Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tang Shuangning

The purpose of engaging strategic investors in the shareholding reform is not to collect funds to raise the capital adequacy ratio of the state-owned commercial banks, but to learn from the expertise of our foreign counterparts in service, management and internal control to improve the competitiveness of China's banking sector.

Adam Osborne

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

Adam Osborne

Adequacy is sufficient.

E. Stanley Jones

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

Sheila Garrard

The operating trend is as I expected, although revenues are of slightly better quality. But it's disappointing that they haven't made progress in dealing with the capital adequacy position at this stage.

John Koskinen

We think the adequacy of health care will be fine. You'll get good treatment wherever you go.

Albert Bandura

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

Albert Bandura

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

Arlen Specter

Before I can evaluate the adequacy of these changes, I have to know a lot more about the specifics of the problem. It doesn't do a lot of good to move names around on organization charts if there aren't substantive changes. What's going to happen to the next Phoenix memo? Where's it going to end up?

Walt Whitman

When I heard the learned astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much a

Greg Kraft

She's really been off the charts and so consistent with it.

Anthony Shaffer

I did see the charts and I did handle the charts, but my understanding of them was like a layman, ... We had identified them as terrorists. . . . But even now I do not remember all the names.

Don Waddell

We're going to do depth charts by team. Every team is going to have guys we're going to watch, some teams are going to have more guys.

Eugene Parker

Richard worked something out and went in. Hines, when you consider where he is in his career, has got to do a deal while he's at the top of his charts with his performance. His risk is greater than that of a 25-year-old.

Bill Wyman

Our record was at 98 in the charts when we went so no-one knew us, so people just didn't come to our shows - we'd be in a 10,000 stadium and there'd be 300 people there.

Alex Pareene

The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.

Jim Laughlin

Everything from Spain is kind of flying off the charts lately. They're finding decent growing regions all over the world now. Spain seems to be hot.

Matt Mullenweg

Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.

Mark Shapiro

One third of this season's goal is to be more competitive. Two thirds is to evaluate and develop.

Judy McGrath

Online gaming is an intensely social phenomenon, with millions of young adults around the globe interacting constantly, not only to play, but also to share information and evaluate games.

Vince Borg

Now, we will take the time to evaluate our next steps.

Robert Nigh

Now that this has occurred, he is willing to take a fresh look and evaluate the information.

Masayoshi Okamoto

Gains for U.S. stocks should give us a solid floor today, but we'll see sparse participation from institutional investors wishing to evaluate the outlook for the tech sector,

Rachel Scott

We want to make sure that we do a very thorough investigation and that we evaluate all possibilities.

Mike Shanahan

If these guys are hurt, they'll play. If they're injured, they can't play. . . . But we'll evaluate that later in the week and find out where they're at.

Pat Summitt

She got a concussion. She was out today. We'll evaluate her to see if she'll be back tomorrow.

Tom Daschle

If we can't even figure out how it was that they enacted the threats or moved through that attack, and if we can't evaluate why we were as vulnerable as we were -- if we can't evaluate how it was the last 9/11 happened -- how is it that we can prepare for the next one?

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Patrick Mason

Life is what happens while you are trying to get well.

Will Rogers

Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

Margaret Millar

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Chris Beatty

Life will throw stones at you, and it's what you do when that happens that counts.

Theodore Roethke

Let others probe the mystery if they can/ Time harried prisoners of shall and will./ The right thing happens to the happy man.

Andrew Taylor

Life has overtaken our original plans, and we're hear tonight to talk about the tragedy this weekend. We're here to talk about what happened and to try to prevent it from happening again.

Alfred Adler

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Michael Wickett

Life doesn't happen to us, it happens from us

Michael Wickett

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

Kit Hale

Sellers may not be able to move quite as quickly with the transaction, but prices still remain solid.

William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

Richard Rosenbaum

move on to the next stage of his life.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Tom Bradley

Obviously, we're going to have to move some personnel around and make some adjustments.

Walt Kuver

Of course, the commissioners need to be reassured that this move will be risk-free for the county.

Charles Spurgeon

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Dennis Prager

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Denis Johnson

I knew every raindrop by its name.

Debra Messing

I am a fan of all of the same shows that David just listed. And then I also have a weird obsession with Court TV, which is now truTV - I don't know if you know that. Yeah they changed names. I don't know why they did that but they did. It was a little disconcerting to me at first. But I've gotten over it.

Dieter Rams

I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.

Eduard Buchner

If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

Ben Jonson

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

Basil Bunting

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

Eddie Van Halen

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

Al Reynolds

Many if not most of the property owners out there have taken the next steps.

Jake Gyllenhaal

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

Craig Bradshaw

One more chance. Next season, we have one more chance.

Ed Belfour

One minute, you're a slug. And the next minute, you're a hero.

Sal Mineo

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

Sidney Ponson

One at a time. The next one after one is two. It's not 10.

Laurence Barron

One in six planes sold this year will go to China. Next year that will be one in five.

Chad Knaus

Obviously, we're parked right next to each other in the garage,

D. James

I don't know my situation right now. I'll find out when I get to Phoenix or when I get back from Phoenix.

Cab Calloway

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Bess Myerson

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Mike Butters

Phoenix is a tough team. It'll be a tough game. They're ranked second in the nation, so we're going to have to work.

Ann Coulter

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

Ambrose Bierce

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Dan Fogelberg

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

Billy Corgan

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Javier Rodriguez

Sometimes, we give them a ride from Phoenix over here, but we never smuggled them.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

David Washington

We just wanted to make sure we understand the specifics of what happened. We want to go over everything. We'd like for this thing to be remedied.

Michael Greene

The tone was the right tone but the specifics and the specific commitments, that's for the follow-up,

Michelann Ooten

I don't really know specifics on when it will all be back to normal. It's going to take a while.

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.