Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Liu Jianchao

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. ... We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can solve the question properly through dialogue and diplomacy.

Maurice Hinchey

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions, ... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts.

John Hamre

Recent events where criminals were able to become customers have led us to take this strong action in order to regain the trust of consumers that their information is being used only for their benefit, or the benefit of society at large.

Kristen Kinley

Recall numbers vary from year to year, and they don't necessarily rise consecutively year after year, and they aren't in the case of Ford. This was a hit to our recall volumes, but the number of actions was down.

LeBron James

Record-wise and going into the playoffs, we can't improve. I'm trying to get as much rest as I can. I don't want to try to force the action by playing on an ankle that's not 100 percent.

Adrian Foster

Recent price action suggests the dollar-yuan is more loosely following the dollar.

Gary Chase

Recent price action in airline shares has created some price disparities that we believe investors should exploit.

Charles Holliday

Recent movements in long-leading economic indicators and in raw material prices offer hope that an end to the spreading global downturn is in sight, ... Despite that, we continue to take actions necessary to emerge from these difficult times as a much stronger company.

Mark Lamping

I think there are some things that if you're from St. Louis you have an inferiority complex about. We don't have the great residential condominiums of downtown Chicago or we don't have the number of Fortune 500 companies as we used to have. But there are those things we think we do really, really well, like the Cardinals and KMOX and I think we take great pride in those things.

Braden Looper

I was upset then. I was pretty naive. The Cardinals drafted me, and I envisioned playing my whole career there. I didn't know how long I would be in Florida.

Stewart Rahr

Joining forces with Cardinal Health supports Kinray's mission to help retail independent pharmacies serve as an integral provider of care for our evolving health care system.

Bob Carpenter

He is such a great personality in Cardinal lore.

Mark Potter

James Cardinal Gibbons was the most influential Catholic in the U.S. around the turn of the 20th century. This is the most historic crypt, from a Roman Catholic standpoint, in the United States.

Rex Ecarma

The ranking committee is comprised of other Midwest head coaches and for them to rank four Louisville players is testament to the growth of Cardinal tennis.

Reggie Sanders

If the Cardinals have me back, would I love to come back? Most definitely. But that's a long way away.

Juan Pierre

Mentally, we just didn't get it done for whatever reason. Stuff went our way a couple times in the Cardinals series, and this time we didn't put ourselves in a position to have things go our way.

Jim Crews

Obviously we didn't execute what we needed to execute to get that done. We did the cardinal mistake on that one. That's my fault.

Richard Josephson

Starr County has always been a difficult jurisdiction for corporate defendants. ... The people here are good people; they just tend to favor individuals in cases where there are corporate defendants involved. It's just a fact of life.

Charles Phillips

Some of the managers missed some of the initial run up in tech stocks, ... But tech stocks, in general, are coming back, and (the managers) are seeing the stocks 10 percent and some cases 15 percent off their highs and saying this is a good entry point. Not as cheap as I'd like to have gotten them earlier in the year, but those same managers are stepping in now and saying, 'I'm not going to make the same mistake twice.'

Elliot Cohen

Our preference is not to discuss these cases because they're ongoing and involve informants and information that we don't want to jeopardize.

John Locke

Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality.

Robert McCann

Our first option is not to ... go to court. That's never a first option. There are cases where, for whatever reason, the owners or operators don't want to take measures to comply with the environmental laws everyone else has to comply with.

James Krouse

Outsourcing has always generated significant political debate, which in some cases has stalled this sector's growth at the state and local level. As the economy continues a strong recovery, we expect outsourcing opportunities to increase on the state and local level.

F. Schumacher

Man, that was intense, ... I didn't expect that I would have to pedal it right there, but I didn't want to give up that $100,000 without fighting for it. I wish everyone could experience that rush because then they'd know why we do what we do. It's just great to win the Budweiser Shootout and get $100,000, 50 cases of beer, and a ride with the Clydesdales.

Anthony Ricco

Most of these cases become the battleground for fundamental issues that every defendant has in a criminal case.

Frank Jackson

We never like cases to take this long, but they happen. The court has heard that request (to continue the current trial date), but has so far denied it.

