Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Kloza

Refinery margins just absolutely catapulted off the charts in 2005.

Bryant Hilton

Recovering used product is absolutely the right thing to do, but it's also a real service we can sell.

Ramsey Clark

Reconciliation is essential. This trial can either divide or heal. And unless it is seen as absolutely fair, and as absolutely fair in fact, it will irreconcilably divide the people of Iraq.

Hebbel

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Kim Hunter

Paul and Marie absolutely adored each other. I wanted something positive to come out of such a horrible date.

Joyce Jackson

Patrick's brother Tom and his wife, Diane, came to visit, and they absolutely loved the place. They told their daughter Karen, who's a hairdresser in Denver. The production company that does 'If Walls Could Talk' is located there, and one of the production assistants on the show came in to have her hair cut. Karen told her about the house, and eventually she found our contact info and asked us to be on the show.

Mary Tillman

Pat had high ideals about the country; that's why he did what he did. The military let him down. The administration let him down. It was a sign of disrespect. The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting.

Ujjal Dosanjh

pay a certain amount of money privately and go to his clinic, he'd be able to deal with it. And I think that's absolutely unacceptable.

Doc Rivers

Paul was absolutely sensational tonight. I didn't realize they had 50 and 43. I knew they had a lot. I could sense that. I just didn't know it was that high. Pretty cool.

David Moskowitz

President Bush's action, although timely, may be ill advised. For the past three years, both the CDC and the WHO have steadfastly ignored our novel anti-viral approach, which has achieved over 80% treatment success in West Nile virus encephalitis and which should be equally effective against avian influenza. If the WHO had put us in touch with clinicians in Southeast Asia treating avian influenza cases as we've asked for the past three winters, we'd already know by now.

Bill Richardson

Our policy is, it's better to engage the Chinese than isolate them. We have many differences with the Chinese, ... But we believe that by engaging China, we have achieved results in all these areas.

Arthur Levitt

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

Charles Corp

Our ongoing investments in people, technology and our brand may cause our profit margin for the second half of 1999 to move back towards the levels we've achieved in recent years.

Bob Scott

Our life, asset management and general insurance businesses all achieved better results, helped by the inclusion of acquisitions,

Trace Devanny

Our Lady of the Lake has always been ahead of the curve for implementing successful health information technology. They are dedicated to increasing patient safety and improving patient care and have achieved these goals with proven outcomes.

Li Deshui

Stable global oil prices can be achieved if we all try to avoid major shocks.

Dan Crowley

Our team's engineers, mechanics and assemblers deserve high praise for the precise way in which this airplane came together with very few issues. The fact that this level of quality was achieved on our first aircraft, at the beginning of our learning curve, signals good things for the reliability and affordability of the thousands of F-35s that will follow.

Nikolaus von

Our solid basic business makes the achieved level of profitability sustainable. We therefore expect a profit for the current year of the same level as in 2005.

Kris Nevala

Our goal for this Alzheimer's unit is that through a partnership of caring with our staff, and the residents family and physician, we create an environment that nurtures, accommodates behavior, promotes safety and embraces independence and well-being.

Carrie P. Meek

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

Carrie Underwood

There's a certain sense of ownership that the fans have over you....The thing is, it's all good. You just have to get used to it. If somebody comes up to you while you're eating dinner or something, it's kind of like, 'Well, I asked for it.' It's much better than the alternative-nobody caring and nobody buying your music. The point is to try to just realize that these people are really excited, and that's a good thing. You want them to be that way.

Bill Burr

People should be happy to see you when you show up to a club because you're a good person. And stop caring about what the industry is "looking for". Just say what you think is funny. .

Bill Vaughan

I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.

Renee DeBerg

I was proud of him and the caring he showed.

Tom Fisher

I think this community should do more to preserve and honor his work, rather than letting it go and saying, 'It's too bad,' but not caring for it enough, ... That will be viewed by people outside our community as being rather negligent on our part, and I don't think that's particularly how Minnesota wants to be perceived.

David Neal

He is the strongest, most caring person I've ever known. At a time when he was going through unspeakable sadness, he and Susan inspired all of us at NBC with the way they kept on living. It means more to all of us who work with him than he'll ever know.

Bob Davis

He is so caring and so generous. I was really touched by the whole thing.

Eric Williams

Originally a one-day event, local schools would identify needy children who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

Suomi Sakai

Organizers of any demonstration or public gathering have a responsibility to ensure that children are out of harm's way, particularly children without family, such as street children who have no-one to look after them and are even more vulnerable.

Christine Jackson

Parents who smoke feel guilty about being role models for smoking; they feel hypocritical about trying to prevent their children from smoking. For these reasons, it's difficult to persuade parents who smoke to become anti-smoking advocates in the home.

Jim Duggan

Parents who send their children to school are entitled to expect that in that environment, at least, they will be protected from predatory sexual behaviour,

Walter Dellinger

Patently offensive material is widely disseminated on the Internet, and computer-literate children ... can easily find and retrieve it.

