Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Benjamin Franklin

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Ellen Key

One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.

Chang-Rae Lee

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

David Suzuki

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.

Pete Rose

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

Tom Brokaw

One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become your friends.

Tran Duc Luong

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

Abraham Lincoln

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

Fritz Kreisler

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

Gerhard Schroeder

What we hear about the discussions is they are talking about 2 million barrels per day for 30 days,

P. J. O'Rourke

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

Greg Robinson

The reaction from the public has been amazing. A few of us went to eat at Cracker Barrel one night and I still had my Brookshire name tag on. People just kept coming up and saying, 'Thanks for being there.' We didn't even have to pay for our meal.

Jim Mitchel

We have all the usual events like bull riding, steer riding and barrel racing. But we also have the camp events, that are just fun, like a Wild Drag Race and Goat Dressing.

Edward Yardeni

We believe the equilibrium price of crude oil has risen from about $20 per barrel during the 1990s to at least $30 during the current decade. The fundamentals are solid for the energy sector. Energy represents 6 percent of the S&P 500 market cap -- in our opinion it should be double-weighted.

Gal Luft

Today there is a very thin layer of insulation in the oil market amounting to approximately one million barrels a day, meaning that every small disruption, be it a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico or riots in Nigeria or instability in the Middle East, immediately creates a rise in prices. This situation will be with us for a long time because there is no new spare capacity. Building spare capacity requires an investment of billions of dollars to create infrastructure that may sit idle most of the time. Nobody will invest on those terms,

Rafael Ramirez

We are removing two million barrels a day from the market and we will make it clear that this is the first step to another possible reduction,

Jonah Hill

All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?

Robert Lachky

We recognize that we have to become better at recapturing our market share. Liquor companies are doing a good job at targeting beer drinkers and beer-drinking occasions. So we know who the enemy is and we have to do something about it.

Tony Ponturo

There are beer consumers who are passionate about skiing, snowboarding. They don't have the numbers that the NFL does, but their enthusiasm is just as passionate.

Nadim Khoury

We can sell non-alcoholic beer in Gaza very easily.

Darren Lehmann

When I first started they put the beers on ice. Now they put the players on ice.

Ludwig von Mises

Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

John Limberopoulos

We have beer and wine, but no liquor.

Zakk Wylde

I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times.

Sean Salisbury

The quarterback position is like a soap opera. You and I could have watched a certain soap opera in 1990, and you and I could be watching it over a beer in 2005, and it will be the same qualities, the same story, the same everything, except that the hairstyles have changed.

Brittany Snow

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

Nayvadius Cash

'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy - to show that and know it in yourself and be confident - because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning.

Omid Namazi

We played well, but I thought what killed us was our finishing touch. We just have got to get better at finishing our chances. We are still confident and we think we can get it done at home.

Tom Barrett

I'm very confident that not only will the other candidates who ran for this office support me but all of their supporters will as well. So yes, I'm very confident that I will get their support.

Vera Wang

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

Errol Alcott

We'd like more time of course but we're confident he's responding to treatment and he'll have more treatment today. We'd like to make a decision today but may wait until tomorrow.

Steve Brown

We disagree with the decision and we are confident that the patent is enforceable.

Rob Glaser

We are not immune to the current market environment for Internet-related spending, and we've made adjustments to our near-term growth expectations. At the same time, we remain highly confident in our fundamentals, leadership position, and long-term prospects.

Val Kilmer

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

Colin Morgan

It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

Ernest Walton

A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.

Graham Colditz

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

Reg Empey

The people are fed up with politicians and the cost of keeping this place (the assembly) open.

Andrew Alberts

The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.

Gary Hanson

The out-of-pocket cost is usually about $50 to $55 a day (per inmate) that we pay to another county to rent the space, ... But we also have to pay for our officers' time to transport them and the cost of transport, like fuel costs.

David Thewlis

I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

David Hewson

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

Elizabeth Warren

For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.

Al Madrigal

I think any husband knows when to stand down when it comes to domestic disputes. After 13 years of marriage, I even think I may have it figured out.

Brunello Cucinelli

If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.

James Stephens

If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is.

Najib Mikati

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

Bill Owens

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Samantha Power

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

Eric Poteet

We're not ruling anything out at this point, but we are treating it as a domestic incident.

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.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Clea Duvall

I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.

Morgan Stanley

The peak...is the key determinant of the timing of the prospective turn in the dollar.

Al Madrigal

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Thom Browne

Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don't wear sandals. With shorts, it's wing tips and tennis socks.

Lia Ices

I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket.

Victoria Moran

Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.

Lisa Roth

We're known for our lime, our citrus. We are the citrus state. We should have a citrus Key lime pie. Georgia, they need to keep their pie over in Georgia.

Michael Marks

There are attachments you can put on the back of keyboards that will record keystrokes and send them to an off-site printer.

Cliff Danley

Tiger is the key to validating your success. You can get nine of the top 10 players, but if you don't get him ...

