Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Cable

We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.

Constance Wu

Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

Constance Wu

All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.

Paul Gray

The overriding negative influence on Asian export prices this year has been the strong growth in Indonesian exports, particularly as this has occurred at a time of limited buying interest in the spot market from the Japanese power utilities.

David Suzuki

We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.

David Suzuki

I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.

Tippi Hedren

We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline.

Wolfgang Puck

It's a myth that generally Asians are mostly vegetarians. The Japanese are the kings of red meat, but it's expensive. The Chinese and Vietnamese love their pork. Many Indians, especially the Muslims, can't live without their lamb.

Fred Tomaselli

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

Ellen G. White

By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.

David S. Rose

Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

Djimon Hounsou

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

Spider Robinson

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Orison Swett Marden

When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.

Albert Claude

We know that the cell has possessed these attributes and biological devices and has continued to use them for billions of cell generations and years.

Olivia Munn

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

Marilynne Robinson

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.

Howard Bragman

When I rep a celebrity, to me they're a brand, not just a person - and a brand has attributes and things it stands for. I'd say take some of the heat that's on her and turn it to something of value - say Katrina relief or breast-cancer awareness.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Louis Wong

The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US indicated a need for a rate hike for few more times until next year.

Anthony Weiner

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Meriwether Lewis

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.

Laurence Yep

At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'

Larry Scott

This schedule reflects the continued global expansion of and investment in women's professional tennis. The return of the Tour Championships to Europe in Madrid is particularly exciting for our European fans and players, and will ensure a fantastic finale to the 2006 season.

Manfred von Richthofen

We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

Besa Deda

There is little doubt that firms in the US have plenty of pricing power, given the continued strength of the US consumer.

Des Browne

Before they deploy, they train for the specific operations, but there is a danger that the Army is not retaining the core of its full capabilities.

Leila Janah

Work is at the core of human dignity.

Brad D. Smith

I've always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit's success. Innovation has been part of Intuit's DNA for nearly 30 years.

Bob Ainsworth

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

Dayananda Saraswati

Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.

Dayananda Saraswati

In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.

Scott Smith

We are going back to our core business.

Kamal Sharma

We are looking for a rise of 0.4 percent in the core index, in line with the consensus, and that could give the yen a lift.

Ami Bera

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for generations. Patient autonomy is core to this oath.

Eduardo Paes

The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government.

Timothy Geithner

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.

Lee Brown

We are not in a crisis situation, but we are taking proactive steps,

Jason Katims

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

Jim Barnett

We're not giving up on this crisis center. This year we do have the money to operate it and appropriated the money for seven centers.

Hugo Chavez

We're at the doorway of major energy crisis worldwide,

Alan Leshner

We're collectively mounting this effort in order to try and fend off what could become another public health crisis in this country.

Sung Sohn

The rate cut could be temporary, but in these times of crisis, I think it's not inappropriate,

Mark Greenberg

We have a national policy of wanting to provide help to evacuees during this time of crisis, ... It's very hard to see why the help they get should turn on which state they happen to be sent to.

Errol Morris

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

Jerry York

We probably got the team that travels best, despite last weekend at Lowell.

Alex Tabarrok

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Lawrence Kutner

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.

Bob Ainsworth

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Chris Adrian

There are reasons to go on living despite what horrors may come in your life. And love informs those reasons.

Philip Reeve

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Paul Muldoon

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

Jim Gallagher

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

Ernest Istook

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Steven Rattner

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Vladimir Putin

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

Tim Jackson

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Brunello Cucinelli

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Vivek Wadhwa

Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

William John Wills

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

Emma Roberts

I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.

Richard Hamilton

The peak of an NBA player is 29, 30? So we're still young. We can go as far as we want to go.

Anita Leveke

The past two seasons have been great successes as far as overall improvement in times and getting kids qualified for state.

Bruce Braley

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

Benicio Del Toro

As far back as I can remember, these are the first movies, the Universal horror movies where I knew the title of the film and I also knew the names of the actors in those films.

Darell Hammond

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.

Judith Butler

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Donald Trump

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

Jacob Lew

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

Mario Monti

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.

Judd Gregg

Were we able to fully meet every need? No, given fiscal constraints, we focused our limited resources on eliminating the most serious and detrimental vulnerabilities of our homeland security,

Tomohiko Taniguchi

We have not exchanged notes for fiscal 2005, but this does not mean that the money flow itself will be stopped.

Katsuhiko Machida

We want to start outsourcing within this fiscal year.

Joe Pitts

The greatest threat to long-term fiscal stability in American is the unsustainable growth of entitlement spending.

James McCormack

These are positive numbers for the Philippines. We have to make sure that the value-added tax increase is implemented and fiscal follow up is done in the medium term to further improve revenue." ()

Taro Saito

The profit forecasts are rather strong, because I had thought that they might present nearly flat growth in profit in the new fiscal year.

John Robertson

We've seen a lot of override attempts, pretty much all over the place in the past three years. And the fiscal pressure is not going to go away.

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Mike Conway

We had fog, visibility about a quarter of a mile. It's foggy, but it's not pea soup.

Elliott Schlang

The quarter was substantially better than what we had anticipated.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Joe Johnson

In the third quarter they wanted it more than we did.

Randall Godfrey

You can't go to 0-3. This first quarter of the season is so important. We have to at least get even.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Evgeny Morozov

We can now with Google Glasses record everything around us, and we can make sure that nothing is ever forgotten because everything is stored somewhere in Google servers or somewhere else.

Carly Simon

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

Samuel Butler

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Tony Benn

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

Tim Curry

I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.

Bob Newhart

I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV.

David Gilmour

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

Brendon Urie

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Alvin Lee

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.

Bob Boughner

When the votes come in, the results will speak for themselves.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Gustav Humbert

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Bill Walsh

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Donald Trump

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Evita Peron

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

David Hare

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Lapo Elkann

I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

Nacho Figueras

When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.

Mauricio Botelho

We have a long-term plan, and we won't let the strength of the real take us away from that.

William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Robert Kiyosaki

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

William Shakespeare

The king's name is a tower of strength.

Alan Cohen

Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.

Hilary Mantel

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

Dick Cheney

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

Dick Cheney

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

Dick Cheney

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

Walter Benjamin

We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save.

English Proverbs

What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.

English Proverbs

If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.

Paul Buck

The only disappointing thing this year has been our numbers,