Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

Alan Watts

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Lisa Gansky

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Al Rosen

The other speculation would be that there were some documents that were seized in that raid at the Bank of Nova Scotia, that someone may have noticed certain sales or transactions.

Maxim Medvedkov

The position on banks and insurance has not changed. We consider their opening as impossible.

Michael Mayo

The performance of the Bank of New York's retail bank has lagged, the stock value of pure-plays has increased, and Bank of New York stock has lagged. We sense that the time is right for this move.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

The plus reading will definitely pave the way for an end to the Bank of Japan's ultra-easy monetary policy and the market has not factored this in yet.

Don Horner

We are proud to be the only bank servicing the Sand Island community and are pleased to provide an expanded facility to all of the customers in the area.

Douglas Altabef

The potential is that there could have been a surprise that could have influenced the Fed next Tuesday, and clearly that hasn't happened. But employment is a lagging indicator. So the report is not a reflection of where the economy is going, but where it's been.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

David Wald

We are pleased with the decisions. It clearly established the constitutionality of the Internet Registry Act.

John Kyriakopoulos

There are clearly upside risks around the consensus expectations for non-farm payrolls. As such, we would not be short the U.S. dollar over the next 24 hours.

Dave Roberts

There are clearly stated problems that we have to identify and have to uncover. The overlying theme is things that would lead to sudden incapacitation,

Rod Smyth

We're in a market that is clearly in a little short-term decision box. It's the debate whether core inflation remains low, which allows the Fed to stop raising rates, or whether core inflation is not able to be contained. We'll get a progression of data and numbers that will help resolve this somewhat, but until then, we're in the box.

Carol Marlow

We spent longer than we had planned in Fort Lauderdale, which meant that the itinerary has had to be changed, and we do regret that sincerely and clearly we do recognize there's been a lot of disruption.

Lucas Black

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any information on any imminent releases.

Stephen Jones

It doesn't mean there's an imminent threat. But people don't like the in-your-face discussions.

Takahide Kiuchi

The market has already priced in an imminent move.

Laura Martin

We think it is imminent that you will get a new Pixar-Disney deal.

Barack Obama

I didn't see the weapons of mass destruction at the time, I didn't think there was an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein.

Kenichiro Ikezawa

It will probably be a long way off before we get to a 2 percent inflation rate, meaning the BOJ is not going do any imminent rate increases. That will keep the rate-differential theme and push the yen lower.

Jerry B. Jenkins

It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.

Howard Dean

Iraq was not an imminent threat to the United States. It turned out they did not have the weapons of mass destruction that people thought they did, myself included. It turned out that much of what the president told us was not so.

Dale Timmermann

The margin is less than what it was, but you do not have an imminent problem of meeting your obligations.

Akio Morita

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

Akio Morita

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

David Milne

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Suzuki

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Lucio Tan

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Billy Higgins

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Bill Plympton

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Chris Bohjalian

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

David Cross

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

Catherine Tate

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

Casey Kasem

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing,

Doug Arthur

We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now.

Bertrand Russell

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

Charlie Munger

For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood.

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

Barbara Corcoran

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Michael Giles

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.

George Foster

We'll have to go back and resample all the previous sampled locations.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Joe Papin

We started out really quick, using our speed. As soon as they scored the first goal, we went a little flat.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)

Jon Daniels

We'd like to get him up here as soon as possible.

David Montgomery

We'd like to do it as soon as possible.

Sadhu Johnston

We're monitoring the equipment. As soon as that's done and the weather breaks, we'll be up there.

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.