Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Smith

We are very similar and it is a very hard place to come and tour. In the past South Africa have had a big fear of failure but I think we have come to terms with that. We have come here and I know people have called us unimaginative but we are more open. We are looking forward to playing in front of Australian crowds and playing in Australia.

Dave Foreman

To my mind, if you want to be a player in South Africa you have to have a stake in Western Areas' reserve base.

O. Singh

We will stick to our plan and play an aggressive game, the way we played recently against Sri Lanka and South Africa at home.

Harry Oppenheimer

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.

Richard Dicker

On the second anniversary of Charles Taylor's flight to Nigeria, his continued impunity is undermining the rule of law in West Africa and putting civilians in the region at risk.

Nicholas D. Kristof

If Africa could establish a clothing export industry, that would fight poverty far more effectively than any foreign aid program.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary.

Reynolds Price

I think if we are realistic, the South - the old Confederate states - really only has one entirely unique feature that other parts of the country don't have, and that is this nearly 400-year history of tremendous intimacy, in every sense of the word, good and evil, between two very different kinds of peoples: people who were brought here against their wishes from Africa and a largely Anglo-white population.

Mike Ruddock

I think he's right. We had very close games against South Africa and New Zealand but both have improved. Daniel Carter was a novice when we played against him and look at him now.

Proverbs

Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.

John Gall

I've seen enough lineup cards in my life to know that if you're not on it, you're not playing, ... I walked over there probably a little quicker than I usually do to check out the lineup card.

Dennis Ross

These cards have not exactly given Syria a very strong hand, ... The more the regime has tried to play the cards, the weaker they've become.

Frank Thomas

I send him a list of the cards I need.

David Cole

The wild card is whether consumers are really going to come out in the holidays for the Xbox 360 or just wait for Sony next year.

Harvey Saferstein

The wild card is how the Supreme Court will treat them.

Butch Kinerney

This is a tremendous undertaking to try to get debit cards out with $2,000 on them to thousands of people. We've got plenty on hand, and we've got some more on order to make sure that everybody who is in the shelter down there that needs a card gets a card.

John Lyly

Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.

Bill Hardekopf

Every person who pays off their credit card in full each month should be using a credit card that gives a rebate or a reward. Otherwise, you are being economically foolish. Some of these cards pay you a significant cash rebate just for using the card.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Dana Gardner

Technologies are being developed at a faster and faster pace, and that disrupts companies and markets constantly. Companies will have to reinvent themselves, and they will have to do it in two years, not five. Things are better, but there will not be much of an opportunity for tech companies to sit on their laurels.

Bob McDonald

Scores of foreign companies have tried to establish themselves in Japan, and scores have failed, ... But if we can win in Japan, we can win anywhere.

Ralph Mendoza

Safety of home medication is a key health issue for governments, consumers, and sustainability-driven companies around the world.

Patricia Chadwick

Right now, we're just digesting. The market is waiting for companies to start saying that future quarters are going to look better.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Heather Friedland

We will be looking to enhance the consumer versions of our product later this year with similar features.

Loren Loverde

The timing of the release will have some impact on when consumers buy, but not so much on whether or not they buy.

Anthony Chan

Next week's producer price index or consumer price index could tip the Fed in favor of a June hike if they're on the upside.

Scott Mitic

From a legislative perspective it's an interesting time now because the question is whether the federal law will give consumers more power to protect their data or less power to protect their data.

Maelle Gavet

From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

Michael Metz

If we do have oil prices at this level for another week or so, it's going to make investors reconsider the whole outlook for consumer demand, which of course has been the real fuel for the economy.

Gail Evans

The more credit you give, the better it reflects on you.

Cate Williams

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.

Jim Rogers

The whole world works on credit and the state Legislature can't, ... We need to get in the credit business.

Curt Shaw

Dillon, Jared and Tom deserve a lot of credit.

Martha Coakley

Women always did all the work anyway, so we might as well get credit for it,

Don Blandin

Marketing to students is definitely working, as many of them end up signing for as many as five to six credit cards.

