Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Thomas Friedman

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Jessica Nevarez

The pilot has been delivered to the network. We're excited and have high expectations.

Margaret Miller

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses

Doug Young

I'm so blessed. I was thankful to God that he delivered my prayers.

Charles Corp

I'm immensely proud of the way the Schwab team pulled together in 2005 and delivered such outstanding performance.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I still have the 'New York Post' delivered because it's so garrulous and nasty and wonderful when you read it in print. Some things just don't translate online.

Jerry Putnam

We are pleased that our shareholders recognize the value delivered and to be delivered through our merger with the NYSE.

Harbhajan Singh

If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

Scott Turow

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver.

Alex Rodriguez

I felt like if we could have delivered the knockout punch there, it could have been a long night for them,

Alan Miller

We have strengthened and enhanced our traditional relationships and presence at Huey P. Long Medical Center, and the Alexandria VA hospital.

Douglas Alexander

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

Ryan Rosenberg

We've enhanced that so you can highlight relationships, annotate and color-code things.

William Winkenwerder

We are prepared to provide a significantly enhanced effort, a major effort, if needed,

Carl Icahn

We're happy that value for all shareholders is enhanced through this offer.

Victor Koo

The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.

Keith Fox

This study demonstrates that improving the safety of therapy leads to enhanced long-term survival for patients.

Klaus Schwab

I think a number of initiatives have been newly taken or enhanced during this meeting that will have a tangible impact.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Since the period of the threat now seems to be passing, I think over the immediate future we'll slowly be winding down the enhanced security,

Jack Quinn

That would greatly surprise me. I can't image that happening, ... Meet The Press.

Jimmy Smits

John was a true pillar of a man, he set the stage for kindness and generosity. His humor and smile were infectious, he will be greatly missed.

Larry King

If asked, I would be greatly honored to stay on,

Michel Alaby

He said he greatly appreciated having had the opportunity of visiting the Chamber.

William Gilbert

He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!

Koichiro Matsuura

From prehistoric times until today, humanity's dealings with water have greatly influenced the sustainability of societies.

Adam Ereli

We respect the Swiss justice system, but we would have greatly preferred that he be extradited here.

Becky Bailey

Over the years, we have greatly tightened our quality control, and this is a highly unusual occurrence.

David Baxter

Our production has greatly increased. Everything we do is local. No one can do what we do.

Bob Bauman

That was a real surprise. But even though they scored, I don't think it shifted the momentum.

Darrent Williams

It don't matter. It was a momentum changer for the team.

Dick Powell

When it starts to move it will make a lot of noise and it will move and have a lot of momentum and take anything in its way out.

Gary Gait

We have some nice momentum going into the playoffs.

Zhang Qiyue

China-U.S. relations, though having encountered difficulties recently, now have momentum for improvement.

Frank Sharry

I'm a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.

Jamee Juarez

I had to try to slow down the momentum and go at them.

Michael Starke

I feel we are riding the momentum wave at the moment. We feel united as a team.

Joe Osha

I don't think I've ever seen competitive momentum shift like this, so congratulations.

Chet Faker

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Carl Orff

Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.

Carl Rogers

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

Dick Lee

That was a smart move on her part.

Mike Clarke

That was a gutsy move on their part and a visionary move. They saw there was a problem.

Rutina Wesley

At Julliard, they don't teach you where to move your face for the camera, you know?

Steven Arabia

We were going to move as quickly as we could to get the plant back into service . . . and this is the first step in that process.

Rick Carlisle

We've moved on. It's unfortunate. But we're just trying to win without him.

Bernard Beckett

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Bill Vaughan

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Martin Charnin

Her spirit and her optimism are organic to the American spirit, and that's what this show is about.

David Myers

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Cesar Pelli

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Alan Greenspan

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Alan Greenspan

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

Chogyam Trungpa

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Mahmoud Othman

When he promises something, he'll get it done. If he can't do it, he won't promise it.

Bob Martin

He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you.

Bob Beauprez

We need to stay to the promise. Promises made need to be promises kept.

Tim Bryant

They made a lot of promises that they couldn't keep.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

National Press

Undelivered Promises and Betrayals of the Uruguay Round.

David Clohessy

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

Kenneth Roth

These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Thomas Kochan

until we have a revision that reflects the way work is done today.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Jeremy Corbyn

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

Kathy Burlison

Who we serve reflects where we are in the community.

Mike Stevens

That got my attention. They were asking, 'What are the values we have between us and how can we take all that and put it into a venture that reflects our values?' That is the right way to think about being an entrepreneur.

Charles Bradford

It's not surprising at all, because (Nucor) reflects the market.

Sam Brownback

I do think she reflects the president, and I think that's the strongest thing, really, that she has going for her,

Karen Evans

If it's useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

Judd Terwilliger

We were never able to sustain (momentum). We'd get leads, but then they'd come back.

Paul Stone

We were never able to sustain a run.

Donna Griffin

We are trying to sustain or make more improvement.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.