Famous Quotes & Sayings

King Abdullah

We want to strengthen the link between India and Saudi Arabia with regards to energy, and the ability to provide energy to India over a long term.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very clear and unequivocal message that after attacks like this it's not business as usual. We expect them to follow through on their promises -- that these armed gangs be disarmed. Our entire ability to move forward is based on that promise.

Denis Waitley

The ability to adapt is everything!

Doug Aitken

The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

Rosabeth Kanter

The point of new venturing is to stimulate a range of ideas that build corporate resilience -- the ability to keep enriching core businesses by incorporating new modes (whether products, distribution channels, or markets) while discovering potential new directions that might not only be internal ventures but also an acquisition or an alliance.

Gavin Rossdale

The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit.

Gerald Cohen

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Ken Hayes

We are proud to be recognized in the magic quadrant report. We believe our listing in the Challenger quadrant confirms our ability to sustain our position in the marketplace. Looking forward, we will continue to position ourselves in the forefront of the industry by delivering superior help desk services.

Donna Dubinsky

We are pleased with the results of the quarter, particularly our ability to achieve revenue growth in what is usually a sequentially down quarter in our industry.

Eric Raymond

Way too many obvious junk patents have been issued for things that are obvious to any engineer, and those are being used to suppress competition. I don't see this bill fixing that.

Nathan Myhrvold

The personality of Bill Gates determines the culture of Microsoft.

Jiang Zemin

The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious.

Sean Wargo

We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.

Hal Halpin

We've already committed to doing the things this bill is trying to require us to do,

Shripad Tuljapurkar

We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.

Bob Gammage

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

Xu Dingming

We still need oil imports to sustain growth. In the environment of high international oil prices, our import bill is also soaring.

Peter Feinstein

We're interested in watching the next phase of high-rise condos going up, and we're interested in seeing how the Stardust comes together with their new $4 billion product. We have cash flow we can sit on while we're watching the market.

Dwight Schultz

It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.

Ronald Reagan

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Samuel Bodman

The situation we are facing is a very different one than we faced in the past ... in the Carter administration, ... This is in response to significant damage that has been done to the country's energy infrastructure.

Andrew Young

It would be no different than it is here. The Carter Center runs the programs and the parks service maintains the grounds and the buildings.

Sam Cassell

Vince Carter is such a great player that we need two guys to try to stop him. When we got there to try to stop him, we got there too late and he either made the shot or we fouled him.

Jarome Iginla

You look at our game, you look at how many young guys are coming in: Crosby, Richards and Carter and Corey Perry to name a few - there's a lot of skilled players coming up,

Megan Gallagher

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.

Daryl Sabara

My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.

Leon Litwack

I would compare him to Carter Woodson and W.E.B. Du Bois,

David Hume

From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.

Colin Powell

We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

Tommy Williams

When you take the evidence at the crime scene and the pending child custody suit, we thought there was probable cause to charge her with murder, and the judge agreed,

David Givens

When you start to see the emotional muscles contracting, you know there's some attraction. The muscles of the face are definitely emotional. The upper trapezius muscle is emotional, which causes you to flex your head and your shoulders.

Bill Polian

We have no details with respect to events surrounding the cause of the cut. As is our policy, our security department will conduct an investigation and report back promptly. As always, we will share the results of that investigation with appropriate league officials.

John Moffitt

Whenever we'd run into another American, that was always cause for celebration.

Khalil Gibran

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Alan Shearer

Andy Carroll will cause anyone problems and I don't see a problem in that

Gretchen Rubin

'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes.

Keke Palmer

I have a few celebrity friends, but I'm really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.

Peter Adams

With these helpful features, users will be able to find anything from medical papers to travel profiles, and from literary journals to celebrity biographies quickly and easily.

Harvey Levin

It's not this kind of produced package of celebrity video. You hear the sounds and it feels like you're there.

Jodhi May

You don't want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate.

Jim Panyard

The Rendell-Swann celebrity 'horse race' will be a media fest but, regardless of the outcome, the people of Pennsylvania will lose again.

David Stern

The remarkable celebrity that NBA players hold empowers them to effect change.

Randal Pinkett

There's always a certain responsibility . . . to really represent the African-American community, and to be the kind of role model and figurehead or celebrity that the community can be proud of.

David Rooney

It's a wonderful event. It's just a wonderful venue, and it's unique. I'm not sure there is another Tour event that combines the celebrity impact, the professional golf impact, and in our case, cars.

Chris Christie

Hillary Clinton said there was no marked classified information on her server. The FBI Director said that's untrue.She said that she did not email any classified information. The FBI Director says that's untrue.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now.

Chris Christie

Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

Chris Christie

In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.

Chris Christie

The fact is that [Hillary Clinton] has been the person who started this type of conversation in the campaign. She should be ashamed of herself.

David Brooks

Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.

David Brenner

We have no doubt that Hillary Clinton will raise $50 million-plus, if she hasn't already,

Madeleine Albright

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

Strom Thurmond

until shortly before President Clinton made his public statement regarding the strikes.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

Robert Ferguson

Absurd. The prediction of a 4-degree increase in global temperatures in the next 100 years is ridiculous, and that kind of an increase in sea level is greatly overblown.

Nancy Nolan

It's just to let people in Lexington ... know what's going on ... in the surrounding communities and what's going on with global warming.

Sam Pitroda

It is time we structure our institutions of knowledge to be a global player in the 21st century.

Steve Darendinger

For instance if a new supplier didn't have global capability, we would work with the supplier to improve its global capacity.

Jim McMahon

It's too late. It's a global ecology. There will always be different species invading. We're really past the point of being able to do anything about it.

