Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Pawlenty

Our country has been asleep at the switch on these things. The basic economics are that the supply of fossil fuels is limited and the demand is outstripping the supply. It's a recipe for continued crisis if we don't start changing our ways.

Larry Haverty

Management is not asleep at the switch. Anything you can do to move the needle in that direction is terrific for shareholders.

P.K. Shaw

It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time.

Paracelsus

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - The Dream Game

Mike Schafer

That was a critical one when it was 3-2. We kind of fell asleep a little bit ... that was the game. They played very well. I have to tip my hat to their hockey team.

Dennis Goldford

That's the question. Is there corruption involved? Some improper exchange of favors or anything like that? We don't know that yet. Or is it at best evidence of incompetence -- somebody was simply asleep at the switch?

Jon Sakoda

Last year, instant messaging was the sleeping giant, and companies were literally asleep at the wheel. This year, people are awakening to the problem, but haven't necessarily come up with solutions.

Randy Scyoc

I was happy with way we played defense in the first half. In the second half, we sort of fell asleep a little bit and didn't box out sometimes, and they crawled back in the game.

Pascal Lamy

I am half asleep but the negotiations are wide awake.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Sylvia Schenk

Sports is a big economic area. And just like in other sectors of society, sports is vulnerable to corruption. It's not a holy realm.

Nong Manh

It is not that there is more corruption than before, it is that they are being uncovered and we need to punish them.

John Alexander

I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.

Ryan Toohey

For seven years now, from Wall Street to public corruption to big drug companies, no one in this state has done more to stand up to special interests and the status quo than Eliot Spitzer.

William Shakespeare

I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

Iyad Allawi

I don't think it is fair at all that we should shift the focus from the corruption during Saddam's time and from the corruption that prevailed before sovereignty was transferred to the Iraqis to a period of six months when I was prime minister,

Nancy Pelosi

For more than a decade... House Republicans have benefited from their systemic culture of corruption at the expense of the American people.

George Marek

Hypocracy defined: A modern form of government by hypocrisy.

Mikhail Saakashvili

He understood the shortcoming which we had. He understood we had corruption.

Keith Ernst

Our research shows substantial evidence that regulation led to lower interest rates.

David Kass

Our latest research provides firm evidence this drug does indeed have an important impact on the heart

Douglas Green

Our scenario consolidates a lot of evidence from our group and other researchers to explain how p53, Bcl-xL, and PUMA work together to trigger apoptosis.

Dore Gold

Right now the evidence is not very promising.

Hans Blix

I think the more evidence that is placed on the table, if there is some, the better,

Richard Dicker

I think there have been real difficulties and problems in the Milosevic trial. What will be important is the evidence that was presented to indicate the motivation and intent of Milosevic.

Carol Miller

I think there's so much evidence that it won't really make a difference.

David Beito

I think there's some good evidence that more than two people were involved,

Brian Cleary

Last weekend I didn't see any evidence of us being able to stand in and compete. But this weekend I feel that we've been playing hard, which is what we've been harping the team about.

Manuel Pangilinan

Some gains today are because of foreign exchange gains.

Gerhard Schroeder

It has been a very open and friendly exchange of opinions.

Kaoru Yosano

It is imperative to get operations at the Tokyo Stock Exchange back to normal as soon as possible for the sake of the Japanese economy.

George Carlin

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day

Doug Clark

I don't expect foreign exchange students to get a diploma, but I think they should at least get some recognition.

Gary Weiss

I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

Elna Moolman

The rand weakened during February, which is expected to have limited the Bank's accumulation of foreign exchange reserves during the month.

Paul Murphy

Under GAAP, you have to exchange the money,

Chris Koch

I wouldn't be surprised to see the Shanghai Shipping Exchange spread throughout China, if they want it too.

Catullus

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

Cecelia Ahern

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

Bertrand Russell

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Brian Mullan

I was praying for rain. Whenever it's wet it favors the offense. And when you need to score goals that's what you want.

Bruce MacDonald

He favors traffic improvements when it pertains to Utopia, but he opposes them when they pertain to the tribe.

Anonymous Toast

May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed

Jennifer Duffy

When this (the presidential) race gets under way, favors will be cashed in and collected, ... They'll hope the favors they did are returned.

Abraham Lincoln

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Barbara Mertz

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Becky Lourey

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

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Ian Botham

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

Lindsey Graham

We need somebody ready to be commander-in-chief on day one, who understands there are no moderates in Iran; they've been killed a long time ago.

Jeff Gundy

That's a very important weapon to have, especially when you have somebody like Bryant.

Saeb Erakat

I was under shock, ... You have to think, 'take it down, then they'll storm the plane, somebody may shoot.'

Lana Savage

I think I did the right thing, that's what I think. And I feel like I got somebody that could have done this to someone else.

Avery Cutshaw

I think he can play, but somebody is going to have to give him a chance.

Don Robinson

I did talk to somebody one time who said he was Doug Wood.

Jim McMahon

I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Lofa Tatupu

He is somebody you really have to worry about and you have to know where he is at all times.