Famous Quotes & Sayings

Traders have jumped on the headline and people have shouted out China is going to make the currency convertible. China is not going to make the currency convertible; they are going to allow domestic investors to invest in foreign markets.

Howard Dean

Today's bombing appears to be an effort to dissuade other members of the international community from assisting in the reconstruction of Iraq, ... We cannot allow terrorists to thwart efforts to internationalize the rebuilding process and the U.S. must redouble its efforts to recruit other countries to participate.

Today's announcement represents another step forward for our Brazilian power business. The sale will allow us to recover our initial investment in the Araucaria plant, sharpening our focus on the significant potential of our exploration and production program in Brazil.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.

Martha Beck

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

Marquis de Sade

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

George Eads

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.

Tracy McMillan

People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.

Sam Harris

Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

Wolfgang Schauble

We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.

Walter Salles

The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

Ving Rhames

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

Aaron Swartz

Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

Ben Carson

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

Beth Brooke

What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

Koby Clemens

We were all like, 'You should wait and allow yourself to rest your body. He was still kind of hurting, kind of tired. He was like, 'I don't want to do this again.

Dany Heatley

We were able to keep the puck in their zone and work them down low. We didn't allow a lot of quality chances.

Martin Brodeur

We definitely have to keep an eye on Crosby a lot more. I thought we just played him like a regular player, and he showed us that we can't allow ourselves to do that. We have to play him tough and try to get him off his game.

We don't know if a financial institution will allow us to use the grants as collateral to borrow the money or not.

Mary Landrieu

Though the storm may have passed, it is still not safe for all of us to return to home. We must wait for the emergency operations to be completed and we must also allow time for experts to assess any potential public safety concerns. We may return home only once these situations are resolved and local leaders have determined it is safe for us to do so.

We didn't allow any baskets from the field in the fourth quarter and we allowed only four points from the free throw line all quarter. That was the best fourth quarter we have played all year.

We didn't allow an earned run that first game.

We don't have it yet. We allow the other teams to have hope that they can beat us. But skill-wise, we've grown enormously.

We don't have a zero-tolerance policy, but we do have a policy where we will not allow people to operate motor vehicles if they're impaired, ... And that's the judgment of the officer at the scene. I personally support the officer's judgment. He's experienced. He made a call. If someone wants to challenge it, that's why we have courts in this country.

Sathya Baba

When you speak about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow yourself so easily to loose the precious awareness of My Reality.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.

We're not talking about Mother Teresa here who gets caught for turning right on a red light in a state that doesnt allow such a thing, ... The history of Tom DeLay in Congress is that he's pushed every envelope. It is often the case that powerful people get their comeuppance because of something that a lot of people would see as a technicality.

We are reaching viewers primarily via the television screen but as we look into the crystal ball, who knows how many more products might be out there that will allow our consumers to have a great viewing experience.

We are pleased that Ohio regulations have been changed to allow Hospice and PASSPORT services to be offered together. Previously, many PASSPORT consumers were reluctant to give up the vital services offered by PASSPORT in order to receive much-needed Hospice care. Now we can offer these patients all of the services they need.

We are on the map as part of the nationwide effort to call attention to things going on in the country, and to allow students to express their thoughts in an interesting way.

Kofi Annan

We are only two months into the agreement, and what we are looking for it long-term cooperation -- cooperation that will allow inspectors to do their work in an unrestricted manner.