Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Dollens

Recent product and communications issues have certainly had an impact on our business in the near term. However, we believe that the fundamentals of our business are strong and our markets and products have attractive prospects for growth.

Tobias Levkovich

Our overall 2006 bullishness remains intact, as an attractive buying opportunity is being set up.

Gary Balter

Our outperform rating was based on our view that the management team was doing an excellent job of turning around the margins at this large industry player. The market's valuation at around 6 times cash flow we believe made this an attractive acquisition target. The questions now will be whether another buyer steps in.

Gitesh Pandya

Paris Hilton is probably the best example. She was one of many attractive starlets out there, then that tape hits and it's all the sensation. The reality show gets a boost and it propels her into one of the top five celebrity actresses in the world.

Edward Walker

Part of the responsibility has to be on the opposition powers. If they can't organize and they can't put up attractive candidates and develop a message that galvanizes the people, they aren't going to succeed.

Dick Bailey

Our lot prices last year were about $50,000 to $60,000 under comparable lots in Canby and Oregon City, which makes our prices look very, very attractive compared to those places. ... Lot prices (this year in Big Meadow) are probably going to go up around $15,000 over what they were last year, which means our minimum prices are going to go up.

Henry Becker

Our No. 1 challenge is to meet all of our customers' needs and expectations while going through the legal transition, and grow our business and produce positive revenues that make us attractive on the market.

Andy Chaytor

Supply is out of the way, and the market is coming off some yield levels that looked attractive to investors.

Larry Lucchino

Supply and demand, ... is a very attractive concept.

Lisa Graves

It gives a nod toward checks and balances without fixing the most fundamental flaws in the Patriot Act.

Ken Auletta

Journalists would build in more checks and balances and welcome more independent ombudsmen,

John Donahue

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

Carl Cotman

Basically, it's a huge message to send out to women who are worried about hormone balances to make sure they stay fit. It's going to give women pause to reflect.

Robert Krueger

I have a feeling that any catastrophic increases are being blended in throughout the country. There are all kinds of risks everywhere -- hurricanes here, earthquakes in California, and some places where nothing happens. It eventually all balances out.

Alan Woods

I think that he did a very professional job in a very, very precarious time. I don't know if we have another board member that can rise to the occasion. It takes a little bit of skill to do that job. But we all have to work together and hopefully we'll have more checks and balances than we did before.

Jonathan Levine

For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.

Jimmy Bennett

I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well.

Dave Oberle

We've been up and down like a yo-yo. We're in the same boat we were last year. We let some games get away that we felt we could have won. Maybe we got some that could have been given away, too. It balances out. We've struggled here of late.

William Jenkins

Regionalism presented some obstacles in the past, ... But the boundaries are beginning to disappear and we have this wonderful, intellectual synergism.

Fran Foley

Part of the plan from the beginning was to take pressure off the draft. The plan is coming together.

Jay Grymes

Parts of the state have been suffering for quite some time. In the southern third of Louisiana, the dry spell goes back to the beginnings of 2005, and even sections of northern Louisiana have been dealing with dry weather over the past 12 to 15 months.

Chris Whitney

Our number one priority is to identify the patients. We are beginning to go through records now, but it's like looking for needles in haystacks.

Scott DeJong

Our offense wasn't good toward the end and we just wanted to pull it out. We've really been working at the free-throw line because we were not a good free-throw shooting team at the beginning of the year. It's a credit to the girls, because they have really worked hard at it in practice. You can tell when they step up there they think it is going in.

Dennis Hastert

Our long national nightmare might not be over, but who knows -- maybe it's the beginning of the end of it.

Soenarko Artanto

Our original plan from the beginning is chasing these two masterminds. After the recent incidents our hunt for them has been stepped up.

Mark Howard

Our offensive line has come a long way since the beginning of the season. They are finally starting to come around and get a handle on what we are teaching them.

Bill Morrow

Our legacy of innovation is beginning to return. Customers will see the value of this phone.

Philip Reeker

Our policy toward Iran has not changed. The president has said we will be looking for indications that countries do want to change. But ... we've had long-standing concerns.

Julian Smith

People in some countries are just more receptive to the idea of posting their thoughts online.

James Rubin

Such incidents ... illustrate the need for the two countries to resolve their differences through dialogue,

Joseph Bruno

Such 'bullet trains' operate regularly in countries throughout Europe and Asia, ... It's time for New York to get on board.

Ben Bernanke

Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.

Michael Cromartie

Our understanding is that a lot of behind-the-scenes diplomacy is going on with some of the countries that are not on the list.

Steve James

Representing the church, he has traveled to many countries in Europe, as well as Kenya, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Singapore, China, Haiti, Belize, Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Israel and Russia. He and his wife have been dedicated to helping needy people everywhere.

Franco Frattini

People who reside illegally in Europe should be sent back to their countries of origin

Jack Straw

we not only help those countries in the region which are subject to Iraqi threats and intimidation, we also deprive Saddam of his most powerful tools for keeping the Iraqi people living in fear and subjugation.

