Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Gelett Burgess

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

William H. Seward

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Ed Yourdon

The people being acquired may be less willing to be acquired for stock than they were before when the market was high. The depressed stock prices cuts both ways. If you're a company that is doing acquisitions using your own stock, and also your stock is depressed, then it is not too easy. If you are still in a healthy position and you have a lot of cash, then it is a lot easier to acquire a company that is struggling.

Jim Scarborough

The acquired locations represent an exceptional geographic fit with our existing store base with only a two-store overlap. Additionally, the locations meet our size and market demographics criteria, since the typical B.C. Moore store is located in a market area of less than 50,000 people, is strip shopping center based, and has an average of approximately 14,300 selling square feet. We expect to realize operating synergies as these stores are converted to Peebles stores, incorporated into our existing distribution system and managed from our South Hill, Virginia administrative offices.

Yang Yuanqing

The acquired business has now been profitable for three consecutive quarters, in line with the board's expectations, although regional performance has varied.

John Schuerholz

We could not have acquired a more perfect player for us than Edgar Renteria.

Rivers Cuomo

I think I've been skeptical of violent passion for a long time. I think 'Pinkerton' is about that a lot - seeing how, every time I've felt really passionate for someone, as soon as I 'acquire' them or feel like I've acquired them, the passion goes away.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Bob Iger

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

Desiree Rogers

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.

Natalie Massenet

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

Fareed Zakaria

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

Kathy Murray

(The academy) offers brand new teachers the support they need to get through that very difficult first year. It is a brand new experience and most of what you learn in college is straight from a book. That (classroom) experience is really quite different.

Richard Hayne

The Anthropologie brand continues to succeed in emotionally engaging its customers while delivering strong financial results.

Edward Whitacre

The AT&T brand reflects what customers are looking for. They want the latest technology and services but they also want reliability, quality and trustworthiness. Only the AT&T brand offers this ideal combination of traits.

Aya Traore

That was tough losing, but we know that the (NCAA) tournament is the start of a brand new season and it's one and done from here on out. We're playing teams that we don't know and haven't played so far, so we have to stay focused this week.

Rob Stillwell

We have two very solid brands to build upon, and I think it's safe to say the casino will either be one or the other.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Michael Workman

The pick up in house price inflation since mid-2005 has the potential to provide further positive impetus to consumer spending in the months ahead.

Heather Dougherty

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

Paul Taylor

The affordability issue from rising interest rates takes some consumers out of the market. These are big-ticket items for consumers. They are going to be sensitive to interest rates.

Ken Perkins

The American consumer has been particularly resilient over the last year plus, ... They're finding ways to spend.

David Rosenberg

That will just reinforce the slowdown in consumer spending.

Howard Silverblatt

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

M. Wolfe

We can throw variable pricing in and we can raise prices of a hit song, but it doesn't mean consumers will buy. They have an alternative - get songs for free.

Meg Whitman

We have tremendous momentum in our flagship business. Our customers now transact well over $200 million in gross merchandise sales per month, making this the most vibrant consumer e-commerce site on the entire Internet.

Gene Ween

When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.

Wole Soyinka

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.

Rem Koolhaas

We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing.

Charles Hayward

If all one does is get another entity to stand in place of NYRA, you're going to have the same results,

Richard Blumenthal

The permit is issued to the national entity Andersen, and its actions, regardless of where they take place, are relevant to Andersen's fitness to practice in Connecticut,

Vince Sweeney

We are pleased to be acknowledged as a national leader in this area. Over the years, people have worked very hard to make things happen. You're never done. It's an ongoing process. But we think we've made progress and its' nice to have an external entity recognize the progress.

Ludwig von Mises

The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. It is a process.

Pat Burns

We need an operational entity -- somebody who's accountable for it.

Sathya Baba

Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all creation.

Ben Carson

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

Dennis Muren

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally.

Robert Herzfeld

The allegations are despicable, ... The suspects will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Raymond Carver

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

Patrick Kavanagh

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

Tom Hickey

We've known that we've had a problem with unbundling. We just didn't know the extent of that problem.

Peter Capaldi

My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

Paul Warner

will be vigorously prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Sonny Perdue

will be punished to the fullest extent possible.

Ashton Kutcher

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Chris Young

We have a huge immigration problem here and the government is completely failing in protecting us on the borders.

Jim Crace

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Terri Johnson

He just wouldn't study. Then he'd get these failing grades, and that would further hurt his self-esteem.

David Mitchell

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Eddie Izzard

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Mark Cuban

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

Calamity Jane

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Chuck Zito

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Bill Vaughan

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Shirley Egner

That win (at Oshkosh) was huge. It couldn't have helped with our preparation any better. We were able to gain some momentum and confidence. We're welcoming the challenge.

Peter Cardillo

We've made some nice gains for the year, and now we're consolidating near the highs,

Yitzhak Rabin

We have to pass one year in our relationship with the United States by walking on tiptoes. If we pass successfully the year 1975 and we will reach 1976, we will gain not one year but two.

Gary Mickelson

We're still trying to gain a better understanding of what happened.

David Tucker

You can be 90 years old and you'd still gain muscle mass.

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Japanese Proverb

The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone

Shannon Lewis

The pavilion itself could be the costliest part of renovation of this site.

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Peter Lombard

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

Gene Luen Yang

My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.

Ken Kutaragi

Microsoft has put itself out of the game, ... Retailers in the US are already disappointed.

Joel Klein

Microsoft itself is responsible for where things stand today,

June Daugherty

Who knows? You never know. What you do know is you keep your staff and your team ready for the next opponent. It's going to sort itself out right after the Pac-10 tournament.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Margaret DiNinno

Right now that's where it stands to be.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Donald Trump

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Robert Kiyosaki

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Mauricio Botelho

We have a long-term plan, and we won't let the strength of the real take us away from that.

Mike Phelan

Winchester is always strong at doubles. They don't really have any superstars, but they have strength up and down the lineup.

Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use

William Shakespeare

The king's name is a tower of strength.

Nelson Gonzalez

We know our strengths and know our weaknesses and one of our weaknesses has been supply chain.

William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Thomas Grandi

I would have to say a combination of the two. We've got strength and we've got stamina.

Brad Goreski

Every season challenges me to approach styling in a different way.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Tom Lochner

Has it turned the world upside down? Probably not.

Madeline Albright

He has to be turned over. We want to see him in The Hague,

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Julie Kenner

My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.

Eduardo Paes

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.

Robert Kiyosaki

To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Blaise Pascal

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Edward Ruscha

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

Brit Hume

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.