Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Jennings

Sure, we could drive stock prices up for one quarter or two quarters, but that's not the best thing for the company or its shareholders. The pain of sustainability is far better than the agony of the rubber band breaking.

C. S. Lewis

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

Carl Rogers

Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

Ross Perot

I think it's plain that the president should resign and spare the country the agony of impeachment and removal proceedings,

Steven Goldstein

Laurel's in a lot of physical pain, and to have that exacerbated by this emotional agony is one of the most disgraceful things. Imagine what it's like to have terminal cancer and knowing your partner may not be able to keep the home that the two of you built together.

William Faulkner

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.

Ed McComiskey

He was in agony the whole time. I wasn't even aware of it, he just told me. I knew he had back problems but I had no idea how painful it was." ()

Barry Gibb

My lower back problems really began in 1989 on the One For All tour, which was agony for me.

Britt Ekland

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

Jerry York

Patrick had a very productive career here at BC and we wish him all the best as he begins his professional career.

Pauline Flynn

Peace is possible. It begins with a vision or dream and comes through persistence, hard work and belief in ourselves.

Jim Rose

Some of the miners are calling the coal a black Band-Aid. The healing process begins today.

David Dow

Our season for upland game begins on the first of September and runs to the end of April.

Brian Seymore

Our season begins now, as far as I'm concerned. We lost to the best team in the state, as far as I'm concerned, but if we lose next week, our season is over.

Stephen Bates

Our work with students no longer begins when they're starting kindergarten, ... It starts much earlier than that. It's also true our work with kids doesn't end with graduation. It continues well beyond that.

John Hughs

Rising rates is the excuse, ... Genuinely, there is worry about the impact of rising rates, because maybe people didn't think that they would rise so quickly, but that fear begins to feed on itself.

Heywood Broun

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Robert Hirsch

Little is known about the environmental occurrence of many chemicals we use to maintain and improve the quality of our daily lives, ... This study begins a process of exploring the occurrence of these chemicals in our nation's streams.

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

Matthew Dobson

Paul is a good friend of mine and I really wanted to support all the people who have put together this race. It's a big deal for Pensacola to have this. I wasn't looking forward to calling (Paul) and telling him I couldn't run, but there really was no other alternative. I had to do it.

Dianna Booher

Our mission is not just to make a profit, it is to fulfill a calling . . . An ethical standard is higher than a legal standard.

Mike McCormick

People have been calling me that, but I deny it." ()

Jeff Petersen

People have been calling KCSU and requesting our songs, that's awesome.

Gloria Davis

People have really been nice in calling and sharing their concern.

Riley Wallace

Our power guys inside, I'm calling them floaters now because there's no power. We're not scoring in the paint.

John Tait

Our suppliers are mostly down east, and when we were calling saying we need 140 hippos, the first question is, 'What are you doing with all these hippos?' It's funny, because down there there's no demand for it.

Julia McCray

Our fund-raiser tells us that it can take three, four or five meetings before you get companies to commit (to a project like this), which could take four to eight months. But he was really encouraged by their response. He had people calling him the day after the show." ()

Walt Fricke

Our campaign is designed to reach out to this 50 percent -- those who are uncomfortable calling their mortgage company.

John Brown

It fulfills some of our strategic objectives, particularly in gas,

Vijay Saraswat

Instant messaging fulfills two human needs -- one is a fundamental human need and the other is more an American need.

Rob Enderle

Gateway has been meeting its commitments, ... It makes a promise, and it fulfills that promise. That's something Gateway hasn't done for years.

Atharva Veda

A devotee, who spends his time in austerities has nothing to worry about as God fulfills all his needs.

John Morrison

Regular Montanans are the ones who need help, not big insurance companies. We need to be passing laws with the consumers' interest in mind, not the special interests.

David Anderson

Our offense waited until the sixth inning to come alive, but at least it did and put some insurance runs on the board.

