Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Seligman

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

Harvinder Kalirai

We're seeing a benign neglect in terms of the weakness of the Japanese yen. There's little reason for the Japanese to be worried because it seems the lower the yen gets the bigger the support it gives to exporters.

Steve Roach

Policy makers are doing their best to try and convince market participants that there is a benign resolution to all our problems. That may not be the case.

Manuel Pangilinan

Growth in core earnings will be benign as revenue growth moderates.

Joseph P. Bradley

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.

Michael Malone

The PPI numbers support recent evidence that we are in a benign inflationary environment,

Joseph Biden

We quite frankly have no policy now; there is no policy. I would not call it benign neglect; I would call it malign neglect.

Bill Gross

We think that inflation will be benign and may come down from these levels.

Vince Farrell

We had a euphoric day yesterday because the market thinks Mr. Greenspan is going to be benign today,

David Suzuki

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

Jim Yong Kim

The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.

Bill Hayden

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural.

Martin O'Malley

We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carbon energy through fuel switching to natural gas and expansion of wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable non-carbon intensive energy sources.

David Roberts

The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

Mike Carey

Many ways of taking care of carbon dioxide are being studied, particularly carbon sequestration,

Nina Easton

Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

Gene Kitts

We're hoping that the carbon monoxide was just a byproduct of the explosion.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

The fact of the matter is our homes are on the frontlines when it comes to protecting and conserving our critical water resources - more than that, they are also key to protecting our health.

Rick Perlstein

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

Doyle Childers

We all have a responsibility to be good stewards of our natural resources. Conserving our soil and water resources is vital to keeping fields productive and improving water quality throughout Missouri.

Dave Caplan

We took tremendous damage from Hurricane Rita to our transmission system and those customers north of Houston are actually helping us because we are having some severe load-balancing problems. So, by conserving energy up there, they are actually helping us get the transmission grid back online. We expect to make some progress in the next few days.

Jason Bell

I think it is a very positive trend if we are moving away from agriculture ... which is very destructive for soil and habitats, ... But are we conserving wildlife ... or are we actually starting to farm these animals?

Tomas Scheckter

I thought he must be conserving fuel (in the first segment) and then he pitted (only) one lap before me. I knew at that stage he was going to be pretty tough to beat.

Keith Alexander

It is extremely important that our customers understand this is an early warning for all of us to start conserving water now, rather than face the possibility of more extreme measures later.

Sam Wright

Right now were under contract from our supplier so were not so much worried about the price as we are the availability, ... Well have to talk to all our departments about conserving and the emergency vehicles, there will be gas held back for them. We may not be cutting grass as much.

Jacques Villeneuve

Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.

Dan Daly

What we're really interested in generating is UA intellectual property. It offers a revenue stream from intellectual property.

Kevin Hall

From what I remember about Ronald Reagan, the last thing he would want is for 50 states to expend resources and time generating pretty proclamations that have no practical impact.

Bill Bryson

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.

Scott Burns

The reason they went with Buckley was that now that they're a lean mean machine, it's time to start growing that top line and generating some returns.

Ariel Pink

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

Charles Moose

The graphic is generating a lot of information, a lot of calls,

Kara Swisher

While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.

Tom Tintor

We are not generating the number of shots we need to get. When you only take 50 shots we are not in good shape we need to take 70.

Kim Weston

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Kate Bush

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

David Bowers

The reflation trade is back on. We are seeing more optimism about the global economy.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

Nick Hanauer

Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.

Tadashi Yanai

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

Leila Janah

I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.

Terry Teachout

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

Renzo Rosso

E-mail represents one of the most innovative technologies of recent years.

Jack Bicknell

They have an innovative offensive scheme that is tough to defend, ... Defensively, they have some tough blitzes for us to pick up.

Steve Ballmer

It's top priority for us to be an innovative company,

Sen. Hill

If you had not signed it, the public would know Innovative finances. The PSC, to some extent, is responsible for Innovative not providing quality service that Virgin Islands residents deserve.

Michael Palmer

This is a unique program and a national model for being a very innovative program.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Maria Sharapova

When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.

Tracey Emin

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

Tim Finchem

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Daniel Barber

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Jane Jacobs

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Edward Abbey

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Billy Connolly

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Mark Twain

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Tony Curtis

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

Tom Trill

The tail end of this year will be propped up and stimulated by Vista.

M. Thompson

When they're still on a ventilator and under a warming blanket,

Mike Hargrove

I probably would not use him for more than one inning. And if I got him warming up in the bullpen, I'd want to get him in the game.