Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bear Grylls

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

Arthur Scargill

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

Katherine Legge

We achieved what we needed to achieve, we finished the race and finished well but I'm a racer and you always want to do better. I made some mistakes but overall I have to be pleased. I think for me, the record is great but the less of a female novelty that this thing becomes, the better. I'm just trying to be a race car driver and do what these guys do.

Vyacheslav Lysakov

We achieved this by ourselves. No parties helped us.

Jamie Oliver

We achieved such a lot in England with the school dinners campaign. Could we do the same in the States? Absolutely.

Rijkman Groenink

We achieved strong results during the year, driven by strong organic growth in all our consumer and commercial client businesses. This organic growth reflects the benefits of continuing focus on the strong local relationships we have with our mid-market clients.

Bob Starkell

We achieved some of our goals that we were looking forward to doing. Overall we made an improvement from last week, and now we can start working on cleaning things up and being really sharp.

James Cayne

We achieved solid results this quarter, despite more volatile market conditions and declining trading volumes, predominantly in the fixed-income markets. Furthermore, weakness in the Nasdaq, particularly technology shares, led to a decline in equity new issue activity.

Kevin Kennedy

We achieved significant gross margin improvement driven by the strong performance of our recently acquired Communications Test and Measurement business,

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

S. Hughes

We can no longer take our economic and technological well-being for granted.

Timothy Noah

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Jason Schenker

We're looking at some positive expansion, solid growth in jobs and in general economic growth, and that's something we see continuing.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Alexei Kudrin

Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and we have the means to lower inflation to this level.

John Banks

Losing one day in July is an economic disaster.

Jeff Schappe

Leading economic indicators in general have indicated a slowing for some time.

Callie Khouri

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Audre Lorde

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Kelly Trahon

Wayland has a strong program so I expected this to be a good game.

Ray Johnson

We always expect a good game from them. It's playoff intensity.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Alan Dundes

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Al Gore

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Bill Thompson

We're just going to put everything on hold now until we have further insight on the process.

Don Cooper

Mac needs to come into spring ready to get a lot of innings. I'm not going to say he's our long guy or our seventh-inning guy or a spot starter, but he is a reliever right now until further notice.

Bruce Springsteen

Let's take the good times as they go, and I'll meet you further on up the road...

Milan Khatri

Low interest rates have really been powering these markets. The ECB is worried it is signaling inflation further down the line, but in the U.K. you have had very strong house-price rises, and no real pickup in general price inflation.

Jia Qinglin

Last year, President Hu Jintao and President Jacques Chirac exchanged visits successfully, which further boosted the development of bilateral ties,

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

David Leff

This property is a very high priority. We remain open to further discussions.

Paul Tracy

Obviously we've had some run-ins this year and I've come out on the short end of the stick but that only motivates me further for next year,

Mark Regev

No one on the Israeli side has ever said that disengagement goes further than Gaza. Let's be very clear, this was a unilateral Israeli step.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Dee Hock

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

Al Gore

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power...

Sun Microsystems

We're going after revenue growth and customers. We're all about sharing.

Jim Clement

We're looking at growth here. We're not saying, 'No, we don't want development. My guess is it's going to happen.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Mirko Mikelic

Maytag produces 99 percent in the U.S., and they are just not price competitive.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Patrick Stump

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

Fernando Alonso

I need to find new targets because this one is done.