Hu Jintao

Regardless of person or political party and regardless of what he or it has said or done, we are willing to hold talks on developing cross-Strait relations so long as he or it recognizes the 'One China' principle and the 1992 consensus,

Billy Beane

Paul has seen the ups and down of developing young players and trusting the three, four years they've had in the minor leagues and discounting their first few months in the majors. Developing young players can be a lot of fun, but you've got to have the discipline to live with their mistakes and understand their trend line isn't always going to go straight up.

Chris Jones

Our (pitching) coordinator always talks about developing a winning attitude.

Dwane Casey

Our trend the whole year has been developing a rhythm in the first quarter. Then once (Kevin Garnett) comes out we kind of get off kilter.

Dan Glickman

Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future,

Jim Greenwood

Malaysia is an important market with a strong interest in developing its biotechnology industry.

Becky Dyer

We now have peer tutors. They're developing relationships with each other.

Pat Riley

I think they have great respect for New Jersey. They are a very effective team right now and they're developing a lot of confidence.

Gerald Galloway

It is an important part of the U.S. economy, and it's even more important in the developing world. You have to be able to provide water for agriculture.

Peter Falk

Paul never told me anything about why he wrote it -- he never mentioned his father and he never mentioned my father, ... He never put me in a position in which I would feel a lot of external pressure other than wanting my reaction to the script. That's the way I would do it. That's the way I know a real professional would do it. That's the proper to do it.

Diogenes

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

William Shakespeare

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul

Kurt Eichenwald

Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.

Jim Padilla

She's the heart and soul of the organization and the external leader. We have a short window of opportunity. If we don't do this (fundraising campaign) there's a risk there won't be a Focus: HOPE going forward.

Bradley Whitford

Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us.

Liz Williams

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

Richard Axel

There are many ways for organisms to probe the external world. Some smell it, others listen to it, many see it. Each species, therefore, lives in its own unique sensory world of which other species may be partially or totally unaware.

Wayne Hale

There are a total of 34 ice frost ramps on the external tank.

Paul Gallay

Our relationship with communities is growing as we work with private- land owners and planning boards.

Jane Rosenthal

Our record-number of film submissions this year reflects the growing strength of the Festival. This year's program includes a wide range of talent and perspective from around the globe.

Paul Casey

Our numbers are growing in our regular program as well.

Ron Ruff

Our laws just keep growing and growing and growing.

Nancy Todd

People learn growing up to react with anger.

Mike Shanahan

Some guys (have) got more growing to go. That's part of the season. But I thought we made some strides and hopefully it pays dividends.

Aaron Oldfield

Our boy's team is very young; we only have a handful of seniors. They are going through some growing pains.

Daniel Meckstroth

Manufacturing is growing but the pace of growth has decelerated. The outlook for manufacturing production in 2006 is for moderate growth.

Beck

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Russell Baze

Past the quarter pole, he surged, got up in the lead,

Jan Egeland

Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.

Jim Schoenfeld

Some of our youngsters have progressed past our expectations.

Carl Brown

Our traffic is up significantly in the past two weeks.

Mike Shanahan

Playing the way they have on the road the past three weeks is really an accomplishment. They play big on the road.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Lara Rhame

It erodes the relative interest-rate support for the dollar.

Jon Favreau

I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Chen Shui-bian

I got up at 2 a.m. for this trip. I want to see my relatives and I want to see China,

Shahazad

My destination is at a place where my late-friends and relatives are waiting for me to arrive.

Dave Bristow

She's by herself, she has no relatives in Manatee.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Cornelia Funke

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

Alfred Hershey

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Ann Patchett

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Tony Johnson

We shifted because we didn't want them sold off individually. Then we could end up with absentee landlords.

Riley Nelson

Their whole team works hard, which is tough because you can't take a shift off.

David Barber

This is a very significant result, and it's not some sort of trend that's going to shift back the other way.

Jamie Russell

You have to give Wisconsin credit. I thought they outworked us shift in, shift out.

Marcel Dionne

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

Marty Turco

You play it one game, one shift at a time.

Walter Mondale

Remember, ... you have six years in the first term, not six days. Don't be so impatient, charging into everything.

Bertrand Russell

Only six need be attempted.

Dennis Wolff

That was one of the softest performances by a BU team in six years - in every way.

Tim Healy

That's the most assists we've had in six games.

Mike Shanahan

I think if you take a look at any of the six teams, any of those six teams could go all the way.

Jessica Williams

I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

David Keith

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

Chris Squire

I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Ahmed Hussein

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Danielle Brooks

My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you getting into,' but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.

Meredith Whitney

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Cindy Sheehan

supports the troops, our country, and our President.

Kweisi Mfume

supports a person's right to do whatever they feel they must do. If that is boycotting or informational picketing, we support that.

Marty Dickens

There is nothing we can find that supports what they're doing. It's very puzzling.

Jaime Pressly

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it.

Bethany Mota

I’m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.

Chris Dancy

It has slowed some, but the trend is still down.

Richard Herrington

If we see an upward trend in delinquency ratios, we tighten our lending, but we have not had to do that.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

John Slenker

This trend has been going on for a long time.

Betsy Beers

Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!

John Stayton

We are in a sense bucking the trend in most MBA programs.

Alexander McQueen

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Dylan Moran

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.