Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gerstenmaier

Wayne's qualifications and his ability to perform this job speak for themselves,

Denis Waitley

The ability to adapt is everything!

John Hancock

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

Tom Secunda

We had a way of looking up ZIP codes and looking up plane schedules. Now we're deciding whether our systems are better, or if we should just link to the Web. We have more options because we have the ability to transport Web content to our customers.

Tommy John

When I had it done in 1974, I didn't think it would be the epidemic it is right now. It's absolutely inexcusable. Personally I think it borders on child abuse. You get a parent that sees a kid that has pretty good ability and will hire coaches. They'll train year-round and then they'll wonder why their arm goes at 13 years old.

Larry Schmittou

When I got the job at Vanderbilt, he was our batboy. Cat had an uncanny ability to win things in the little fair-type games. He was always winning everything at the fair and whatever, and he'd bring the giant teddy bears to my kids.

Jessica Ford

When the level of play goes up, your skill ability needs to go up.

Bob Bennett

We're sensing that corporate IT managers are now trying to offer workers a more flexible lifestyle, with the ability to access applications and data from anywhere.

Paul Saffo

We're seeing the rise of independent specialists who have a deep understanding of things that big companies don't have the ability to do.

Chris Coleman

Wayne Bridge is a world class player and even though he is only just returning from injury, we are more than delighted to have him on board for the remainder of the season. Obviously with the World Cup around the corner Wayne is keen to play regular football and given that some big clubs were interested in signing him this window, we are delighted that he has chosen Fulham above everyone else.

Jodi Picoult

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids.

John Henrik Clarke

The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.

Al Goldman

We had a very big celebration yesterday but there is still a lot of fear in the market. We got above 11,000 and now we're retesting it in a very normal pause to refresh.

Harvey Shapiro

When the market was running at 20 and 15 days, people had to get in line to make offers that were at or above the list price. Now people have more time to make a decision.

Donald G. Mitchell

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

Theresa Breslin

My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency of the human spirit - the skill and insight of the writer lifting the parochial novel above the level of regional concern. Making it personal, national, and universal.

Tom Stoppard

Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that.

Lee Siegel

Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience.

David Viscott

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

David Walliams

I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.

David Walliams

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

David Rockefeller

Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world's economy. Because of my name and prominence as the head of the Chase for many years, I have earned the distinction of the "conspirator in chief" from these people.

David Rockefeller

Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

David Henry Hwang

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

David Hewson

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

David Hilbert

We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.

David Hilbert

Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

David Vitter

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

David Robinson

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

David Dreman

Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

August Bebel

The nature of business is swindling.

David Ogilvy

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

Frederic Bastiat

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

Chuck Mulloy

We acknowledge that representatives from the Korean FTC (Free Trade Commission) did pay an unscheduled visit to our office in Seoul earlier this week during normal business hours.

Alan Marks

We always feel we win in our business when we stay focused on our strategies and our customers. It has always been a competitive business and it will continue to be a competitive business.

Denis Waitley

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Dustin Moskovitz

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

David Packard

Lew was such a straightforward and honest guy. The employees loved him.

Terry McAteer

The fact of the matter is, that was a school day because we called our employees to work. Therefore, they were paid for that day of service. So it can't be a snow day at the point because you have your employees at the work place.

Karen Friedman

There are a lot of employees who are going to be fighting back this year. That's another story -- the employee pension revolution!

Michael W. Smith

No one is trying to terminate employees for expressing public opinion.

Svein Riibe

Since we only had a few employees then, it was a cost-effective option for us rather than getting our own e-mail server solution.

Linda Mitchell

She invited other people to come. There were many employees from (the Sheriff's Office) there.

Alison King

With United Way our main way of fundraising, by far, is payroll deduction where a company's employees pledge a portion of their paycheck to us.

Kim Petersen

The people working in these port operations, regardless of who owns them, will be exclusively American ... the same employees working for P&O.

David Icke

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.

Barry Bonds

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Audrina Patridge

I always take a cold shower to wake me up and close my pores. Then I moisturize my face.

Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Dennis McKenna

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Charles Colson

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

Kiesza

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

John Johnston

We needed a face for our business, something that better represents us.

Audre Lorde

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Charles Kettering

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

Blaise Pascal

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

Octavio Paz

Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.

Takeshi Uchiyamada

Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.

Tony Dungy

Like '94 with Warren Moon and Joe Montana, you'll see two future Hall-of-Famers in Saturday's game.

Alexandra Robbins

...make sure you are still living in the present, rather than for an uncertain future.

Jam Master Jay

Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!

Bernard Kouchner

Let's talk about the future, not about the past. Next time I will be sure that they will not tell me that there is a Serb side and an Albanian side. Here's a hospital that will reach through this bridge.

Derek Jeter

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Carlos Gomez

Make me an offer I can't refuse, and you can have the taco stand,

Ayn Rand

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

Kelli O'Hara

When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.

Bernhard Langer

We're here to offer our support and provide the people with some hope.

Palitha Kohona

We are awaiting a response from the Tigers to an offer of a private sea plane for their use.

Larry Templeton

We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.

Barbara Ehrenreich

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.

Cathy Freeman

Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.

Kim Anderson

There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana,

Donald Rumsfeld

does not reflect the strategic realities of today.

Eduardo Galeano

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Suzanne Vitadamo

She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Eric Poteet

He's not doing this for credit. He's doing this because he recognizes the need.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Jeremy Corbyn

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

Thomas Kochan

until we have a revision that reflects the way work is done today.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Kathy Burlison

Who we serve reflects where we are in the community.

Charles Bradford

It's not surprising at all, because (Nucor) reflects the market.

Sam Brownback

I do think she reflects the president, and I think that's the strongest thing, really, that she has going for her,

Mike Stevens

That got my attention. They were asking, 'What are the values we have between us and how can we take all that and put it into a venture that reflects our values?' That is the right way to think about being an entrepreneur.

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Matt Emmons

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

Michael Gray

It would secure ounces that they desperately need to secure.

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Francis Chan

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

David Walker

Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.

David Robertson

Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.

David Hyde Pierce

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

David Horowitz

Politics is about winning. If you don?t win, you don?t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

David Hobson

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

David Brinkley

She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You have to do everything possible to win no matter what.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.