Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duane Ackerman

Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to avoid it, but many companies our size and particularly our competitors operate with lower overhead and fewer management layers.

Jewel

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Carol Bellamy

recognizes that economic sanctions are an instrument intended by the international community to promote peace and security ... but our concern is that whenever sanctions are imposed, they should be designed and implemented in such a way as to avoid a negative impact on children.

Mark Stahlman

Previous management understood what needed to be changed, but they were unable to make it happen, ... To actually make these changes is a massive challenge. It can't be done quickly. There will be people who will resist. There's no avoiding a good deal of internal conflict.

Robert Wood

Our research shows that for some children, however, lifelong avoidance of these nuts, found in countless food products, may not be necessary.

Doug Smith

Parking was totally disorganized on Monday. We left extra early (Tuesday) to avoid another rush.

Shinya Yamanaka

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

Nancy McBride

Our message is that children should recognize and avoid certain situations, rather than certain people.

Juan Lubroth

People need to be informed about the importance of basic hygiene notably washing hands after touching poultry and disinfecting boots or shoes before entering or leaving a poultry farm. They should also be aware of suitable farming practices such as ensuring that poultry are roofed-in to avoid any contact with wild birds and not mixing chickens with other species, such as ducks.

Francis Escudero

Peaceful protests are guaranteed by the constitution, rallies should not be prohibited.

Mike Malone

Part of the Constitution is the First Amendment, ... We have the right to disagree with the government.

Jalal Talabani

Some of our demands were met so the party has endorsed the constitution and is urging people to vote 'Yes',

Lisa Polyak

Some in this state say they just want to amend the constitution like they were fixing a flat tire.

Adam Ereli

Our view is that the constitution of the Philippines and the rule of law must be respected and violence must be rejected. We hope the situation will return to normal.

Rob Woodall

Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons.

Mahmoud Othman

Really, we are disappointed with that. It seems like the Americans want to have a constitution at any cost,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We need a constitution, we need rules, but we don't need a wall,

Detlev Mehlis

I will continue to fulfill my responsibilities to safeguard the Constitution, Lebanese laws and the integrity of Lebanese territory.

Michael Carter

Recount or no recount, there's going to be a government without a strong mandate or much flexibility.

Sitaram Yechury

Parliament has to urgently and immediately take up the issue. It is up to the government to see how they do it. Parliament will have to enact the law. Eventually, even it (ordinance) will have to come to parliament.

Samir Acharya

Suddenly, the government of India has taken a very keen interest in these far-flung islands.

Kathleen Blanco

State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,

Roger Launius

Our position would be that it is, and always has been, government property.

Takeo Hiranuma

Our task is to make sure the government does not submit the bill.

Barry Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

B. F. Skinner

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Florentino Perez

Some of the players think they have a guaranteed place in the side and that they are the best. I think they are getting confused.

Nick Fazekas

Really, nothing could go wrong right now without getting an agent. It's a waste of time for me to go in the second round. You are not guaranteed anything in the second round.

R. Robinson

I would say that it (the visit) is not guaranteed yet,

Rob Jeter

Because of the level we're at, we can win the regular season but we're not guaranteed into the NCAA tournament. At this level, you have to win your own tournament.

Marc Short

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

Kate Winslet

My god, I'm not really doing it for that. I don't think we really need another film about the Holocaust, do we? It's like, how many have there been? We get it! It was grim! Move on! No, I'm doing it because I've noticed that if you do a film about the Holocaust? Guaranteed Oscar. I've been nominated for four. Never won!

Joe Villa

When you come out to a WWE event, you're guaranteed to get your money's worth.

David Gerrold

'The Next Generation' was a lot of fun for a while, and then it wasn't a lot of fun. The reason it wasn't a lot of fun was that this one was going to be a guaranteed hit. The original 'Star Trek' was never a guaranteed hit.

Tim Schafer

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bill Delahunt

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Matthew Dowd

We can never have enough strategy. We have enough tactics but not enough strategy,

Drew Barrymore

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

Bob Corker

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,

Carlos Ghosn

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Bob Kudelski

It's a tactic to stall and delay, and I don't think it's going to work.

George S. Patton

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

Iain Banks

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.