Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

Don't let complexity stop you.

Donald Tusk

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

David Caruso

Simply the size and complexity of the global financial system, just what occurs on a daily basis, legitimately, it's 24 hours a day, when you look at Asia, Europe, Latin America, the U.S. And to track all that, it's an impossibility.

John Gatins

She has a complexity and a gift no other actor on the planet has, especially one who is young.

Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Frank Connolly

Because of the complexity and difficulty of snow plowing at the high school, the arrangement worked out with the town is we hire a private contractor to do the snow plowing at the high school. It frees up public works to concentrate on the roads and the other five schools.

David Christian

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

Aaron Koblin

As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

Eugenie Scott

But no one is using irreducible complexity as a research strategy, and with very good reason ... because it's completely fruitless.

Thomas Dooley

If I am taking a job, I really want to do it 100% on a daily basis, and that's not what I can do right now.

Sue Monk Kidd

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

Edwidge Danticat

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

Jalal Talabani

We want that American forces will be special guidance, not to engage in daily work or operations ... We want Americans to be far from the daily sacrificing. It's our duty to sacrifice for our people and for our country.

Alan Bennett

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

Chris Cleave

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

Jack Ryan

The people who daily serve Winston-Salem, day in and day out in public service - and their families who suffer the risk of always worrying - you are the heroes.

Gretchen Rubin

Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.

Frank Robinson

We're still not going to be a juggernaut. We're not going to be where we feel like we can outscore teams on a daily basis.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Valentino Castellani

We have resolved all the financial problems. The venues are pretty much all ready,

Neil MacKinnon

There is a whiff of stagflation here that will be disconcerting for financial investors.

Brady Corbet

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

Mark Peters

We did last week reject a $3 million offer for (the Begg-trained three-year-old) Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Kate Bush

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

David Bowers

The reflation trade is back on. We are seeing more optimism about the global economy.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

Sgt. Delaney

We have to go through them. There's hours of work left to do.

Dr. Whyte

We have to get them that medicine within three hours of the onset of symptoms, which is the challenge.

Aaron Tveit

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Jan Egeland

The problem with tsunamis is that it takes hours -- or minutes -- for this wall of water to come, and there's just very, very little time.

Thomas Perez

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

Thierry Mugler

I survived on sandwiches, and I was on stage every night for six years of my life. I was working 16 hours a day between class, rehearsal, being on stage.

David Kim

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

David Cummings

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

David Cross

I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in some way, a bit of a lecture. I can see how that's not something that would be enticing for you to watch in a stand-up hour.

Carlos Fuentes

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

Carlos Fuentes

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

David Crystal

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

Dave Barry

Actually, there are people from all ove - not just Latin America, certainly not just Cuba, but all over Europe, all over the United States. I like that. I like knowing a lot of different types of people. And I can afford to live in a relatively safe part of Miami.

Carl Sagan

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

Cesar Romero

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Cesar Romero

If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.

Carter G. Woodson

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

Carlos Slim

I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.

Tom Rath

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

Henry Bonilla

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

Sabas Pretelt

We can't wait until it occurs before taking action,

Sylvia Browne

Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.

Frank Melton

It occurs to me that I'm not protecting a source. I am the source and I don't need protecting.

Don Stewart

This kind of thing occurs from time to time in a correctional setting.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Ella Henderson

I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have enough confidence to do something like standing on a stage to have opinions thrown at me.

Steve Ross

We think there are simply too many many instances of 'borrowing' for this to have been unintentional.

Barry Ritholtz

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

Jane Addams

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

Chris Cooper

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Jane Goodall

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Chan Gailey

Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier.

Delta Burke

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.

Bill Johnson

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Edwin Moses

I overcame size with mechanics.

Dick Cavett

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

Bruce Bochy

We have to get on track with our pitching, and we think we will.

Vince Evans

When I wake up, I turn it on and keep track of Augustine through the night.

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Alan Alda

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

Bruce Catton

And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

Ben Marcus

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

Brian Tracy

The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.