J. Horton

Some of the larger-ticket items needed to be looked at by the insurance company.

Rick Whatley

Our road service insurance is what we are so well known for.

John Corlett

I think the public's primary consideration when they shop for insurance is price.

James Carter

He said I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't have any insurance and I said you're going to start rebuilding now, because I'm volunteering my services right now.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Brian Cashman

We will need choices, You always do. It's somewhat of an insurance policy. He's also prepared to go to Triple-A.

Gary Johnson

I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.

Heat Moon

Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.

Bucky Lasek

Staying on top is what keeps me going, but I pick my spots more,

Brandy Frazier

That's the main thing, as long as they get done the momentum keeps going. You have to pick it up, that play is over and the next play is coming.

Paul Hornung

It all keeps me busy, I love Louisville. I'll always be in Louisville.

Jim Montgomery

I think the theaters are wise to find a specialty, something that is their forte, that they can then sell or entice theatergoers to come to because that's what they're looking for. You'd be nuts not to give it to them. It keeps the theater alive.

Stephen Kay

I don't ever think she should be paroled because she keeps minimizing her participation (in the killings),

Jim Peterson

I'd like to see it keep going, but it's just not there. We're getting less and less people in there and the overhead keeps going up. I don't know what else to do.

Brian Gionta

He kept us in the game. Obviously Marty is Marty, he always keeps us in the game. There's not much else you can say about him, we're just lucky to have him back there.

Keith Richardson

He keeps switching the names of the owners on the deed,

Eric Dubin

Regardless of what she did for a living, Bonny loved her kids and her kids loved her,

Tony Arntson

Really what we are focussed on is getting better each week. The kids keep competing.

Joan Chen

Relatively speaking, I was a lot more naive than kids today.

Craig Pippen

Our players have stayed positive even though we haven't come up with some wins. There's been some negativity surrounding our program, and the kids haven't listened to it.

Mark Douglass

Our rebounding killed us. In all of our losses rebounding has been an issue. We must become a better rebounding team. We need kids to step up.

Kendy Hinkel

Parents will see differences in the way kids are talking about what they learn.

Jim Wiscombe

Part of it was fatigue. We didn't sub a lot and kids got tired. We didn't make plays we normally make.

Billy Donovan

Part of it is youthfulness, but the one thing about the kids is that they're in every game.

Bob Williams

Part of this river is the Native Americans and the people we took it from. These kids never had that as part of their experience, so why not throw that in?

C. S. Lewis

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

Don DePalma

For me this is just one of the fundamentals of doing business: If I can't understand what you're selling me, I'm not buying.

Merle Olberding

For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't start selling until Wednesday.

Aimee Mann

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Keith Nowak

We don't make enough on selling accessories that (standardized ports) would be that big of a deal.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Steve Wilson

Some of the things offensively are starting to come together,

Beck

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Brian Boland

I think Doug is starting to take it to another level.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Anquan Boldin

I think we are just starting to get where we need to be.

Marcus Williams

I think that we know we're good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but we're starting to see flashes.

Andre Williams

I think everybody's starting to realize, we've got to make it work. We've got to get through it.

Simon Gagne

I'm starting to feel better. ... I have to say, I think the three of us are starting to feel a little more energy.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Jeremy Corbyn

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.

Jon Kyl

Some may think that's old-fashioned, but it's really the way it's supposed to be,

Dwight Howard

Man, we're supposed to get wins like that, ... That's a tough loss.

James Gandolfini

I was just supposed to say what I was supposed to say and get out.

Horace Jenkins

That was probably one of the toughest things. I did everything I was supposed to do. I just took it as a test from God.

Manny Acta

I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Roy Hall

I think for us it would be more satisfaction than any other year if we won the title. We are not supposed to win and that is what makes it more exciting.

Douglas Booth

I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

David Elias

I think it's wonderful what we're going through,

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Charles Darwin

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.