Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

William Cavendish

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Mark Shapiro

The only fulfillment I'll allow myself is when we're playing again in October and hoisting pennants above Jacobs Field. We can't stop now.

Chris Patten

The political situation is as hot as the temperature. I think frankly we are on a knife edge. There has to be some movement, I think, above all on the question of terrorism in order for us to see people pulling back from the brink. And that has to come soon.

Eliot Brenner

The pilot got the warning in the cockpit. He was climbing and then descended a few hundred feet. He then reported that the Air Force plane passed 500 feet above him.

Valentina Tereshkova

There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

Vladimir Potanin

To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.

Paul Haggis

The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.

Simon Mainwaring

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

Ed Orgeron

When a recruit comes in or commits, we lay out everything all the do's and don'ts and conditions of that (scholarship offer). We have to protect ourselves. Protect the program.

Kristen Meyer

We have made an effort to get the message out there. But we're not working in ideal conditions here.

Michelle Jensen

We did well on a day where the conditions were not very good.

Bill Owens

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

Orison Swett Marden

The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

Debbie Ford

In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.

Shawne Merriman

We're a team with speed. No matter what the conditions are, we have to go out and get pressure, but it was a little tougher today than it is usually. The footing out there was horrible.

will.i.am

Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time.

Philip Barleggs

The outlook for the markets is pretty tricky. The Fed is nearly finished with its interest-rate hikes, but it's not there yet.

Doug Elmendorf

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Estelle

I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.

Neal Soss

Well, I think the Federal Reserve has pretty much talked itself into another 1/4 point move on the Federal funds rate.

Steve Largent

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?

Christine Ebersole

I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.

Larry Wilson

We are happy because we think this is a group that the federation can work with, unlike some of the other administrations in the past with whom we experienced friction.

Bernie Sanders

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.

Francois Arnaud

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Tom Shaheen

We're not going to induce people to play. We're not going to promise financial gain by playing the lottery.

Pico Iyer

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Ted Waitt

We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability,

Jim Adams

We have the financial resources to move quickly.

Jim Hill

We need help from this body. We need someone to relieve the huge financial burden.

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the PBGC is not improving,

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the P.B.G.C. is not improving.

Ian Reid

We are saying to the financial institution: we will give you about $25 million every year for the period of the loan and that's really how we plan to repay it.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Vint Cerf

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

Jerry Howard

We are not just talking about slowing the growth of house prices. We are taking about house prices diminishing.

Alan Cohen

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Stephen Dean

When we rank the stocks, we find more value stocks at the top of the list and more growth names at the bottom.

Stephen Mergler

When growth stocks start paying a dividend it is an indication that there are not a lot of opportunities remaining out there.

Anthony Chan

We're not going to get the 1.5 percent productivity growth necessary to produce all those jobs. Such a fall-off would be out of line with what normally happens.

Doug Hall

We are looking at a lot of growth and a lot of changes.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

Frank Jordan

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

Virginia Foxx

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Ferran Adria

I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

Alan Cohen

You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.

Alan Cohen

The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.

Nandan Nilekani

Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

Agnes Obel

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Russ Oaks

There are other projects with pressing needs that have taken priority at this point in time.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Steve Sell

We have the potential to be terrific. But how can you predict?

John Shelton

We have the potential for some big problems, but we think right now it's just potential.

Rick Bohlander

We've got potential to play with any of them. We've just got to play a whole lot better than we did the other night.

Viktor Vekselberg

We have a very interesting and very serious potential international partner.

Mickey Williams

We have a ton of potential, but we also have a ton of injuries.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Rand Baker

We're starting to wrestle up to our potential. There were some tough teams, and it showed us where we need to get to by (the state tournament).

Roger Romines

We've got a really young team this year. If they stick with it, they have the potential to get one of those scholarships that are out there.

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Dear Abbey

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Charles de Gaulle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Alan Greenspan

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Venus Williams

You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

Brittany Snow

I stay out of the sun; I'm pretty fair. I don't tan - I burn, so I stay out.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Neon Hitch

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Tinashe

I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.

Nigel Clough

We'd like Saul to stay with us until the end of the season.

Ed Butler

We are not going anywhere. I can stay here for months.

Ciara

I want to be one of those moms and women that when I look back, I know that I always stayed focused.

Lily James

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Adam Ereli

It undermines the right of Kenyans to information.