Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

David Hume

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Mark Hyman

My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.

Ken Hitchcock

We're starting to gain an identity and confidence. We're starting to build. You can hear it in the banter on the bench.

James Park

It's kind of a holiday snoozer, ... All of the big players have locked in their gains for this year. It's just going to be quiet with exaggerated movements because of low volume this week.

David Grewe

It's a special thing to take our team to other areas. We're trying to gain interest all over the state.

Adam Fisher

They never said anything about not being able to gain a prize by using a mulligan, ... They never said it didn't count.

Michael Russo

they gain a whole different perspective - learning that the 'American Way' is not the only way.

Charles Dickens

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Charles Caleb Colton

The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Charles Dickens

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Charles Dickens

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

David Walliams

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.

Beatrix Potter

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

William Shakespeare

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

Tom Cole

These are serious numbers. The question is whether this is a trend or a reaction to Katrina and Rita.

Jack Reed

We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita,

Maya MacGuineas

There is a window where nobody will be willing to say 'no' to anything as long as it has a Katrina label on it.

Rick Perry

Between Katrina and our preparations for this, people understand this isn't something you're going to play around with,

John Edward

Every single resident of New Orleans, regardless of their wealth or status, will have terrible losses and life-altering experiences, ... suffered the most from Katrina because they always suffer the most.

Roger Diwan

This was a big reminder of how tight the system is. And what Katrina did is make the system even tighter going forward.

Barbara Ward

You'd think that after Katrina they'd be willing to leave, but you never know,

Lee H. Hamilton

What struck me after Katrina was we were not as safe as I thought we were,

Jeff Turner

We started out playing well, but we had a mental meltdown in the second half.

Tom Schatz

Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington.

John Hart

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

Richard Williams

On the whole this is modestly positive news.

John McDermott

It would be unwise to read too much into modest movements in the index in recent months,

Roberto Maroni

The modest success of the strike should prompt everyone to work for more collaboration between the country's political and social forces.

Coco Chanel

Modesty is the highest elegance

Anna Jameson

Modesty and chastity are twins

Drew Brees

I'm a very modest person.

Anne Frank

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

William Shakespeare

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Irv DeGraw

With the rebound in the semiconductor industry, we think it'll do pretty well.

Rahshon Clark

We let them get a lot of rebounds that we should have come up with that were real crucial.

M. Wolfe

They got that free-throw rebound that they got back and put back in. That was huge.

Dawn Chriss

That's what we do. We play defense, get the steal or the rebound and we're gone. I think it complements us.

Derrick Estelle

Earl does what Earl does. Score, rebound and intimidate.

Matt Gibson

We had a team that could have competed in the championship game. But we didn't rebound well enough.

Chucky Atkins

We were one rebound away from winning, for really turning it into a series.

Ben Braun

We just need to stick to our principles. As long as we rebound and play defense, we'll be alright.

Elayne Boosler

My breakup with AT&T is final, and I'm done with Skype as the rebound guy.

Margaret Cavendish

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd

Proverb

The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine

Brett Tomko

This is as sharp as I've been all year, ... made my slider better, my splitter better, made everything better.

Ken Starr

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.

Jerry Halstead

Dunn was sharp today in going the distance.

Joe Villani

There's pretty sharp cutoff of where it's snowing.

Matt Nosack

He was dialed in and he was very sharp for this time of the year.

Frank Robinson

He was very sharp today with his pitches,

Robert Goodman

Because there was such a sharp drop, the snap-back is going to be that much more violent on the upside.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes. You're not stopping a 1,500-pound car, you're stopping an 80,000-pound vehicle.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes.

Terry Wilson

The sense is that there has been some slowing of traffic from it.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Joe Papin

We started out really quick, using our speed. As soon as they scored the first goal, we went a little flat.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)

David Montgomery

We'd like to do it as soon as possible.

Howie Carr

As soon as he's caught, that's the end.

Greg Riegle

They'd like to get started on it as soon as possible.

Saadi Saadi

They should come up with it forthwith. The sooner they do it, the better it is for all concerned.

Steve Jones

They were going to have to be paring back very soon anyway.

Bobby Bowden

It's one of those things you have to do sooner or later, and we can't wait any later,

Daymond John

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

C. L. R. James

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

Dave Cole

They don't want to make a lot of noise. They want to be very stealthy, which is one of the trends we see going forward.

David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

Roland Swenson

This is a trend going on around the country.

Jane Krakowski

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

Tim Wall

The trend is to do away with them.

Dylan Moran

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

Alexander McQueen

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.