Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

Regarding this joint venture, we have reached a basic agreement. Talks to complete this package will continue in coming days in Russia.

Tom Daschle

reasonably optimistic that we can come up with a procedural agreement, certainly in the next 24 hours.

Liu Jianchao

Relevant agreements are in the process of being signed one by one, with some of them still under negotiation.

Phil Fontaine

Our position is that it must be implemented as is. It's a very complex agreement. A lot of detail. Very delicate proposition and any tinkering with the proposed compensation package would cause it to unravel. And that's a view held very clearly by our experts who were involved in the negotiations.

David Spooner

Our overall goal, as we've said all along, is to reach a longer-term solution that will permit greater stability in textile and apparel trade. The US has been using its right under China's WTO accession agreement to invoke safeguards in cases of market disruption or the threat of market disruption, and we will continue to do so as appropriate.

Ross Anderson

Parliament could revisit the Unfair Contracts Act . Consumers are finding that they can't get digital content without signing an end user agreement whose terms and conditions are ridiculous.

James Gleick

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

Keith Kesler

Part of the agreement with any and all Homeland Security equipment is if they need it, they get it.

Graham Watson

Part of our original criticism to the agreement was that it did not contain sufficient safeguards for data protection of EU citizens.

Richard Hastings

Our recent visits to some stores indicate better controls over displays, clutter, and shelf appearance, necessary steps to stabilize store aesthetics in support of their apparel initiatives.

David Spooner

Our preference is to seek a longer-term solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade. But the United States will have no hesitation in walking away from a bad deal.

Paul Charron

Our 1998 performance is particularly rewarding given the highly competitive retail environment and the incremental costs associated with our transformation initiatives, ... These initiatives strengthen Liz Claiborne's leadership position in the apparel industry and position us for continued growth into the millennium.

Scott Krugman

It is an easier last-minute gift. For people that are trying to avoid the long lines or as the apparel selection starts to thin out, I think you will see more people turning to gift cards today.

George Crane

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

Eric Gordon

The apparel industry has for years failed in its old role as a fashion leader, so they've run up the white flag. They're saying, 'Well, at least we're the leader of the old stuff. Won't you come back and see us again?

Renaldo Nehemiah

The athletes coming out today are marking $350,000 to $650,000 plus a year, just from their apparel deals.

Fazlul Haque

I will urge India if our apparel quota could be increased. I will also seek Indian investment in our local textile, clothing and knit sectors.

Dwyane Wade

I am excited to extend my partnership with one of the premier shoe and apparel companies in the world. Converse represents tradition, a passion for sports and has a vision to revolutionize the industry.

Richard Josephson

Starr County has always been a difficult jurisdiction for corporate defendants. ... The people here are good people; they just tend to favor individuals in cases where there are corporate defendants involved. It's just a fact of life.

Charles Phillips

Some of the managers missed some of the initial run up in tech stocks, ... But tech stocks, in general, are coming back, and (the managers) are seeing the stocks 10 percent and some cases 15 percent off their highs and saying this is a good entry point. Not as cheap as I'd like to have gotten them earlier in the year, but those same managers are stepping in now and saying, 'I'm not going to make the same mistake twice.'

Elliot Cohen

Our preference is not to discuss these cases because they're ongoing and involve informants and information that we don't want to jeopardize.

John Locke

Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality.

Robert McCann

Our first option is not to ... go to court. That's never a first option. There are cases where, for whatever reason, the owners or operators don't want to take measures to comply with the environmental laws everyone else has to comply with.

James Krouse

Outsourcing has always generated significant political debate, which in some cases has stalled this sector's growth at the state and local level. As the economy continues a strong recovery, we expect outsourcing opportunities to increase on the state and local level.

F. Schumacher

Man, that was intense, ... I didn't expect that I would have to pedal it right there, but I didn't want to give up that $100,000 without fighting for it. I wish everyone could experience that rush because then they'd know why we do what we do. It's just great to win the Budweiser Shootout and get $100,000, 50 cases of beer, and a ride with the Clydesdales.

Anthony Ricco

Most of these cases become the battleground for fundamental issues that every defendant has in a criminal case.

Frank Jackson

We never like cases to take this long, but they happen. The court has heard that request (to continue the current trial date), but has so far denied it.

Kofi Annan

Reform is a process, not an event and we are going to continue after the summit

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Robert Milton

Recognizing the significant progress we have made, there is no room for any complacency and we must continue to pursue efficiencies throughout our businesses.

