Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

Pat Jr

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

Veronica Roth

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Jill Pendley

Our lives a series of defining moments,strung together by passing time.Surrender fully to this moment,because it is not the moment itself that defines us,but how we choose to live in it.

Mark Ambrose

In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I could tell you your future.

Deval Patrick

In a healthy democracy, the voters choose representatives. In the system we have, the representatives choose the voters. That's upside down. This proposal puts us right side up again.

Martin Rees

If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.

Tayshaun Prince

If you keep him out of the paint, that means you've got to sag off your man and he's probably the No. 1 in the league in terms of finding the open man. It's kind of a pick and choose your poison with him. Do you want to try contain him and let him shoot open shots? Or let him penetrate and get him?

Bob Holthus

If you lined up Lawyer Ron and Red Raymond and had to choose which one would win the Kentucky Derby, it would be Red Raymond. He's a good-looking horse.

Jack Straw

What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.

Karl Rove

The world is full of people who are discerning, and we need to recognize that concrete information told with honesty and specificity and integrity is important to the ultimate success in this conflict.

Lee Wooten

The construction of a concrete dam can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to in excess of a million dollars to get the dam completely fixed up.

Mark Proctor

The manager hopes to have something concrete by Monday or Tuesday. We're looking at several players and we'll have something lined up soon but we're still looking.

Nong Duc Manh

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

Scott Siegel

We're going to get a much longer life span out of them. We're doing them with stucco and concrete foundations.

Callan McAuliffe

I don't like concrete jungles.

Rick Heinrich

We're still looking at the tire and trying to find a concrete determination as to why the tire went down. We don't know if it was a puncture or wear-related at this point.

Eric Takamura

We're going to continue the patching of the pipes where there are cracks. Where we can, we're going to put a sleeve around it. Then, we're going to pour the concrete jacket.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Kay Runge

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

Marilyn Rush

It costs so much money, and we're poor people.

Dennis McAlpine

It costs more now to go skiing than to go to Disney World. That's going to drive skier-days down.

David Thompson

I think it's very likely that these costs will be passed on to consumers.

Michael Dortch

HP's latest earnings are a Valentine to shareholders, and to Mark Hurd and his team. Hurd has done a good job focusing on the basics, getting costs and expenses down and morale up.

John Challenger

Retailers are being forced to turn into discounters at all levels, and that early transformation to a discounting posture is putting great pressure on profits. Retailers make a good percentage of their profitability in the last two months of the year. This year those earnings are going to be under real pressure. They'll be fighting to keep costs down.

Chris Parker

Reform is needed, especially in the U.S., to curb the excessive litigation costs .

Phil Morris

In the UK costs about 50 pounds, about 100-dollars to fill up at home.

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Vincent Lecavalier

I think we're far away from each other.

Ike Nwaelele

I think we've had a good ride so far and we want to keep it going. I think our team showed a lot of heart by (playing hard).

Ira Black

I think what we're all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more flexible and consequently far more useful than we had ever dreamt,

John Mathews

I think what people want to know is does Toyota get it when it comes to trucks. The answer, as far as I am concerned, is a resounding yes.

Scott Bowers

I think at times we forget how young he is. (Tuesday) and up in Orlando on Friday he was by far one of the better players on the field for us and for the other team.

Carol Potter

I think as far as marathons go, we are the 'Rookie of the Year,'

Mayer Morganroth

I think as far as he's concerned, he thinks that what he did was proper. He knew the risks, and in order to move the process, he took the risks.

Gunnar Lindstrom

It (hydrogen fuel cells) needs a major breakthrough in technology.

Veerappa Moily

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Katsuaki Watanabe

In the United States people are getting more fuel conscious,

Ray Neidl

The fuel was a little higher than expected, but the revenue was a little higher as well,

John Mica

Even with high fuel prices a good number of them have made money, ... I've advocated a tough love approach.

Don Yeomans

They could be the watering holes and fuel stations for future interplanetary exploration.

Mike Pompeo

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

Paul Fussell

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Paul Nulsen

The interesting issue is, what is the source of the fuel in this case?

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Steve Stirling

He is not flashy; he does all the things a smart player does. If I had to pick one player, I'd say it was him (that was most impressive).

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Wally Szczerbiak

Pick your poison. Try to stop K.G. or me . . . They wanted to play a small lineup, and we made them pay.

Andy Reid

You could pick out anything and we probably didn't do it well.

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

William McDonough

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Tucker Max

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

Samuel Johnson

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

Vinessa Shaw

I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

Travis Barker

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Wangari Maathai

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Saint Basil

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

Will Rogers

The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.

W. C. Fields

Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.

Zaha Hadid

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

Zhuangzi

You will always find an answer in the sound of water.