Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Michel

We are all hoping that the news does not get steadily worse as the day progresses but we are fearful that the casualty figures may mount and that international support may be needed.

Ned Riley

The profits numbers will be mostly dismissed in the first quarter as a casualty of war. Now we'll see how much momentum we can pick up from the reverse of war negativity.

John Morrison

But reinsurance is treated differently than primary insurance under state insurance codes, and that's where people could see their rates go up for all lines of casualty insurance in the long term, whether its related to disaster or not.

Kathy Waterbury

We will follow federal guidelines on calculating casualty loss.

Louis Michel

We... are fearful that the casualty figures may mount,

Andrew Burns

Road safety is of paramount importance and to have casualty numbers drop by 75 per cent shows overwhelmingly that the road closure has been the right move.

David LeNeveu

You keep that in the back of your mind, but at the same time it's something you can't worry about as long as you prepare yourself properly every day, and the team does a great job of doing that. We're doing everything we can. It's just a casualty of hockey.

Rick Allen

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

John Dixon

the only casualty was a helmet that got run over by the S.U.V.

Raul Garcia

I did not know. If I would have known, I would have dismissed him immediately.

Chuck Palahniuk

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Morris Gleitzman

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.

Peter Guralnick

I think Elvis was dismissed because of his popularity,

Gary Link

I won't surmise from that that we've been 100 percent dismissed from the committee, because as soon as I would surmise that, I would misinterpret what someone had said to me. But that's accurate. We will not be involved in any of the meetings.

David Raskin

These similarities can't be dismissed as mere coincidence. He was in the middle of it, just like he told you from the witness stand.

Steve Smith

He actually dismissed the whole team and he showed us he wasn't playing. We haven't had a problem since.

John Silvia

You could have dismissed it six months ago as a one-time hit,

Eddie Fierek

It's done. He was dismissed from the team on Monday. We're going to move forward.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

Debbie Casto

We've got a very aggressive, trapping style of defense. And we get a lot of turnovers out of it. We've been able to get momentum with turnovers and score in transition.

Arthur Keith

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Ken Klee

Momentum switches in a heartbeat, ... I thought we were taking it to them, then there was one extraordinary play by their guy. ... I'd like to have it over again.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Isabella Rossellini

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Scott Westerfeld

Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Matt McGorry

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

Bregje Heinen

I do like to walk a lot. Mostly in New York. When I'm going somewhere, I'd rather just walk there.

Bernhard Goetz

I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels.

Bill Owen

I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

Carlos Castaneda

My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Brent Spiner

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

Selvin Young

We know we don't get a lot of attention. We just feel we're a numbers team. We let our numbers speak for us.

Dianne Feinstein

I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated.

Dianne Feinstein

It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.

Jessie Coiffard

We have to get focused. This was pretty much a practice game. Now we have to pick it up and play really hard.

Roger Dow

Vegas is going to pick up, too, ... If you want to party, everything's there restaurants, gaming.

Chris Colfer

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Dellena Criner

We're starting to pick it up at the end (of the season). We're focused.

Mike Scioscia

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's really picked it up.

Jared Dudley

We're not here to look at what the analysts pick. If you pick that, that's great. But first things first - we've got Pacific.

P. J. Harvey

We've got many weapons. You've got to pick your poison, whether you want it out at the perimeter or in the paint.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Sam Bodman

There's no way that we would support a windfall profits tax,

David Nicholson

The merchandising is where the real profits are made,

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

John Tyson

We said the second quarter would be very tough, and it was even tougher than we anticipated.

Glenn Reicin

We view this as a relatively uneventful quarter for Abbott.

Ben Horowitz

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

Willy Wonka

We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.

Jamshyd Godrej

When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.

Willy Wonka

So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

Javier Solana

For a long time there has been a lot of talk but not much action. I think we have to reverse that now.

Bob Hartley

It was like a photocopy (of the second period), just reverse it.

Japanese Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Richard Howard

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Carol Moseley Braun

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

Carol Vorderman

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

Carlos Castaneda

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.

Carlos Castaneda

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

Carlos Castaneda

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.