Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nike soccer represents one of our top three businesses today, an incredible achievement from where we started in 1994. We have great momentum. In the past four years, we have more than doubled Nike's soccer business worldwide, and we have established brand leadership in the hearts and minds of consumers. We are confident that Nike product innovation and our connection to players and consumers will continue to drive significant growth.

No. 1, whatever we do is standards-based, so there is no vendor lock-in for the customer. You can achieve integration of security into existing infrastructure and do that incrementally, as opposed to ripping out what you already have in the network to achieve your security goals.

Nippon Steel will finish strong in both the third quarter and in the full year. A strong domestic market and weak yen has helped the company achieve positive earnings.

Cyril Connolly

Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eagerly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know; is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale ''crush me and eat me!'' -- for us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, tea-plant and vine perfect themselves? Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton.

Nearly 20 million of the 21 million people already had drug coverage. The voluntary enrollment rate compares miserably with the rate achieved in the 11-month period when Medicare was originally launched in 1966. Nearly all eligible Americans signed up for the program back then.

Only such a householder who practices restraint in taking care of his family shall acquire family happiness and achieve higher social status.

On the federal front, we achieved an historical win with the House passage of the bill updating the Endangered Species Act, and we will continue to work with the Senate as they take this issue up this year. In addition, we will continue to bring attention to the permanent repeal of the Death Tax.

M. C. Escher

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.

One of the lessons we learned from other states, such as Maine, is that voluntary doesn't get you where you want to go. If you really want to achieve a dramatic breakthrough in expansion of coverage, you have to be willing to take the political heat and political risk.

One of the key drivers that has helped McAfee transform into a leading global security provider and achieve best in class profitability since 2002 is our research and development centre in India.

One of the key challenges facing global organizations like Deloitte is determining how to implement globally consistent business processes and tools to achieve efficiencies and enhance quality. The innovative approach to the Deloitte careers website provides a best practice business case for how this can be accomplished.

One of the most basic rights of every citizen is to keep what they own. As an institution dedicated to helping our clients achieve economic success and financial security, we won't help any entity or company that would undermine that mission and threaten the hard-earned American dream of property ownership.

One of the primary strategies to close the achievement gap is to provide high-quality teachers to students who need them most, and that's precisely what our recommendations are about. Right now those students aren't getting the highest-quality teachers, and until the district addresses that, it will continue to have an achievement gap.

I was impressed with her results so a group of us went to see her facility. They are now helping us achieve good results in our plants.

I was focusing on getting the win, but I did think about getting to 2,000 as well. I think it is very cool that Lance and I achieved this on the same night. We have both worked hard to get here, and he is a great player. To do this on the same night is definitely cool.

I was really pleased with those guys. Winning discus at that meet is a huge accomplishment. We have a great deal of respect for the throwing program at Carman- Ainsworth, so to beat their discus relay team is a tremendous achievement for our kids and for Mr. Bernie Coughlin who volunteers his time to work with them each day after school.

I wouldn't want it to be a demoralizing experience for the boys, because young men's egos are fragile. But given an opportunity to allow all the players to participate today, that would have been my goal. And I think that could have been better achieved had we played nine innings.

Mark Messier

I wouldn't come back to play for that reason, ... I know that was talked about, but there has to be other reasons. I thought I achieved a lot in my 25 years and it was time to go.

Steve Shaw

I would rate what MotionFX have achieved as nothing short of fantastic,

Dave Freudenthal

I would request that the discussion of removing seasonal wildlife stipulations be replaced with a focus on increasing federal dollars for staff and technical expertise related to pipelines, permitting and environmental analysis, ... By shifting the dialogue to address these needs, our state's wildlife will be protected and development can be achieved at an increased pace.

Tom Daschle

I would give this Congress a B for achievement, a D for behavior and the overall assessment of incomplete,

I would encourage you to roll through the over-achievement from the third (quarter) to your full year

But altogether, we think that we have a better chance of maintaining the type of stability we have achieved in Asia through a full dialogue with China, and that's what we'll be working on with Minister Chi's visit.

Glen Johnson

Basically, it's like taking seven steps backward from what we're trying to achieve in the school system. If we start this City Schools Foundation, do we have to use that kind of money to fill the void, which doesn't help that situation at all? If we get this thing off the ground this first part of the year, and we start out in a $7 million hole, that's not going to help.

China will strengthen its clampdown on financial crimes including beefing up supervising and oversight systems and improving its legal system to prevent such violations. China has achieved big improvement on the issue last year.

Chuck Hagel

China's leaders will not achieve their long-term goal of social stability and continued economic development without building a future that includes human rights for all Chinese citizens.

Hu Jintao

China's development will be achieved through striving for a peaceful international environment and its development will promote world peace in return,

China's achievement in manned space mission proves that some of China's space technologies can be paralleled to those in western developed countries.

Wen Jiabao

China has undergone earthshaking changes and achieved world-stunning successes,

China firmly supports the WTO talks on the Doha Development Agenda, hoping the imminent Hong Kong meeting will achieve substantive progress.

Gary Williams

Chris is very ambitious and he wants to play regularly for Northern Ireland and he knows he may have to move to achieve this.

Chris has had a fantastic weekend. To finish in the top six on his first Monte Carlo is a major achievement and he's done it at a very respectable pace.

Deborah Cox

I'm at a point where I'm going where the journey leads me. I've set goals but I don't get really hung up if I don't achieve those goals right away or in my time, you know what I mean?