Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Lester Crawford

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market,

John Nestor

Our own high end estimate was between 1,000 and 1,200 - there may be additional advisors who aren't signing up and adopting a 'wait and see' attitude.

Gary Spear

Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle burglaries.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Gary Walker

Patients will be notified with additional information (soon).

Chris Brathwaite

Part of this process is looking at staffing needs going forward. We believe the changes will allow stores additional flexibility ... to serve our customers.

Maria Martinez

Reed Elsevier has long been recognized as a leader in using technology to strategically build its business, while Microsoft has been at the forefront in helping publishing businesses find solutions to the fundamental changes that are required in the new digital era. Together, we've charted a new course that will provide Reed Elsevier with significant competitive advantages as the company continues the fast-paced growth of its online properties.

Kevin Wallace

Our play was symbolic of a losing football team. We were very fortunate to take advantage of some personnel mismatches. That is the only reason why we won the football game.

Kevin Wallace

Our play was symbolic of a losing football team, ... We were very fortunate to take advantage of some personnel mismatches. That is the only reason why we won the football game.

Ted Spadaro

Our players have to understand that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, getting to play the No. 2 team in the state. You get that opportunity, try to take advantage of it, and you take it from there.

Reed Hastings

Our outlook for the future reflects the continuing rapid subscriber growth and the increasing impact of the cost advantages and other financial benefits that flow from our market leadership.

P. J. O'Rourke

Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

John Schwarz

Organizations are placing a premium on the value of accurate, complete, and timely information. Enterprise information management provides Business Objects with a significant competitive advantage in what we can offer our customers, and we expect it to play an important role in our future growth plans.

Paul Fix

Patience is going to be key around the narrow circuit. I'm close enough to the lead pack, I intend to stay with the lead pack and take advantage of any opportunities that come my way,

Steve Mansfield

Paying people to search and share what they've found is a concept that's gaining in popularity. Community and social search is the wave of the future, but these types of sites need to quickly build high-quality, human-indexed content, and their members are looking for the motivation to participate in this effort. Further, advertisers are anxious to take advantage of targeting large groups of users that are all interested in common products and services, which PreFound.com provides.

Liu Jianchao

Relevant agreements are in the process of being signed one by one, with some of them still under negotiation.

James Gleick

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

Sergei Lavrov

Such issues must be solved by realizing appropriate agreements fit with all concerning parties. It may take more time, effort and diplomatic skills, any issue may need a long time to reveal the truth about it.

Bob McAdoo

Overall, these new agreements and settlements have enabled United to reduce its non-fuel cost per available seat mile (cost per available seat mile ex-fuel) by approximately 22% during the three years while in bankruptcy.

Richard Boucher

It is important to us to be able to keep working with the parties and try to do what we can diplomatically to calm the situation, get back to implementation of the agreements of the cease-fire.

Fay Vincent

I think he (Selig) is probably better able to get support among owners, ... But they're trying to roll back 25 years of labor agreements in one round. I was telling them the best you can do is incremental improvement -Ê it's going to take a long time to straighten out this. They didn't want to hear that.

Ariel Sharon

I am aware that peace requires painful compromises. Any agreements will be based on security,

Lanny Davis

But for peaceful purposes and when agreements can be worked out and when understandings can be had then what we are talking about is economic development opportunities, peaceful and useful opportunities... Then I think we are on the same page.

David Bonior

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

Ronde Barber

Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it.

Friso Abbing

Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.

James Loy

Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.

Anthony Romero

President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

George Buckley

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Kevin McCabe

Part of it is to do with commercial reasons, trying to get further revenue generated from China.

Paul Wolfowitz

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

Mark Johnson

Our summers are so precious. Are we really prepared to say that part of this park is now a commercial music venue and off-limits to the nonpaying public?

Yaron Danon

Our study shows that 'crystal fusion' is a mature technology with considerable commercial potential. This new device is simpler and less expensive than the previous version, and it has the potential to produce even more neutrons.

Shoichi Nakagawa

Our country needs to cope with supply disruptions on the international market and we need to prioritise product supply (over crude), ... So we decided to cut mandatory commercial stock levels.

Harvey Levin

Out of nowhere he just guns it and slams into this commercial truck right in front of him.

Ross Brawn

I think there's a huge potential from a driver point of view and from a commercial point of view you can imagine the potential it would have as well.

Charles Heimsath

I think commercial property owners are going to be very surprised by (this) increase in appraised values, particularly since in most areas, rental rates have not increased by the same percentage that the appraised values have increased.

Jack Foley

The American marketplace is one conditioned by commercial movies, and the American moviegoer is in the greatest part a commercial moviegoer. They don't have much patience for high end.

