Famous Quotes & Sayings

This financing gives us the ability to fund our business plan, which includes making the capital improvements required to continue providing our customers with top quality and innovative products.

... This filing represents an opportunity for Dana to reorganize and emerge as a stronger company. We're positive about our ability to do so. As far as the people there (in Longview), they really would probably see very little day-to-day change.

This feels so good right now. I just hope that we make it all the way. We have the ability to make it.

This exercise will give General Franks and the battle staff a front line opportunity to learn new lessons and improve the command's ability to be decisive on the modern battlefield.

This exceptional third-quarter momentum, combined with our outlook for more modest earnings growth in the fourth quarter, reinforces our confidence in our ability to deliver $1.50, or more, in diluted earnings per share in this year's second half,

Boris Yeltsin

This example showed me that the ability to step back is also among the political tasks of a president,

This bothers me a great deal. This goes to the safety of the firefighters and their ability to come to your home and do their job properly. The vehicles, in my opinion, are not maintained the right way.

Newt Gingrich

This is a critical intersection for the president and his ability to be effective for the next three years,

This improves our ability to deter, detect and apprehend individuals conducting illegal activity, including smugglers, terrorists and people attempting to illegally enter our country,

It's not like we turned a hunk of coal into a diamond. This is a guy who had ability, but in junior they didn't allow him to play a positive role. We've just told him to work hard, do what we tell you, and the sky's the limit.

It's not just the number of officers, it's what the reduction in officers has done, ... It has compromised the ability of the police department to do modern, effective relationship-based policing.

For a government to maintain any credibility, it has to have the ability to pay people's salaries, turn on the lights, be able to have desks, telephones ... etc.

It's too early to get a full sense of his leadership style, especially behind the scenes. But his line of questioning, his ability to move the discussion toward his own ideas of the case, seems very much like our old boss.

There must be a balance between your ambitions and your resources but I think in the case of London they certainly have the resources, the people and the technical ability to achieve what they have promised.

It's a good possibility. We still want him to go through camp and make sure we're making the right decision. The progress he's made in game-calling and his ability behind the plate has been tremendous. The question was his bat, and he put up good numbers. His makeup allows him to make that jump. He's one of those players who can handle it.

Gregg Williams

I told him we can get David Copperfield if we want a magic act. He needs to make sure the damn ball gets back there every time like it's supposed to. We're not keeping him just for his ability to do tricks and entertain the guys.

I told the guys that I'm going to miss them. I told them I love them. I also talked to them about next year ? go out and get to the NCAA (Tournament) because they have the ability to do that.

Ted Kennedy

This legislation removes the unfair barriers that currently hinder the ability of battered immigrants to escape domestic violence safely and prosecute their abusers.

They're a great hockey team, so it's going to be a challenge. Obviously, we both ended up tied in the league for a reason. We're both very similar hockey teams in ability and it will be a challenge to go in there... Winning four games on somebody else's ice in a season is a challenge.

They have the ability to throw the ball and they've got a talented corps of receivers. That's a little different than the traditional Dolgeville team. They have speed and quickness and that big-play threat, and they're not a one-man show, either.

Ellen Johnson

We know expectations are going to be high. The Liberian people have voted for their confidence in my ability to deliver ... very quickly,

Gavin Rossdale

The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit.

We are proud to be recognized in the magic quadrant report. We believe our listing in the Challenger quadrant confirms our ability to sustain our position in the marketplace. Looking forward, we will continue to position ourselves in the forefront of the industry by delivering superior help desk services.

Donna Dubinsky

We are pleased with the results of the quarter, particularly our ability to achieve revenue growth in what is usually a sequentially down quarter in our industry.

We are looking to fill out our portfolio with technologies that help you do other things with information, such as protect, secure, move and archive it, and to create policies and metadata so you can take these actions and automate them, and that you have the ability to centrally manage it.

We are at depth, using remote-operating vehicles, and it is a time-consuming event, ... That is why the weather and our ability to be on station is important.

We're in a culture where women really aren't equal. How many CEOs are women? Over the years we have seen the ability of women to get higher in the pecking order, but we've gotten complacent. Women make 73 percent of what men make.

Louis C. K.

The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.

Benjamin E. Mays

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

Doug Duncan

There is no question that the ability to tap equity has supported consumption. It is a very, very powerful engine for the economy.

Marilyn French

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Without a national ID and the ability to create true data that can be be safely and securely sent between individuals, we are going to introduce new systemic risk back into the system.

Adam Gollner

We respect Band Aid's ability to raise so much money for relief efforts, but their lyrics seem so misguided and inappropriate. Africa isn't a land 'where nothing ever grows' and 'no rain nor river flows.' And how are lines such as, 'Well, tonight, thank God it's them instead of you' supposed to be helpful?