Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Al Embry

He is doing well, he's just stressed out a little bit. But praise God, he got out of the thing.

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Robert Wilson Lynd

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

Samuel Johnson

Applause abates diligence.

Samuel Johnson

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Saint Augustine

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Voltaire

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Winston Churchill

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

Steve Carter

I wouldn't recommend they try to make more money with a second job, since living paycheck-to-paycheck is already stressful, and they have a young child. Instead, they'll need to reduce their expenses as much as they can.

Mitch Roob

This was not intended to pay him more money - it's intended to pay him the expenses he has with us.

Craig McHugh

In the next few quarters, we plan to further lower our inventory, reduce our overall level of operating expenses and we will increase our focus on our higher-margin businesses.

David Warren

In 2005 Nasdaq executed very well to plan, growing the top-line, reducing our baseline expenses and generating a significant increase in net income.

Don Beck

It helps ? it helps with our expenses a whole lot. It helps us feed the poor ? that's what it's all about.

Toye Taylor

I'm looking for quality of life, non-recurring expenses for these funds.

Richard Thompson

The great thing about this stuff is you don't have to worry about maintaining it. All we have to do is replace it every 10 years or so, and even then our expenses won't be nearly as high as the first time around. We're just having to pay a lot more this time because of our drainage problems. To us, this is just a smart move.

Mahatma Gandhi

I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.

Milton Friedman

Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Paul Light

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Viktor Khristenko

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

Saint Augustine

Custom is second nature.

Sharon Rainey

I need people to sort and pack ? and we need help filling out customs forms. I had one volunteer, June Fox, come in last week and she wrapped 11 packages in under 25 minutes. That's the type of workers we need.

George Balle

The Lansdowne was selected to ferry the Japanese ministers and generals from the Customs House Dock in Yokohama to the Missouri.

Steve Glynn

You can stuff a painting in a suitcase and find out in the customs line you owe 5 percent duty.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Li Rongmei

We have to go through all the Customs procedures and paperwork so it is not easy to import one.