Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Albert Dunlap

It is obvious the company no longer felt it had a legal basis to pursue its defenses without Al,

Steve Bennett

Intuit had another solid quarter. We beat consensus estimates for pro forma profitability. Our Quicken Loans mortgage business was profitable for the quarter and grew revenue on a year-over-year basis for the first time in four quarters.

Milos Forman

If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.

Michael Berry

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.

George Young

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

Alan Rifkin

If you look at the four hurricanes last year, which had combined insured losses of $23 billion, both Home Depot and Lowe's benefited by about 100 basis points on their same-store sales,

Art Hogan

I think 50 basis points (one-half percentage point) is a credible consensus estimate for what the Fed does (at its March 20 meeting). Unfortunately, over the last five or six tumultuous trading days, we've talked ourselves into the fact that the Fed cares about equity valuations, but that's not the case.

Michael Holland

I think 50 basis points is built into the market price structure,

Hu Jintao

I hope my visit will strengthen dialogue, deepen cooperation.

Richard Boucher

Their transparency and cooperation in resolving this matter is a strong example of how states should respond in complying with their obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Johannes P. Muller

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

Jim Dyke

The law says in order to be an independent expenditure, it can not be made in cooperation, consultation or coordination at the request or even at the suggestion of the candidate. Is someone suggesting she has no knowledge of her husband's campaign?

Bela Anda

The main point of the talks will be economic relations, especially cooperation in the energy sector.

Wen Jiabao

The developing countries themselves should also strengthen cooperation and help each other,

James Sung

And he can help communicate with these institutions for cooperation in relation to financial matters.

Phil Anderson

There were a number of difficult issues we had to work through. Providing meaningful fishing opportunities wouldn't be possible without strong cooperation between the state, the tribes and our constituents.

John Bolton

This is 'true confessions' time now for the government of Syria . No more obstruction, no more half measures, we want substantive cooperation and we want it immediately.

Karen Aroesty

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Samuel P. Huntington

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Walter Lippmann

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Ruhollah Khomeini

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

Robert Maguire

I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.

Laura Bush

The message is one of jobs and democracy and honesty and open government, ... Good foreign policy starts in your neighborhood.

Mike Reagan

The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.

Manmohan Singh

Democracy is good for world peace.

Van Jones

In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

Will Self

One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance.

William Sloane Coffin

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

Samuel Johnson

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

W. Somerset Maugham

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

David Haas

In terms of diversity and geography, it's very similar to the new Legg Mason.

Noam Chomsky

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Murray Gell-Mann

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

R. D. Laing

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Kim Dae Jung

So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

John Henry Newman

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

Gerald Grinstein

Without Atlanta, there would not be a Delta. And without a Delta, there would not be the same Atlanta. You could say we are in a mutual nonaggression pact.

Jamie Rodriguez

We have a mutual respect for each other competing. We would never sit on each other and make someone else do all the work. That's just kind of like a runner moral.

Martin Winterkorn

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

John Catsimatidis

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Amanda Sandford

We wouldn't want to see it promoted as a completely safe alternative.

Steve Harvey

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Richard Owen

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

Richelle Mead

See? Things are already looking promising.

Rose Macaulay

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Whitney Cummings

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

Wayne Dyer

When you have a choice whether to be be right or to be kind, choose to be kind.

Van Morrison

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

Walt Whitman

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Sarah Dessen

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

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.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

William Blake

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Waylon Jennings

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Wynton Marsalis

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

James Howell

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

David Warren

If you're going to come, you have to respect our event.

Charles Anthon

I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism.

Kathy Fackler

By treating them seriously, they're just on fire.

Dr. Wu

I'm her treating psychiatrist, and she did not know right from wrong.