Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Pennekamp

We remain supportive of the project. There's been a significant amount already spent... (Shaw has) performed admirably in all this. The challenge is moving forward with a financial plan.

Tom Birchard

We're sort of in an unprecedented type of regime here as far as the amount of rainfall we received over the last 30 to 40 days. And some of our records go back pretty far.

Jon Kutler

We're getting to the time in the cycle where there are very few contractors, especially at the prime contractor level. And, because of that, they have a significant amount of control over the process,

Steve LeBlanc

We're going to experience a significant amount of flooding. We could for a short time be completely under, and then come out of it after a couple of hours. But we're more than likely to be completely flooded.

Scott Shapiro

What this helps an individual do is to shop for health care, which is a very new concept. But because individuals are paying an increasing amount from out of pocket for their health care, they are increasingly looking for information that helps them shop for health care.

David Benelli

What they told me ... is they feel they were justified in their actions and they were using the amount of force necessary to overcome the situation.

Stephen Lawrence

When we can produce a thousand pounds of steam for about four dollars, it's saving us a tremendous amount of money.

Robert Bea

We would rather invest a little money now than pay 10 to 100 times that amount in the future.

David Starr

We found that a slick truck can also be on the edge in the draft. We found last year that we want a fair amount of drag on it because during the race, drag means grip. There's kind of a fine line. I think you want to build a truck that has a little bit of drag.

Suzanne LaFollette

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Allison Watson

Only companies that have demonstrated high levels of customer service, proved their experience and attained advanced certification receive the designation of Microsoft Certified Partner.

Rabindranath Tagore

We can look upon a road from two different points of view. One regards it as dividing us from the object of desire; in that case we count every step of our journey over it as something attained by force in the face of obstruction. The other sees it a

Prem Rawat

Today I will speak about love. What is love? How can one get love? Why should one get it? There are two kinds of love. One is the worldly connection. The other is attained through Knowledge. In this human body exists the love we have to discover. You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

Dean Fischer

We are extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program because the benefits provided through our Gold Certified status will allow us to continue to enhance the offerings that we provide for our clients without impacting our objectivity. Our clients get the best of both worlds -- unbiased advice and strong relationships with vendors like Microsoft.

Piet Mondrian

It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.

Dan Radakovich

I watched the people around me and how they attained their success. They were like silent mentors. I watched them and tried to mimic their enthusiasm.

Motto

I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Isabella Bird

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

Krista Tippett

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

Eric Liu

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.

Byron Katie

Freedom is our birthright.

Brene Brown

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Michael Brady

I am responsible and I take full accountability, but I will not be deterred by some small special interest group in this town who feel they have some birthright to make all the decisions in this town,

Kimberly Elise

It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.

Isabella Bird

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

Paul Gascoigne

When I was playing, I wasn't drinking at the weekends. Not after the game, not on Sundays, when I would just relax, have a sauna, things like that.

Edmund White

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Edward Burnett Tylor

When we had been a week or two in the city of Mexico, we decided upon making an excursion to the great silver mining district of the Real del Monte.

Jose Mejia

What has changed is the American guys trying to learn Spanish. In the dugout, when I hear the Latin guys trying to speak English and the Americans trying to speak Spanish, it's funny.

Ann Macbeth

We are getting more and more not only the trained but also internationally well-experienced people coming here. So it's all adding up.

Gerald Schatten

What's invaluable about Bernie is that he has gotten a number of us eggheads together and has translated what is scientific gobbledygook into English so that our neighbors and friends can understand it,

Tom Gavin

We're going to look at how was the data transferred. How did it originally get into system in English units? How was it transferred? When we were doing navigation and Doppler (distance and speed) checks, how come we didn't find it?

Joe Cocker

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Jonathan Brown

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

Sergey Brin

We gradually came to the realization that we were hurting not just ourselves but the Chinese people.

Li Zhi

With the indexes edging up, retail investors will gradually return to trading. Institutions such as insurers, pensions and overseas banks will restore interest in the markets, partly thanks to low pricing and the country's economic boom.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

Pamela Atkinson

The poverty here is real, there's absolutely no doubt about it. If you can help them gradually take those steps out of poverty, you're going to fix many things.

Lorenzo Codogno

We believe that the long-awaited shift from soft to hard data is evidence of a recovery in euro zone private consumption has started, and will likely proceed gradually and modestly over the coming months, in line with the expected improvement in household real disposable income.

Jarrod Kerr

We still think commodity prices are at their peak and will gradually come off, but we've just pushed out the timing a little bit.

