Famous Quotes & Sayings

Constanze Stelzenmueller

Some people saw (the 1-euro jobs) as a welcome way of working and achieving some form of dignity. But those who had grown up in the German welfare system found it humiliating to be doing serious work and only paid a euro.

John Roth

This program did not have any impact on the final results for 1998. We are on target for achieving results that are in line with our guidance for 1998 and 1999.

Robert Milton

We have today returned to the bargaining table with a renewed focus on achieving fair and reasonable negotiated settlement that would avoid any service disruption to our customers,

Elizabeth Somer

When women diet they often make two big mistakes that can actually result in weight gain -- skip breakfast and ditch dairy. But in reality, eating breakfast and including 24 ounces of milk each day are two small steps that could make a significant difference in achieving a healthy weight.

Ron Dennis

We want to be the best and the only way of achieving this objective is by attracting the best people.

Rod Lache

The problem with a lot of cars introduced is achieving differentiation. Most new vehicles rather quickly have to have price concessions. This thing is very unique.

Robert Cook

We anticipate by the end of 2007 we will have taken the number of hotels to at least 20 and we will be well on our way to achieving our medium term objective of 25.

Rig Veda

Those who are intelligent tread on the path of truth and adhere to all the rules and vows strictly. They are the ones who become successful in this world and become famous. They succeed in achieving everything they desire.

Milton Pedraza

Lexus won by a wide margin, achieving a rating of 88 versus 83 for Porsche and 82 for Acura. Lexus customers rated it the most worthy of a price premium by a five-point margin. Lexus also posted the highest ratings in the critical Customer Retention and Customer Referral indices.

Lynn Sadler

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther,

Robert Douglas

The sizes of homes keep getting bigger and bigger. We are looking for ways to control the size.

Kim Smith

This is a small district. If they're looking for that kind of money, those kind of benefits, they should be in a bigger district. They're welcomed to leave. They're welcomed to work some place else that can pay them what they want. We can't, it's that simple!

John Reid

This is definitely bigger than homecoming, I'd say.

Scotty Bowman

That's not going to create more scoring chances. Scoring chances are down because that's the way the game is played today. The players are bigger now, there's not as much room to move around. You watch old tapes, which I do quite a bit, it is a different game now.

Martin Chapman

That's just a little taste of what's liable to happen at some point in the not-so-distant future. There's no reason why a much bigger earthquake couldn't happen there.

John Hoffman

We did it for the past four years in Oil City and it gets bigger and better each year.

John McEnroe

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

Silvia Pepino

There is a risk (to the recovery from the VAT hike) but since we are seeing stronger growth then there is a bigger chance that the German economy can actually withstand it.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Mark Baldwin

As Britain's only large-scale touring contemporary dance company, Rambert performs on some of the largest stages this country has

Scott Harris

Our customers no longer design in isolation. They need to create, manage, and share information throughout and outside their company in order to realize their ideas.

Walter Price

People felt that this is a very tightly controlled company with a lot of levers they can pull.

Lovie Smith

Once you get into company with Walter Payton, that's saying quite a bit.

Foreign Ministry

The Russian embassy in Tehran gave to the Iranian side an official note saying that the previous Russian proposal of the creation of a joint Russian-Iranian company to enrich uranium remains in force.

Scott Rothbort

This is a work in progress and a company that's transitioning. Don't expect instant gratification here.

Bill Doyle

This is a significant investment that will have an immediate positive impact on our company and, more importantly, will provide significant growth potential for us over the long term.

Bob Corscadden

This is an invitation for people to get a better glimpse of who we are as a company and what we stand for.

Peter Charlton

As long as there are no major shocks and the interest rate environment remains the same, I expect it to go on into the first half of 2006 at the very least.

David Minsker

The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school will have.

Rex Tillerson

This is an industry that lives in cycles. The price environment we're in today is not sustainable.

Chad Calabria

The University of Iowa was the talk of the town. There were no pro sports. It was a nice environment and seemed like the right place for me.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Kerry Healey

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

Doug Dacar

Environmental issues have always been important to me.

Jenny McKenzie

Events like this really help promote a safe environment. We're trying to prepare students for what can happen.

Bill Gates

Between the better phone, small screen devices, better PC and the wireless environment, it's a whole new world of communications,

Ken Hall

This is going to be a grass-roots campaign, run at the plant gates and in the barn,

Alberto Tomba

Giorgio tried to push away from the gates during the race as I suggested to him. But unfortunately he was wrong. He made a mistake. It shouldn't have happened.

Scott Chasin

I think Gates had a very optimistic view of the world.

Emma Lazarus

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand/ A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/ Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name/ Mother of exiles.

John Lyly

None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not waking till she sings.

Fred Perry

With the statue and gates with my name, it's all a great thrill. People are now saying ' I'll meet you at the Perry statue'. It's a strange feeling, makes you feel a little queasy. It's a beautifully-done statue. People don't know how I used to be, they only know me as I am now.

Marnie Dacko

We've got to be able to come out of the gates ready to go. We can't have any time where we have a mental lapse.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Guido Marchi

Say you see 25,000 massive stars, you infer that there will be 100,000 lighter ones, even if you don't see them.

Noel Coward

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Brad Hunter

I have to infer that's the explanation for the sudden drop.

Alan Binder

Then we don't have to say that we infer water, ... We will know that it's water that we found.

Rowan Atkinson

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Tia Carrere

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Russ Swartz

It's nothing that we're not used to all year. We're one of the smaller teams in the league.

Michael Shaw

It's a little smaller but it utilizes space much better.

Jack Kilby

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Don Lindburg

It really is turning out to be somewhat of a hardship.

Jim Calhoun

You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Robert Adams

For some people, there must be. I'm just the wrong guy.

William Anderson

has the right intentions, but he's going about them the wrong way.

Hank Tierney

He said he just didn't want to play. He was out there for all the wrong reasons.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy, ... Nothing is wrong with me. I'm not sick. I'm healthy.

Tom Davies

investigate aggressively what went wrong and what went right.

Bobby Jackson

They just wanted it more. We did all the right things in the first 12 minutes, and did all the wrong things from then on out.

Howard Berman

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.