Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Odland

We have many associates and facilities in harm's way ... we also have thousands of our customers who will suffer greatly as a result of this storm,

When I watch Scott play, I do so differently than most parents. Yes, I am his father, but I am also an assistant coach, a role that I take very serious and use my experiences to help this entire team improve.

We welcome the European Union's intention to assume the lion's share of the financial burden and, given the U.S. role in the military campaign, this is an appropriate division of labor,

Undoubtedly, he knew a lot about offense. His record speaks for itself. I heard about a year ago when they had put him in assisted living, he was (very competitive) up there playing bingo with them old women.

When she got in she definitely contributed to the team and she's a great shooter. She takes care of the ball and definitely would have been an asset to the team.

Finally, ... the turnover ratio is the big secret of the mutual fund industry. The average fund turns over its assets 100 percent; that means they fully sell out and buy something else, and guess who gets to pay that tax bill at the end of the year? You and I do.

Jeff Pulver

There are many reasons that someone may have been unable to participate in the directory assistance infrastructure. One scenario could be the consumer may have a VoIP line or cell phone and their carrier does not provide their listing data to the listing data base providers, or their phone service is under a spouse or roommate's name.

Francis Spufford

I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary.

David Lange

We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealand's assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker.

Dixie Carter

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.

Diane Garnick

I'm delighted to be joining INVESCO, an organization that has been growing both in terms of assets under management and the breadth of investment capabilities offered. I see great potential in working with the accomplished investment centers within INVESCO and providing expertise to help develop strategic solutions for our clients.

We believe the acquisition will become rather expensive. We assume Deutsche Post has to pay a significant premium. A price of 5 billion euros or more for a 100-percent acquisition is likely.

wishes to be an important part of this community and wishes to assimilate well into it. ... He looks forward to putting this unfortunate incident behind him.

Stanley Hauerwas

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.

Stanley Hauerwas

We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace.

David Ben-Gurion

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

Muhammad Yunus

We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world.

Donald Trump

People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.

Charles Spurgeon

What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart.

Andrew Greeley

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

We are sorry to lose Peter's valuable insight and enthusiasm. He has been an asset to the organization, and we look forward to his involvement in the future.

We assume that would lead to there being sufficient energy reserves in the market and, second, we would wish the pressure on the prices of oil products to be lessened,

We believe it has the potential to establish ethical and scientific safeguards and uniform standards to protect research subjects and improve the risk assessment process.

Donella Meadows

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.

Margaret Mitchell

There are proposals where there is little or no evidence available from the executive to support the assertion that the reforms proposed will safeguard the interests of children and support stable families.

The question of intergenerational progress is, 'Are you doing better than your parents? Often when immigrants come, one of the reasons is so that their children will have better lives, and having a better life in California and the U.S. is often associated with more education.

Elizabeth McCracken

I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

Gray Davis

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

Richard Boucher

welcomed their role in peacekeeping and encouraged them to take on whatever role they were prepared to assume in international affairs.

We're looking at a fundamental change in just about everything we do in schools, from curriculum, to how we teach and how we assess and how we grade.

Erin Cummings

I think it's true for men and for women, if you are even remotely attractive, people will assume you're just another pretty face and you don't have the work ethic or the talent to put in the time to flesh out a career.

We should like to hear from the soldier-statesman his assessment of the operation, ... Do we see light at the end of the tunnel, and what needs to be done to bring this operation to a close?

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.