Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Gacs

I was interested in German studies, and The University of Tennessee had an attractive program and a good professor. It is an opportunity for me to practice English and study German.

Gus Sauter

I wouldn't say mid caps are a screaming buy, but they are somewhat attractive on a relative basis.

Edwin Eisendrath

Just yesterday he diverted another $1.1 billion from pensions to pay for his election-year budget. He continues to reward contributors and his lobbyist friends in ways that give Illinois a bad reputation and have attracted the investigations of the U.S. attorney. Every where I go, people say it's time for a change.

Ray Brooks

Joe sees a reflection of his wife in Pauline. That was his first instinct which attracted him, and it remains the underlying reason for his affection.

Robert Hess

I take this as the last nail in (Brownsville's) coffin. We have no industry, now we have no hospital. What do we have to attract people?

Chris Konieczka

I think it has an attraction: the Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street, the fun area, it's warmer than Madison. But now it's got the attraction of a city in dire need, a physical manifestation of a way we can help out.

Bobby Baldwin

Having a good residential environment is going to be just one more thing to attract visitors.

Herb Sendek

He just seems to always attract at least one other defender. As a result, that opens everything up for the entire Cal offense.

Craig Zadan

There are so many psychological and deep ramifications to this story -- that's why Neil and I were attracted to it. Like (Storyline's 'Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows'), this is not just another biopic.

Muhammad Abdullah

It benefits me more because I'm more in the box. It puts me in the position where I can make more plays and bigger plays for the team.

Mike Kraus

I think we have new life now. The kids are really excited. We get to play on a college court in a state tournament, and when you're 10-13 that's a big deal. But forget about the records. These kids have worked hard all year long and now they're reaping some of the benefits from it.

Hilary Clinton

I am concerned, frankly, about the size and last-minute nature of this year's congressional spending spree, where they seem to be loading up the spending bills with special projects for special interests, but can't seem to find the time to raise the minimum wage, or pass a patients' bill of rights, or drug benefits for our seniors through Medicare, or tax cuts for long-term care, child care, or college education,

Walter Annenberg

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

William Godwin

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

Yehudi Menuhin

Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits.

Philip Kirschner

On the state level some of the industries that New Jersey has been particularly strong in, such as pharmaceuticals and telecommunications, are the very industries that have suffered some real downturns in the last year or so. It's costing jobs, and good jobs. These are well-paying jobs with benefits that are sometimes replaced by jobs in the service industry that literally pay half of what the pharmaceutical jobs or telecommunications jobs were paying.

Jeb Bush

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

George Whalin

Retailers are putting a great spin on this, saying that the customer benefits in the end. However, the self-checkout is not driven by customer service but by the retailer's objective to reduce costs.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Bill Xia

I think the government is getting increasingly desperate. They're pushing the domestic media and outside companies to openly collaborate with them. They're summoning all their potential partners.

David Sze

I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.

Chuck D.

There is a distinct possibility you will see more very large tech companies paying a dividend. It's a reflection of the continued maturation of these companies,

David Lowe

There is no difficulty with that concept, but not all companies have received the same level of profit.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy.

Dick Cheney

I think the economic outlook makes tax reform, tax cuts more important than ever, ... Because it does look like the economy has slowed significantly.

Andrew Goodsall

Whatever way you cut it, it was a good result. But it was helped by strong hedging gains because sales were better than forecast.

Dean Stanley

I think that cut is priced into the markets,

David H. Koch

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

Henry Miller

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

Joseph Muscat

It is not fair that honest people who always paid their taxes were being denied a cut in income tax while those involved in the VAT scandal were given light sentences and those who failed to pay VAT in the past years were being offered an amnesty.

I. Stone

It is only six weeks until the next meeting. I doubt they will have to go between meetings. There is the probability of at least a (0.25 point) cut and more likely a (0.5 point) cut in June.

Andy Collins

I think that they'll have to cut some heads at J.P. Morgan, ... That's not particularly good for the franchise. I'm not too happy to see it.

Tom Daschle

I think the $1.6 or the $2.5 trillion tax cut as it was originally proposed could be officially proclaimed as dead,

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

Mario DeRose

I think the market is expecting a slight increase and so if they don't do anything, I think you'll see a sell-off. If it's increased more than expected, you might get a little pick-up -- but it's keeping the market a little on edge.

Mahdi Hadi

The Palestinians are expecting the new administration in Washington to take seriously the threats of the Sharon agenda.

Carl Moore

We may still be about $200,000 to $250,000 short. We're expecting some tax credits, but we may still have to do some local fundraising.

Emma Watson

He was expecting us to be professional the whole time, ... whereas before ?

Tim Howard

He was terrific at state last year. His time in the finals was about 3 seconds faster than his previous best. I'm really expecting a lot this year; he set me up for that with his performance last year.

Pedro Martinez

I don't go out there expecting no-hitters or anything like that. I go out there trying to make things happen, actually expecting them to hit the ball, but where I want, not precisely where they want to. That's what happened today, and I was lucky enough to be flirting with a no-hitter.

Robert Amsterdam

I am expecting nothing more than I've seen in the past,

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

incorrect, wrong, shameful. ... I am now offering my sincere apologies.

Jacque Fresco

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

Henry A. Kissinger

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Johannes Tauler

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

Norman MacCaig

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Oriana Fallaci

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.

Nhat Hanh

If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation, our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us insight and understanding into ourselves and society.

Jodi Picoult

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.