Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael A. Stackpole

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

Faure Gnassingbe

But the contract stipulates that the workers must receive a daily wage of 3000 FCFA,

Julie Rochman

It is not surprising that public officials in Louisiana are trying everything they can to recover dollars for those whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But insurance contracts are contracts.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Brian Baker

After going through what he went through last year, nothing is that big a deal to him. I think now he respects that it's important to win a tennis match, but it's really a small part of his life.

Andrew Larson

Some people make the connection, some don't. It's not something I would ever make a big deal about,

Dave Scott

Right now we're just trying to deal with the needs of the kids.

Ben Bernanke

The world has a great deal more to offer than money.

Rene Lafreniere

This is a tough week for us. But we'll deal with it.

Karl Hobbs

This is the first time this year we have had to deal with true adversity. We've been very fortunate.

Greg Johnson

This is no time for us to panic or get tight. Every team has to deal with this kind of thing at some point in the season. It's how you deal with it that determines where you go.

H. Hunt

This is still a good time to find gardening supplies, including lawnmowers and anything else to do with your yard, ... You can get a great deal this time of year, especially if it's a year-old model.

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Tim Ries

This could have been a very expensive mantelpiece for my shelf, ... But I realized that if I couldn't sell this, I shouldn't even be in the business. Instead of investing the money I earn with the Stones in the stock market, I decided to have faith, leap in and invest in myself.

Pat Brown

We decided to go where the kids are.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Mike DiNovo

We decided that if they said he could go, he was going to go. I think it was a lot just to get him on the mat. He did not want to go down quietly.

Tom Scholz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

Ellen Simon

We have decided to make sure that we are the safety net for our patients and our community,

Tom Edwards

This union has effectively decided to shut down the ports on the West Coast.

Brian Hill

We gave ourselves more than a chance, and I was disappointed that the game wasn't decided by the players, that it was decided by the officials.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

Brian Tracy

To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Graham Sharpe

Dr Fox's decision to run does not seem to have excited political punters.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Dale Carnegie

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

Daniel Berrigan

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

Damien Rice

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again,

Damien Hirst

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

Douglas Coupland

If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you're wasting your day.

William Shakespeare

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Tony Hsieh

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Erin Morgenstern

To be rather than to seem.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.