Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Parker

Sustainable development is a benchmark of our policies. We want to have sustainable communities that thrive. We have power and we have water, and we have all those things that are an artifact of our mining operation.

Paul Kirk

I will be a good benchmark for us. I have shuffled the deck and this game should give us a good idea of where we are,

Dean Bonham

I think the real test will come midseason when the league takes a break for the Olympics. That will be an important benchmark to see where the league is and to see whether it's taken the right steps in marketing, whether it's taken the right steps on the ice, and whether it was right to sit out an entire season to get a new economic model.

Tony Floor

I think this year was a benchmark in negotiations between the state and tribes. Everything went smoothly compared to past history.

William Sullivan

I think right now the stock market is very comfortable with the benchmark 30-year-bond trading at between 6.5 and 7 percent. But if we start moving that range up to 7.25 and above, that could really be a major speed bump in the way of the stock market.

Jackson Wong

I don't expect the market to have sharp movement today, with the benchmark index likely to hover within a range of 100 points.

Ellen MacArthur

Francis has set us another very high benchmark - the chances of breaking it are very slim but if we don't try, we won't know.

Esmael Adibi

I wouldn't be surprised, once the benchmark number comes in, that we're going to be much closer to 2 percent than the current growth of 1.3 percent.

Tiger Woods

He's been the benchmark for every player that's ever played the game, at least in my generation.

Peter Kosann

Regarding the remainder of the year ... business continues to break very late. That being said, our diversification of clients using our platform is very strong. We have a lot of irons in the fire.

J. J. Johnson

Reasonable accommodations could be as simple as a (uniquely shaped) pencil, an extra 15-minute break or a special computer screen, and employers don't know that.

Vlade Divac

Relief. Shaq is such a big player. He?s hard to stop. It was a real break for us.

Higinio Velez

Our players, when they play, don't think, I'm going to break my hand. Because the player that has money sometimes thinks, What happens if I break my hand?

Brian Giles

Patterson had a good breaking ball. He was either tough or we weren't very good. He was all right.

Karen Mall

Partner disclosure is where we really have the opportunity to break the chain of HIV infection.

Corin Tucker

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

Michael Palmer

Party trips to spring break destinations have been flat or declining since 2000.

Larry Stahl

Our offense, with Coach (Terry) Anderson, has improved every game. He has worked hard with them and the kids have worked hard. We have four kids who can break loose on any play. We're pretty hard to defend.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Reflecting the improvement of economic fundamentals in Japan, inflows into Japanese assets, equities in particular, are likely to grow stronger.

Anthony Chan

Recent trends in this index strongly suggest that the largely anticipated path towards economic recovery has in all likelihood already begun,

Michael Malone

Recently, when yields move down, the market has moved up. Investors are looking to the fact generally that economic growth worldwide is robust right now, so you're seeing a lot of these multinationals that participate in that doing quite well.

Anthony Chan

Real new home sale prices and existing-home sale prices have been rising very sharply. When that starts to give way and we don't have the equity market picking up where housing left off, that's another reason the economic expansion will be gradual.

Ignacio Bunye

President Arroyo has not only taken the barbs without flinching but has stuck to her economic plan with steadfastness.

Tom Richards

Part of the point here in GRE and economic development is a forever job ... it takes staying power and ... Michael helped to teach us that, quite frankly,

Keith McKeown

Part of our mandate in Florida is to encourage economic development, and this would be an opportunity for some economic development and jobs.

Edward Zander

Our nation's wireless needs are too often governed by outdated regulations that hinder economic progress and innovation.

Bob Straus

Some investors are waiting for economic confirmation so they can purchase tech stocks, but by the time you get the confirmation, you've already missed out on most of the rally.

Bill Cowher

Our passing game has not been in sync, really, this entire preseason and it showed very evidently tonight.

Aaron McGruder

Oprah has the power to lay waste to entire industries with a mere utterance. That's a power that you have to respect. And ultimately I respect it.

Ariel Sharon

Such threats are intolerable. In my entire life I have never surrendered to threats and I have no intention of starting now.