Linda Miller

Recently we've de-emphasized the large multinational drug companies because of the headwinds they've faced because of patent expirations and no big product approvals,

Gilbert Lopez

Our recommendation would be to go for companies that are seen benefiting most from the likely end-result of all these developments -- lower interest rates and improving consumption.

Rob Morris

Our rapid SOA development tools are specifically designed to enable mainframe developers to deliver more than just Web services from the mainframe. With Ivory, companies can quickly and easily incorporate the full value of their mainframe resources in their SOA.

Tim Bajarin

PC companies do not want to have more than six weeks of inventory, and most of them try to live within three- and four-week turns, ... We're hearing about inventory build-ups in some companies that are as much as 13 weeks.

Tetsuhiko Yasuda

Our No. 1 competition is not other companies but counterfeiters. We want to work with governments to stop this.

Adrian Gonzalez

Order-to-delivery times are shrinking and companies are heavily outsourced, which means reliability and consistency of performance are more critical than ever. Companies are striving to meet service levels at the lowest possible cost and are turning to carrier- and vendor-performance metrics to do that.

David Rudow

Oracle's success hinges on retaining its customer base, including ones it inherited from the companies it bought.

Mike Viracola

People have been looking for companies to say we've weathered the storm -- no pun intended -- whether it's the hurricane stuff or the macro things,

Margo Timmins

Success is a very difficult thing in a society where we dispose of what we like very quickly, before you even learn to play your instrument, ... So far, the record companies we have worked with have respect for us as musicians. I want to sell records and I need a record company to do that, but I don't want to sell myself.

Kofi Annan

Reform is a process, not an event and we are going to continue after the summit

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Robert Milton

Recognizing the significant progress we have made, there is no room for any complacency and we must continue to pursue efficiencies throughout our businesses.

Philadelphia Fed

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Ed Colligan

Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,

Anna Rozenich

Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because we want to make sure we get it right for our customers.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Marc Andreessen

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

Byron Callan

Recent divestitures have created a pure-play military tactical vehicle company.

Patrick Phillips

Relaxed, definitely. Massimo was created by several friends who have a genuine passion for design, but don't have the same enthusiasm for 'pushy' retail. We're always glad to help our customers, but we understand that hovering is just plain irritating.

Kelly McBride

Relationships between men and women will change, and so will the workplace. Maybe it will create a truly equitable society or maybe it will flip it and women will become so politically, socially and economically powerful, we'll get whiplash.

George Clarke

Our passing game has really improved this season, ... Tonight, we were passing around the other team, which created a lot of opportunities.

Michael Kelly

Our real goal is to create hydrogen transportation corridors.

Christina Baker Kline

Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

Rossi Ralenkotter

Part of what we do as destination markets is to fuel the local economy and create jobs in the community.

Ann Veneman

Part of what this report does is to highlight the issue to the public to create an outrage about what is going on.

Alexander Milinkevich

Our objective is to create a stir in society.

Steve Squyres

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

Kurt Adams

I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

Bill Bryson

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

Bertrand Russell

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

Mark Geragos

I think, just by the discovery and where the remains were found tends to, I think ... exonerate Gary,

Rodger Hannel

I think they (Payson) entered it with an open-minded interest to see the ramifications.

Charlene Li

The 800-pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, ... the secret sauce to Google's blog-search success.

Pope Benedict

It is just one year since his pontificate entered its final phase, full of suffering and yet triumphant and truly paschal.

Don Bluth

I think since all the studios have entered into the business, everything is about 'get it done, get it cheaper, get it faster, make more money, and please the stockholders.'

Abdul Sattar

I can tell you with full responsibility that the hijackers have not entered Pakistan.

Harry Styles

I think, you know, we entered the 'The X Factor' in the U.K., and you kind of want someone who knows what they're talking about to tell you if you're any good or not instead of just your mum saying that you like it when you sing.

Monte Kiffin

He's a good young quarterback who can make a lot of things happen. He's kind of playing like a young Brett Favre. He's just entered the league and wants to make a name for himself.

Bob Horen

Her past history and performances never entered into it.

Kim Clijsters

If being the year-end number one was my main goal, I would have entered more tournaments. If it happens, great. If it doesn't, that's not going to make my year worse.

Sidney Taurel

Our overall growth for the next several quarters will be generated from newer product sales, line extensions of existing products and recent product launches, ... As a result, we will rely less on Prozac sales growth.

Mark Wasserman

Our priorities right now are land acquisition for parks and renovating existing parks.

Kenneth Lay

I was fully complying with all the existing regulations and requirements on my stock transactions.

Steve Johns

It fit perfectly into the existing kitchen space.

Nick Bell

IDMS is a set of interfaces and protocols. Before, GM did not have a single system for its dealers to use. Instead, GM would certify existing systems.

Monica Johnson

As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation.