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Jane Goodall

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

Katharine Graham

It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.

Bob Nardelli

Tom Taylor brings decades of company and retail experience to his new role. He has touched virtually every part of company and has in-depth knowledge of stores, products, associates, suppliers and customers. Tom has served in numerous leadership roles that have directly influenced merchandising and marketing efforts.

Dan Harel

We're going to outnumber everybody. We have the technology, the knowledge and the will to confront (defiant settlers).

Dale Petroskey

What we're proudest of is the broadening of knowledge. When we started five years ago, we had 20 percent of the stats. We've got 90 percent of the stats now.

Jason Ferrell

What they have to offer is more valuable to parents because of the training, education and knowledge they have.

Jack Waymire

Whenever possible, you want to pay planners a fee for their knowledge and services. After all, that's how you pay other professionals. Plus, you want to know what services you will receive and how often you will be able to meet with them.

Chad Reitz

When we got used to each other, I had pretty good idea of what he wanted to be done to the car, and we'd discuss matters. He's such a great driver that he could tell the car was not running right even though other people, including me, would think he's the fastest guy on the track. I've learned a lot from him. It allowed me to also develop more knowledge and provide more input.

Samantha Harvey

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

Evan Osnos

We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.

Greg Scott

We believe we understand the biotechnology industry better than most. With our combined scientific, financial and investment expertise, and our inside knowledge of this complex industry, we think we have the best tools to separate the winners from the losers.

Lykke Li

I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.

Chris Patten

But there is no cause for thinking sad thoughts, that there is dishonor in these endings. Nothing has melted away. There have been no defeats,

Josh Lawrence

We melted down a little bit during that stretch.

Rachel Sklar

My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.

Earl Hamner

I think I can go to Schuyler, ... Some feelings of sadness have melted away.

Isabella Bird

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

William Shakespeare

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,As I foretold you, were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air:And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolveAnd, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.

Johnny Olson

Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television.

Joanna Sikes

So he did this weaving for his mother and he put stained glass in it, flat glass and loved the way the light played with it. He actually melted some flat glass and used a lead pipe and blew a bubble and that was the beginning.

John Bell

When I was mixing the album I was just cheering it on, ... I was actually getting to put myself in a position of observation of listening to the band, watching it, experiencing it probably closer to a fan thing than I've ever had the ability to do, or that I've ever let myself do. And I was just like, yeah, George is getting it on. And that's what you want for anybody's performance.

Chester Himes

When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy.

James Young

We utilized the center channel to present the kick drum, snare and bass guitar tracks, as well as singer Greg Graffin's lead vocals, ... Unlike a lot of modern music mixes for 5.1, the center channel was our anchor. This mix is more akin to a 5.1 feature film mix. By mixing in the Rick Chace Theater we had the opportunity to experience the entire concert in a THX-certified dubbing stage and in a room we know, love and trust. To ensure final compatibility in a range of different environments, Brett reviewed the final mix in Mix One, our THX pm3-certified near-field room, and took a few songs on a DVD reference disc so he could also hear the final mix on the new Bose home theater system located at Epitaph's Los Angeles headquarters.

John Nolan

We started mixing it together in the summer time, and it became a really nice blend. The kids get along and there's not a lot of jealousy, and if there is it's hidden very well, because I don't see it.

Mark Hackett

We've got a pretty good feel for this team. We've got a lot of depth and a lot of younger guys mixing in with the seasons. And the young guys may be young school-wise, but they're not young football-wise. They can play.

Ashley Madekwe

I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.

Brian Henson

I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry.

Jane Addams

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

Caio Fonseca

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Jeff Monford

What makes AIDS hard to deal with is the remaining prejudice and unreasonable fear. Even today, 20 years after the epidemic started, a number of people have still not been personally affected and remain uninformed and reluctant to address the issue seriously.

Chester Bowles

When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.

Chen Shui-bian

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Chen Shui-bian

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

Chen Shui-bian

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

Chen Shui-bian

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Chen Shui-bian

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

Chen Shui-bian

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

Chen Shui-bian

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

Marguerite Gardiner

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Laurieann Gibson

I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was black and I'd never be in 'Swan Lake.' I went through all those prejudices in the ballet community, and I still emerged wonderfully trained and found my way to Alvin Ailey where there were familiar faces.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Atharva Veda

HAVING an open heart, do not relish the narrow path of restricted love; love all, do not develop prejudices against men in power or position.  They too are our kith and kin. We all sail together.

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Keith Ellison

There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.