Diane Ninemire

Our team is way too good to be having two or three errors in a game. We should have just three or four for an entire tournament. Our goal is always to play errorless softball and I'm hoping that the things we did this week in practice will make that happen.

Jim Guest

Our team has been putting the pedal to the metal in practice on the beam. And it's not just the competitors, but the entire squad. We're happy with the way we performed and are looking forward to next week.

George H. W. Bush

Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house he's lost his entire house there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch.

Laura Bush

Out of the rubble of Trent Lott's house - he's lost his entire house - there's going to be a fantastic house, ... And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch.

Peter Russell

Our box-office take for Carmen exceeded the usual take for an entire season.

Ken Holland

Other than maybe two or three games right after the Olympic break, Manny has been very consistent, very solid the entire year. He has done a lot of winning for us.

Jay Oxley

Our league will be tough. Telluride has been tearing it up down south.

Rodney Selph

Our league is so tough and we don't have a lot of nights where we could do this. It was a nice team effort.

Tony DiCecco

Our league is legit. You have to respect everybody.

Willie Randolph

Our pitching is like everyone else's in the league - very uncertain.

Doug Johnson

Our schedule hasn't been very good, and that's something I think the league has to look at and try to fix,

M. Wolfe

We noticed it, obviously. It opens up an NCAA berth for another league team.

Bill Shankly

When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.

Bert Blyleven

I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don't want to be gone and have all the old guys - Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton - still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.

Arsene Wenger

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.

Randy Jepson

Our season was a real struggle all year long. Nothing went our way all year, but this weekend we didn't give up.

Keri Nichols

We've talked all season about free-throw shooting. We talk about shooting with confidence.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

David Dellucci

That was the worst part of the season that stands out.

Bobby Lamb

It had nothing to do with our season because we had an outstanding year.

John Butters

It has been a pretty strong season for earnings.

Dennis Dacus

Lisbon will be a 10-win team before the season is over.

Gary Sheffield

It doesn't matter. I look at it like this, the start of the season I'll do what I've always done. That's it.

Alan Trammel

I still think Carlos will play before the season is over.

Brett Ellis

Some of them are $40,000, and they've been sitting there for 120 days.

Mariella Ruocco

Somehow they sensed the seriousness of the situation and they stayed in the car.

Pierre Lacroix

That day was like sitting on the ice. Now we're sitting in the whirlpool.

Jaswant Singh

Other than sitting and talking to Pakistan, we can't do much more,

Laveranues Coles

Well, all I can say about that situation is, things come to the surface,

Bill Richardson

we'll all end up sitting in the dark.

Bill Bryson

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Rahul Gandhi

I will speak to you tomorrow and till then I will sit there (among the delegates).

Ice Cube

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. You have to get it out in the open. You have to talk about it.

Jeff Borris

He's always had the weight of the world on his shoulders. But when he steps on the field, he's got tunnel vision.

Charlie Munger

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

David Cornwell

We took two steps back (Tuesday). We just started out sluggish, and they tore us up.

Charles Darwin

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

Charles Darwin

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Deepak Chopra

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Dave Ramsey

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

B. F. Skinner

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

Billy Corgan

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

Big Pun

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

C. S. Lewis

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.

Mike Parker

That's the sixth-best in the United States. She's getting to be where she wants to be. Forty-seven takes her to her new goals.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

Jenny Lewis

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

David Burroughs

If it takes one day, three days, 365 days, that it will have to be.

C. S. Lewis

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Antoine Lavoisier

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Arne Ljungqvist

The athletes, to my knowledge, have been tested before they left.

Dan Fellman

I think this is going to be a test for the studios,

Pat Descher

Because of the hurricane, McDonald's said we could be a test market.

Steve Segadelli

If anything has tested us this year, it's been a big team.

Anton LaVey

The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.

Alex Rodriguez

I got tested a little bit. I'm still a little sore.

Luca Colajanni

He has not tested because of the rain.

Sherry Scarberry

Someone has to be there with him 24/7, whether it be me or Robbie.

Scott McCallum

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.