Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wang Jianlin

China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite.

Deborah White

When the oil market notices that China is back, and remembers the fire that China's exploding oil demand lit under prices last year, the 'China factor' alone should be sufficient to floor near-term prices.

Kelly McDonald

When the meet was over and everyone had left, all I was left with was the pain. I went to see the doctor right after that and came out and lights were off in the arena and everyone was gone. It was dark, I was alone and I didn't feel good. I didn't feel like I'd just had an amazing meet.

Lee Atwater

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

Kumail Nanjiani

I stay home. It's the best place to be alone. There is hardly any walk-through traffic.

Mallory Ortberg

I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

Ralph Bellamy

Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

St. Teresa

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the yogi seated in solitude and alone having mind and senses under control and free from desires and attachments for possessions, try constantly to contemplate on the Supreme Self.

Steve Schneider

We actually find it not at all difficult in China -- it is more about how you drive growth; how you utilize technologies and how you train people.

Liu Zhengrong

Major U.S. companies do this and it is regarded as normal. So why should China not be entitled to do so?

Tim King

We are going to launch our first joint venture in the middle of this year with China Resources (Holdings) Co Ltd, our largest franchise partner.

George Bald

We have so many companies at Pease that are involved in international business. China is the world?s seventh-largest economy today and will likely be the fifth by the end (of 2006).

Tim Adams

The real issue is 'How do you help China integrate into the global economy in a way that maximizes growth and minimizes disruptions?

Jan Lambregts

There is a lot of focus on the visit and understandably so. China has shown last year that it will give into significant outside pressure. It wants to do as little as possible and escape a protectionist fall out.

Joyce Ma

When I met her in Hong Kong I was very touched by how she welcomed the eastern culture to be her own. And she was there, not now when China is open, but when it was during the cultural revolution,

Alex Wong

Net interest margins in Hong Kong remain under pressure and Standard Chartered Bank's performance here in 2005 would likely not be as strong as in China and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific where it has expanded aggressively.

Kate Saunders

Nepal uses its strengthening relationship with China to offset its dependence on India. Tibet is of crucial importance in all of that dynamic.

David Ricardo

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

David Ricardo

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

Al Gore

When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

Blaise Pascal

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

Bill Hybels

Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.

Marilynne Robinson

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

Dave Messing

Mainly, we have to look at the demand in the marketplace and have the right number of seats to meet that.

David Brainerd

Madison Marquette is expanding Festival at Waldorf to meet the community's increasing demand for high quality retail destinations.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.

Drew Bledsoe

We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now.

Thomas Vinterberg

The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before.

David Cash

We're seeing an exploding market. The overall competitive pressures are still there. It's intense and the pricing reflects that.

Trey Anastasio

I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point.

Ben Phillips

There are opportunities that are exploding in overseas markets.

Jon Corzine

(Local governments) still have to pay for those services. Gas prices still go up, teachers' salaries still go up, pensions still go up, ... You can have the growth in the underlying value of property taxes exploding even though there is this so-called 30 percent reduction.

Jim Schmidt

We are seeing stuff that hasn't happened in the last decade. We are seeing cedar trees ... igniting 40 feet in front of our fire trucks - exploding with no moisture in it.

Stephen Hawking

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

Jason Briscoe

We realize there is a need to grow, but we don't want it to be an exploding town.

David Walker

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

Beatrice Webb

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

Bear Grylls

Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.

Barney Ross

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Barry Commoner

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Barney Frank

I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 Senators there and they'll all die because they won't have the 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.

Mark Larson

Way back when, there were many stores on Main Street. I think a fire took several of the original town's buildings.

Denis Leary

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Josh Boone

Mainly it's Marcus, to be honest with you. Marcus is telling me a whole lot of times where to go. He'll just come up to me after a play and say, 'Next time slip that.' I'll be like, 'All right,' and he'll just throw a perfect pass. It just really helps to have a guy like him on the floor leading us.

Michelle Perkins

This will provide better access. People won't have to go the second and third floor any more.

Tom Hank

There are whole floors of people in studios that worry about such things, as though there is power that can be wielded over such matters,

Cary Thompson

She ran our offense all year. She was a real floor leader for us.

Al Northington

She just stepped it up, ran the floor and was a great leader.

Jim Jeske

She meant a lot for us, and was a stabilizing force on the team. We needed her on the floor for as many minutes as possible.

Ray Allen

Mentally it just got worse, ... And physically, you're just running up and down the floor and it seemed like everything just went their way. Again, I know we'll recover from this.

Chuck Benda

My job is pretty easy. I just turn them loose on the floor and let them play.

John Beilein

Senior players have helped us make our style work. It just opens the floor for us, whether people are in man or zone.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Barry Commoner

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Alan Dershowitz

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Charles Darwin

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Blaise Pascal

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Blaise Pascal

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

Blaise Pascal

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

David Hume

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

Benicio Del Toro

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

Bear Grylls

Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.

Audre Lorde

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

Audre Lorde

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Audre Lorde

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

Audre Lorde

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

Audre Lorde

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

Arnold Bennett

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Charlene Li

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Robin Li

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Deborah White

We're just going from U.S. market report to U.S. market report.

Ben E. King

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

Larry Goldstein

The one thing the market doesn't have is time and the administration reacted expeditiously this time. This was good.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

Nancy Heaton

We would stress to all of them that these are preliminary notices only.

Gail Sheehy

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

David Dixon

Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

Dennis Kucinich

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

Al Gore

The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.

Al Gore

The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.

Al Gore

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

Jared Bernstein

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

Carol Browner

There could be oil coming up until August.

Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not about oil.

Bob Dylan

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

C. J. Mahaney

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

Ali Smith

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

James Yonts

When will he be captured? ... I can't give you a date, but I can tell you this: Everyone remembers 9/11.

E. O. Wilson

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Walter Price

He remembers I took him to Carmichael two years ago. I don't remember.

Denise Moore

He never remembers us together. This is the only time he remembers me is in prison.

Idries Shah

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

Proverb Proverb

The mother-in-law remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law.

Donald Judd

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

Greek proverb

A tomb now suffices him (Alexander) for whom the whole world was not sufficient

Judith Rodin

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.