Charlie Hunnam

I think people don't give him enough credit for how real and serious an actor he is, ... He has some real aspirations and focused goals about what he wants to achieve.

John Beary

We just couldn't stop (Gardner) when we needed to. You have to give them a lot of credit for controlling the line of scrimmage at the end of the game. Every time we hit one of their backs, they were able to push the pile forward for the extra yards they needed.

John Beary

We just couldn't stop (Gardner) when we needed to, ... You have to give them a lot of credit for controlling the line of scrimmage at the end of the game. Every time we hit one of their backs, they were able to push the pile forward for the extra yards they needed.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Dominic Barton

The economic leg is much longer than the social leg in China. That's why the big new motto of the government is 'harmonious society'.

Dennis Smith

A year ago, I think I filled my tanks in the $1.15, ($1.18) range, and this year, we're pushing $2.25 to $2.30.

Atharva Veda

The One Lord of the Universe is the Support of His humble servants. They love the One Lord; their minds are filled with love for the Lord. The Name of the Lord is all treasures for them.

Jim McPhail

We have to come up with a person to fill the unexpired term, which will end on June 1. We are pressed to get a majority party member and need to have a special meeting.

Janet Wright

She was a great lady. I am still trying to fill her shoes. It's about the kids. That is what it is all about to me.

Robert Gottlieb

'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial.

Joe Scott

Friday was just filled with anger, not so much sadness. As the weekend went on, it just got sadder and tougher.

Katie Couric

(Gasoline prices) are ridiculous. I had to take out a loan to fill up my minivan. It's crazy.

Edward Leamer

People moan and groan, but they still go to the pump and fill up their big SUVs.

Sidney Crosby

(Mario) is gone and he will be missed. You never can replace him or fill in his shoes. Now there are a lot of us young guys who have to step up.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Gunter Grass

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Bob Leib

For the last several years, as you know, we've demonstrated outstanding growth in student achievement, and it didn't happen by accident.

Andy Xie

If growth in the U.S. slows significantly, all of Asia's exporters will feel it.

Vladimir Putin

There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.

Vladimir Putin

It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

Kevin Hassett

There's not really likely to be market panic around the nomination,

Cody Acree

Revenues are likely to be down but that's just normal seasonality,

John Hurt

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Sam Hodder

If we don't take this opportunity, it's very likely that we won't get another chance.

Jerry Jones

I feel that we'll likely have a deal.

Peter Marcus

By 6:30 p.m., the number likely rose to 2 million.

Michael Cohen

Long term, I think they'll be higher. Short term, there's likely to be some pullback.

Lawrence Eagleburger

When you're in the presence of the president of the United States ... you're likely to pull your punches to some degree.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

Daniel Anderson

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

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

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.

Brian Durocher

Maine is a team that has some talented and strong kids. They play a real solid game.

Richard Meier

One of the main objections, I think, was that I am American.

Ricky Ford

He's still got a lot of Maine characteristics,

Gerry Fleming

That's the main reason for where we are in the standings.

Steve Warner

That's their main goal...trucks want to be safe on the road. They have safety directors, safety bonuses, their main priority is being safe.

Renee Montgomery

I think she's the main reason that we got going on the offensive end. She picked us up when we needed something to get us started.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Mark Skousen

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Robert Stephens

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

David Goldstein

In the first year, we wanted to test the water and see what kind of market there is out there.

Cai Rumohr

In normal market it could get back to 60.

Todd McFarlane

About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

Seth Godin

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

Skylar Astin

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

Matt Mullenweg

WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

Martin Scorsese

I still dislike phones, yeah!

Lee Child

Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.

Lisa McMann

The phone rings. “Asshole,” she mutters. She picks it up. “Will you let me explain?” “No.” She hangs up.

Nick Harkaway

Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.

Peter Diamandis

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Jon Brion

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.

Nicholas Burns

It was the only positive development I can point to.

Richard Gephardt

The whole point of what we're saying today is be cautious, be conservative, be skeptical,

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.