Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorenzo Codogno

As always, protectionism doesn't work. The past resistance to change has resulted in the Italian banking system being still affected by fragmentation, with plenty of small-scale players.

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

Kelly Preston

As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Duncan Hunter

Prior to September 11, 2001, illegal immigration was considered a regional issue without national implications. We quickly learned on that day, however, that this is a national issue, affecting each and every American, not just those living in border communities like San Diego County,

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious-they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Mark Hansen

Probably the most important thing in developing an emergency plan for the agricultural operation is to include the family and employees in the process. By helping to develop the plan, the other family members and employees take more ownership in making the plan work and in helping think of ways to protect the business. After all, everyone is affected if an emergency or disaster causes a disruption in operations, even if it's only for a week or two.

Marc Rotenberg

Privacy is the number one issue facing the Internet, and the need to resolve the problems created by junk mail will affect the future of the online world for many years to come.

Stephen Kinzer

During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call 'neo-liberal' principles: budget cuts, privatization, deregulation of business, and incentives for foreign companies. This campaign sparked bitter resistance and ultimately collapsed.

Jakob Bohme

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

Gary Conelly

It would be easy to be bitter about the experience, but in life that was only a breath.

Judith Karpova

It was very bitter for me to see this happen all over again. And I felt I had to do something.

Buck Martinez

I sensed it was a kind of a bitter moment for them both. I've known them both for a long time, and we really thought they would bring a lot to our team. Then we got down into the numbers of the things and it just didn't work out.

Stanley Hauerwas

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Joni Mitchell

You're in my blood like holy wine, You taste so bitter and so sweet. I could drink a case of you darling Still I'd be on my feet. I would still be on my feet.

Vladimir Putin

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Britney Spears

I choose to be a happy person. I choose not to be a bitter person

Lily Tomlin

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Thomas Jefferson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Max Lerner

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

Maya Angelou

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

Matt Smith

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

Oscar Wilde

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Michael Gerber

Many residents have grown more cynical about government, ... Sure, I want my constituents to feel good about me as their legislator, but we have to do something to restore the public's faith in government.

Ezra Klein

If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns.

Erica Jong

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Dave Esquer

Thinking of the long season, it's better to hold him out than to risk injury. I don't know if (his absence) was a factor, but obviously not having one of your starters out there can hurt you.

Ed Perlmutter

This is a personal issue because it holds out hope for a lot of people.

Mack Brown

This is one night we can hook 'em and hold down the little finger, because we're No. 1.

Mary McCarty

The way this thing is playing out, Commissioner Addie Greene holds this thing in her hands.

David Brown

You're saying we can make our recommendations, but you won't take them if you don't like them. We're swift, we're thoughtful. We don't hold projects back.

Ron Gardenhire

You never really know how it's going to work. You think you can hold it together for a while, but obviously we've seen a lot of things change. There's really not a lot you can do about it.

G. Kealey

Young kids aren't strong enough to hold on.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Kris Grawitch

We're holding a pre-construction open house so people can see what we don't have.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Lesley Manville

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.

Joel Burns

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

Dennis Smith

Any loss of life is tragic, and you know we want people to be safe out there.

Javier Rodriguez

Anything we can do to save a life is something we will support.

American Proverbs

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Lisa Cholodenko

The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded.

Robin Marantz Henig

The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.