George MacDonald

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

Nelson Wolff

We played a quiet role, I think, ... as long as we've got the right leadership there.

Tom Coburn

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Alan Cohen

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Alan Cohen

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

Bill Owens

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Jessie Evans

We need to have more patience. We need better leadership ... especially from our perimeter players.

Robin S. Sharma

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

Helene D. Gayle

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Douglas McWilliams

Those in the metals markets will have noticed the push into metals and I think we'll see more of that.

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Niklas Zennstrom

International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.

Timothy Noah

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

Robert Brusca

There is a reason for stock markets to be worried. But I don't think we need to talk about recession yet -- it's not on the radar screen.

Larry Goldstein

Markets that used to move by nickels and dimes, are now moving by a dollar.

Ivan Radenovic

This says a lot about this team. We've got our momentum back.

Sid Cash

We needed that momentum to make them come after us.

Johnny Damon

We need to win tomorrow. We have to slow down the momentum they have and give us a chance.

Herman Demmink

We needed to get a positive, get a little momentum and take it into the weekend.

Kasey Kahne

We had momentum. We've had momentum all weekend long.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Charles Dance

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

Valerie June

My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.

John Connolly

We had a number of half-chances and we put ourselves in a position to do things, but the forwards were very disappointing,

Steny Hoyer

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

Mathieu Schneider

We didn't play like the number one seed. We put ourselves in a position where it could all be over early.

Aerin Lauder

I don't use a stylist. I know what I like, so I do it myself. I rip things out from fashion magazines. It's easy to order when the phone number is right on the page.

Jean Kerr

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Jeffrey Smith

There are a surprising number of tapestries that survived from the 16th to 18th century. You can find a 17th-century tapestry for $3,000 to $4,000, and then there are half-million-dollar tapestries.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Ramana Maharshi

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Chevy Chase

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Errol Morris

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

Meles Zenawi

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Kong Quan

We are not in a position to receive this visit.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

We are not in a position to propose a specific plan.

Edward Bilkey

We are not in a position now to stop this.

Lucy Liu

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Alan Embree

When you're in a position to put somebody away, you have to just do it. It's not mechanical.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Mark Foulkes

We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.

Tyrone Willingham

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

Dan Gorbett

Inexperience. We have a lot of positions open.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

M. Wolfe

We are rating UPS 'attractive,' ... Our price target on this stock is $70; it's at about $56 right now.

Louis Navellier

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

Margaret Thatcher

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

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.

Brett Ellis

We're starting to see hundreds of price reductions a day.

Rafael Ramirez

We have said that this is a structural issue, not a short-term factor, and the price is going to stay the same,

Stephen Davis

We know we'll be successful with this operation. The only question is the price we'll pay.

Lech Walesa

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Malcolm X

The price of freedom is death.

Brian Schmidt

The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.

John Felmy

What you've got are a whole series of requirements and processes and that takes days, if not weeks.

Linda Pinney

There is a very strict authentication process to use the machine.

Gary Flake

We can streamline the whole process of how we innovate.

David Parsons

Today's process is God's faithfulness to his promise.

Jeremy Nichols

Unfortunately, this is the way the process often works.

Rogelio Golfarb

We are going to start the process of negotiation now; we need competitive terms from Argentina.

Michael Tigar

We'll wait until the process is completed, The verdict speaks for itself.

Tom Schnackenberg

We had to undergo a very rigorous process with the measurers.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Ludwig von Mises

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Frederic Bastiat

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Michael Kilpatrick

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Monica Crowley

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

Herman Frazier

We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year.

Gertrude Stein

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Patti Stanger

I had a breast reduction.

Craig Carper

Hopefully, we'll see a reduction in those numbers.

Bill Wright

Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.

John Collins

Phil's not going anywhere. He hasn't been fired, and he's not going to be fired. There is no reduction of responsibility. There is no rift.

Isabella Rossellini

disappeared or haven't been restored or rights haven't cleared.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Abu Bakr

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Rick Warren

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Lawrence Lessig

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

Martin Pyykkonen

In terms of prudence, you would like to see other revenue streams.

Gene Upshaw

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

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.

Martin Pyykkonen

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

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Bernard Laporte

Our success comes from stability.

Valentino Rossi

For sure tomorrow will be difficult. We are still struggling with stability and grip.

Frances Newton

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.

Gene Robinson

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Jean-Claude Juncker

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

Klaus Kleinfeld

It comes down to the long-term stability of this corporation,

Jose Manuel Barroso

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

Darcy Regier

A year ago we were just trying to survive. Now we have a sense of stability and direction.

Gabrielle Reece

I guess I crave stability.

David Smith

I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy,

David Satcher

We have to be more strategic in the distribution,

Stephen Kinzer

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

John McDonough

Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,

Navtej Sarna

The visit is significant in view of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Steve Struss

For me, personally, it was the volume of evidence.

Grazia Deledda

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

William Harvey

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.