Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Hector Jimenez

What we were not able to avoid today, just like yesterday, was volatility. We have to see how investors receive the information (about Iraq and the budget negotiations).

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Jose Maria Aznar

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Juan Lubroth

It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5N1 virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only. The current situation in Italy does not provide consumers with any cause to avoid eating poultry products.

Ted Stevens

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

George Marek

Hypocracy defined: A modern form of government by hypocrisy.

Tony Leon

If you vote ANC, you get failed delivery and corruption. Voting for a third party is the same as voting ANC. And if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.

Nick Lampson

If you put the work that I have done and the support that I've been given ... to the legacy of theft, corruption and neglect that Tom DeLay seems to have earned for himself, I think he saw the handwriting on the wall, that it was something he couldn't win, and made the decision to get out.

Leah Rush

In the last couple years, federal investigations on public corruption laws are sometimes how these things are discovered.

Joseph Muscat

Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.

Joe Eszterhas

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

john bejo

A nation is doomed not because of its corrupt officials and undisciplined citizens, but because of its people who refused to move.

Jeff Nielsen

They have a good organization. They don't have corruption issues. We hire, we train well, so whoever the leader is they'll all do well into the future, and make us a better place.

Tony Leon

They say they are going to stop corruption at the ANC ... crocodiles are going to become vegetarians.

David Shambaugh

Economics, finance, foreign affairs, the environment - you name it, they're there.

Xinyi Lu

This is a very good sign for the economy. It's helpful for the yen.

Rick Brown

It's great for the economy. I think there will be other tax receipts from goods sold during the holiday to people who are out and about shopping.

Kurt Brunner

The number was good, it's showing there's legs on the industrial side of the economy.

Adenaan Hardien

It's very encouraging and confirms how good things are going in this economy.

Mark Vitner

They are trying to transform their economy. Georgia is trying to improve its economy.

David Hale

They've got a runaway economy, and they're trying to slow it down.

Janet Miller

It's an indicator of a very regional economy.

Kevin Schneider

It's going to be a tremendous value to the tourism economy.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Ruben Hinojosa

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

Benjamin Franklin

The magistrate should obey the laws, the people should obey the magistrate.

Andy Reust

It could be a possibility he might run it. At this point, I don't know where I'm going to go with it.

Scott Arneson

I think the proof is in the pudding. The Valley produces state championship contenders every year. Some people might not think that the Valley is that tough, but no one has proven otherwise.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Brent Scowcroft

I think a different first strike by the United States might have stopped what is going on now, but I think he may be getting the word,

Karen Sherman

I think it's one of the big winners out there in terms of something that might be useful for people if they're willing to practice it.

Jim Murphy

I think it's smart. Will it move the needle immediately? No. But over the long term, it might move things.

Rosey Fletcher

It has a first-place medallion around her neck, so that might be the only difference.

Donald Selkin

I think tomorrow (the Fed) will do nothing. But the talk now is that they might move toward a tightening bias.

Lois Lowry

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Robert Neelly Bellah

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Warren Buffett

I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

Wayne Dyer

Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

Wayne Dyer

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

Samuel Butler

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Sally Ride

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

W. H. Auden

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Wendell Berry

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Ellen G. White

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

Joseph Brodsky

I don't have principles. I have nerves.

Larry Burkett

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

John Keats

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

Katharine Anthony

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Agin Muhammad

I understand the reactions, but it's not for me to reduce myself to that level.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.