Quincy Jones

Peace is possible around the world, and children are the answer.

Rocky Watson

Our main concerns right now are the two children,

Barbara Schneider

Our lives are busy, but we have to find time to enjoy our family's company and share experiences. When parents and children do things together, it can relieve stress.

Jonathan Kozol

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Mike Barnett

Our players, if the effort isn't there, will see a much different side to Wayne Gretzky than the gentleman the public knows. He'll have no problem doing that.

Richard Stallman

part of the long-term effort to liberate cyberspace.

Doc Rivers

Paul gave a superhuman effort for us to get back in this game. You'd rather have a balance, but I'd take 40 from Paul.

Toba Beta

Peace is not a state of nature. It is an effort done by the living.

Peter Budaj

Starting with me and everybody else, I don't think we put out the effort that was good enough for a win.

Li Zhaoxing

Some people are disappointed with the outcome of meetings, which was not as substantial as they have expected, ... However, we should highly value efforts made by all sides in this process.

Carl Jacobs

Our results have been worthy of an 'A,' but our effort has been on the 'C' level. We've jumped out to big leads, then other teams back in.

David Kirkland

Our team is extremely young and we're so thin in depth. However, I'm proud of their effort tonight. If you take away a handful of plays, the scoreboard would have read something else.

John Iorio

Pathos would make you cry. It would enlist your sentiments. Pathos has those things as its end. They want you to feel emotions. The emotions rule. Tragedy doesn't think of those as its end. It's a big difference.

Diana Sebzda

Part of the issue is that people feel pets are family members. It's a valid emotion, and it's a valid grief.

Chuck Hernandez

Sure, you have mixed emotions. I've been here a long time and I wanted to see this thing through. I wanted to see this team become a winner. I'm going to miss that part of it. There's some good kids there I'm going to miss. I'm going to be watching how they progress.

Gavin Hood

Our stories are the same as your stories. They're about the human heart and emotion.

Patrick Walsh

Outside of my parents, what I learned at De La Salle has influenced me the most in my life. Obviously, there's a huge emotional impact.

J. J. Johnson

Riley was full of smiles that whole day. It was quite emotional because we just went to watch. We didn't think that would happen. But that is what Power Soccer is all about. The game is truly inclusive.

Al Scates

Playing down to their level is usually a problem, but we have to have a mind-set that we're going to play hard before we get there. Last year they had all the emotion and we were lucky to get out of there with a win, and they're going to be excited about playing us again.

Beck

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I’m doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health.

David Graveney

People have a spring in their step. When you read that the TV ratings exceeded the final night of Big Brother, you know that you're heading in the right direction.

Paul Whetsell

Results from all three of our recent investments have exceeded our initial expectations and contributed significantly to our excellent 2005 results.

Albert Einstein

It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity

Mary Martin

That's the highest you can receive. It means we not only met but exceeded all the requirements.

Dan Fellman

I was very pleased with the opening. It exceeded our expectations.

Donald Brownlee

It exceeded all of our grandest expectations. We should have more than 1 million particles larger than 1 micron in diameter.

Dr. Roberts

I think Randy is a fantastic success story. He exceeded my personal expectations for recovery.

Jeff Banks

He just exceeded our expectations. He just kept making play after play and running the football and not wanting to get out of the game.

Kevin White

From Sunday through Friday our football team has exceeded all expectations. In fact, it's never been better.

Richard Ferlauto

That was the first flexing of shareholder muscle and that shareholders were emphasizing the importance of splitting those roles.

Oliver Ivanovic

It is of utmost importance for Kosovo institutions to preserve peace in the province.

Randy Johnson

I think you see not a sense of urgency, but a little more importance on every game. I suspect it will be that way the rest of the year.

Mike Degory

If we're going to take back the Swamp, it's going to start Saturday. We know that and understand the importance of this game. We're not overlooking it.

H. Hunt

If we can take anything away from this, it's that we recognize the importance of flood-control projects that we don't necessarily think about every day.

Jim Litchfield

He was a man tonight. He knew the importance of this game, and to his credit, he stepped up.

Catherine McAuley

A good beginning is of great importance.

Arthur Machen

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Henry Hyde

We are not delegates who are sent here to weigh our mail every day and then to vote accordingly. There are issue of transcendent importance that you have to be willing to lose your office over ... I'm willing to lose my seat any day in the week rather than sell out.

Paul Tagliabue

I don't know where I'm going to do it. I'm just thinking about it. Just for that reason, that by then, people will have a whole new set of needs. The outpouring from the public is just fantastic. We just have to keep it going.

Keith Jones

The outpouring of support has been a blessing.

Terry Hartle

We are witnessing an unprecedented outpouring of support to enroll students. We've never seen anything like this before.

Eric Kehn

We've had an outpouring of support; we've talked to parishioners, to the pastors.

Carrie Brownstein

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

Carl Rogers

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

Unknown

May you get all your wishes but one, So you always have something to strive for.

Edmund Spenser

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

Abraham Lincoln

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Alexander Crummell

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Ai Weiwei

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.