Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Mobius

We were investing at this terrible time when emerging markets were all going down, some by 90-odd percent, and we are now benefiting from that, ... You had one crisis after another. You had Russia, Brazil, Thailand. We were investing in all of them.

David Healy

If it wasn't GM in crisis mode and the whole feeding frenzy going on in the media, a small restatement like this wouldn't get any attention.

Tom Morrison

We've been owed this money for a while now, but because of the fiscal crisis at the time, it was never granted to us.

Jeff Mikulina

We seem to be putting it off and putting it off. I thought there was an understanding this past week discussing the landfill that we have a crisis on this island.

Abraham Foxman

We see it in moments of crisis and moments of trauma. What they try to do is link themselves to a legitimate event that people respond to emotionally and intellectually, because otherwise you would never log on to them.

Russel Honore

To these people, the crisis is still going on. They haven't gotten to the recovery part yet.

Barack Obama

To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.

Brooke Foss Westcott

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Edi Rama

Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Bob Davidson

The purpose of it was not to delay bills. But back when people in the early days were illiterate, they would have a constitutional right to have it read to them.

John Cook

We're prepared to receive them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and do whatever is required,

Robert Parker

We travel all over the state, usually just for two days (the weekend).

Dan Hendricks

We took a little edge off him and everything looks good. He doesn't require a lot of works. I don't need to work him every five or six days and really pound him. He stays fit on his own. He'll do a little something Wednesday or Thursday and that should be it.

Doug Boyer

We threw in the full-court presses three days ago. The girls did it very well, and they sold out on it.

Marcus Trescothick

Today has been fantastic but there are still two huge days left,

Marc Bowker

I think we had 13 days without sunshine, and that's going to put a major drain on something like that. In a way, it's probably a good thing you still had the beacons on there, or else you wouldn't have had any lights on the signs.

Rep. Gonzalez

I think things will unfold in the next few days that will shine a light on his decision.

Jean Rhys

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Elena Dementieva

You've no idea what I've been through these past few days,

Andre Patterson

You've got to win at home if you want to do anything and then get a few on the road. But if it's going to be a special season, you've got to protect your house.

Larry Coyer

You've got to step it up. It's not the same. What you did during the regular season, it's not good enough. You've got to be better. Those guys will be better. They've studied you, they've looked at what you do. There are very few secrets when you get to this point. You have to be good enough to handle these guys.

Bryant McAllister

You might as well play hard. That's why we're playing. I don't see a reason to quit or give up. We'll see if we can steal a few wins down the stretch. The younger guys can learn from this season and try to get better.

Dick Davey

Younger teams have a tendency to have a few more problems on the road.

Dane Krogstad

You never try to lose focus. You know they are going to come back strong, too. You just have to fight it, and I think we did a good job. They just made a few plays.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Sean Georges

If we hit our free throws, this was a brawl instead of a barnburner.

Ken Flowers

If we hit our free throws, the game is over. Our free-throw shooting was very poor today.

Sean Dockery

If they hit their free throws, it would have been a game. They did everything else right.

Joe Leonard

If they want to go somewhere else, they are free to do so.

Penny Geinger

She's a tough girl. She'll find a way, through free throws, driving, slashing to the baskets. She's going to do something every game.

Sara Schopper

She's real quick and she knows how to knock down her free throws.

Brianna Morrow

She's been a little sick, but she gutted it out. She made some pressure free throws, especially with Hill hitting those 3s.

Marshall Ballard

She's one of the ones in practice who always steps up and makes free throws. She's clutch.

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

John Engler

Nobody gets any guarantees.

Sepp Blatter

We could not have 12,000 people on the pitch for the gala and then use the same turf for the match on June 12. The problem was that not a single provider would give us guarantees for the proper turf replacement. Nobody would give us these guarantees.

Paul Ricoeur

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

Park Dietz

One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them.

Oprah Winfrey

I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.

Scott Kim

My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it,'

Laura Schlessinger

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

Julianne Moore

I think all of us struggle with how to keep relationship alive. And yet it can't be static either. It's never going to be how it was when you first met because you're not in that place anymore; you're not necessarily the same people. So, that's the struggle - you're trying to make the relationship move forward with the rest of your life and make it special and meaningful. And I think it's incredibly challenging.

Josh Billings

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

Joan Cusack

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

Bill Nighy

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.

Joe Torre

I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility,

Robert Blake

Paid him? ... Don't put words in my mouth, junior.

Cecilia Bartoli

This is the secret-the repertoire. You have to try to consolidate your repertoire. It is a big step if you know how to do that.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Ellen G. White

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Timothy Leary

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Rabindranath Tagore

If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed; if I say that He is without me, it is falsehood.

Erich Fromm

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Chris Martin

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.