Bart Melek

Recent oil and fuel inventory trends are clearly demonstrating that the oil industry is no longer in crisis mode and that energy prices are likely to continue to soften.

Dipen Sanghavi

Reliance Industries has clearly led the rise today, and investors are confident because of the fund flows into the market.

Stephen Greene

Our research shows that event information consistently ranks as one of the top three requests by visitors to our Web site. People clearly want to know all their options as they map out their vacation plans.

John Skipper

Our research and the ratings clearly suggest that a daily show may have been too much.

Scott Paluch

Parse and Thomas are clearly as good of a one-two combination as there is throughout the country. But on the other side of the ice we have a pretty good combination of our own.

Richard Petersen

Part of the weakness has to do with global IT demand. This is a moderately negative signal about the tech spending outlook. But it's clearly more than just IBM.

B. R. Hayden

Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing more testing around the state in streams and lakes and fish, and we're finding more of it.

Joseph Biden

Staying the course is clearly something the American people will not follow ? will not follow. So tell us, what are the standards?

Ted Lempert

Statewide, Marin is doing well but nationally, clearly there is room for improvement especially when you look at economically disadvantaged kids. When you look at Marin statistics, you are still looking at a lot of students who do not hit the national mark.

William Shakespeare

Our wills and fates do so contrary runThat our devices still are overthrown;Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Jacques Chirac

(It) is contrary to the wishes of the (U.N.) Security Council and the international community,

Matt Blunt

I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court's decision. The decision is highly offensive to traditional Missouri values and is contrary to state law, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from being spent to facilitate abortions,

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Leo Nikolaevich

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

P. J. O'Rourke

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

Ha-Joon Chang

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ellen G. White

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Lee Janzen

Part of his learning process is helping other guys.

Rick Ruffin

Our movement on breaking, it wasn't good. We weren't helping John out, so I don't want to pin it on him.

Brad Hemphill

Rochelle (Rocha) and Darlene stepped up tonight. Brooke Bingham is still helping us off the bench, as well.

Shawn Chacon

I'm happy. Being in a race and helping the team, I don't think I could have written a better script.

Peter Byrne

I'm impressed. I thought we would have had more of a subtle day, but the financials are up strong, so that is helping us out here.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Beck

There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

Bill Engvall

Just when I think the human race has been lost to the what about me people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.

C. S. Lewis

I pray because I can't help myself...

Tim Danson

Steve has indicated to me his progress has been slower than he would have liked. But he is very positive and optimistic and has every intention of getting better and resuming his NHL career.

O. Singh

It is not my intention to put people on tenterhooks but that is how it is because of the weather.

Ehud Barak

It is my intention to be everyone's prime minister. Whatever the differences of opinion between us, we are brothers,

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Dan Brooks

You have to find out everything you possibly can about what their intentions are so you can be prepared.

Gigi Brown

I didn't have any intention of leaving, but I took a chance.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

Susan Hill

We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.

Chris Stevens

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

Teresa Schilling

Play it safe, protect yourself and stay with the tried and the true.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Haley Jowle

I think she was trying to protect me.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

JoAnn Carrin

He just wants to make sure the wetlands are as protected as they can be.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Yvonne Johnson

I go for public safety ... for public health.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

John Calipari

We were just settling for two many 3s.

Confucius

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Cindy Gallop

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for.

Elizabeth I

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

David Ginola

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

Yvonne Williams

When I was a child, I'd go down to see the water after a storm, just to see it settling down, for reassurance,

Kara Cook

We're just now settling down. It's a lot of fun.

Patrick Campanelli

I think the videotape impeaches her on that issue. I think, in fact, the videotape shows that she's lying.

Barry McCaffrey

The 1998 study shows that we have turned the tide of youth drug use.

Joss Whedon

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

Guy Hansen

He didn't panic, ... and that shows you a lot about a young guy.

Graham Elliot

I think what somebody orders and how they eat and cook really shows who they are.

Tony Danza

We did 112 shows and had 112 parties.

Rob Sheldon

I think it shows that these are all outstanding kids.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think it shows how out of touch they are,

Jeff Schulte

He's a well-rounded athlete. And it shows on the tennis court.