Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Stanislav Gross

Our agreement was such that no one would take action in the event of a leak without the assistance of our people,

Lee Iacocca

People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

HyunSoung Kim

People should help each other just like the ocean and earth help each other through the water wave which is an give and take action.

Albert Bandura

People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.

David Joseph

People should take action. Not just go on eating their breakfast, or continuing with their everyday lives.

Michael Goodman

People dedicated to committing piracy are going to find ways to do it. Lawsuits and other action by the RIAA serve to remind people that this is illegal activity and that they are being watched.

Robert DiClemente

People feel generally that we will see some equivalent forward-looking language that guides market expectations to expect action at least into the early part of next year.

Ian Macfarlane

Australia is already fully committed in terms of uranium production through until about 2008, bearing in mind that the signing of this agreement means that this is really only the start of the process.

Tom Vincent

After years of working with multiple software vendors in this industry, we're excited about this opportunity to sign an exclusive agreement with a long-standing and financially secure partner with a diverse range of customers nationwide. This partnership links us with a leader in enterprise behavioral healthcare software.

Frederick Chiluba

Details of the agreement will be released tomorrow.

Tom Ricker

Any country negotiating with the Bush Administration right now should be wary of signing an agreement, given the example of consistently shifting the finish line for CAFTA in order to appease corporate supporters. There is no reason to believe they will not pull the same stunt with Peru, Panama, Colombia, or Ecuador.

Steve Lipscomb

The second quarter marked the continued successful execution of our strategic plan. Revenues were up 40% as we saw growth in virtually all of our business segments. We completed the production and final delivery of Season 3 during the quarter, and continued to grow our international television and product license businesses. The success of the show in the US, combined with strong ratings in international markets enabled us to broaden distribution into 116 territories around the globe. Further, we are moving forward with the Professional Poker Tour(TM) (PPT), and are close to signing a licensing agreement for it. Finally, we are pleased with the initial launch of WPT online.

Alija Izetbegovic

The signing of this agreement is done in full sincerity on our part, ... will depend on us and what we want to achieve.

Colin Steele

The signing of the addendum to the MoU addresses the valid concerns of the labour movement and speaks to the resilience of the original agreement and reinforces the fact that social partnership and dialogue is possible, orderly and mutually beneficial. Indeed, members of the union movement have signalled that while a new MoU would not include a wage freeze, there are several critical matters which are better dealt with in the spirit of partnership benefiting from research not rumour, candour not deception.

Eric Love

The Swan Valley and surrounding lands are an important part of the Northern Rockies landscape, and this agreement will contribute to maintaining these lands as working forests, and for the public to enjoy.

Kiran Karnik

A free trade agreement with the US in the services sector will be a win-win situation for both the countries.

Kevin O'Connor

Any decent person, using their common sense would know they no longer have the authority to be in a homicide scene.

Mahbubur Rahman

The university authority often conduct survey in the Hall, but that is all. We are forced to live in the Hall risking our lives.

Ted Cruz

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

Sharon Salzberg

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

Peggy Venable

We feel strongly they do have the authority and responsibility to review textbooks.

Anthony de Mello

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

Kusnanto Anggoro

Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain. (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military.

Zhu Bangzao

If the Taiwanese authorities refuse peaceful negotiation to solve the reunification issue, China will have no choice but to take all measures, including the use of force, to defend its territorial integrity.

Kendall Coffey

As a general proposition, anything that smacks of manipulating studies or data is a potential bombshell. It's the rare case where a cover-up is of no concern to a jury. The implications range from only somewhat harmful to potentially devastating.

Yoav Gilad

The big question is why are humans so different. What sort of changes in the environment or lifestyle would drive such a rapid shift in the expression of genes - in this case in the liver- in humans and in no other primate?

Xiao Yang

As of July 1, 2006, all the second-instance trials of death sentence cases shall be heard in open court.

Ivan Oelrich

Ready.gov treats a nuclear weapon in this case as if it were a big truck bomb, which it's not,

Richard Blumenthal

reach a preliminary conclusion in the case early next week.

David Baldus

Proof like this would make a prima facie case of systemic discrimination,

Samuel Daniel

Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.

John Greene

Other people are going to have to make the case for him. He's not in a position to do it himself.

Gary Williams

Osteoporosis in men is extremely unrecognized. Too many fail to realize that 20 percent of osteoporosis cases in this country are men.

Mark Ferrulo

Any pro-environmental piece of legislation has a hard road to travel in this Congress. It's not going to be a walk in the park, not with current leadership in some of these committees.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Jim Hunter

Back then, they (Congress) were targeting NASCAR as a waste of fuel,

Robert Litan

Oftentimes, Congress wants to get involved because of the theater of it all,

Barry Bonds

Oh, Congress should let it go? Gee, I wonder why he would say that.

Brian Hughes

The more it fails, the more money it seems Congress and the president are willing to throw at it.

David Fox

The money Congress has provided has not kept pace with inflation or the growth of demand, and the current level of funding is going to be inadequate no matter what the price.

Randy Barnett

deferred to Congress, the executive and to legal precedent - in some unspecified mix.

Jim Horney

Despite what you may hear from the administration and from Congress, this CBO report does not provide evidence that the tax cuts are working and that they can be extended without worrying about large deficits.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Jim Tharp

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Alvaro Soto

The quartet will convene on September 20 at the ministerial level, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Argus Hamilton

President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association.

Anthony Weiner

Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

Barbara Lee

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

Ayn Rand

Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right-the right to life-and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Carl von Clausewitz

The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

Carl von Clausewitz

After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.

Calvin Coolidge

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Carl T. Rowan

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

Chris Schuster

The Tigers would like to thank all the support throughout the season.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

Brian Sandoval

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Brian Tracy

The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

Arthur Bloch

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

Alex Meraz

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.