Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.

Ken Goldstein

We've seen the trade deficit widen each of the last four years at relatively the same pace. What's going to happen because of Asian flu is it will widen twice as fast this year as it did each of the last four years.

Alan Greenspan

The extent and pace of recovery of Asian economies currently experiencing a severe downturn will have important ramifications for prices of energy and other commodities, the strength of the dollar, and competitive conditions on world product markets,

Georg Petersen

The problem with this country, as in many Asian countries is that a large portion of the chickens are raised by farmers in their backyard and even within the cities, people are raising chickens and this is very difficult to control.

Suzanne Fields

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Terry Lanni

The proclivity of Asian people to gamble is pretty staggering. People borrow from loan sharks and gamble with it.

Toshihiko Fukui

In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the world, particularly with the other East Asian economies.

Jasmine Trias

There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.

Masahiro Kawai

The possibility of a US dollar collapse or sharp decline may be small at this point but it would generate very significant turmoil so East Asian economies... ought to be ready for that.

Spike Lee

We have a sort of understanding that works on the set. When you're shooting, the cash register is ringing . Denzel and I know where we're going before shooting starts. Then, it's a matter of doing it.

Brian Gendreau

There are a lot of good things going on for equities ... corporations are full of cash right now.

Louis Navellier

What we do is we test what works on Wall Street. And sometimes it is earnings momentum, and sometimes it's earnings surprises. Sometimes it's price-to-sales cash flow, and then we put together our stock selection models.

Dianne Wiest

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

David Tang

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

Michael Nathanson

We want to see real earnings and cash flow.

Michael Donovan

This rate proposal is intended to enable the company to maintain the financial strength to continue constructing the projects required to meet customer needs. O&R has maintained its A-plus credit rating, though its cash flow measures are weak for that rating and are dependent on constructive regulatory policies.

Ernie Ankrim

We've got astonishing amounts of corporate cash and the earnings continue to come in strong,

Charlie Munger

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

Himanshu Patel

We still see more downside than upside risk to 2007 consensus earnings.

Bill Carrick

We're seeing the Democrats moving toward that position. Senator Kerry will be joined by others. There's going to be a consensus around phased withdrawal.

Jeffrey Edelman

While management will likely continue to guide conservatively, we expect 2006 outlook will be at least in-line with (analysts' consensus estimate of) $4.18. JC Penney's stepped up branding campaign, which kicks off March 2 and includes a temporary NY store, should drive some sales and more importantly position them for market share gains as industry rationalization frees up share.

Hugo Chavez

What a great truth and how good it is that in Mar del Plata President Kirchner has come to say it to millions: the Washington consensus is broken; we are looking for a new model,

Natan Sharansky

The prime minister is traveling without trying to make consensus here. I prefer to be with the majority.

Samir Geagea

Lebanon is the true land of consensus par excellence,

Leonard Susskind

Why is there space rather than no space? Why is space three-dimensional? Why is space big? We have a lot of room to move around in. How come it's not tiny? We have no consensus about these things. We're still exploring them.

David Douglass

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Peoria, Connecticut, Atlanta, ... I've got the Big East tournament on Thursday, the ACC on Friday, the SEC on Saturday. Then we've got the NCAA tournament. We've had guys out for the past six months. We've seen all the consensus top high school guys. We've been to Europe. We've ranked all the NBA players from all 29 teams. We've got guys everywhere.

John Hargreaves

We have produced record results...these have been delivered by providing our members with outstanding value for money and through continued store expansion,

Michael Flanagan

There is continued takeover speculation surrounding the entire group. I suspect that is the primary reason moving the stock.

David King

We shall never forget their enthusiasm, love of space, dedication, and their continued inspiration.

Hilary Clinton

Very calmly, we went out to the sidewalk in front of our office and continued our discussion.

Lawrence Hargrave

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.

Rob Sims

We deserve that record. Our guys played hard and stuck together through a lot of ups and downs. And we continued to win.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Justice Theodore

The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Tony Lesiak

We have revised our target price from $27 US to $28.50 US to reflect significantly higher synergy and exploration potential at Red Lake despite the higher purchase price.

Carlton Cuse

I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.

Ted Baker

We are pleased to report strong first-half results despite a tough UK retail environment,

Trey Songz

My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.

Carol Ross

She has played very well this season, despite being the primary focus of each team we play. She plays so hard each and every game and is an inspiration for her teammates.

Paul Walsh

Since the start of the new financial year the key drivers of performance have remained unchanged, ... In premium drinks, top line growth ... has been maintained despite some weakening of economic conditions.

Chris Paulson

She really showed me a lot of guts and got after it despite the weather.

Rowen Tupuivao

Mentally hanging in there despite all the mistakes, that was the key for us. We could have folded, but we didn't go to sleep. We tried to make something happen.

Alafair Burke

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Art Hogan

We've sort of gotten through the meat of earnings season, and we're going to start focusing on the state of the economy.

Tracy Eichler

There are a lot of cross-currents in the market. We're still a market that's torn between (concern about) earnings and interest rates.

