Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giraldus Cambrensis

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

Wendell Berry

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

William Kamkwamba

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much.

Clive Thompson

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Emmitt Smith

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Elizabeth Warren

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

Chen Shui-bian

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Charles Pena

The political atmosphere is charged. Democrats can't afford to be seen as soft on defense or terrorism. They're going to have to fight the social cuts without bargaining on defense.

Isabella Bird

It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

Elizabeth Warren

For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.

Pedro Chequer

The alternative ... is domestic production of the medication, preferably by the government. Today we pay up to nine times the fair price.

Samantha Power

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

Jen Kirkman

Use your passport for domestic trips, so that way you don't risk losing your license.

Jim McCafferty

Mid-cap stocks are more domestic and much less reliant on overseas markets and overseas concerns.

Jane Liu

While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as they had been. Our January sales forecast predicted that domestic automakers earned approximately 54 percent market share of new vehicle sales, and that Japanese, European and Korean automakers would earn 35 percent, 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively.

Kiran More

Whoever performs well in the domestic championships will be eligible for selection. The performance of India 'A' players will also be taken into account.

Gerrit Smith

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

Clint Eastwood

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

Carl Sagan

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

Carl Sagan

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Carl Sagan

They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

Carl Sagan

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

Bertrand Russell

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

Bertrand Russell

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Bertrand Russell

Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

Scott Stossel

People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the internal perception and the external impression can feel so large.

Ross Mathews

When you struggle with weight, it's not an internal struggle... it's literally an external struggle, and everyone sees it.

Javier Solana

Most forms of external support require interaction with the Palestinian administration.

Ralph Trine

To be at one with God is to be at peace ... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

Scott Cleland

The external trends are in Dorman's favor, ... while internal trends favor Stephenson.

Wu Yi

We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.

Wayne Hale

There are a total of 34 ice frost ramps on the external tank.

Liz Williams

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

Tim Pawlenty

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

will.i.am

Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time.

Philip Barleggs

The outlook for the markets is pretty tricky. The Fed is nearly finished with its interest-rate hikes, but it's not there yet.

Doug Elmendorf

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Patrick Fearon

That would support the idea that the Fed can stop raising rates soon.

Bruce Steinbecker

That was the turning point of the game. We really fed off that play.

David King

We could feel the energy. It was a great thing having Kyle there, and our kids fed of Kyle being there.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled/ In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

Jack Malvey

We're not at the top. With the Fed still moving to 5.50 in our view, maybe at least 5.25 to 5.40 10-year yields would not be out of the question.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Carl Rogers

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Carl Rogers

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Matt Kelmon

The 30 percent revenue growth days, I think we might have just have seen them top out. Now they have to take what they've got and see how they can leverage it.

Ronald Dollens

The acquisition of CTS, its innovative products and strong pipeline, will provide a platform for Guidant's growth in cardiac surgery.

Mike Edwards

We have also experienced steady growth in intellectual property and patent activities.

Mark Zandi

The overall CPI does not reflect the inflation most seniors face.

Walter Veltroni

We have more growth, more employment, lower inflation and tourism is doing well.

Stephen Jen

With the strong labor report, strong retail sales, and the strong inflation report, market expectations of a sustainable U.S. recovery have increased.

Michael Franzese

You have no inflation in these numbers at all.

Bruce Steinberg

We don't have any inflation problem. The CPI was a one-time aberration.

Michael Blythe

Policymaker's toleration for inflation risks must be lower when the inflation rate is bumping around 3% per annum,

Michael Moskow

If inflation expectations did become unhinged, this might require a stronger response,

Mark Cliffe

His reputation as an arch-dove on inflation is rather misleading.

Irene Cheung

From March, the year-on-year inflation rate will probably come off quite substantially.

Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Don Clark

We'll pick up trash first. If labor is available, we'll do more.

Norm Johnson

We have the labor. What we're going to need is the materials.

Bill Scott

We have some of the weakest labor laws in the industrialized world.

Paul Gurgol

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

Tim Heekin

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Ella Wilcox

Here, on this side of the grave,Here, should we labor and love.

Michael Wasserman

I think it's a tremendous help. You've got people of all walks of life who are represented by labor unions. I think that's tremendous when you have that kind of support.

James Campbell

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Wayne Levi

We were struggling to score low a little bit, but everyone had fun,

Tom Shrader

We're up 15 or 20 percent off our (July 24) lows. But September is a tricky month historically. We could retest recent lows by as much as 10 percent before we're able to really move higher.

Pete Carroll

We're really low on numbers, especially wide receivers. Do you want to do it?

David Tronson

Most Americans spend more than they usually have, which is why we have the lowest savings rate in the world.

Jim Shaw

While we're OK with the results, they were probably a little low to even our expectations.

Andy Reid

I thought he would be a low second- or third-round pick. I think most people had him in that area, but for whatever reason, he fell.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Alex Brown

I think markets will stay roughly where they are with the outlook slightly positive,

Douglas McWilliams

Those in the metals markets will have noticed the push into metals and I think we'll see more of that.

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Brian Finnerty

I don't think it's the reason the markets are down, but I think it's a big weight around the market's neck. It's like an anvil.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

Bill Vaughan

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Bill Bruford

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

Carolyn Gray

We've got one right now that we need for someone from the south side of the county,

Charles Long

We're working on getting the sidewalk buttoned up.

Missy Elliott

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

Deborah Moggach

You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.

Dick DeVos

Who better. I know what it's like to sit on that side of the table.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.