Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Diouf

We also would encourage that resources be allocated to compensate those poor farmers -- and most of them are poor farmers -- who are raising these poultry ... and who, if they are not given the right incentive, will tend to hide what is happening,

It's just one of those things that it's there, you know it's there, and I just don't want to get to the point where I'm out for a longer period of time because I did something else trying to compensate for it. This way, (we) get it done, get it over with and I look forward to May.

It's just a horribly tragic thing. Their lives are forever changed. There's never going to be enough money to fully compensate them for what happened.

They have full legislation to compensate people. They have obligatory legislation on how to take away asbestos.

Ukraine is taking the gas from our European partners. We decided to compensate the stolen gas for our partners.

As long as they can still compensate with work on Saturdays and Sundays I think it won't be a problem.

Zinedine Zidane

The sooner we find the net the better. We know that we must slot a fair number of goals to compensate for a possible away victory by the Swiss.

Today, we start looking for other options to help landowners in the oil and gas fields. The oil and gas industry proved this session that they do not want to negotiate with landowners and compensate them fairly for damage to private property. This controversy isn't going away.

To some extent jobs created in the public sector will compensate for job cuts in the private sector.

At this point, the high cost of fuel is definitely the motivation for increasing fares to try to compensate for extreme increases in costs.

Nicolas Davila

Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.

You have to be able to compensate for the men. You have to compensate them with competition and scholarships to make sure they stay.

We don't think that's fair if the government doesn't compensate them for the cost of keeping those sets working.

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Online retail is figuring out ways to compensate for being a virtual experience by providing a lot more information than you'd be able to find in-store. Many online stores offer extensive product information, side by side specification comparisons, customer reviews and 360 degree views, all from the convenience of your computer.

More often than not, the error is in the customer's favor. We encourage our customers to point out any discrepancies, and when they do, we compensate them appropriately.

David McKay

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

I think there's a strong probability that digital sales will start to compensate for the decline of physical sales for the global recorded music industry this year.

Markets can still rise. Stocks in Europe are fairly valued. They can compensate for a lot of interest rate rises.

if government damages the use or value of property, they need to compensate you for that.

I'd say that they did fairly well. The Olympics from a financial point of view did better than they had expected. What they did (to compensate for poor ratings) was put on more commercials as opposed to displacing other paid spots.

Franz Beckenbauer

There are technically better teams but we can compensate for that. We are not in the position to compete in Italy or other places but it is different at home.

I will do some crazy stuff if I have to. I'll move kids in different positions to compensate for other teams' strength. I can do that this year.

Kevin Harrington

He will need to compensate for the lower-than-usual long rate with higher short rates.

We want to compensate for missing the World Cup. We have paid back Tunisia, and we want to do the same to Ivory Coast.

We want to compensate for missing out on the World Cup and also for not winning the Nations Cup for a long time.

Vicente Fox

We are going to support everyone to recover their goods and rebuild their homes that were destroyed, to compensate agricultural producers for the loss of crops, and in finance plans for businesses,

ASAP Rocky

I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don't even have pierced ears - I'm not into that; it's too much.

Guy Kawasaki

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

Jason Silva

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.

Gray Davis

utilities are going to have to write off some of their debt. We are not going to compensate them for mistakes of judgment they made; they were big proponents of deregulation back in 1996.

B. F. Skinner

We're still trying to improve. We're just not going to be a great free-throwing team. That's something we just have to accept. We have to compensate for that.