Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Davis

Recent economic data gives us confidence that corporate spending is coming back to life, so I'm hoping sales could be above $5 billion. That would set a strong tone for the rest of the year,

Matthew Dowd

President Bush maintains an approval on the economy in the mid-forties -- exactly what Clinton had at the end of 1995 and above what Reagan had in 1983.

Shen Haihua

Prices above 50,000 yuan will have some negative impact on demand, but in this bull market consumers may be forced to accept these levels.

Andrew Kerr

Our re-analysis revealed that the distance of a village from the coast and the height of the village above sea level explained 87 percent of the variation in mortality among villages.

Ron James

Particularly defensively, we're starting to come into our own. In an Arena Football League game, when you're getting above four stops, you should be able to win every one of those games going away, and we did.

Tony Crescenzi

Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be approximately two percentage points above the inflation rate,

George Nathan

Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Grant Wistrom

Our new guys have come in and believed that they belonged from the first day. They practice like it and then they go out there on Sunday and show it. Without those guys, we are an average football team, a little above .500. I think we owe them a lot.

E. Hurley

Our message between zero and .08 is a responsibility message. The message of .08 and above is an illegal message.

S. Walker

Regardless of people's skepticism, I am pursuing what is (and has been) my dream for my own purposes. I appreciate the importance that so many others have placed on this effort, but I would still do it if I was alone and no one was watching.

Andrew Bacevich

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

St. Teresa

Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God sufficeth.

John Schneider

People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

Annie Dillard

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Richard Doherty

Stern alone can make Sirius bigger than XM within a year.

Jamelle McMillan

Starting off I think there were doubts. Nobody outside of our school, maybe even our gym, thought we were going to be here, let alone in state, period.

Rachel Platten

'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.

Chris Heaney

Our goal is always to win state, so those goals will stay the same. Bringing him in here with 500 wins, that alone will help us greatly.

Bill Bradley

. . . I think I do understand the dynamics

Scot Pollard

I think (the style of play) is working for us right now. The dynamics are there, we just have to keep from getting selfish and keep playing the right way.

Brad Childress

I don't feel we're struggling to run the football. I think we've been in some games with different dynamics where you weren't comfortable standing there thinking, 'I'm going to run it between the tackles.' That probably wouldn't be a good thing to do if you're down 17 or 20 points.

Rick Church

Never before have we had so many women in combat. Historically these women are single moms and the heads of the household. As they come home those dynamics are going to be very intense to watch.

John Snow

We're simply making an inquiry to make sure we're on top of the situation in the Treasury markets, ... The reason to do this is simply to make sure that we're on top of the situation, understand the dynamics of that market.

Gina Bellman

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

Bruce Vilanch

The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.

Mark Mahaney

Expedia faces some very challenging industry dynamics right now, and we will have to wait and see whether the new team is up to the task,

Tom Anderson

You can feel surfaces, you can feel textures, you can feel dynamics and momentum.

Mircea Geoana

surprised with the deployment of security forces ... without consultation of the international community.

Jim Waters

Our security forces did their job and prevented something from happening that was much worse,

Donald Rumsfeld

Our goal is to get large numbers of international forces from lots of countries, including those two,

Mark McClain

Our goal is not to strike, but we will retain all legal self-help options if management forces our hand.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Pranab Mukherjee

It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.

Ron Kaminski

It forces one to step back a bit.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Bob Streeten

I was pleased to see us overcome a lackluster first quarter. I don't think we hardly got off a shot in the first.

Tom Rowe

I think it's too much of a major league market. Nobody thinks minor league sports. They're hardly on the radar.

Shahzia Sikander

I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.

Chris Burke

I was hardly the hero tonight. Roy was great.

Greg Willis

He did not hardly play any offensive line last year.

David Morse

He didn't hardly ever wear a hat around here,

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Seth Meyers

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.

Arthur Conan

I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see.

Dan Corridon

Reconciliation is huge with us. It's a mantra.

Lee Raymond

Our numbers are huge because the scale of our industry is huge,

J. J. Johnson

Some people are doing it, but there haven't been huge numbers yet.

Bill Cleary

Our schedule was very tough this season and it's been a huge success largely because of the strength of our schedule.

Bryce Fisher

Rocky made a huge play, and the next thing you know, we've scored 14 points in (30) seconds. That's how you win in this league.

Miss Robinson

Representing Maryland agriculture, our state's No. 1 industry, has been a huge honor,

Matthew Henderson

I think the speaker's work, the governor's work and our work made huge headway.

Rob Wheeler

I think there is a huge need to get the word (out).

Alan Davidson

I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.

Gitesh Pandya

Star Wars' is going to be a massive hit,

Russell Tovey

Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now...' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known.

Rick Sherlund

I think that would take the stock down a lot. It would open them up to massive follow-on litigation.

Marketing Manager

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.

Paul Mooney

There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.

Donald Fiske

Just wait. It will be a massive change. I would say to Wolfeboro: You don't really know what the possibilities are of how your town will be affected.

Donald Fiske

Just wait. It will be a massive change, ... I would say to Wolfeboro: You dont really know what the possibilities are of how your town will be affected.

Donald Fiske

Just wait. It will be a massive change, ... I would say to Wolfeboro, you don't really know what the possibilities are of how your town will be affected.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

Helen Johnson

Our outlook for military tent sales this year and next remains unchanged until we have orders in hand,

Barry McCaffrey

At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.

B. H. Liddell Hart

For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

B. H. Liddell Hart

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

B. H. Liddell Hart

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

B. H. Liddell Hart

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

Charles Cotton

The shadows now so long do grow,That brambles like tall cedars show,Molehills seem mountains, and the antAppears a monstrous elephant.

Holly Black

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

John Knox

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

Bob Stein

Our politics may be Republican, ... but that's just a temporary condition.

Moira Kelly

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Michael Bennett

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Rob Lowe

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Al Gore

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Becca Fitzpatrick

I’m really starting to like all this spy work,” Vee said. “When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.

Edward Snowden

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

Cliff Stearns

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

Daniel Craig

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

Alison Bechdel

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Ally Carter

Hello, ladies," Joe Solomon said, but not before I snatched the piece of paper and crammed it in my mouth, which ordinarily would have been really great spy maneuvering except that Josh didn't use Evapopaper. "How's the lasagna?" Mr. Solomon asked, and I started to say something before I remembered that my mouth was...well...otherwise engaged.

Elia Kazan

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

Cass Sunstein

If you can kill them, why can't you spy on them?

Jeremy Northam

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Joseph Lisanti

We like it even though the stock has been weak recently.

Robert D. Hare

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

John Dunn

There's a lot of systems on (boats). They're complicated.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Andy Fisher

Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Shorten

I think they understand that what's being done is in their interests.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Charles Jackson

I think a lot of us don't understand circumstantial evidence.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.

Lakpa Sherpa

I think this is a very wealthy country.

Charles Babbage

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Ludwig von Mises

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

Ayn Rand

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Dave Ramsey

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

Babe Ruth

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Walter Benjamin

I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!

Alfred Marshall

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.