Philadelphia Fed

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Ed Colligan

Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,

Anna Rozenich

Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because we want to make sure we get it right for our customers.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Marc Andreessen

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

Barry Diller

I can't imagine that there'll be any disruption of any kind, in any area, on any level or in any particular. It just simply seems to me actually impossible.

John Ashcroft

from investigation and prosecution to disruption and prevention.

Bill Adams

We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

FreshWorld is in line with my vision of supporting sustainable technologies in solving problems. I feel this is the next-level disruption in the fruits and vegetables industry.

Robin S. Sharma

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

Steven Sinofsky

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

Maria Caccaviello

We were really shaken by the vandalism. It was such a disruption to everyday work life.

Brian Bruce

With the end of employee discounts, I think there's going to be a halt of traffic to GM's showrooms. It's never a good time for a disruption like this, but GM could have had it at a worse time.

Abdur Razzak

Owners of factories face huge loss not only because of disruption in production and cancellation of orders, they also have to pay the workers without production. I run a flour mill, production of which has also declined.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Kurt Kutay

Our market is national. All of us (in the industry) want to live here. We love the outdoors, and what greater place is there to live than the Pacific Northwest?

Richard Dodd

Some of the species, like the pipistrelles, are increasing, and the rarer species, which include the greater horseshoe bat, are actually stable, so we are trying to find ways to increase their populations.

Steve Phillips

Our BI system provides information that helps us seek out greater efficiency.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Robert Teeter

We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President's programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

Kevin McCarthy

I think the sooner we get it done the better off we are, the greater trust the public will have,

Steven Anderson

Larry King has been in the paper for a very long time. But we want the news to be trendier, newsier and to have greater impact than it has now.

Wesley Moultrie

It is having a much greater impact, I think, then what had been anticipated.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Rick Bowers

Overall it was good. We had some disappointments and some surprises; it's all part of the game.

Ken Read

Overall it's disappointing. I think that disappointment is shared by the athletes. I think their expectations was they wanted to do better.

Michael Lawson

Overall it is pretty much the same procedure.

Paul Nolte

Overall it doesn't look too bad. The prices paid is a concern. We'd like to see it come down a little. It's an inflationary key.

Keith Hembre

Overall there are not a lot of surprises here.

Paul Ballew

Overall share is going to be tough for us this year.

Cassie Desmone

Overall our season was fine, but not one of our better ones. We've got some work to do in the future.

Cristobal Huet

Overall I made a lot of progress this year. I worked on the little details, the small things that make you better.

Michael Woods

Overall for the first game, we played well,

Scott Haywood

It does not have anything in it to permit us to supplement, modify or amend.

Mitch Kapor

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Patricia Miller

Because of the new regulations, our permit for doing this work expires at the end of the year.

RL Brown

I think we'll see permits down in February, but I thought we'd see them down in January.

Ivor Novello

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

Mick Johnson

We need the permit on the sign, it's law.

Ed Garland

They're in violation and we're waiting to see a permit application.

Gerald Smith

It's a third permit we'd need to obtain.

Brian Collins

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and the police that's a lot to get done in three weeks.

Elaine Deck

Someone has to be the first to reach out.

Lonnie Bunch

That support allows me to reach out and do the work we need to do.

Debra Moore

He just said he tried. (He) just couldn't reach his girls. It's just sad.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Evander Holyfield

Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal,

Abner Louima

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,

Phil Anderton

We are going to take the appropriate time to reach our long-term aspirations.

Heather Fiorentino

I think they're trying to come up with a solution that works.

Jerry Grey

I think Griffins team has come up with a truly workable solution that really does make sense.

Roy Moore

I don't have a solution right now. I haven't studied that.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Claude LeBas

We need to work out a solution here.

Brent Liskai

We tried everything we had and they had a solution to everything we had.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Andy Miller

We'll see. We are trying to find a solution that works for all parties' interests.

Klaus Kleinfeld

It comes down to the long-term stability of this corporation,

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation.

Bernard Laporte

Our success comes from stability.

Ben Howland

He's righted them with stability and direction. He's done an outstanding job.

Darcy Regier

A year ago we were just trying to survive. Now we have a sense of stability and direction.

Jean-Claude Juncker

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

Gene Robinson

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Frances Newton

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.

Valentino Rossi

For sure tomorrow will be difficult. We are still struggling with stability and grip.

Evelyn Ashford

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Adrienne Rich

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

James Rayner

We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.