Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orin Smith

Our third-quarter financial results demonstrate the ongoing strength of our business, ... Starbucks operations are functioning at a more sophisticated level than ever before. Our consistently strong performance positions us well to achieve our aggressive fiscal 2005 goals -- including an acceleration of store growth as we pursue the Company's expanding global opportunity.

Brad Blew

Our seniors have made it to this game every year, if not farther. This has been a successful group and I'm certainly disappointed for them that we didn't win, because we played so hard, but I could never be disappointed in this group. They've achieved so much this year and have done so much as a group, they'll always be special.

Henry Blodget

Our estimate for fourth quarter product revenue is approximately $1 billion. To achieve our estimate, we believe Amazon has to book about $750 million in the eight week holiday season. Our back-of-the-envelope analysis of the Delight-O-Meter suggests it is off to a solid start.

Mike Fishman

Our elected officials should join with Senators McCain and Kennedy to fix our broken immigration system. The McCain Kennedy bill is a smart, balanced approach that recognizes contributions made by immigrant workers to our society and economy, and gives them an opportunity to achieve the American Dream.

Daniel Kim

Our customers define us as a trusted and established technology partner that not only provides a well-integrated blade cluster solution, but also understands the rest of their computing needs. We are happy to provide our customers the flexibility, high-performance and simplicity to help them achieve their business objectives.

Pamela Dixon

Our families and staff share a common bond to protect and nurture these vulnerable children. The prospect of this type of crime in our midst is contrary to everything we believe in and strive to achieve every day.

Lowell Singer

Our expectations for flat-to-down industry sales growth in 2006 and increased spending by Electronic Arts on research and development lead us to conclude that Electronic Arts is unlikely to achieve any significant earnings-per-share growth in fiscal-year 2007.

Sam Allardyce

Our aim all those years ago was for Bolton to achieve European qualification, and then beyond that to do it consistently - we made it our ultimate dream to aspire to,

Yuriko Koike

People are worried that in order to achieve structural reform and postal privatization, LDP politicians will be less engaged in pork barrel politics.

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Bob Wright

As CEO and then chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television.

Jared Diamond

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Mark Watson

The board structure among banks is still pretty poor. We're critical of boards that get too big and directors tell us that smaller boards are more effective.

John Ridley

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

Mark Savoia

Barberton and Wadsworth are the two strongest teams in the league. It should be a fun battle. It should also be a battle for third place among Revere, Green and Highland.

Robert Shapiro

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Thomas Harrison

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

Richard Lloyd

People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I'm gratified it stuck to the wall.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Malcolm Speed

Australia, Bermuda, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and the West Indies have indicated their intention to be considered as hosts for an inaugural Twenty20 event while England, Hong Kong, Nepal and Scotland have also expressed an interest in hosting future events.

Bill Cherpak

I've never seen Nate play a better game - ever. I told him before the game: 'If you want to be considered a big-time player, this is where you do it. I saw Nate take control of that huddle in the last drive. He took over.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Scott Carney

This is probably the first time I have considered it.

Dan Fisher

This game meant so much more than a playoff game. We considered it the state championship for northern Michigan.

Len Klepack

This course is considered the Yankee Stadium of our sport. It will be a great experience.

Aldo Leopold

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

Donna Brazile

There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Donella Meadows

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

Colleen Atwood

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

Dalai Lama

It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

Desmond Tutu

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Desmond Tutu

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Desmond Tutu

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

Lisa Ling

There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.

Anthony Chan

There are a lot of good factors out there.

Randy Bly

It's a combination of factors hitting all at once.

Bob Lutz

Right now, we're not where we ought to be (on hybrids).

John Gibson

We've got about 300 members. We ought to have about 3,000.

John Stossel

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

Edward Kennedy

I think the Vice-President ought to re-read the constitution.

Susan Vreeland

I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.

George C. Wallace

I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.

George Herbert

Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Dave Gomo

If you've never done it, they ought to try it.

Janica Kostelic

The whole day was confusing, as we were wondering if we were going to race or not. It was windy but it was windy for everyone,

Paul Jones

That's what makes the race so hard. There was a headwind the first 10 trials, and if you were in them you had no chance.

Roger Staubach

That's how important this race is to me.

Argus Hamilton

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

Dave O'Neill

This race will be a little emotional. This will be a really special race for them. They will want to go out in style, but Stanford will be tough.

Augustus

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Benito Mussolini

We must give Italians a sense of race.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Bo Ryan

As I've been saying all along, they just have to play a little older,

Larry DiRita

The secretary is not saying anything like what the memo's been characterized,

Jalen Rose

I've never said that I wanted to play for another team. I'm not saying that now,

Jason Fraser

It was all determination. As the old saying goes, ?Where there?s a will, there?s a way,? and as you saw, we had the will, literally.

Don Helling

I've been saying all year that our strength is in the relays.

Melissa Kleinman

That's why we're here tonight. (Sexual violence) touches everyone tonight we're taking the first step in saying we are not going to tolerate it.

Fidel Castro

You've put me on three times and I keep saying the same thing.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Howard Hawks

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Michel de Montaigne

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.

Kelly Jennings

A shutout is something that always is impressive. That's something we always strive for. We're disappointed we didn't get one.

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Ralph Nader

We must strive to become good ancestors.

Judith Jamison

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.