Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ira Loss

I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.

Kofi Annan

I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to be convinced, or a vast majority of them, for action to take place,

Richard Holbrooke

He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.

Richard House

We are going to move forward and try to get as many definitive answers and as much input as we possibly can. I think all of us are in agreement that we want to make this something where we have action plans and a decision at that time to go forward as opposed to having a study that recommends certain things. We are trying to be more all-encompassing and get the best bang for the buck.

Adam Goldberg

The only thing that could stop it now is action in Congress.

Bob Metz

Going into a situation like this, we are concerned about the safety of all of our kids. We need to make sure we take the proper action to make sure our kids are safe.

Mohandas Gandhi

God never appears to you in person but always in action.

Jet Li

He said, 'Here is the deal: Play the bad guy first, then I give you a good guy next,' ... I asked him what the movie was called, (and) he said 'Romeo Must Die.' (It) sounds like a romantic story, not an action movie.

Bob Costas

He's got to do something (because) his tenure is going to be largely defined by this punishment. Bold action here is not the same as rash action. If he's got the evidence and he's in the right, he should take bold action. Even if he's defeated in court, he will win in the court of public opinion -- if he takes bold action. ... You can be deliberate and you can still be bold. Once he has it, he should do what he feels is in the best interest of baseball and let the chips fall where they may.

Derek Feltner

Jake and I are beyond the point of telling each other what we want to do. I know it sounds strange, but we just know each other.

Ed Cange

Jack was a monster. He led us in scoring, but beyond that the number of rebounds he got and the defense he played was incredible.

Marco Coleman

I would say the difference between Coughlin and a guy like Marty was Coughlin took it a little beyond the football field,

Jim Cameron

It can't be fixed. It's beyond the stage of tweaking.

Carrie Graf

Her knee and the referee are getting to her. She's got to get beyond that. She's tough. She will.

Dan Rohn

He's a very, very talented young man. As he has shown in the Majors he is well deserving and wise beyond his years, pitching wise.

Mark Johnson

I think it's beyond the means of most homeowners.

John Keats

It is a flaw / In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - / It forces us in summer skies to mourn, / It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

Becky Ritter

We talked about what would be fun and what would be worthwhile. We were thinking about maybe something like Habitat for Humanity. But everything was either out of our price range or beyond our time frame. Then one of the Campus Crusade members talked to us about either going to Panama City, Florida or New Orleans to help out with Katrina relief and we felt New Orleans would be worthwhile.

Gene Munster

Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.

Chris Lynch

We expect total expenditure to increase to around $6 billion (in 2006). This will include around $4 billion spent on growth projects and $550 million on exploration.

Pete Domenici

I think the across-the-board budget cut is if we cannot find about $4 billion in savings any other way, then we'll look to that,

Hilary Clinton

It is necessary that the Silverstein organization be granted the $3.5 billion in Liberty Bond financing requested so that these efforts may continue without delay.

Paul Richards

There is an element to that. The AOL-Time Warner deal must go through; it's $200 billion (in terms of the combined company's market value), whereas the EMI deal is a $20 billion joint venture.

Stephen Gould

Humans are here today because our particular line never fractured - never once at any of the billion points that could have erased us from history.

Greg Stuart

If we continue to grow at 26 percent, we will probably end the year at mid-$11 billion (in revenue), or near $12 billion.

Bernie Sanders

If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart.

Christopher Flavin

Rising demand for energy, food and raw materials by 2.5 billion Chinese and Indians is already having ripple effects worldwide.

Carl Andre

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

Elizabeth Kostova

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

Ron Walters

Now, Katrina is a bellwether issue for a lot of people. And it means it's going to complicate his relationship with some of these ministers and their parishioners.

Brit Marling

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Andy Grove

No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

Niki Lauda

Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.

Jessie Ware

I'm not a complicated person.

Bebe Neuwirth

I am a very complicated person.

Candice Swanepoel

Women are complicated. We all know that.

Greg Zandlo

Going into debt is never easy and, in your case, going deeper into debt is a necessary evil.

Samuel Johnson

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Phil Angelides

California's level of debt is far greater than when the governor took office 23 months ago. And the state is facing deficits as far as the eye can see,

H. Hunt

In Japan, for example, the debt deflation started in 1990 and price deflation started in 1992 or 1993. That's what we're in for right now.

Stephen Green

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) was looking for domestic debt at year-end 2005 to be worth 19.6 percent of GDP. That can now be revised down to about 16 percent.

Bill Warlick

The next big obstacle would be financing the exit. Presumably they would be looking for debt financing and some equity financing.

Joseph Stiglitz

The US economy has lots of vulnerabilities in debts and deficits.

Samuel Rutherford

Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!

Julia Ward Howe

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Tom Sizemore

I know I'm in it. ... I'm not making a penny. I don't have a dollar today, ladies and gentlemen.

Harry Smith

I'm proud of myself. People who spent time with me afterward said, 'You're such a humble person.' I'm talking about myself now, but in the game you don't get portrayed as you always are. I want to come away with more than a million dollars with my honor and integrity. And I did that.

Richard Tucker

I just want to go in and get the drink instead of having to pay an extra dollar for a wristband.

Jay Bryson

I imagine we'll move into low 60's (billion dollar range), maybe even mid-60's, in next few months,

Susan Jackson

The last thing we want is for these dollars (for free tutoring) to go unused.

Teruhisa Tsuji

The Fed minutes are harming the dollar-bullish sentiment. Any gains in the dollar will be capped today.

Cameron Bagrie

The implicit message is that the U.S. dollar needs to go down.

Marios Maratheftis

The dollar is under pressure and the main driving force for this is the market's expectation that the Fed will stop hiking rates soon.

Henry Schacht

As we've said, fiscal year 2001 is a transition and rebuilding year for Lucent,

Richard Fisher

As a member of the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee), I will never vote to monetize fiscal profligacy,

Richard Fox

It would be nice if there were a policy response in the form of a tighter fiscal policy.

Dennis Rosa

This really is a continuation of the process, ... This is a very smart fiscal move.

Carlos Asilis

We could talk about sunspots, we could talk about fiscal year-end effects, but whatever the explanation may be, history is on the side of the fourth quarter being a good one.

Michael Jaffe

We think revenues will increase by 6 percent in fiscal year 2006.

Robert H. Connelly

There's no fiscal restraint right now. Nobody is even thinking about it.

Steve Brice

From a local perspective they're saving a lot of money at the moment and their fiscal surplus was 15 percent last year and is going to be 14 percent this year.

Pete Sepp

From our standpoint, this is not a top fiscal issue.

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Werner Herzog

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

W. G. Sebald

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

William Cobbett

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

Walt Whitman

The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

William Faulkner

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Ronald Reagan

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

Wole Soyinka

After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Trent Dilfer

Whatever RAC (Crennel's initials) wants, that's what I'll do.

Carmen Electra

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

Chad Gaudin

It's not new for me. Whatever they want me to do is fine.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.

Mike Reid

We'll work with whatever they need us to do.