Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy Mullin

Retailers don't want to alienate their loyal customers by making their return policies too strict, but they also need to create policies that discourage return fraud,

Joan Kirner

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Jon Katz

(Jesse) was alienated from school. He wasn't learning much. He didn't have a lot of teachers who were close to him. He didn't have social acceptance. He had never been invited to a party in high school. He's very much a loner.

Charles Albert Gobat

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Selwyn Pieters

It does more harm than good to the crime-fighting efforts of the police as the same people who should be enlisted to assist are those who are being alienated by feeling like they are under the gun.

Sheldon Brown

He didn't alienate every player. He did talk to some teammates. We all have to drop our egos, period, and become a unit. He has to put his trust in management that they'll do the right thing in the long run. Only he can decide that. Everyone in here has a job to do.

Robin Oakley

He did not say how people are going to change the technocrats who seem to be running French politics, who have alienated the people and who have gained Le Pen his temporary success.

George Foresman

has managed to alienate and humiliate all the very countries that we now need to help us maintain the peace both in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Greg Gianforte

If Oracle and the others are going to embrace this model, they have to alienate all their business partners and build a whole new ecosystem.

Paul Moroney

Paul does all the work, inspects all the yearlings at a sale and then we go through them together, form a final list, and then decide what to buy,

Bruce Sullivan

Our observers will be the eyes for the National Weather Service. They'll use the information to decide if they need to put a warning out for the county.

Kiran More

Our one-day team has being doing well and we have decided not to disturb the combination.

Jeff Butler

Our lease ran out and we decided not to renew because of all the construction (on U.S. 41). We loved that spot, but fiscally, we couldn't keep up with the sales we needed.

Ahmed Ali

Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the new election, we voted for the Sunni list.

Bob McKenzie

State engineers have taken a look at it and decided what we'd do to alleviate some of the problems we have there by reducing it to 45 mph.

Deborah Pierce

Some of our members heard about Nathaniel's situation and we decided to do what we could to help.

Chuck D.

Our plan was to develop some physical toughness. The last three years, we've really had that, and we decided that we needed to start that today.

Nancy Todd

Our girls just decided in the second game that we had the match won. After that, it was check-out time for us.

Glenn Walsh

Our objective has always been third and when we get there, we'll look at second place. These next games are extremely important. The third, fourth and fifth place teams are playing really well right now and if you lose two or three in a row, it could really drop you down in the standings.

Doug Johnson

Our main focus right now is our D zone coverage. Hopefully when the puck drops we'll be ready.

Alan Vituli

Sure it's a loss, but losses are funny things, when thing are going well, any piece that drops out of the equation seems like a loss. But things often work out.

Charles Grassley

Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.

Bob Gaudet

Our team played good hockey from the drop of the puck. It was a back and forth game, and the final minute was a reflection of that.

David Flanery

Our sales probably didn't drop off as fast as they should have when we grew so fast and weren't performing at the store level. We really fixed most of the issues starting in 2003 and on into 2004. We were very comfortable where we were, but we weren't seeing the sales results. We were starting to get very frustrated around here.

Kevin Kinel

Our focus has been on the state meet. I feel pretty good about going down to state. We'll have time drops there.

F. Stone

Our unemployment has been steadily dropping over the past several years. We are going from a time when people can't find jobs to the other end of the spectrum, where employers can't find people.

David Bradford

Risk managers who saw their renewal prices drop said they felt lucky, because those who experienced the hurricane effect are now explaining to their management why renewal premiums just went through the roof. The real question is whether Katrina and Rita will have a lasting effect and strengthen the market for a time -- potentially in all lines of business, not just property -- or whether this is a short-term blip in what has proved to be a pretty resolute soft market.

Charles Keating

Regarding the differences between playing in various mediums, television and theatre, one's job is to tell the story.

Bobby Cox

Reitsma can do the job, we know that.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Joe Torre

Stepping up is one thing, getting the job done is another.

Jim Christian

Some of my friends said I was taking the Kent job at the worst possible time. They said all I could do was go down.

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Roy Roberts

Our whole line did a nice job of moving people around.

Michelle Sommers

Right now negotiations remain civil. We want to keep it that way. We want to get the job done.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Steve Sampson

Management has never told me that, but regardless of what management's expectations are, my expectations are to win the trophy,

Richard Windsor

Management has been very slow to recognize there's a problem and do anything about it.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Lawrence Miller

Management offered a strategic update with no real surprises.

Richard Ratner

Management is going to have to take it. I'm sure it will go through. People will think it's mean, but the alternative would be pretty ghastly.

Howard Davidowitz

Kohl's is struggling badly. Not only are the not meeting sales targets, there are several questions swirling about recent management changes,

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Otis Smith

We've talked with them, but we've talked to a lot of teams. I still like the team that we've assembled, but we just haven't been able to see it together because of injuries. So we're having to look at some different things. You can't just be stagnant. Like they say, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Charley Casserly

We've talked to teams about the pick, and we're willing to move.

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Robert Philips

We've talked to him about opportunities within our cluster. It's really in Steve's court.

Bergen Evans

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Scott Lewis

I didn't give my trust to my guys,

Chris Duhon

If only we had an answer. Trust me, we don't know.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Jack McConnell

I don't trust him. He has wandering eyes!" ()

John Hill

I'd trust her with my wife and with my life,

Tim Duncan

I got a lot of (grief) for that, too. Trust me, I'm getting my share.

Charles R. Swindoll

We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.