Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheila Lee

Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those who were forgotten or ignored, from victims of rape in Africa, to the homeless on streets worldwide, he chose to move into a more abundant life, not from a hospital bed, but from his home in Vatican City. Today I, along with so many Americans, continue to pray for Pope John Paul II.

Ray Arvidson

It all pretty much says Mars was a place, particularly early in time, where liquid water was abundant at or close to the surface.

Stan Gregory

In Mack Creek, there were tons of fry in the stream the year after the 1996 flood. They were four times as abundant as anything we'd ever seen before.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Kurt Barnard

We believe the earnings will be quite good, and that the result will give a boost to retail stocks. Everything has been favorable for retailers in terms of abundant consumer spending.

Edmund Mierzwinski

Bank fees are still increasing and big banks are charging bigger fees. It's a serious problem for consumers.

Mark Chandler

The simple fact that the trade sector has ceased to be a significant drag on growth will be enough to convince the Bank of Canada to move on September 7 (and beyond).

Jerry Evans

It would seem the bank now realizes that we are falling into a bit of a deep hole.

Arthur Levitt

The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of targets includes plenty of Fortune 500 players, including Bankers Trust, Cendant, Waste Management and W. R. Grace.

Jimmy Swaggart

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

Jerry Weller

Restrict bankruptcy rules.

Sam Erwin

Beginning with our first bank in 1987, we have been committed to serving our markets in the true spirit of community banking. We are committed to delivering high quality banking products and services to our customers and thereby enhancing shareholder value, as these are our core values. We are convinced that the value of our franchise and our success springs from that commitment. We are excited about joining our forces under one bank banner, and believe that the excitement will continue to grow as we move forward with our one bank plan.

Allen Adamson

Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is a little test market. To use her in a fashion sense is more of a commitment, usually with a multiyear contract. This is a great rehabilitation because she can do a one-off. That, plus time, can set her up to be ripe to get back in the fashion game.

Masayoshi Okamoto

High-tech gains are sort of a given. But if bank shares continue to struggle after Monday's dismal losses, that could put a damper on the broader market.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

John Beckman

This is where we showcase cultural holidays such as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year and the Winter Solstice.

M. Wolfe

There's every reason to think this will be a successful mission. The Chinese are good at rocketry.

Howard Rubel

There's an order coming from the Chinese and I think more people are realizing that Boeing has done a nice job of managing its business.

Yao Bin

It was on Jan. 28, the Chinese New Year, the first time he landed. Since then he has landed about 20. Every day he just tries one or two.

Joss Whedon

It was really fun, ... Though I did discover that the Chinese language can say a lot with very few syllables, which was a nightmare for me as I had to keep writing longer and longer curses so my actors would say something which didn't sound like 'Nah.'

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

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.

Lou Mazzucchelli

This was a strong report. Product demand is strong, the management is good. I'm very pleased with this report.

Lowell Singer

To some extent, it's sort of 'location, location, location,' ... I think there is an enormous demand from the locals, and from visitors from mainland China, to come to the park. They are not as reliant on foreigners to come to the park.

Spencer White

Vietnam is one of the last frontier emerging economies in the region that will demand serious investor attention.

Jane Green

I have learned that it is imperative that I make time for my friends, that they demand to be as much a part of the mix as my family and my work, and perhaps more so, because they are not an inevitability.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

George Casey

The development of the Iraqi security forces is very much on track,

Anthony Sims

It's a lot better than a loss. Van Buren is a great team, even better than last year. But we played solid all-around. I think the forces were with us tonight.

Tasha Alexander

When you have a child, it forces you to take stock of what you're doing with your life.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Chuck Jones

CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

P. J. O'Rourke

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

Alexander Lukashenko

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

Tom Hanks

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

Mason Cooley

Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

Marc Short

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

Howard Stern

Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

Iyanla Vanzant

There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.

Shay Doron

Nothing is guaranteed in basketball. You never know in sports. We could lose in the first round next year, so we can't take this for granted. We have to do everything in our power to win this national championship now.

John Engler

Nobody gets any guarantees.

Sakshi Tanwar

There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Frederick Law Olmsted

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Mark Skousen

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Robert Stephens

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

Henry Ford

Minicars produce miniprofits.

Bobby Hitt

The new Z4s are not in the market yet. It will be sometime this spring.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.