Louis Gerstner

This was a solid quarter, with earnings per share up 20 percent and an acceleration of revenue growth relative to the first half of the year,

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Lucy Macdonald

We're still running with oil stocks. They still are being supported. They haven't become much more expensive because earnings are going up with them.

Frank Gannon

Until we start seeing some better earnings news, I think the market's going to be in this bottoming phase.

Eula Biss

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

Phil Davis

We are here every day monitoring the effects of the smoke and if there is a need for us to take people away from the smoke we will do that.

John Lilly

When you talk about effects of (winning that game), in any one year it doesn't have that great of an effect,

Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Iris Chenault

She's tired today because she didn't get enough sleep without the machine. That's one of the side effects you don't get a good night's sleep.

Roman Romanenko

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.

Richard P. Feynman

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Davis III

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

Robert Winston

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.

Samuel Smiles

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

Doug Smith

This was a strong set of numbers -- we had a pretax estimate of 1.184 billion,

Joe Haworth

We did lose possibly as much as two million gallons onto the beaches. We're still doing the estimates on that. We don't know how much could possibly have made it to the ocean. We know some did.

Euben Paracuelles

We are maintaining our full-year 2005 GDP estimate at 4.8 percent, which implies an improvement in the fourth quarter to 5.1 percent.

Gretchen Dykstra

Until you go out into the real world, the estimates are just that.

James Faucette

Most people's estimates will be going up for the fourth quarter.

David Greene

My job is to put out the most conservative estimate and we're hoping to raise somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000 between the 16 authors.

Will Whitehorn

Let me be clear, this is an estimate only,

Ted Parrish

Semi stocks won't do anything until we get guidance about estimates for 2004. Otherwise, the stocks will get really overheated.

Carlos Beltran

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Carlos Castaneda

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

Johnny Damon

We have to go out and expect to win every game. I think everyone knows it's our job.

Steve Ballmer

We have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.

Kiran More

We have named him in the team. We expect him to be fit. Let us wait till tomorrow.

Stephen Reitman

We have moved to expectations of a loss of 100 million euros for the fourth quarter of this year from Chrysler, whereas we had previously been expecting a small profit.

Jamal Mayers

When you're up 5-3 going into the third period, you expect to win. They won because they worked harder than we did. It's as simple as that.

Brian McCutcheon

When he gets the puck, people start to come out of their seats. It's expect the unexpected with Max." ()

Charles Dickens

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Bryan Hassler

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Jacques Rogge

We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.

David Leff

This property is a very high priority. We remain open to further discussions.

Kenneth Branagh

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Edward Murphy

We won't go any further with the VA until this process comes to some sort of conclusion.

Margaret Chan

Until we see further evidence, we are still at Phase 3 of the pandemic alert,

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

David Baker

We've seen incredible growth in the past two years.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Mitchell Corwin

Walgreen remains on a steady growth path, relatively unabated by industry or competitive threats.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Janet Yellen

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

Krish Krishnan

We have seen a tremendous increase in terms of the interest we are getting here.

Jiang Enzhu

We have no intention, nor the ability, to increase our military armaments substantially.

James Long

We've seen a slight increase (in international travelers). But it's not like it used to be.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.

Jeremy Siegel

The persistent increase in oil prices is worrying me again.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Coleen Rowley

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception.

Rick Fox

This will be an ongoing process and will take up to a year to close.

Craig Johnson

We perceive this to be an ongoing threat that will be there for many years to come.

Virginia Kice

We have an open and ongoing investigation so we're not talking a lot about it.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Stan Heath

We've seen some zones this year, but Texas-Pan American will play zone about 80 percent of the time.

Greg Sullivan

We've seen discounts up to 50 percent off, but those are not the norm.

Larry Matheis

We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Stephen Roach

The recession is not over. We will probably have a 'double dip,' another downturn, by spring.

Peter Morgan

we don't have a recession with these figures.

Ken Goldstein

It can't just smell like a recession - it has to smell, look and taste like one.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Hemant Shah

Until we see some resolution of these issues, I think Merck and Pharmacia's stock will remain under pressure,

Max Heindel

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Capt. Boney

We're just going to have to find the right person out there with the right information. They can remain anonymous.

Li Hui

I don't think you can write the state sector off. They will remain a big contributor to GDP.

Saudi Arabia

I didn't want to talk to them. I had a right to remain silent.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

Trevor Carritt

Cedar Rapids Prairie is a solid team with no weak weight classes.

Nic Beaver

We have to be solid between our ears. If we play our game, I'm not worried at all.

Martin Pyykkonen

This seems, on balance, a solid report, with nothing wrong in the quarter,

John Blackburn

We competed well in non-conference play and have had solid practices.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Jane Addams

The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.

Jane Austen

She was stronger alone…

Janet Jackson

When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Jane Goodall

You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.

Bob Marley

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. The men's team will keep getting stronger and stronger.

Ai Weiwei

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

Bill Richardson

Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world