John B. Hood

For students, especially international students, we are focusing on not only their existing performances, but their potential for future development as well,

Jeffrey Hirsch

I think the hurricane really just exacerbates an existing situation for the market,

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use. There are several advantages. It's centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and it's good topography (without many hills in the area).

Tyra Banks

I look up to Martha Stewart, and I love that she has product lines that are true extensions of her brand.

Ed Slott

There are no extensions for IRA contributions, even if you have an extension to file your tax return.

Whitney Ransome

We want them to be independent and responsible and be on their own. At the same time, we want to view them, in some cases, as extensions of ourselves.

Derrick Brooks

Hopefully, progress is being made. I don't think all these extensions would have come about if there wasn't progress.

Paul Burke

Our leadership has been out in the communities doing what they are supposed to do -- mobilizing, organizing and preventing further roadblocks.

Madeline Albright

Our message to India and Pakistan is that there should be no further nuclear testing, no deployment or testing of missiles, no more inflammatory rhetoric and no more provocative military activity,

Adam Adelman

Optimism in the numbers will be a roadblock for further gains. The upside in tech is limited.

Jim Porter

People have died. Lives have been changed. Property has been destroyed. Yet, a group of trial lawyers are using this disaster, not as a reason to help the people of this state, but instead to further their own personal agenda.

E. B. White

That couldn't be further from the truth, and I say that with emphasis.

Katharina Von

Overall it is satisfactory but we hope that there will be further improvement between now and 2009.

Jim Rees

Our visitors instinctively know that he's great. But they think he's stiff, formal, lackluster, and sometimes they use the word 'boring.' Nothing could be further from the truth.

E. Hurley

Rising oil prices are being looked at as a further weight on global growth as opposed to inflationary,

Jeb Bush

We need a little further wind at the back of this economy,

King Hussein

President Assad did not give me any letter, but he perfectly knows that ... I am ready to help to serve the goal of comprehensive peace and the peace process,

Joseph Finnerty

Our overall goal is to stop this casino.

Brian King

Our overall goal is meeting the students? needs,

Viviane Reding

Participation of people in decision-making is the real goal of e-government. Governments have to do more than just release information to the public.

Caroline Shepherd

Part of the goal was not to spend more resources preparing for trial. We took him off the street. We shut down his business.

Michael Rothman

Part of our goal was to take back the medium of e-mail from spammers who have really hijacked it.

Doug Griffin

Our main goal was to stop her penetration and put good pressure on the shot.

Sue Curtis

Our main goal was just to get kids being more active, just to make sure that when they're out at recess, they're actually moving, not just playing in the rocks.

Richard Cradit

Our main goals are to grow as a team and consistently improve throughout the season, leading to a strong performance at the metro league championship, as well as the regional and state championships.

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our on-time performance was at its lowest point in the weeks leading up to the strike,

Mark McCormack

I was just leading out J.J. and Page, but we opened up a gap." ()

Michael Wallace

I think they needed to do it. They might as well do it now while they have a leading position.

I. Stone

I think there's some real fundamental support for the Governor, ... He's as tough as an old rope, and he'll be leading this state for a long time.

Steve Wood

That's what I'm most proud of about this team - the senior players are leading by example. It's a lovely thing to see.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Bob Gilder

He can smell the Schwab Cup, ... and can smell being the leading money winner. And that's where he's headed.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Jeremy Shockey

He's going to be leading us to the playoffs for a lot of years to come.

Quinten Fuentes

He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get him.

Dave Combs

We don't have a lot of leverage to stop annexations.

Brendan Barnicle

What's interesting is that Microsoft is now more of a leverage story.

John Drury

We leverage as much as we can from our brethren.

Andrea Williams

What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable,

Michael Myers

It's been pretty impressive. He's long and tall. He's down there getting leverage on every play. That's why he's so good.

Lori Lucas

There's a lot of room for individuals to leverage investments in their plans to get the most out of their account.

Pat Comack

AT&T still has a lot of leverage because Comcast can't tender for anything.

Selim Bingol

They have a fiber-rich network. We see a big opportunity to leverage that for video and other services.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

Melissa Fleming

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

Honore de Balzac

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Nhat Hanh

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Paulo Coelho

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.

Wayne Dyer

Be what it is that you are seeking.

Beeban Kidron

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

Beck

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

Beck

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

Barry Ritholtz

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Barry Lopez

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

B. F. Skinner

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

Billy Corgan

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

Carrie Snow

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Beth Simone Noveck

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

David Smith

Validation and significance are two very different things. It's very valid as a standard. Whether it's significant is the question.

Mark Shapiro

I want it for us , ... not as any validation for me.

Herbert Marcuse

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory.

Erich Fromm

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

Jordan Peele

We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this."

Kurt Cobain

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.

Paulo Coelho

What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

Marlee Matlin

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.