Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Huang

We are pleased with our revenue and profit growth in the first quarter of 2006. Our US and Canadian distribution teams performed well and built on the momentum they generated in the second half of fiscal 2005. We look forward to further executing on our fiscal 2006 goals throughout the balance of the year.

CEO Luxton

We are pleased to be able to report that the operating loss in the first quarter narrowed significantly over the previous quarter. This reflects a reduction in selling and administrative expenses due to cost savings measures that we have implemented since the fiscal year began. With further cost-savings still to take effect and with a significant increase in new order intake since Dec. 31, we foresee much stronger operating results for the balance of 2006.

Kevin Quinn

We stress balance. Balance is key. I think what's hurt us in the past is we had one really good line and if they didn't come through on their chances to score in big games, we weren't winning because we couldn't fall back upon the second or third lines.

Seth Evans

We spread it around pretty well and the defense was strong, too. The good balance was nice to see.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a reader. I'm always trying to find a way to balance characters and theme.

Carlos Castaneda

We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

Carlos Castaneda

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

Yoshinori Katori

We want to realize from the Japanese point of view a more equitable and balanced way of burden-sharing. This question we will pursue irrespective of the discussion of permanent seat of the Security Council.

Brian Barnhart

We have seen an incredibly balanced level of racing the past few years in the IndyCar Series and look forward to even more of that in 2006. Extending our current chassis program with Dallara and Panoz provides our teams maximum value for their investment.

Alan Watts

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Lisa Gansky

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Al Rosen

The other speculation would be that there were some documents that were seized in that raid at the Bank of Nova Scotia, that someone may have noticed certain sales or transactions.

Michael Mayo

The performance of the Bank of New York's retail bank has lagged, the stock value of pure-plays has increased, and Bank of New York stock has lagged. We sense that the time is right for this move.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

The plus reading will definitely pave the way for an end to the Bank of Japan's ultra-easy monetary policy and the market has not factored this in yet.

Don Horner

We are proud to be the only bank servicing the Sand Island community and are pleased to provide an expanded facility to all of the customers in the area.

Rakesh Mohan

We are advising banks to review credit quality and exercise greater control on credit.

Firas Askari

We are seeing a lot of new buying of the Canadian dollar. The central bank continues to tighten and everyone is talking about the election. We expect continued strength in the Canadian dollar.

Scott Swaney

As a courtesy, we will let people display their (antique) bikes. There will be a wide variety of stuff for sale and on display ? all makes.

Fat Joe

Thanks for all the police protection -- courtesy of G-Unit.

H. Hunt

The winner of the Prince and Princess of the Patch will each receive a $50 savings bond, courtesy of Bancroft State Bank.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Baltasar Gracian

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Lewis Carroll

Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

Wang Yusheng

Courtesy demands reciprocity and this is essential in relations between countries.

Proverbs

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.

Christopher Young

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

Gary Numan

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Carl Thayer

What's new is the electronic media and the sheer volume of it was exceptional.

Francis Gaskins

It's expensive, but a lot of the other stocks in the sector have been pricey. The whole group has really taken off and a lot of it is because of the popularity of electronic trading.

Bill Steiner

It's fast. It's easy. You don't run the risk of math errors. I can't think of a reason not to use electronic filing.

Henry Paulson

This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities,

Jay Brooks

For all our patients, the electronic medical record has been phenomenal. We didn't miss a beat.

Bruce Cundiff

The research shows that electronic transactions are actually a much safer method of payment than paper transactions.

Tom Golisano

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.

Gary Dunn

We always have a lot of new guys come out for the team, but the new guys have a lot of potential. Before, we just had people who filled the spots.

Guy Finley

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

Mark Wigley

We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.

Bill Gates

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

John Gibbons

We're moving in the right direction. We filled some needs and now we need to go out there and see how good we are.

Corey Miller

It's filled with water from the Hudson River, and we have to shake it up.

Ben Amerson

They knocked out the roof in three hours. They knew what they were doing. That's God's miracle; he filled the need.

Sam Allardyce

They (Senegal) filled him with pain killers to get him to play and we might have to pay the price.

Shannon Cuesta

They send me an application. Me and my husband said one small prayer, we filled it out, sent it in. And then next thing you know we got the house. Oh my God, we was screaming.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Charles Spurgeon

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

Charles Spurgeon

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

Charles Spurgeon

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.

Charles Spurgeon

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

Tiffany Jackson

Sometimes our doorbell will ring at 1 in the morning.

Douglas Hamilton

That's how we think the jovian rings are formed,

Richard Grimes

Standing in the ring awaiting the first round to start is not the time to think; I wish I'd trained for this. 

Crystal Robinson

Man, that championship ring is what we play for,

Mike Scioscia

He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

will.i.am

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

Emanuel Steward

We get into the ring and we say, 'Welcome to big time boxing,'

Charles Caleb Colton

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

Alan Paton

There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.

Alan Rickman

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

Alan Moore

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Moore

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Al Stewart

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

Akon

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.