Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Fidel Castro

We have no objections at all to the three officials visiting us, to know their assessment and exchange views on these matters, ... We won't close the door.

Bill Ackman

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

Shane Rattenbury

We're making an assessment of our food and fuel and our own energy levels, it's very exhausting being in small boats in such a hostile environment.

Rob Dickson

We always have a Plan B, and we're working on a C and D. We are confident we're going to find someone. All the ingredients are here. It's just a matter of what lucky group will open the store.

Todd Wuerger

We want to qualify as many guys for state as we can. If we can do that, I'm confident that we can hold our taper for another week.

Dan Petrocelli

We have a story to tell, and we're looking forward to telling it and we're very confident how it's going to come out.

Nikki Green

We have a solid defense and a solid keeper. She made some great saves. I'm really confident in my keeper.

Daniel Gaul

We want people to leave here after a session knowing they got a good workout, feeling confident and able to defend themselves.

David Leslie

There is no question about that. We do have to step up to the plate in that area. I think we are confident and if you look at the Under-17 Boys, six of them qualifying in the 100. That is a very good sign.

Richard Ness

There is no pollution. I am very confident about what the evidence shows. We will be exonerated.

Bill Ford

while maintaining the progress we have made in Europe and Asia. ... With these new appointments, I am confident that we have the leadership team in place to execute our plans and deliver outstanding results.

Mitchell Hurwitz

When we were making 'Arrested Development,' it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren't getting feedback. The job wasn't paying very well. But the one thing I did feel confident about was: No one will ever be able to do this again. Because no one would be stupid enough to try.

Dean Acheson

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

John Abizaid

The people who were low-level Baathists need to know they have a part in the future of their country,

Harry Sinden

When you think something has to be done ... you have to do it. It was not proper to let him keep doing what he was doing -- signing players, making plans for the future -- when we knew that at the end of the year we were going to relieve him of his job.

Patrick Callahan

We want to protect the lake in the future and for our children.

Mohammad Khan

We want job opportunities and a good life, a good future for our children,

Damon Albarn

Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

Gus Melonas

We're investing to meet present and future needs.

Lisa Stone

it remains her wish to have Bankhead become a part of the UW team in the future.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

Sathya Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Lee Janzen

The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win.

Sharon Stewart

We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed.

Nicolas Roeg

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Bill McKibben

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Terri Teuber

There is no question that different consideration would have been given to the situation if people were going hungry.

Jim Bowden

We respect the arbitrators' decision. We feel that it's a good salary for the team and a good salary for the player given his talents.

Marco Muller

With this film we have given the show a surprise present.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Bob Schaffer

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

Bill McKibben

According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

Carl Jung

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Frank Fernandez

We're still in the upswing of one of these long M&A cycles, which tend to last several years. M&A growth will probably be up 15 to 20 percent next year.

Steve Snyder

We're seeing a lot of growth in the South.

Robert Mellman

We're looking for a little slower growth and a little higher inflation, but there will be a slower slowdown in growth than a pick-up in inflation.

Deepak Chopra

The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

Jason Segel

The movies that I love and model after, like 'Annie Hall,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' and in particular for me, 'Broadcast News,' are the tone of life, which isn't a setup punch-line every two minutes.

Eric Morecambe

Sometimes it worries me. I feel something's got to give. I know what Harry Secombe meant when he said he's worried that one day the phone will ring and a mystic voice will say, 'Thank you, Mr Secombe. Now can we have it all back?'

Rupert Grint

Are you kidding? This is Harry Potter! I love every last moment of it.

Ted Cruz

Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

Jason Fuchs

I'm a sucker for 'When Harry Met Sally' and all that romantic stuff.

Jessica Williams

My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.

Matt Murphy

He said that he had partied with Prince Harry and that he knew (actress) Hilary Duff, which, even for royalty, didn't make any sense.

Rob Bishop

He's right on this one, ... Harry Reid has been talking about recycling and on-site storage (at nuclear power plants), and that is the real long-term solution for everybody. It solves Nevada's problem and it solves Utah's problem.

Michael Ignatieff

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Yen Nguyen

A lot of the Vietnamese kids can't really speak Vietnamese anymore. Most of them will have a very heavy accent, because they can't speak it well. So for the kids pageant, the kids will have to be able to speak Vietnamese. And so this is what we're trying to promote: Let them memorize some Vietnamese lines, go up on stage and see how well they present their Vietnamese.

