Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Smithwick

We want to push the ball every time we get it. We also play a tough man-to-man defense. It affects a lot of these teams.

John Carey

We have to get these interest rate increases behind us and the Fed did hold off this last time, but I think there's still a possibility of another rate increase later in the year. And that's weighing on investor's minds. Earnings have slowed down a little bit. The interest rate increases to date have had an effect and we're seeing some earnings disappointments at some companies and that has investors concerned. But on the other hand, we have the mergers and acquisitions that tend to buoy up the prices in whatever sectors affected from one day to the next and that will keep investors interested in stocks certainly.

Jochen Clausnitzer

We have no indication that the cartoon row has had a negative effect on trade and business there. The top executives in the region are highly educated and have close relations with their German counterparts. They are not affected by the conflict.

George Parker

Whenever teachers don't receive materials they need in a timely manner, it affects how successfully they will be able to implement the new standards,

John Audubon

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

Madeleine M. Kunin

When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.

Jon Kitna

When you get to the playoffs, you know you're the only game going on and you know everybody is watching and you know the ramifications. You have to maintain an even keel. You can be down 10 or up 10, you can't let that affect you.

Ian Smith

We've spent a lot of time talking about the new hospital, but every day we're continuing to provide care in this hospital to huge numbers of patients, ... No matter how much we try to protect our patients, as long as we're struggling with those volumes it is going to affect patient care.

John Mitchell

We've seen the energy shock before, but the difference today is there isn't a lot of excess capacity anymore. The unknowns in countries like Nigeria, Iran and Venezuela have an immediate affect on oil prices. Without excess capacity, anything that takes production off line can spike prices.

Carlos Castaneda

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

Charles Thomas

Whenever they lack. I have to pick it up. I?m an energy guy. So that?s what I have to do.

Jarret Stoll

We wanted to win this game pretty bad. It's the last home game of the regular season for the fans. It's our 20th win at home, which is something we wanted, too. The young guys did a great job. There was a lot of energy out of those guys, and we got a big win.

Charlie Dent

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

Peter Cardillo

The CPI was good news but still leaves that question mark about energy prices. The gasoline hike of the past three weeks was not included in it.

Aaron Eckhart

The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?

Douglas Altabef

The real issue is that energy prices keep rising -- it's like an invisible tax on the market and the consumer.

Tony Bina

We set the tone right away and took the energy out them early.

Greg Todd

We know being a successful private school that we're under a watchful eye. We were very willing and open for the investigation. They spent a lot of time and energy looking at us, and we felt good about the investigation.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Kate Bush

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

David Bowers

The reflation trade is back on. We are seeing more optimism about the global economy.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

John A. Logan

Legally, ... purchasers of goods over the Internet have always been required to pay sales tax on their purchases, but as a practical matter, many haven't, and this will be seen as a tax increase.

Ricardo Garcia

We're going to do it a little different. We're going to trade goods for services.

Igor Ivanov

on goods that may be used for humanitarian problems in Iraq.

Irvin S. Cobb

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

Martin Feldstein

With sound monetary policy, the increases in import prices are offset by lower inflation for domestically produced goods and services.

Pat Buchanan

We'll keep your goods out unless you let our goods in.

Bob Evans

When goods are in transit, somebody's got money invested in it. The sooner the delivery, the sooner you get your money for it.

Sally Potter

When goods are down, and you're selling used, you have to price a lot cheaper,

Ed Sullivan

But it turns out its not a big deal. The imports help, but not significantly.

Rod Page

Who knows, another individual that probably imports it into the state of Kansas.

John Armstrong

The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase.

Ian Scott

Oil prices should be supported by renewed imports into China, while multiples remain low in the sector.

Robert Brusca

Oil is an important culprit. But it is much more than that. Non-oil imports rose by 0.6 percent.

Ron Lewis

The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods.

George W. Bush

More and more of our imports are coming from overseas

Carol Mann

A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

Carlos Ghosn

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

Carlos Ghosn

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Charlie Gonzalez

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Charles de Gaulle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Carre Otis

Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

Carre Otis

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

Carol P. Christ

If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

Carol Leifer

Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.

Carol Moseley Braun

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

Carlos Ghosn

Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times

Carlos Ghosn

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

Carlos Fuentes

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

Carlos Castaneda

My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been forever left behind; that knowledge is indeed a frightening affair; that the means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and that he must adopt a new way of life if he is going to survive. The first thing he ought to do, at that point, is to want to become a warrior...

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

Keith Aubry

No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before.

Amanda Vanstone

The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success,

Monica Crowley

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

John Collins

Phil's not going anywhere. He hasn't been fired, and he's not going to be fired. There is no reduction of responsibility. There is no rift.

David Stern

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season

Bill Wright

Even a slight reduction in revenue can have a significant impact.

Herman Frazier

We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year.

Craig Carper

Hopefully, we'll see a reduction in those numbers.

John Carioba

If you put all that together you end up with a reduction in volume.

Gertrude Stein

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Patti Stanger

I had a breast reduction.

Matt Cookson

We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

David Liu

This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.

Neil Tennant

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

John McCarthy

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Jamie Redknapp

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Eskinder Nega

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

Henry Mason

Most wide receivers are 400-plus. If he could ever get to that point, you've got to think he would be faster.

Daniel Hope

My goal is always to keep my ears as wide open as possible.

Dana Plato

I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

Christopher Monckton

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.