Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have continued our focus on driving the operational performance of our hotels to maximize returns and have delivered first half results in line with our expectations. The group continues to benefit from a diversified global portfolio with our hotels continuing their upward trends, leaving us well positioned for the second half of the year.

We're trying to leverage the production and administrative functions of each group as part of our effort to strengthen the business and benefit shareholders.

Alex Berenson

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.

Gloria Steinem

Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.

Bill Gross

What the Obama administration's policies have really been oriented towards have always been towards providing benefits continuing consumption. What this country needs really is a policy which stresses investments.

Dar Williams

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

E. W. Howe

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

We should take inspiration from the sun and work constantly for the benefit of mankind,so that peace and prosperity prevails everywhere.

Gertrude B. Elion

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

Ari Fleischer

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

Andrea Hirata

I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.

Armin van Buuren

I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The emotional magnets beneath home and workplace are in the process of being reversed. Work has become a form of 'home' and home has become 'work.'

Ahmed Zewail

Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

John C. Maxwell

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Zig Ziglar

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

We have to be really careful about letting too much information out. Ten years ago you could have gone on the Ben & Jerry's tour, spent two bucks, and seen what we were working on in the lab.

Lawrence Lessig

This shift is bizarre, ... If welfare recipients can be denied their benefits because they fail to complete a benefits form properly, then I can't see the unfairness in requiring those who demand state support to defend their monopoly similarly by filling out a registration form.

This shake-up of the personal income tax scale would boost incentives for lower-income earners to participate in the workforce. It would be of greatest benefit to low- and middle-income families.

Kathleen Blanco

This will connect the benefits to the families,

This will be the sovereign benchmark for Singapore. This is a high-grade issue and there will be solid demand for the bonds.

This will benefit low- and moderate-income people, ... The rich will always have retirement plans. This is an opportunity for lower-wage workers to get in and invest.

There is potential here for expansion of our chip-stock market, and where we're positioned in the Pacific Northwest, gives us great benefit to have this market opened as another tool in the toolbox for our growers to look at marketing possibilities for their crops.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.

The participants in our study received the fitness benefits without losing any weight. Many people exercise to lose weight, and when that doesn't occur, they stop exercising. However, the truth is that you can improve cardiovascular fitness and reduce the risk of heart disease by exercising without losing weight.

(The parish) stands to benefit and must be positioning itself to take up the opportunity accruing from the potential that will come with the island hosting its share of the World Cup events.

Tony Stewart

There are guys you give the benefit of the doubt if they hold you up a little bit longer than normal, and you have that list of guys you kind of know are going to be a problem when you get there. The window of being patient with them is a lot shorter.

The person who treads on the path of truth and his mind free from negative qualities like fear, wickedness and with the desire of benefit of all, is long lived.

Rick Kennedy

There are a number of programs coming on they're going to benefit from, and it's one of our best plants.

There are a number of holes. But there also should be a level of trust with what we've done the last few years to give us some credit and benefit of the doubt that eventually we'll get this thing put together.

There are a number of factors - how long of a break, and whether that break is beneficial to the season we're trying to have in North America. Injuries are also an issue and a concern of our clubs and our players.

Mark Jenkins

There are a lot of ties here, and there are a lot of relationships, ... To that extent, I think we will benefit from some short-term increase in occupancies, and I do think there will be some more permanent long-term relocations.