Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

John Mitchell

If there was a common theme to his stories, it was misuse of power. He knew who his readers were. He knew that if something outraged him, they would be outraged, too.

Mike McGavick

I plan to take common sense and stability back to Washington.

Jim Johnson

By joining with numerous other industry players, we hope to speed ratification of the standard as well as jointly develop a common guideline to deliver interoperable solutions in the interim.

Richard Le Gallienne

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Philip Coyle

If Portsmouth were to be closed, the U.S. would be left with only 8 percent excess capacity,

Suzi Quatro

I have record approximately 10 studio albums. I had 16 top ten singles and sold in excess of 45 million records all over the world.

William Blake

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

Oscar Goodman

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

Peter Doyle

There was a lot of speculative excess that had to be shaken out of the market. And I think that's what we're seeing here today.

Heather Graham

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Bob Beauprez

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

Dr. Levy

I think that a lot of physicians really see drug testing as a fairly simple lab test when, in fact, it is not at all.

William Ford

If we want to do repairs next summer, we're going to have to get moving fairly quickly,

John Hull

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.

David Gelinas

It's not equitable, it's not just and it's not fairly applied.

Mike Griffin

It's not a huge industry. It's fairly modest, but they have some good-paying jobs.

Richard Boucher

It's incumbent upon the Taliban to treat these people safely and fairly and to let us see after their welfare,

Kevin Sickey

They hit the jackpot with us -- a Native American tribe with a fairly new casino, in the midst of a political transition, and naive to the underworld of governmental affairs.

Henry Scott

It was mediocre. I thought we'd see more, but they flew fairly well. We'll get on a better field this afternoon.

Jacki Weaver

I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door.

Mark Nardone

He had plenty of leg, but he just missed it by two feet to the left. I'm proud of that kid for the game he played.

Vinoba Bhave

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Sara Evans

But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly

Vance Havner

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.

Robert E. Lee

You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

Will Smith

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

Warren Buffett

You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?

Werner Herzog

When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth now flees on feathered foot.

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Ben Hatfield

We are very discouraged by the results of this test.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is all about getting results.

Peter Drucker

Results is all that separates one company from another.

N. T. Wright

The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

Jonathan Swift

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Benjamin Franklin

Little rogues easily become great ones.

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.