Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ban Ki-moon

At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved.

Abraham Lincoln

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

O. J. Simpson

We'd like the legislators to accelerate the payment. If that doesn't work, we'll meet with the comptroller's office to see what is possible.

Brian Berger

We are delighted Nortel will bring its networking expertise to TNC and plans to support the open specification in its products. Nortel joining the efforts of TNC helps to further accelerate the adoption of the open security specification in the industry and benefits customers by providing interoperable products across multiple product lines.

Andrew Liveris

We are confident that Ocean Adventures will help elevate the level of respect the oceans and their inhabitants not only deserve, but also require to make the world a better place for future generations. We at Dow are proud to be part of the solution through science, technology and educational funding, and to help accelerate results.

Jim Stallings

We are gratified to see CA respond so enthusiastically to IBM's call for owners of intellectual property to accelerate interoperability and the adoption of open source software,

Scott Davis

We are grateful for the loyalty and confidence demonstrated by our customers, ... But we've said all along the risk of volume being diverted would increase the closer we got to contract expiration, and diversion will accelerate if there's no agreement soon. It's even more important the company and the union conclude these negotiations in a timely manner.

Ben Shapiro

It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.

Stephen Stanley

We still do not look for the core CPI to accelerate rapidly, but it is likely to be persistently firmer going forward. At a minimum, core consumer price inflation will be firm enough to keep the Fed on edge and raising interest rates.

Phil Gramm

The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?

Barack Obama

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Bobby Jindal

You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.

Eduardo Paes

Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, meaning Mark Zuckerberg has personal information about one in every seven people on Earth. U.S.A., Brazil, Mexico, India and Indonesia are at the top of that list.

Douglas Rushkoff

Our eyeball hours are scarce, indeed. That's why Google wants us to do as much as possible online, in range of their ads, and is willing to spend billions creating more reasons and ways for us to do so.

Pat Paulsen

Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?

Vano Merabishvili

We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme.

Ted Waitt

We plan to consistently execute this strategy through 2002 and exit the year as a robust, growing company with more than $1 billion in cash and an intensely satisfied customer base.

Sylvia Earle

If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old, we wouldn't be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.

Jon Thorn

The outlook for the remaining quarters of the year is quite clear and the momentum will be continued. Generating such cash flows will help the company in its plans to make its refinery the world's largest.

Keith Collins

We probably really are not going to get a test on what happens with cattle prices until we get into next week, and we start to see the normal resumption of cash market trading,

Vance Coffman

We are deeply disappointed with this reduced outlook for our company. This level of earnings and cash generation is unacceptable for Lockheed Martin.

Rafael Ramirez

We are not handing out cash in any of these deals. The state's shares are class A, the majority and with a different power of decision-making.

Lee Iacocca

Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.

Birdman

Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

Dan Packer

We have an immediate need for cash because our goal is to continue the restoration effort.

Red Herring

Today?s (venture capital) money chases older, more-established companies with real cash flows, rather than pie in the sky projections. Silicon Valley has evolved.

Carlos Ghosn

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

Tony Fernandes

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

Geoffrey Moore

When I go meet with a company that's No. 1--a Microsoft or Cisco or SAP--one of the things I hear a lot is how mean it is out there. Being No. 1 these days means you become the natural target.

Lars Larsen

Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.

Larry Dixon

Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.

Kathryn Minshew

When I started my first company, I still had a 40-hour a week job. I was working on my company on nights and weekends before I took the plunge and gave up a salary.

John Davidson

We had a pretty strong run up in anticipation of the earnings season. But because of that run, if any company reports declining results or results that are less than what was expected, you're going to see a strong reaction.

Larry Langford

We had a pregnant woman complaining of shortness of breath, and another woman who was asthmatic, who were also transported to Little Company of Mary. And there were several other people who were treated on the scene but not transported, about a half dozen people.

Chris Snyder

We are going to work with the company to help displaced workers find other jobs.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Paul Kantner

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Joe Kirk

We play physical. We take pride in not giving up many points. We expect great things for this year.

Nancy McDaniel

We play at Stanford at least once a year, so I expect our seniors to lead.

Pat Casey

We play 56 games. We expect to win them all, but we're not going to. We're just trying to find our way around.

H. Hart

We probably should have lost that game, really. We made a lot of mistakes. You don't expect them to miss two field goals and get that many chances, that's for sure.

Brian Harper

We probably did 25 percent of the sales we were expected to do.

Bethany Mota

I really utilize all of my social networking sites.

Steve Burke

People have more options to watch quality, professionally produced video than ever before, and they are using those options - whether it is DVR, Netflix or Hulu.

Zenon Konopka

We had our chances, we just couldn't put the puck in the net tonight. No excuses. We (have) to play better to win.

Jochen Hecht

We got the puck to the net a lot, had traffic in front, but he was able to make those stops.

Bob Egan

Unfortunately, users may not know a network does not support 911 services until they make those calls.

Mike Lalonde

We didn't score on those chances, but I think we just have to keep getting the puck to the net and it will happen.

Ed Graczyk

We are providing the broadest offering with the most flexibility for our network operators. Each of these services represent something unique to the operator.

Cindy Johnson

We had to turn every school's network upside down,

Eiichi Katayama

We still see no prospect of a return to net profits.

Chris Evans

I like pursuing new endeavors. That's part of the reason I wanted to direct. I like to create things. I'm a Gemini. I'm always looking for something new.

Moira Kelly

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

Gary Locke

These are the win-win opportunities we here in the U.S. should be pursuing in China.

Katie Stevens

I'm going to keep pursuing my dream, keep singing and, hopefully, move to L.A.

Dave Checketts

We're not pursuing any other opportunities. It's not on our radar.

Tyler Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

S. Hughes

I think you're going to see some sideways consolidation throughout the summer,

Philip Rivers

Sideways rain. We threw it 59 times (actually 57).

Alvin Toffler

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

David Power

I see us just trading sideways for a while.

Kyle Busch

We're not out to let back or do anything slouchy. If we've got to turn a little sideways to make a move, we'll do it.

Cilla Black

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

Tristan Bernard

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Mike White

What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.

Gemma Arterton

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, / Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Felipe Alou

I won't say surprised but I'm kind of disappointed.

David Levine

I was very surprised in the ambulance when they started talking about e-mailing some doctor.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I thought it was very original, and I said, 'This should be a hit.' And it was. So I wasn't so much surprised as I was really pleased.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

William Daley

Our trade laws, which are all WTO-consistent, are used very rarely,

Ashley Gronewoller

I would have traded all that for a win in this game.

Gary Ross

For the first time, traders have to worry about demand.

George Herbert

A trade is better then service.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

Mike Nichols

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

Lori Foster

I'm up before 6, but then I'm parked in front of the PC until noon.

Jim Lovell

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

Don Shula

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

David Byrne

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Colonel Sanders

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Brooke Burke

I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.