Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin George

Ultimately it comes down to where the consumer is.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

Gary Campbell

We are positive on stocks, especially those that are benefiting from very strong U.S. consumer demand.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Alan Ackerman

There are continued uncertainties, ... The U.S. economy is slowing and commensurate with that is slowing consumer spending and corporate spending.

Scott Brown

There are some encouraging signs in retail sales, but if you look at what the source of consumer spending is, it's really income growth, and wage growth has been lackluster, suggesting the consumer will not be robust going forward.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

Marshal Cohen

Until they're able to prove that consumers are going to respond to the changes, the Street is very nervous. It's a very big undertaking to convince the country that a national Macy's is better than regional department stores.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

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.

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Charles Caleb Colton

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Alan Rickman

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Antonin Scalia

So if B pays more than A, that's acceptable?

Richard McGrath

We're a reputable organization that pays its bills.

Josh Thomas

He really works with you and pays attention.

Tyra Grant

He does a lot of different things for me. He pays for me going to camp. He's a very big part of my life.

James Lowell

I scent wich pays the best, an' then / Go into it baldheaded.

Matthew Stewart

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

Bryan Colangelo

He's a thug, and I want him out. He's always been a thug. I'll do everything in my power to see that he pays for it.

Ellen Chenoweth

I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off.

Grover Norquist

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Jeff Bowden

If it wasn't worth it, I wouldn't be here.

Sean Sommeran

I think it's worth it. These days, it's a war.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Alice Hoffman

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.