Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rogers

Wayne is the county that was built through the tremendous growth of business and manufacturing for a century, and now that's declined so the jobs have declined. People came here for jobs. They're leaving for jobs. It's as simple as that.

Duncan Campbell

We had a very strong Q3, but we are not running around taking victory laps at this point. The momentum that we built is really paying off.

William Cullen Bryant

Man hath no part in all this glorious work:The hand that built the firmament hath heavedAnd smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopesWith herbage. . . .

William Cullen Bryant

Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage. . . .

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Pat Morris

Like all the things he's gone through in the last two years, he'll take it in stride. If it doesn't happen then you haven't built yourself up too much to be let down.

Scott Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Stella Young

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Raymond Seed

Levees tend to be built in very difficult situations on poor site conditions because you're essentially turning marshy land into land you can stabilize and do things on,

Mary Smith

We're continuing to make upward progress, ... I think the improving economic conditions in Tulsa are helping, people are more confident to spend money on travel.

Dimitar Sasselov

Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning. The comparative planetology of our solar system makes it seem like those initial conditions are hard to come by.

Lee Kuan Yew

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

Kofi Annan

When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Steve Desimone

This was a team effort. These were definitely some of the harshest conditions (we faced this year).

Dominic Bryant

The fact MEW did not fully correct the large Q2 increase supports our view that conditions in the housing market are improving and that this will, at some point, lead to increased household consumption.

Jim Thompson

We used to have to run somebody down there and do a manual test of the water. Now we can instantly see what the conditions are from the office while we're working on other things.

Mark Simmons

There are wildflowers coming. but they'll probably be the ones we normally see later in the spring. There may be other species waiting in the wings for which these conditions give it the opportunity to really do it's best. We don't know what those species are and we're excited about it.

Salim Altaf

No one can predict the weather. It is difficult in such weather conditions to prepare the exact type of pitch you want for a Test.

Alain de Botton

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

Bill Hybels

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

Katie McGrath

I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

Michael Hirst

When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very difficult position for a screenwriter who's put so much passion into that, into the writing.

S. Hughes

We had been raising the issue privately, ... and as part of raising difficult issues that we need to discuss, I felt it was appropriate.

Jean Killy

We had a very, very difficult seven years. The end result we would have been happy with. It went very well. I was relieved after the first four or five days.

Marc Faber

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.

Ali Naimi

make it more difficult to overcome these bottlenecks in the system.

Alain Resnais

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

David Ricardo

The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

David Ricardo

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

David Ricardo

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo

If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

David Douglas

The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

Beau Mirchoff

Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great. Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Augusto Pinochet

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

George Moore

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Marsha Kello

The poor little thing is so little that we didn't even notice.

Unknown

May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, and quick to make friends.

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Greg Sterling

Many of these video-sharing sites are all variations on a theme. So at some point, we're going to see consolidation.

Tom Rathbun

Work at that site has just come to a standstill.

Robert Austin

One of the first and most important steps that a student can do is visit the Web site of the university.

Chris Bartlett

I'd be called to one site, 'Oh, Chris, we need you,' and then the other site would need me too.

Teresa Medeiros

Our Web sites and our e-mail lists are the two things that we control.

Sarah Hall

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

Andy Goldsworthy

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

Watson Okubo

Unfortunately, our Web site is not where we want it to be.

John Franklin

We'll be the only deployment site in Florida.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Levance Fields

We've been in situations like the one we had (Sunday). Down the stretch, they made more plays.

Warren Ellis

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Cully Donovan

We worked a lot on situations like that this year. They responded well.

Joe Torre

He's come up in situations and you say,

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Laila Robins

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Dorothy L. Sayers

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Elisa Massimino

I think things are really turning on this.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Bjork

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.