Famous Quotes & Sayings

William H. Seward

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Ed Yourdon

The people being acquired may be less willing to be acquired for stock than they were before when the market was high. The depressed stock prices cuts both ways. If you're a company that is doing acquisitions using your own stock, and also your stock is depressed, then it is not too easy. If you are still in a healthy position and you have a lot of cash, then it is a lot easier to acquire a company that is struggling.

Cynthia Ozick

An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth.

Stewart Butterfield

People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Alan Cooper

What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside.

Robin Lewis

Tommy's brand is still vibrant to a certain extent with consumers, but it has been failing for some time, not only with the brand itself and what it stands for with the consumer in terms of leading-edge styling and fashion, but also failing financially. The brand is very weak now, but if it's acquired by the right entity I believe the brand can be turned around and can gain its strength back.

Brad Paisley

When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life, and that was in fourth grade. We traveled to California for vacation and stayed with some friends of my parents. It was culture shock, and it was different.

Tom Brokaw

Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.

Diane Feinstein

What you see is major Democratic elected officials in the state of California supporting this Republican governor,

Mike Trapasso

When we're going good we tend to keep going back to the same place (in this case California Pizza Kitchen) every Friday.

Lia Ices

I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.

Kamala Harris

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

Penn Badgley

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

Jeremy Crabtree

Travis is the fastest rising player in California maybe.

Eddie Kramer

When I first did Woodstock many, many years ago, my initial impression when I went to California to look at the rushes . . . was I was appalled. I knew the performance was OK, but the visual of the crowd walking away in the mud and the way they cut it together was kind of depressing,

Peter Riegert

It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.

Amber Moon

In that district, she is particularly vulnerable given her record. Voters have demanded an investment in education coupled with property tax relief. (Lawmakers) are going to have to face that in November ...

Kofi Annan

In my judgment, we've given all the explanation and clarifications that have been demanded by the Libyan authorities, ... We are waiting for the decision.

Frank Brown

This house demanded skills that are hard to find these days. The good news is that all these people are here, in Pittsburgh.

Kasan Mulyono

Residents only demanded a larger quota of local workers, and we have met that.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Jim Zorn

He could have lashed out or just gone in the tank or been so frustrated and demanded a trade. That's not how Matt reacted.

Malcolm Gladwell

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

Steve Holloway

She is a playmaker. At halftime, she told her teammates to follow her and she would lead us back. We have demanded a lot of her as far as being a leader, and she has taken this team on her back.

Henry David Thoreau

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Ben Elliot

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Donald Norman

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Chris Jericho

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Donald Trump

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

Naomie Harris

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

Dustin Diamond

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

Persis Khambatta

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Sunil Mittal

I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.

Neal McLaughlin

When you're traveling around, it's very confusing, especially if you're pointing to one race and something happens and you switch up to go to another race. Maybe the medication was fine for the first race, but now you're excluded from the next race.

David Chapman

Mr. Matthew thankfully has been excluded as a suspect, ... He has been conclusively shown not to have any involvement whatsoever in the sexual assault.

Kim Gandy

There is no job that women should be excluded from because of their gender. If you can do the job, you should have an opportunity to get the job. If you can't, you shouldn't be there, male or female.

Frank MacKay

There is no room in our party for such outrageous racism. We are a party of inclusion and the only people that should be excluded are those who preach this kind of hate.

Hugo Young

But I also think what you see is a larger segment of society excluded from the mainstream, in effect, an underclass.

Jacques Rogge

If any sport wants to come in, one will have to go. But no sport will be excluded before 2012.

Ian Paisley

The way that it is to be implemented is that those that use or threaten violence are excluded and prisoners will be kept in unless violence is given up for good.

Teresa Kerry

This evening, I want to acknowledge and honor the women of this world, whose wise voices for much too long have been excluded and discounted, ... It is time for the world to hear women's voices -- in full and at last.

Tucker Max

I'm a decent-looking guy, but I've never walked into a room and got a girl because of how I looked. Look, I'm never excluded because of my looks. I just don't stand out.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

Oscar Martinez

We must work with Mexico as a partner, be respectful to Mexico and not treat them as a subordinate.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

Vicente Fox

These humanitarian missions are a reflection of the sentiments of solidarity of the people of Mexico with the U.S. population,

Bruce Beresford

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.

Daymond Langkow

Our little one doesn't really like to travel, so going to Mexico would be a little tough. It'll be nice to have some time off.

Stephen Kinzer

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

Robert Brown

Mexico has done some record-setting ... opium and marijuana production eradication,

Don MacDonald

When you, the consumer, look for a brand, you want it to simplify your purchase and come from someone you trust.

John Andrews

I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.

Susan Klein

Make sure when you purchase your ticket, you know what you're really getting.

Rebecca Fuller

We purchased one lesson. And that's all he needed.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.

Quintilian

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Brian Major

That's a big purchase for us. That's great.