Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cliff Lee

We're going to price according to what the market dictates.

Eddie Izzard

What have you been reading, the gospel according to St. Bastard?

We're running at 60 percent service in the Durban container terminal. In Richards Bay it's around 50 percent, according to the preliminary report.

Frank Butler

We're going to make sure (our vans) are operating in a safe way and according to the guidelines (provided by the NHTSA).

Unless and until Congress changes the formula, we'll calculate the fee according to the formula.

Unfortunately mere visits to Skopje by high international representatives, discussions about inter-ethnic accord and admonitions to Albanian community leaders are not enough,

Throughout the process, builders have been pushing to resolve this dispute in a manner that leads to free trade, and we are pleased that this framework will ultimately lead to this favorable outcome. We urge both governments to quickly finalize the accord so that we can achieve this important objective as soon as possible.

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.

I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

Kage Baker

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

Jim Fowler

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

Lydia Lunch

To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.

Lynsey Addario

Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.

Kiernan Shipka

I love organization, so I split my clothes into two closets according to seasons.

We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

Edward Said

I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.

We have a schedule of IPO preparations. One of its key elements is meeting investors. I have already held dozens of one-on-one meetings and more large ones. So, we are working with investors and preparing to consolidate our subsidiaries. We are on schedule, and I assume we will proceed with the IPO according to the plan.

We regret the publication of this counter-declaration. It has a style which does not accord well with the traditional spirit of cooperation that has existed between Turkey and the EU over a period of more than 40 years,

There are two methods of human activity -- and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, there are two kinds of people. One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowle

Kitty Kelley

When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.

We've been in constant contact with the lawyer and he's confident a visa should be granted by mid-April. Mick still has the deal with North East Promotions over there, and if things go according to plan will have his first US fight in May.

We have reached a deal. We have an understanding. I have confirmed with my counterpart in Libya that we are still very much in business, and we are proceeding according to plan.

There are a lot of banks that show a good capital base according to RAS but have a capital base lower than their declared charter capital according to IAS.

There is a line and that line has been pushed, perhaps in this game, but according to the umpires they (Australia) haven't crossed it.

There is no doubt that France supports an agreed position on close accord with Britain and Germany in the EU-3 group.

We shall achieve the objective of building a country and also develop the country according to law,

Stewart Udall

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have.

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.

Nancy Kress

A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.

Miroslav Volf

I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to affirm - and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to.

Mike Pence

I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.