Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. ~By Henry Ford ~
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. ~By Winston Churchill ~
I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know? ~By Nick Lachey ~
I show people how to build their own immortality device. ~By Alex Chiu ~
The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice. ~By Susan Chira ~
Most every dental school has discount dental services. ~By Matthew Lesko ~
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them. ~By Madame de Stael ~
I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils. ~By Michael Reagan ~
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~By Erica Jong ~
I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement. ~By Peter Hain ~
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ~By Rebecca West ~
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. ~By Anatole France ~
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training. ~By Josephus Daniels ~
The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.' ~By Dinah Shore ~
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. ~By Dennis Ritchie ~
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. ~By Benjamin Franklin ~
There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast. ~By Peter DeFazio ~
We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show. ~By Jerome Robbins ~
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. ~By Gilbert Murray ~
There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second. ~By David Rose ~
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced. ~By Markus Wolf ~
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. ~By Herbert Samuel ~
Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in. ~By Markus Wolf ~
I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise. ~By Ezra Cornell ~
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress. ~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ~By Albert Einstein ~
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. ~By Napoleon Hill ~
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. ~By Richard Bach ~
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. ~By Rick Perry ~
I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person. ~By Jonathan Brandis ~
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times. ~By Anselm Feuerbach ~
Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors. ~By Bob Taft ~
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance. ~By Esther Dyson ~
Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive? ~By John Hutton ~
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. ~By Paul Hawken ~
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. ~By Dave Barry ~
In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for their families. ~By John M. McHugh ~
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. ~By Dee Hock ~
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. ~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one. ~By Daryl Hannah ~
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. ~By Margaret Mead ~
Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed. ~By Craig Bruce ~
It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice. ~By Karl Landsteiner ~
It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable. ~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist. ~By Matthew Lesko ~
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. ~By William S. Burroughs ~
I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better. ~By Terry Zwigoff ~
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ~By Gordon R. Dickson ~
Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S. ~By Rosa DeLauro ~
This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number. ~By Henny Youngman ~
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. ~By Richard M. Nixon ~
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. ~By William Lyon Phelps ~
The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry. ~By Barry Diller ~
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service. ~By Steve Buyer ~
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service. ~By John Bates Clark ~
The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure. ~By Joe Baca ~
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. ~By Francis Bacon ~
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place. ~By Neil Kurshan ~
I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that. ~By Lisa Kudrow ~
Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential. ~By Gijs de Vries ~
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. ~By Samuel Smiles ~
I am providing a service that many people obviously value. ~By Matthew Lesko ~
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. ~By Josh Billings ~
I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with. ~By Gerry Mulligan ~
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community. ~By Joe Biden ~
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. ~By Erica Jong ~
It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions. ~By Michael York ~
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation. ~By John George Nicolay ~
But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service. ~By John Galliano ~
My advice is to make acting your second career choice. ~By Amber Tamblyn ~
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it. ~By William Shatner ~
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. ~By Ralph Thomas Walker ~
This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities. ~By Edward Whitacre, Jr. ~
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ~By Northrop Frye ~
Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system. ~By Corrine Brown ~
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. ~By Billy Graham ~
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. ~By Harold MacMillan ~
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ~By E. T. Bell ~
The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way? ~By Richard Land ~
But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer. ~By Steven Hatfill ~
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. ~By Leslie Stephen ~
I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country. ~By Robert A. Brady ~
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ~By H. G. Wells ~
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. ~By William John Wills ~
When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone! ~By Mariska Hargitay ~
We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is. ~By Warren Rudman ~
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food. ~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ~By Carroll Quigley ~
In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services. ~By Kenneth G. Wilson ~
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush. ~By Ann Coulter ~
During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland. ~By Augusto Pinochet ~
I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service. ~By Markus Wolf ~
Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards. ~By John Murray ~
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. ~By Donna Tartt ~
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence. ~By Antony Jay ~
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt. ~By Moliere ~
After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service. ~By Paul Prudhomme ~
Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader. ~By Marty Meehan ~
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