Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Bowman

Reaching this milestone is an incredible accomplishment for the entire C-17 team. And hitting one million flight hours more than a year ahead of the original plan is a testament to the aircraft and our customers' confidence in it.

Martin Indyk

promotion of U.S. interests in the Middle East, especially in support of President Clinton's efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace.

Mario Draghi

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity, to create a solid, sustainable foundation for wage increases and to ensure the country's development, for ourselves and for future generations.

Nathaniel Branden

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause

Andrew Gould

(Producers') plans have already been put in place to achieve this, but it will take several years of sustained activity to develop the new production that can reliably replace today's supply.

Joseph Ratzinger

proclaim forgiveness and reconciliation, which are the only way to achieve stable harmony.

Clayton Christensen

People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term.

Orin Smith

Our third-quarter financial results demonstrate the ongoing strength of our business, ... Starbucks operations are functioning at a more sophisticated level than ever before. Our consistently strong performance positions us well to achieve our aggressive fiscal 2005 goals -- including an acceleration of store growth as we pursue the Company's expanding global opportunity.

Brendan Foley

Our technologies allows us to learn about the past in ways that we couldn't achieve otherwise. We're not looking for footnotes any more. We're looking to write new chapters, and are convinced that in 10 to 15 years using these methods, we will have changed history.

Pete Piringer

That person was killed, it looks, upon impact. But also that vehicle was struck by several other vehicles, causing additional damage.

Julie Parrish

Ours is similar to other opportunity registration programs that are out there. And the basic concept is that companies provide additional margin opportunities for partners who register opportunities with them.

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Nordstrom's Rules for Employees: Rule # 1: Use your good judgment in all situations There are no additional rules

Leo Mullin

Delta will continue to work with United to formulate additional joint marketing programs to the benefit of both companies.

Paul Fitzhenry

An important component of the reorganization is the additional resources and more intense focus we're bringing to the U.S. market because of the size and critical importance of the U.S. to our business.

Jonathan Ravelas

The strong remittances and additional government spending this year should help mitigate the adverse impact of additional taxes and high oil prices on consumer spending.

Sal Sinatra

The tests were inconclusive. We're having additional tests done by Cornell University, and I'm hoping we'll have some answers by Tuesday.

Peter DiTeresa

The thing that's most off the wall about these funds is they're charging people additional money they could get through an ordinary mutual fund.

Jeanne Salvatore

Adjusters are already in California providing checks for additional living expenses. Many people aren't aware they have this benefit.

Lance Ness

As duck hunters out in the field, we see that something's changed rather rapidly in the past 10 to 20 years. And so our concerns are what happening to the duck population.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Condoleezza Rice

As further contracts are let, as further funds are released over the next several months, then we can review in some detail the circumstances, the changed circumstances for different countries.

Rafael Benitez

At Valencia we changed the players virtually every match, maybe we will not be able to do that just as much but all must realize they are important to the team, and it is the team that is important.

C. C. H. Pounder

'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.

Clarence Fountain

That play was a hit from jump street, ... That changed our world forever.

David Castillo

That play right there could have totally changed the outcome of the game. It was definitely a momentum play. ... You've got to credit Drew for really taking charge out there.

Steve Fleming

That play changed the course of the game. If Gerald doesn't get to that ball, who knows how the second half would have went.

Scott Downs

That was a big play because they'd had a couple of hits and the game could have changed dramatically.

Kevin Petrovek

Sometimes you see the talent that a kid doesn't see in himself. Ninety percent is just working out. If kids don't run enough miles, they don't get better. It takes time and discipline and putting in the mileage. After that, the races become the easy part.

Danny Sabbah

You need a unified view of what's going on. If you can't impose structure and discipline on (developer) practitioners, you're subject to chaos.

Bertrand Russell

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Celine Dion

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

Billy Blanks

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

Charles Peguy

The references you do not verify are the good ones.

Elihu Root

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

Swami Ramdas

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ray Giacoletti

As the head coach, I retain the right to discipline my players for a variety of reasons.

Frank Lautenberg

Any properties that are available, we ought to be able to get our hands on.

Alexander Torshin

As a result, law enforcement officers did not know how to handle the situation. No training had been provided for them.

African Proverb

A weapon which you don't have in your hand won't kill a snake

Al Dyer

As long as I'm here we're going to keep playing tough teams because that's the only way to really get better. But these young ladies maybe aren't mature enough yet to handle all these losses.

Shivan Barwari

Raise your hand if you've ever shot putted a mailbox. Raise your hand Joe, you were there.

Steve Warner

Problem is people get impatient and want to pass on the right when he's trying to get back to the right hand lane if you'll just let him do it.

Tom Rankin

Prisons in Florence, Ariz., go hand in hand,

David Eckstein

Personally, I can handle myself after this, ... but I feel disappointed in letting them down.

Jim Lefebvre

Our team was very nervous as it was a big game. But that's part of being a professional player and they did not handle it well.

Rod Lache

I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

George H. W. Bush

tax relief and other incentives for job-creating investment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

David Limbaugh

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Barbara Sher

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

Auguste Rodin

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature is stronger than education.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

Charles Darwin

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Steve Adams

I was pleased with the team's performance this year and very proud, and wish the seniors well in their future.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Scott Winfrey

We played pretty well tonight. I was proud of our performance, and we were threatening.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

David Chalmers

Sacred texts are universal and their truths are eternal. There is not a thing that we sing that doesn't have our personal conviction.

Vicente Fox

This is a personal position of the Venezuelan president.

Mark Levine

That's my personal touch that I put in. I don't want to come up with something that's already out there.

Brandon Sanderson

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Matt Haryasz

Everyone took it as a personal challenge, stopping their man.

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Burt Rutan

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

Janet Reno

I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Ron Perlman

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

Vernor Vinge

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Stan Sakai

All my knowledge comes from research.

Richard Hamming

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Ted Nelson

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

Maggie Mermin

The risk is not zero. But it's low.

William Schmitt

This is probably one (company) where that risk is the greatest.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Lou Jiwei

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Dana Delany

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Brennan Manning

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Brennan Manning

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Bill Hybels

God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

O. Henry

The old rivalry, which may not have been so strong two, three years ago, is back, and it's marvelous.

Mike Farrell

Telecom is also strong today (Tuesday) and those have been the most oversold stocks.

Gerard Bisceglia

Preposterous is a strong word, but it is warranted in this case.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Dave Mitchell

It was typical, good, tough wrestling. We have a pretty strong region.

Howard Gantman

It was very strong in terms of Californians contacting us in support of the filibuster.

Josh Reed

The wind was really strong all day. It was very make-able.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

John Fitzgibbons

This is not a strong time to take someone public.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

Andrew Coburn

You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one.

Stan Kasten

He often takes conventional wisdom ... and contradicts it.

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.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.