Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance.

Jeff Schuster

The Patriot can end up cannibalizing or competing with vehicles in the Jeep lineup and not provide the incremental volume that they hope it does.

Charles Koch

Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

Tinashe

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

Mike Campbell

We are not oblivious to other technologies competing for people's time ... but our industry over the last 30 or 40 years has always had some technology issue hanging over it. People want to get out of the home and socialize ... and they can't do that ... with a home theater system.

Tami Harrison

We had no depth. They only count the top four scores. Orlando had 18 kids competing on Level 10, and most of the other teams had at least 10.

Gina Moser

When you're on a synchronized skating team, you make a lot of friends, so instead of competing by yourself and feeling the emotion of winning or losing or just working hard by yourself, you share it with other people.

Robert Reich

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

Joe Blair

There are three stages to the game. There's learning the game, competing and winning. We're still between learning and competing. That's just the stages of development.

Virginia Postrel

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.

Kate Warne

Where consumers are likely to feel the pinch more is at the pump, where gasoline prices are likely to rise.

Noreena Hertz

With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

Sandro Veronesi

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.

Anton Kruger

We are grateful to local consumers for their increased consumption of ostrich meat, which expanded the local market considerably,

Yves Behar

Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

Bernie Sanders

States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Deborah Eisenberg

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

Donald Trump

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

Daley Thompson

Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.

Troy Garity

As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.

Nigel Winterburn

When a new manager comes you will have players that go with the flow and those that moan and groan. The back four was established and it was probably easier for us to go with it because we were part of that team anyway.

Christian Serratos

When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also... I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian.

Keifer Thompson

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.

John Edwards

When we raise the minimum wage, ... make it easier for labor to organize the workplace, it's good for the economy as a whole.

Dave Hakstol

When you're playing your third game in three days, it's a heck of a lot easier playing with the lead than it is trying to play catch-up. So getting a two-goal lead was obviously a key for us.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Dean Ornish

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

John Abizaid

There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall the trend is good,

Greg Aiello

We're very pleased with the overall state of our officiating.

John Abizaid

In terms of overall strength of the insurgency, I would say it is the same as it was,

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

Rick Bowers

Overall it was good. We had some disappointments and some surprises; it's all part of the game.

Nick Rahall

Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.

Mike Shinoda

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

Roger Short

Typically, we provide at least one, two or three (candidates) that are very strong.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Abdullah Gul

We are ready to provide every sort of help,

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

John Bunyan

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Kevin Spacey

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Mike Shinoda

I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

Sam Crawford

I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.

Lynn Flewelling

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

Len G. Murray

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

Olli Rehn

We recommend a constitutional evolution, rather than a constitutional revolution,

Alison Moyet

My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.

Karen Horney

Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

Will Champlin

It's liberating and rewarding to see your own ideas coming to fruition.

Elizabeth Gillies

If you're passionate about something and stick with it, even if your friends aren't doing it, it'll pay off. It can be really rewarding to stick to your guns.

Brendon Urie

One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.

Jaime Camil

When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.

Aaron Lowe

Being (here) has been wonderful. It's very rewarding after all of this time.

Stephen Schwartz

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

James O'Boyle

It's very rewarding work. There's a lot of variety; I can sit here and do books, write checks, wash cars, garden, embalm. That's what makes it interesting.

Sam Altman

The whole concept of rewarding customers is a big trend.

John Schuerholz

This has been as rewarding as any year I've been in baseball,

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

John Wanamaker

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

John Simon

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.

Pat Paulsen

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

Henry B. Eyring

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.