There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (…)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective...

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states – 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was – Stage....

The biggest lesson I’ve learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

I’m competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

I’m an independent. I’m a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they...

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury,...

Hip-hop’s always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it’s always had a lot of...

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

Singing and being truthful to a song… I’ve developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that’s all I’ve been doing for the last 25 years.

We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They’re just more engaged at work.

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

I’ve always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you’re the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you’re the fastest. So...

The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in ’90. We were locked in it for a year and a...

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don’t realize it.

In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like...

I’m remixing an R.E.M. track called ‘I’ve Been High’ from their last album, ‘Reveal.’ It’s a beautiful song, but record execs didn’t put it out as a single because it didn’t sound like the R.E.M....

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I’ve been brought in at the last minute.

We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked...

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I...

High buildings fall, black oceans rise, and coins sink in height Where weapons smash in every grace, with every black and white The east drops, the west too, children die and so do oldWith every...

I love ‘Last Call.’ It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn’t going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a...

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John’s, me and John were next...

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I’m naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn’t even want to count. I need to balance...

The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

I don’t think you should ever say, ‘This is the last time’. Music isn’t like that. You’ll be sitting there not wishing to get onto a stage again for maybe two, three, four, five months,...

The designers usually don’t like to say until we’re on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn’t mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on...

I’ve been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it ‘Rock on!’ ‘The Last Lear’ or ‘Raajneeti,’ directors started working in a different way.

We had only snacks last time, I think it was OK for a day time menu. But this time it will be late night when people gather so we should add some proper meals.

If he can’t get to the clock, any idea how we deal with this lot?””With great care,” Donegan suggested.”How about we run off shout and they follow?” Said Gracious. “Then, just when they think they’ve...

I travel with chocolate – Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I’m on my last one, I’ve been known to say, ‘Sorry, I’m out!’

God is on everyone’s side… and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.