Nick Jones

They need some heavy hitters on their side. They are represented by a lot of manufacturers and carriers, but not in any particular volume.

Paul Trainor

They don't want to go too heavy because if it does pullback then they're paying the higher price so hedging is a two-edged sword in that respect.

Pierre Turgeon

The number is the curse. It's a heavy burden.

Michigan State

It started with one vehicle, which spun out in heavy fog. I think she hit a patch of ice,

Shaukat Sultan

There was heavy resistance from the other side,

Bob Higgins

It's all about how the storms stack up. We have heavy snow years and light snow years. It's not indicative of any trend.

Tom Daschle

This is the toughest thing we've had to do since impeachment. It's really heavy lifting.

John Egan

They're heavy hitters. They're all big in the industry.

James Duncan

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. The major hurdle is going to be financial.

Mark Bryant

The three hurdles that we had to get over this summer, we got over without incident.

Terry Porter

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

Mitt Romney

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

Joe Girardi

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Bob Ingalls

Getting 20 percent penetration we think is achievable, and that would be the first hurdle we are looking to achieve.

Pam Gregory

She is typically a long program skater. I think she got over a big hurdle mentally in the short program, and she's going to be very ready.

Charlie Ward

Of course, there's one more hurdle to jump,

John Berlin

It is a real stretch from the indoor 55 hurdles to the 100 and 300 outdoor hurdles. Right now we are just trying to get her timing down and conditioning up.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Bob Trisolini

It's one of the most lavish shows I've worked on other than shows in New York and on Broadway. There is quite an investment in production values.

Rick Baker

I told them I would support their move to do that, ... I thought it was an investment in goodwill.

Simon Davies

This is to do with stabilizing trust in trade and investment and has nothing to do with privacy protection.

Steve Swasey

It was derided by a number of people in the investment community.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

Jan Egeland

North American pets get more investment per month than we have money for all our humanitarian operations in the world.

Vasco Moreno

After what we've seen from the U.S. investment banks, expectations are pretty high. If they don't produce the results, then that could be a problem.

Henry Spencer

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Courtney Campbell

With this type of leukemia, he most likely will need a bone-marrow transplant.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Mark Forest

Absentee voters used to be a unique demographic group. Now they're more likely to look like the rest of the state with each passing election.

Jim Dyke

The more we get the message out, the more likely we think people will become excited.

James Johnston

The more they need you, the more likely it is you're going to get clauses that you want in the agreement.

Lisa Maxwell

It's just an untouched jewel. It really is just kind of the next place for likely development patterns to occur.

Khuram Chaudhry

It seems like the U.S. markets are likely to see a sloppy start after Friday's sessions,

John Schneider

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.

Guy Ritchie

I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment.

Jan Egeland

In the pipeline we have 10,000 tents and 100,000 blankets but it takes time to go to these areas.

Ed Sheeran

Harry Potter is awesome.

Daniel Radcliffe

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

Rupert Grint

Like one time I was a fish in Noah's Ark and now I'm in Harry Potter, a big step.

Rupert Grint

I'll always be the ginger one from Harry Potter.

Tom Felton

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

Meg Cabot

Bite me, Harry Potter.

J. K. Rowling

If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

J. K. Rowling

Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor." The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.

J. K. Rowling

The wand chooses the wizard.

Alan Ritchson

I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

John Roberts

Pretty much everybody knows there are not enough organs for all of those patients who need to get transplants, and what happens is, is that organs are actually directed in liver transplantation to those patients who are the sickest. So the patients who have the greatest chance of dying in the next three months or so are the ones who get the priority for the liver transplant.

Bill Moyers

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"

Alan Lakein

Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

Cheryl Richardson

I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.

Benjamin Franklin

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Bill Gates

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Blanche Lincoln

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

Tim Stanley

It was on the top of my priority list.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Richard Cobden

You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.

Paul Sereno

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,

Patrick Barry

I think the prospects of success would have been diminished.

Mark Rutte

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.

John Carioba

There are not many prospects in the short term.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Robert Klein

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Chris Murray

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

Shaojing Tong

I don't see how it will revive sales dramatically.