Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Jennifer Jackson

The students are forced to be accountable for their actions and their grades every week and that forces them to show improvement.

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Sara Teasdale

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes

Michelle Rodriguez

I've been doing lots of hard-core chick, kick-ass things. The action is appealing because I haven't found the mental challenge in the dramatic roles that I've been shown. I don't want to be the girl who just falls in love.

Paul Aronsohn

I've been planning to declare my candidacy for a few weeks, and her action did not affect my decision. I hope and expect we can come together as a party and community.

Clyde Powless

I've been in direct contact with the (Ontario Provincial Police) and we're pretty well assured. . .that there will be no action taken by them.

Scott McCallum

You still try to be open, you try to answer these things, but there are some that clearly have an agenda and may not even fully realize it themselves.

Tim McCormick

There are differences in personalities, in the city agendas and goals, but the IT systems are what stand out as the common thread." ()

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

J. C. Watts

We hope we go back with them being educated about what the agenda is and willing to mobilize, ... Our objective is to get people to help us help them.

Helen Hudson

Dr. Martin Luther King, his whole agenda was good works, and in the labor world we all have the day off. So instead of sitting at home, watching television, we decided to come out and do some good throughout the community. And this is the result of it, this is our seventh annual clothing and food drive.

Bruce Cleveland

You can't drive your own agenda, ... Customers drive your agenda for you. Customers cannot be disrupted, period. Oracle is a professional, ethical, large company. They're not going to disrupt any of our customers.

Karen Bonaudi

We wanted to see if it generated any interest at all. So the next one is where we will have a real full agenda of different participants in transportation. The people we want to attract are the people interested in hearing from the providers of transportation and the users, and we expect a real interactive give and take session there.

Bill Hauf

Twenty-five years ago, Ronald Reagan inspired a nation with a bold agenda that ushered in an era of values and prosperity. I want to restore Reagan's vision. I want to remove the grip that special interests have on Congress. I want to stop out-of-control and wasteful spending, cut record deficits and secure our borders and our homeland.

Sidney Green

This year, everyone is on the same page. There's not hidden agendas. Their agenda is for the success of the team. Every last one of those guys is happy for the next guy to be successful.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rovenia Brock

The older relatives in your family hold the keys to the information you're looking for, so it's important to be sure you learn as much as you can from them before they're gone. But remember, medical conditions were often a source of shame to older relatives in certain ethnic and racial groups, so it may take some cajoling to get them to open up and share what they see as family secrets.

Bible Bible

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

Rodrigo Rato

oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.

Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Mike Reavey

The scope is limited at the moment, but the impact might be that an application could hang when conducting certain operations, like opening a file from the 'File open' dialog in an application.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

Dennis Hastert

Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

Rick Lane

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

Carol Cox

We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, ... The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress. They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress, ... They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

James Klein

I don't think that many people in Congress would be quite so indifferent to the demise of the defined-benefit plan if they didn't have such a robust plan themselves.

Dave Heineman

For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Ed Rendell

Because this is an industry that is young, it has tremendous potential,

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Mike Paul

She did research in the industry to find out what the top 12 tips are and those are the tips.

Bill Fisher

If industry can't find an answer, then there isn't one.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Andy Ross

I don't know if the industry ever learns,

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Troy Johnson

It would mainly be for people who already live and work in the Mankato area.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Harper

This isn't going to be some three-year study, the main idea is, 'Let's get something done,'

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Mike Bibby

We got stops when we needed to and that's the main thing. Our stops turned into transition points.

Mike May

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

Steve Albini

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.