Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Maduro

I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.

Carl Jung

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Larry Fitzgerald

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

Leymah Gbowee

I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

Denzel Washington

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

Asif Ali Zardari

On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.

Tony Hawk

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

Marilyn Bouldin

There are people out there that started out with a disadvantage in life. They work hard and aspire to own a home. We want to help them with that dream. They need a hand. It's not a handout.

Samantha Shannon

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

Ken Lynch

Tom was a brilliant chairman who raised thousands of pounds for the association and I am sure Mitchell will also do a great job.

Salam Fayyad

We want the new cabinet to succeed. But this requires an understanding on many issues, especially the nature of the Palestinian political system and the role of the president of the Palestinian Authority, who is also the chairman of the executive committee of the PLO.

Patrick Vogt

We want to thank Bob Rice for his many years of service to the Company, as a founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board. Bob has been a visionary in the industry for many years and was the force behind our industry-leading graphics technology platform. We wish him success in his future endeavors.

Jerrold Nadler

The other thing that I wanted to say -- and that I will say at this point, even though the chairman is not going to listen,

Ellen Tauscher

We appreciate the chairman responding to us but we also find his response deeply disturbing. The letter appears to have been written without any investigation of the specific facts in this case. It also appears there was no consultation with the Democratic members of the House Administration Committee.

Mark Stahlman

We believe that R&D has been fixed, costs are under control and the customer base is diverse and large enough to support sustained growth. We take Mr. McNealy at his word that his continuing role as Sun's CEO and Chairman will last only as long as the 'job isn't done.

Ken Mehlman

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.

Edward Johnson, III

Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

Kamisese Mara

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

Muriel Siebert

We're going to see what Bush says tonight, and we're going to see what Greenspan says tomorrow -- now that's a real one-two punch.

Allan Meltzer

What he's shown is that you can have full employment and low inflation at the same time. The Keynesian school didn't believe that, but Greenspan showed that it could be done.

Ken Tower

There is no person on the planet who is going to be able to fill Greenspan's spot without a test, ... I'm not sure that it's a coincidence that the market crash of 1987 happened two months after Greenspan took office.

Scott Graham

This will not alter Greenspan from his tightening course. As long as consumer demand remains healthy, he will be vigilant on the inflation front.

Anthony Chan

Yes, Greenspan does admit the obvious, that the real federal funds rate has risen considerably, but he quickly concludes that the rate 'remains fairly low'. This is Fed-speak for the notion that the Fed will continue to raise rates by a quarter percentage point...as far as the eye can see.

Bernard Baumohl

On the other hand, Greenspan seems satisfied that his tightening has had a lasting effect. He's likely to stand pat for the rest of the year.

Alice Rivlin

I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.

Tom Schlesinger

I would bet anything they rue the day they got trapped into these terms like measured, patient. The signals Greenspan and others have given is that measured still the way they want to present their stance. It's now measured with a 'but,' behind it though.

Gary Thayer

If we hadn't heard from Greenspan last week that the Fed is still worried about an uneven recovery, we might be more upset about these numbers. But Greenspan is concerned that these retail sales numbers could falter later on so these numbers probably won't have that great an impact.

Jim Grant

We've asked departments in the last two years to trim back and be as frugal as possible so we'd have the dollars to provide the services we need to provide.

Chris Hadfield

When I was nine, I wanted to be an astronaut but at that time there weren't any Canadian astronauts. You had to be American or Soviet. So many things will be possible in your lifetimes.

Richard Campbell

When it comes right down to the crunch, it's very possible that we're still going to have to import people at whatever price it will take, to bring them here to help us finish things off.

Peter Gallagher

When I was a child, nobody I knew of ever became an actor or entertainer - it was just not something that seemed possible for regular people.

Jim Wicklund

We remain positive based on economic activity and E&P spending; we're also positive on 2007 but see some risk to E&P spending given the potential squeeze on returns (with) a possible moderation in commodity prices in '07. Visibility remains too good to worry too early, however.

Harry Reid

We respectfully request that you reconvene hearings as soon as possible to take these witnesses sworn testimony about their roles in the Cheney energy task force and the recent run-up in American fuel prices,

Larry Davis

We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day.

Jim Hall

We're going to run approximately 10 flight tests, ... A couple of those will try to replicate as closely as possible TWA 800.

Dusty Baker

We're going to give him as much playing time as possible this week, so we can make up our mind. I'm sure when you get to this point in your career you consider all the possibilities, and I'm sure he's doing some evaluation of his own abilities. So, yeah, these are important days for him.

Ellen Bogard

We're going to replace them all just to make sure.

Kristen Kinley

When we have seen the fire reports increasing, we have recalled those vehicles and replaced those switches. Ford has used the basic switch design in a large number of vehicles and the risk of fire related to the switch is much different in those certain populations that we have recalled.

Pat Leahy

What a great honor it is for all of us - Republicans, Democrats and independents - to serve in this body. Only 100 of us get a chance to do it at any given time. Some day we will be replaced by others. What an honor it is to be here, but what a responsibility.

P. J. Harvey

What happens with these guys (organizations) is it's very hard to find a successor. When the charismatic founder goes away, who's going to replace him?

Matt McGowan

We graduated our top five boys, too, so we're searching for people to replace those points.

Brian Peterson

We believe we are in a period of new demand for products made from the corn wet milling starch stream as we find opportunities to replace products derived from high-priced petroleum. The strong demand should lead to improved long-term returns from corn processing operations.

Jim White

We believe this will save time and money because we're providing a computer system to replace a paper one.

Michael Blythe

We are getting the investment we need to see. It continues the theme of rebalancing in the economy: slowing consumer spending and housing being replaced with stronger exports and investment.

Michael Blythe

We are getting the investment we need to see, ... It continues the theme of rebalancing in the economy: slowing consumer spending and housing being replaced with stronger exports and investment.

Victoria Principal

We're going to succeed big or fail big, ... This is not a show that I think that you can just be ho-hum about. It's the 'Brady Bunch' on acid.

Jan Adams

We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and other government watch lists. And we succeeded in doing so by making public hundreds of pages of documents that not only confirmed the existence of the 'no fly' list, but exposed many of the serious problems with the secret list. Only by informed public debate can we make our government accountable and our country safer.

Don Garber

We believe we are a team that can succeed in East Los Angeles and New York City, but we also can succeed in places like Columbus and Salt Lake,

Thomas Gould

We're going to identify students who have the potential to succeed at selective universities.

Joe Tracy

United Tote is the technology provider for many of the premier racing facilities in the world. These customers understand what's needed to succeed in today's technology driven business climate.

Velupillai Prabhakaran

With the mediation help by the Norwegian government, I believe this process will succeed this time.

Rob Ashe

We're extending our strategic alliance with IBM in order to drive innovation deeper into the marketplace. We think with this alliance our organizations will be more tightly aligned and in an optimal position to help our customers succeed with their business-intelligence and performance-management initiatives.

Chad Anderson

We're a work in progress and that's the reason you play in these type of tournaments, to learn how to do different things. Today was learn how to hold the ball and unfortunately, we didn't succeed as much as we wanted to.

Akhenaton

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.