Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Douglas

As effective as he's been. I agree with that (decision), I think it's an effective cost savings move. Our office largely deals with three department heads directly.

Ian Macfarlane

Australia is already fully committed in terms of uranium production through until about 2008, bearing in mind that the signing of this agreement means that this is really only the start of the process.

Ben Phillips

A world conference in 100 days time could agree to the principles of ATT to control international arms transfer and India can be a key influence at the UN conference.

Javier Lopez

Our experimental results agreed with the computational findings, indicating that these ratchetting points mediate the removal of intron subfragments in one direction as the gene is transcribed initially from DNA into RNA,

Kobe Bryant

People that know me understand that's just me. That's not something that was fabricated. The people who don't side with you or agree with you, you use that as fuel. You use that as motivation.

Rafael Ramirez

Of the 32 (companies), we have agreed with 30. We believe this was a mistake on the part of Total and Eni.

Marco Basaglia

After the auction, which soaked up a huge amount of paper, operators only agreed to buy at a much lower price.

Tom Vincent

After years of working with multiple software vendors in this industry, we're excited about this opportunity to sign an exclusive agreement with a long-standing and financially secure partner with a diverse range of customers nationwide. This partnership links us with a leader in enterprise behavioral healthcare software.

Marc Cabi

During our visit with companies in Korea, each company acknowledged that June revenues for handsets dropped drastically, although they did not agree with the degree to which it dropped.

Barbara Lee

[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

Arthur Koestler

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

Arthur Koestler

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Ayn Rand

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Carson McCullers

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

Charles Kennedy

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Carlos Gutierrez

What we need now is encouragement, support, motivation, vision, foresight, and courage, ... We aren't spending a lot of time looking back. We are looking at what we can do for people today and tomorrow. That's our focus. We're just not going to spend time right now looking backwards.

Aung San Suu Kyi

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Dean Koontz

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Doug Pritchard

The fact that there are no demands made or timelines set is also hopeful.

Zach Woods

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

Frank Bauer

Many feel we have too many lawyers already. ... In my view, new programs, new campuses and new schools should be primarily driven by demands of the marketplace and not by the demands of a potential student body.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Daniel Doctoroff

We can do something truly exceptional ... something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.

Octavia Butler

I have the kind of mind that demands that I work things out, to see how they would really work if they were real. I have to be able to do that.

Jim Volk

People are still very very nervous and looking over their shoulder on the domestic recovery. I think the market could come back again, though -- stocks have had a lot of resilience the last few days.

Cathy Keefe

You reach a saturation point with domestic tourism. It increases with the population, but that's about it. The growth in travel and tourism is really in the international market.

Gary Dugan

We're looking at growth which is more balanced. We're looking for this economy to move on through domestic demand.

Joe Barton

More refineries will result in more domestic production of gasoline.

Bob Geldof

If we can get the domestic heat to such a temperature, just possibly we can reach down that ladder and say, 'come on dudes, I'll give you a hand up'.

Nobutaka Machimura

I have an impression that we have taken too much time with our domestic procedures,

Trent Lott

It is a worry about maintaining a domestic industry, which I think has national security implications,

Mihir Vora

Some of the money the domestic mutual funds have raised will also come into the market now. That's one reason why the market refuses to go down.

Andriy Shevchenko

We must now concentrate on the domestic league.

Joe Mihalich

As good as (Jordan) was, our team was fortunate to pull it together and be better than Marist. It's not a game for individuals. It's a game for teams, and our team, today, was better than them.

Keith Henderson

Officer Price is very fortunate that his injuries were not more serious,

Don Hill

Not working is a luxury, ... I feel fortunate to do the things I want to do.

Larry Coyer

Same old John. Reliable. A leader. A little better than you might think he is. A little more skill there than you might first perceive. We're fortunate to have him.

Martin Brodeur

I've played enough in the NHL to know most of these guys. Most of the time I know their tendencies. I've been lucky. I've been fortunate to make some saves and help us win some games.

Scott Skiles

It would be nice if we could play well and put somebody away. We were fortunate to get out of here with a win.

Herb Sendek

It was very back-and-forth all game. We just kept trading shots and we were fortunate to have one more run in us.

Jaycee Carroll

I've been very fortunate two years in a row. I couldn't be happier. ... The one thing I remember about last year's tournament, it was a little too short. I know everyone wants to come and compete.

Sean Connery

I've been very fortunate and have never had any real problems with people. But I've also had the guts to tell them, 'you're a bore'.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Walt Harris

Our special teams is the most respected part of our team.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Janis Ian

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Damon Lindelof

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Elizabeth Scott

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;