.

Spanish Proverb

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody

LeBron James

After a great win like that, you don't want everyone to scatter. I wanted to get everybody together and let them know that we are all in.

Bud Boudreaux

After Frances, everybody around here was seasoned veterans. If a third hurricane had hit us, we would have restored power within three days. And after a fourth one, we would have snapped fingers and the lights would come on.

Bruce Moore

After everybody had taken pictures and gone I went up and put my hand on his shoulder, kind of looking at him in the eye, and I realized he's a hero to me,

Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Susan Wilson

During the floods of '93 and '95, there were opportunities that surfaced where we could improve the integrity of the levee.

Jean Baker

Soon as that opens, the flood gates open,

Paul Farmer

The toxic soup is touching every square inch of the flooded areas,

David Patrick

But it's in a flood plain. So that made no sense.

Ray Collins

If we get more rain, we will see more flood warnings.

Scott Gediman

If we get flooding next month in May, it won't be anything like 1997.

Wayne Allard

If this is to become a perpetual government program, like flood insurance, the industry should be honest about it.

Brooke Bingaman

Since it's just cresting over the flood stage, it's minor flooding that we're forecasting. You probably don't need a canoe, but it's probably wise to move vehicles out of the area.

Charles Dickens

Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a Sedan chair.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Austin Mahone

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

Buck Showalter

The big thing was Curt Schilling, he was obviously on top of his game. We ran into a great pitcher today. It's disappointing.

David Lewis

The big question is: Is it too little, too late? I think in great part, yes.

George Savile

A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use

O. J. Simpson

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Josh Page

Avon had a lot to do with our shooting stats. They played great defense. They took away our inside game.

Heinz Jungwirth

Austria has great relations with the IOC. We don't want to put anything under the table.

James Coleman

A truly great hug comes when you squeeze just hard enough to share a heartbeat.

Dar Williams

And the only word for love is everybody's nameAnd that will always stayIt happens every day.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Jim Tracy

A day like today -- that's something that happens even with an 'ace' of the staff.

Ryan Madson

Stuff started happening pretty quick, and I wasn't thinking out there like I should have been. I was just out there throwing.

Kim Edmonds

Something different happens every day around here and nothing is ever monotonous or mundane. You may be having a ho hum day and someone will walk through the day who just makes you smile from the inside out. That's what makes it all worthwhile.

Graeme Souness

So what happens when they come back with recommendations, do you think we're going to listen to them? I'm not going to say any more on the matter.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice -- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

George Curry

So the real test of success this time will be not how many people turn out, but what happens when they go home.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Tom Lochner

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

Jim Bottorf

Our concern, of course, is for the people we won't be able to help during whatever time it takes us to get back up to speed.

Josh Young

People don't always realize how much we can help in these cases.

Delma Smith

Offer to help her with her house, if she helps you with yours. Then you're doing it as a team.

John Chaney

The national media hurts the A-10 more than any other league. We're always looked at as a stepchild. Our TV situation doesn't help recruiting. That's a major reason I play the type of schedule that I do, for recruiting.

Hayden Fry

The more down-to-earth things can help a lot.

Nick Exel

Definitely. I know I can help the team out more if I'm a little more aggressive. Basically, throughout this season I've been playing not to make mistakes, playing not to hurt the team.

Romeo Crennel

Dennis Northcutt was able to come in and make some plays that will help his psyche because I know he was a little down.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Lynn Forres

We have appropriated about $90 billion. And I don't see that the homeowners are getting it to be able to prepare to put their houses back.

Chris Proulx

What are they getting for houses in Portland? $250,000? Why?

Gary Gambardella

They traded their houses for the big house.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Jan Smith

I've never been with someone this long. She is a part of my life. She's had a lot of tragedy in her life, but has kept on going.

Mal Peet

After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

Burt Bacharach

Stuff just kept going more wrong and more wrong here as I was writing.

Cheryl Brown

Something told me to go back, ... I kept saying, I need to go back, I need to go back. Something's telling me to go back.'

Ruth Adams

Teaching kept my life as normal as it could be.

Rajon Rondo

(Tennessee) played up on me and my big men kept setting screens and getting me open.

Robert Fraser

Television should be kept in its proper place-beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life.

Roy Williamson

Said 'I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.' He just kept saying that over and over and was weeping quite profusely.

Dan Harmon

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Mignon McLaughlin

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

Jack London

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

Herman Melville

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Henry A. Kissinger

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

John Green

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

Micky Arison

It's not easy to take three ships out of service.

Terry Pratchett

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Steve Baldwin

And you don't have to feel it has to be presentable all the time. You can shut the door.

Richard Sherman

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

Rick Riordan

Happy Birthday!' I yelled, 'Now, shut up!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Shut up, sod off, and let me in. (Fury)

Mary Ellen Mark

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Mara Wilson

I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Errol Morris

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

Diane Screnci

At some point, all three of them will be under consideration at the same time.

Ron Ziegler

As long as we can keep two or three people, we'll be here.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Nancy Mulroy

That's illegal. She was told two or three times.

Nikesh Arora

That should be a win-win-win for all three of us.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Dominic Monaghan

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

Dave Ramsey

You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Aaron Edwards

You have customers, you have traffic in the area, you have familiarity.

Vanna Bonta

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Elaine Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?