David Newman

I think it's best not to rely on an individual physician. Individual doctors have their specialties, their biases, their preferences for certain kinds of treatment and getting multiple opinions is the only way you can create a sense of trust in that particular course of action. It's a ways of checking and balancing the subjectivity or the prejudices of an individual physician.

Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

Bryce Taylor

When it comes down to it, it seems like we are putting too much pressure on ourselves. As a shooter, you have to stay confident. It's all mental when it comes to our shooting.

Barry Russell

We're starting to find a way to win by finding a way to get on base however possible. Sometimes it seems like we find a way to try to lose and we need to overcome that.

Larry King

We're going to point her towards that race again, and we need to get a couple races in her - this seems like a good place to start.

Sean Kinney

We're going to go and play the songs one more time. It seems like the right time, so I figure we'll go out and play a few gigs and see where it goes. I think we might just show up in assorted places in the U.S. in the next few months without much notice and play some clubs and little theaters, and then go to Europe and play these festival gigs. Beyond that, we don't know at this point.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.

Keegan Bradley

Seems like my iron play gets a little better every year. Which makes sense - I've been working hard on things with my teacher, Jim McLean.

Anthony Crescenzi

What we're seeing is an increase in the manufacturing sector, ... The manufacturing sector has been very weak for the last year and a half -- since the Asian (financial) crisis. Now, that sector seems to be recovering.

Lisa Willis

When we do our pre-game talk, we talk about certain people not liking pressure. But it seems like none of their players likes pressure. We tried to jump on that, totally, because that got our defense going. And we knew that if we kept pounding them and pounding them ? not just stealing the ball but just getting stops ? that would frustrate them.

Richard Wiseman

What his research seems to be saying is that women are the laughers and men get the laughs.

John Battelle

When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.

John Clippinger

To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.

Jaime Pressly

We're making light of all the serious, politically correct stuff that society has created. Basically, Earl redeems himself (after) the mistakes he has made in judging people.

Kendrick Meek

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.

Melinda Eash

What we're seeing right now is a new generation of teenagers, that as society changes, they're more comfortable in coming out. A lot of them are getting more support from their families.

Mike Doherty

What they've done here is incredible. They kept the Frank Lloyd Wright facade. And they kept a great number of guest rooms the same. They redid everything, of course, but when they built hotels in 1956 they built big guest rooms. They kept the concrete block and just put in the new retro stuff. Even when I was here the historical society was constantly visiting, wanting to know what we were doing and wanting to make sure we kept the place intact.

Vic Toews

What they say to me is that it is wrong that these individuals who have broken their obligations to society are now entitled to have the same voice in society.

Ludwig Mises

When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the marketplace.

Jane Lubchenco

What has become clear is that if society wants to avoid future disasters, it should do two things ? prevent even greater disruption to the climate system and prepare for the climate changes already set in motion. There is urgency on both fronts, reducing emissions and preparing to adapt.

Scott May

What we're really interested in doing is trying to figure out how we can help states and school districts infuse biotechnology concepts into teaching.

Richard Boucher

What this does is it brings a common view, a unified message, a unified position of the United States and Europe,

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Greg Craig

When we have received assurances that Juan Miguel will be able to take custody of his son, but under circumstances that require him to remain in this country for a period of time, we will also be seeking permission for a support group of Elian's classmates, teachers and doctors to come to the United States to help smooth the transition,

Mark Lanier

What a jury is going to get is A, Merck fudged on the details. B, the fudge was in their favor. C, it was on purpose. D, Merck lied about fudging, or at least covered it up. And E, the most prestigious medical journal in the United States of America has called their hand on it and said this is unethical and wrong.

Samah Haggag

We found it interesting that some states that historically have low rates of bankruptcy have high propensities. I think some of it's going to be related to the economic changes. For states to see that kind of difference, some things have changed.

Richard Dieter

What's needed is some growing evidence from the states that they want to ban executing minors. More state governors and legislatures have to weigh in. They need some momentum in the next year or two for the justices to say, now is the time to decide this.

Brahma Chellaney

Unless the United States rolls back its demands, it is almost certain that no formal nuclear agreement will be ready for signature when President George W Bush arrives in New Delhi on March 1.

Leonie Brinkema

Unless the United States demonstrates a legitimate reason why these recordings are essential to an issue in dispute either in the guilt or penalty phase of this case, these tape recordings should not be admitted at trial,

Juvenal

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

The whole concept of the travel agent is absurd. They appear to be agents of the traveller but are actually agents of the airlines.

Isabella Bird

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

C. S. Lewis

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

Bertrand Russell

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Joanna Lumley

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

Charles Darwin

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.