Albert Pang

It's the price you have to pay to live in a global village. You have to share the rewards.

Kenneth Rogoff

this means that 2005 is only going to be a very good year for global growth, rather than the spectacular one it might have been but for oil prices.

Gary Johnson

The other two saw what was going on and grabbed the hostage, the store owner who was the only person in the store at the time, and held him at gunpoint,

Lucien Smith

I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.

Tom Freeman

We have to have a melody line. So if one of our sax players needs to stick with one part, maybe the trombone player will grab the melody from another score.

Alan Wright

A tall officer was able to grab his ankles. He was about one or two steps from getting away.

Lindsay Lohan

All of us need something. You just have to grab on to whatever can get you through. Maybe it's this business, but it seems everything can be so tough, so hard.

Craig Barr

They were grabbing and holding Jones' jersey all night long, but then we got the offensive (penalty) call. We had a touchdown taken away from us last week at McCutcheon.

Josh Smith

They said I grabbed the rim and pulled up to get the rebound. I was shocked.

David Hobbs

It's one thing to play physical, it's another to grab a guy's jersey.

George Burgess

You don't want to grab their tail or touch them, go for a ride or do anything that alters their natural behavior.

P. J. O'Rourke

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

Tamara Mellon

I went back to the factories that I worked with at Jimmy Choo because they don't work for Jimmy Choo exclusively.

Jim Sullivan

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Johnny Rivers

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

Mark Indelicato

I didn't know who Jimmy Choo was. I think Vanessa Williams was also a very big part of that, teaching me about the designers. I had no choice but to learn, and I'm glad I did.

Todd Bodine

Jimmy just does what Jimmy does, ... If he can't pass you he runs into you.

Ron Beard

Jimmy was in the groove. He looked unstoppable.

Don Reed

Wherever you go in Montana, you are going to run into someone who knows Jimmy Dow in athletics.

Quin Snyder

We lost track of Moody. If Jimmy doesn't do that, then we don't go into overtime.

Brendan Barnicle

What's interesting is that Microsoft is now more of a leverage story.

John Drury

We leverage as much as we can from our brethren.

Pat Comack

AT&T still has a lot of leverage because Comcast can't tender for anything.

Lori Lucas

There's a lot of room for individuals to leverage investments in their plans to get the most out of their account.

Andrea Williams

What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable,

Quinten Fuentes

He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get him.

Michael Myers

It's been pretty impressive. He's long and tall. He's down there getting leverage on every play. That's why he's so good.

Lesley Manville

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Terry Stotts

They obviously made Mike a priority. They didn't give him any open looks.

Tom Connelly

There were many personal attacks, and Mike was in the cross-hairs of those attacks. It got to him.

Leo Kottke

Sometimes you see that place dimly, and you work on whatever you're working on to see it better. I really can just go running around in it when Mike and I are playing.

Tom Arnold

That's funny, Mike Tice. Is that your joke?

Mike Huckabee

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

Jamie McMurray

There's something about when Mike Helton talks, everyone listens.

Wayne Puglisi

Buddy, Mike and A.J. have played together forever. They should be in for another big year on offense if they stay healthy.

Nicholas Hytner

Mike was a little nervous ... We weren't, because his reputation is so immense.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

Alan Ayckbourn

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Tim Tucker

They're used to winning. Plus they understand the tournament trail.

Tom Richards

This is the first time in three years we've had a jayvee team. It's been a plus for our program.

Mike McCarthy

Throwaways are OK. When a quarterback throws the ball away in our system, that's a plus. That's a plus decision. That's the way I've always graded it.

Hayley Hasselhoff

I've never worn plus size brands, and I never had to because I found what worked for my body type. So my advice is to find what works for you.

Bob Walsh

I tell them this isn't about me, it's about you. This is your time. I keep telling them not to worry about that stuff, that if we go out and try to keep getting better every game, we'll get 600 plus some.

Dave Hamilton

If it all leaks, then you're right back where you started, plus you've wasted all that money.

Ron Gardenhire

He did a super job. That'll be a plus for us.

Tim Purpura

He can play all three (outfield) positions, and he runs exceptionally well and has a plus arm, ... He's more of a speed-and-defense type of guy.

Micky Arison

I think that was a big psychological plus for us.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Jane Smith

This kind of work takes too much time. Mine's all needlework.

Eido Carney

It's at least 15 years. It takes that long.

Charlotte Observer

After all, it takes 18 to 20 years to 'grow a child.'

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Tom Kloza

The wheels are in motion. It just takes a while for it to deluge into retail.

Jessica White

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

Hines Ward

Each and every day, Jerome is always teaching me something, what it takes to be a professional athlete. That's why I want to win it more for him than for myself.

David Lange

Death is very, very terminal.

Albert Schweitzer

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

Mark Butler

There is a real urgency here and there is an irreversibility. Look at the waters here, there's no groundfishery left.

D. J. MacHale

I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader

Tom Hayden

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Kate Fleetwood

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

Jan Egeland

We need to have a sense of urgency here like we had in the tsunami.

Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

Madhur Bhandarkar

Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

Hayley Orrantia

Whenever you go into an audition, you have to be as prepared as possible.

Jacob Burtschi

Whenever we got close, they widened the gap.

Charles Smith

Whenever we go somewhere, it's like, 'What are we going to eat?

Brandon Kendzierski

Whenever we go at it, it's like a war.

Jevon Kearse

Whenever we blitz, we have to do more than take up a guy. We've got to get to the quarterback and get him on the ground.

Ric Flair

Whenever they feel like it, the door's wide open.

Johnny Miller

Whenever there's something new, it's always roundly criticized.

Andrew Hall

Usually it was 6:30 p.m. to whenever we were tired.