Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ignacio Bunye

The president believes she has a mandate based on the 2004 elections...Maybe at a later time, we can talk about transitory provisions.

Jacob Lew

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

Rick DeLisi

Business travelers make the decisions based on schedule, leisure travelers do it based on price. We think we can be very competitive in both areas.

Paul Zimmerman

But based on (what we saw), yes, I think the Bears are legitimate Super Bowl contenders. The Bears now have a quarterback who resembles an NFL quarterback. Hooray. What a surprise.

Todd Duncan

Based upon what we've seen in the basement, eventually left uncorrected, it could actually collapse to the center,

Omar Minaya

Based upon what we heard, it's more of a precautionary thing.

Stephen Ross

Based upon what I know, I think Bell is bullish.

Kevan Casey

Based upon the satellite data we have received from Hawkeye and the results from our first well, we believe we have selected an extremely desirable location for our second well. We are still in the testing phase of our initial well after our fracture stimulation treatment in February 2006.

Mark Dyer

Based upon the proposals that we have reviewed internally for the past several months, we believe these three cities provide us with the best opportunity to build and develop a world-class NASCAR Hall of Fame for our millions of loyal fans.

Peter Jones

This field has traditionally been individual institutions performing their own research, with little direct communication between groups. The idea of networking and pooling our resources is going to get us to better treatments and hopefully a cure for this disease much faster than working individually.

Carolyn Rogers

There was better teamwork and more communication between the girls on the court and the serving improved greatly from Monday's game.

Steve Cook

It is very important for the legal profession to be involved in the community. The competition is a wonderful way to promote communication skills, confidence, poise and those kinds of things.

Ruth Kelly

It's a real sincere effort to listen to the community, which we didn't do a good job of doing the first time. Communication is key, as far as getting the right message out and getting it out so it reaches everybody.

John Lister

It is where we spend the most time during the week, and it is the place most of our formal communication takes place.

Mike Bibby

This is very frustrating. There wasn't any energy out there, ... We had no communication out there tonight. We need to work on our problems, because I know they can be fixed.

Rich Harris

It's a collaborative process. I work with the governor very closely. She provides ideas, from time to time she actually dictates material. Her communication is very genuine.

Cormac McCarthy

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

Ram Dass

In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

Katherine Jenkins

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

Justin Cronin

I like creating villains.

Ellen Page

There are a lot of things I love about acting and one of the things I love the most is, here you are taking words off a page, working with someone you might have met just a week before, and somehow you're creating a moment that separates itself from space and time. You feel an incredible rush when you have that moment with another actor. You can feel it bounce off one another. Every take you do can reveal different things that were hiding. And things outside the story get revealed to you, too. It's an incredible way to work and to experience a story.

Pete Carroll

The more the better. We've looked forward in our five years to creating this.

Andrew Walton

They simply need to state the reason, if it's creating some kind of hardship for the person.

Jules Verne

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

Mike Albring

He's made a lot of progress. He's earned his playing time.

Bobby Douglas

We're outmatched in most weight classes. We've got to fight for every point. Our main mission is to score points and see what we're going to have to do to get to the national tournament. In order to get there, we've got to go through either Oklahoma or Oklahoma State.

Jane Harrison

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

Dennis Morley

Too many people ignore it. Either it needs to be better enforced or removed.

Suzanne Somers

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

Jeremy P. Johnson

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

John Naveaux

We were very lethargic and didn't play at either end in the first half.

Melody Davidson

We don't like to see any hits like that from either team. But whatever we use to motivate us won't come from the other team. It will come from us.

Lee Reed

We really didn't have a big inning. It could have gone either way.

Alfred Rock

It was a once-in-a-lifetime moment. I really can't explain it. It was crazy.

Joseph Wong

I think I have explained many times that there is no alternative to legislation if we want to implement this year's pay reduction with certainty. And I think it is only incumbent on the government to proceed with this piece of legislation,

Shaun McGinn

Song is making a very good impression so far. He's got a fastball, curveball and throws a changeup, but his split-finger is a true out pitch. He's got very good numbers.

Duncan Hunter

So my point is, you can have a good reform, but in doing that, you don't want to hurt the troops that are in the field.

Norm MacDonald

So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

Joe Tiller

Some years the schedule rolls your way and some years it doesn't. There are a lot of very good teams in the conference, so I don't think you can make any assumptions about any teams.

Don Norton

Some years it probably would because you're hit with a lot of injuries. Some years, it's probably not so good because you don't want to (break) your routine.

Jim Bates

Sometimes when you want inside push we'll use Grady. He's been a good pass-rusher in his career.

Mike Redmond

Sometimes I laugh when we talk. I'm 13 years older than he is. He's got a great grasp for what's going on out there. I don't think I've ever talked to a 22-year-old kid with as much of a good idea as he has.

John Adair

Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership.

Mike Devaney

Teams will give us a really good shot because we have a target on our back.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Homer Simpson

Owww look at me Marge, I'm making people Happy! I'm the magical man, from Happy Land, who lives in a gumdrop house on Lolly Pop Lane!!!!...... By the way I was being sarcastic...

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.

Mark Cuban

We have told the NBA we are happy to help in any way.

Elton John

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Edward Kennedy

We don't intend to give up or give in.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Ronald Neumann

These expectations of the people will have to be met,

Luther Jackson

The status quo is dead. And that's why people are so nervous.

Kevin Cronin

The statement was a little more hawkish than people anticipated.

Joe Napoli

The state is going to have to step in and see to it these people comply, if they have to shut them down, yank licenses.

Gawain Scott

I speak for the people of the street.

Matthew Morrison

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

John Mackey

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

Pras Michel

I slept in the rain. My tent was stolen. I experienced how these people live.

Ryan Trecartin

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

Lyn Nofziger

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

Lyndon B. Johnson

...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

Louise Slaughter

We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.

Louis Aragon

I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.

Loretta Lynch

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

Loretta Lynch

We are all just here for a time-whether in this building or even on this earth. But the values we hold dear will live on long after we have left this stage. Our responsibility, while we are here, is to breathe life into them; to imbue them with the strength of our convictions and the weight of our efforts.

M. Russell Ballard

There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what our Church teaches... We are living in a world saturated with all kinds of voices. Perhaps now, more than ever, we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us.

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Rod Serling

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

Ronald Reagan

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

Winston Churchill

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

Winston Churchill

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Winston Churchill

You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

Will Rogers

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Mason Cooley

Disillusionment is not truth.

Mason Cooley

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Oliver Tambo

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

O. Henry

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

Emile Hirsch

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.