Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcy Kaptur

In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.

Carol Chastang

Make it a regular annual procedure to review and update your insurance. Also remember that insurance on mortgaged property probably only covers the lender with nothing left over for you.

Chu Woosik

Lower NAND prices would boost demand in a few months' time. We still see a 40 percent annual fall in NAND prices.

Beadsie Woo

Lower annual pay and lower pay growth can flow through the economy, because it also means lower consumption, which effects businesses.

Gordon Johnson

Many people like to make New Year's Eve an experience rather than marking it with a single event. The Mesa Symphony's annual New Year's Eve concert is always packed because it allows East Valley residents to start the celebration a little bit early.

Kevin Logan

Seven percent is not an unreasonable estimate for GDP growth. Retail sales were strong, especially with the revisions. Consumer spending possibly grew 12 percent at an annual rate. That's really charging right along.

Kevin Logan

Seven percent is not an unreasonable estimate for GDP growth, ... Retail sales were strong, especially with the revisions. Consumer spending possibly grew 12 percent at an annual rate. That's really charging right along.

Mary Grealy

Millions of American seniors will soon be eligible for significant savings on the annual cost of their medications.

Kevin Hess

Mouser grew sales 30% in 2005 and over the past five years our compound annual growth rate was 22%. I believe the growth can be sustained.

Jan Chipchase

Many retail stores have consumer trackers that study how long your eyes linger on one product, whether you follow it through by touch, and things that you buy. You can redesign things on a shelf, all by tracking such information.

H. Hart

Many consumers have made a significant investment in DVD libraries.

Joe Ridout

Many consumers have discovered that customer service can be a misnomer. The first person you encounter on the phone maze may not be the most helpful.

Van Baker

Many consumers are uncomfortable trying to figure out how to print envelopes on their printers. And the alternative of printing the postage on the letter itself requires a window envelope, which most consumers are not using.

Matthew Adams

Many consumers are moving away from three core meals because they are skipping meals out of necessity. Some consumers are instead eating only when hungry, and eating more frequent meals of smaller portion size.

Dan Levitan

Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

Duncan Davie

Senator Seward thinks it's particularly wrong for consumers to be paying so much tax on gas when they're already paying record profits to the big oil companies.

Emme Kozloff

September sales were surprisingly resilient in the face of significantly higher gasoline prices. While this is reassuring, the question remains: 'How long can the consumer maintain the current spending rate given expectations for continued pressure from energy prices?

David Carey

Semiconductor manufacturers have to predict the market. They have to think like their customers and take their own read on consumer interest.

Jill Davis

We're not disputing the fact that it is power intensive, but you get a transportation fuel which is needed in our economy. So for what you give up you get a lot out.

Paul Mariani

Lyric poetry is by its very nature elegiac - we write about what in fact is already slipping away from us,

Tom Izzo

Let's not anoint us a finished product because we're not. But I like the steps we're taking. I like the fact that players are having some fun doing it.

Colum McCann

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

Perry Hill

Louie's value is the fact he can help a pitching staff.

Eric Christensen

Lee's not a factor for anything but shipping interests,

Eric Wold

Many of the factors that have negatively impacted sales over the past year are lessening.

John Casesa

Several factors should prevent an outright decline, as spending per unit will likely remain strong.

Yolanda Clark

missed the fact that this passenger was a positive match.

Jerry Garcia

Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills

Isabella Rossellini

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

David Cole

Low risk is something we generally recommend that users can ignore. Medium risk is something we quarantine, and high risk is something we automatically remove.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

Russell Smith

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

Jen Smith

More Americans seem generally lazy while many undocumented immigrants work harder for less pay because they want a better life and know what's at stake in getting that life.

Michael Dixon

Most all of them are pretty much word-for-word the same. Most every impact statement is negative. Generally that's what they are because people talk about how much the resources pull away.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Glenn Tilton

much stronger position to seize growth opportunities as we move forward.

Jeff Schuster

Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.

Heather Dougherty

Online sales are poised to well outperform the growth in retail overall as more shoppers turn to the Web for convenience and values.

Elbert Hubbard

Growth is often a painful process.

John Silvia

Growth looks solid. The problem is prices paid were up again, suggesting inflation pressures remain a concern.

John Goulter

Growth like that shows we're heading in the right direction.

Gary Thayer

Growth is still at a healthy level. There is no major slowdown.

Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I work, so I'll say dinner, ... I have a job now.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I'm at work, so it'll have to be dinner. I have a job now.

Marc Warren

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

Gary Mickelson

legal obligation to do their job and are not part of this dispute.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Kelly Meek

Scotty knows our system so well, anyway. He is doing a super job playing within what he has.

Martin O'Malley

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices here rebounded ... after the market succumbed to profit-taking for a second straight day (on Wednesday).

Michael Carty

Sentiment, generally, is the big problem now. Even as market fundamentals are starting to improve, people are reluctant to buy,

John Yap

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

Corey Ostman

Semiconductors are not what the market wants to see right now.

Loren Loverde

Maybe we can't keep up the pace, but the market is healthy.

Mark Mahaney

Maybe the market wants to pay that, but I wouldn't want to do that,

Hideyuki Suzuki

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Next week's market is going to be big for tech companies. As long as the Nasdaq powers ahead, we're going to see more and more filings.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Denis Hayes

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

Dick Thornburgh

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Walter Benjamin

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Alan Greenspan

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Alan Greenspan

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

Chogyam Trungpa

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

David Myers

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Cesar Pelli

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Mirko Mikelic

Maytag produces 99 percent in the U.S., and they are just not price competitive.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Craig Hansen

I feel like I'm ready. I feel like my game's 100 percent right now.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

David Buck

I would say 99 percent of what's out there on the road right now is not a safety hazard, not an impediment.

Kyle Cavanaugh

I would say 95 percent of the affidavit is fine.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

John Parsons

The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.

Michael Lewis

We probably won't need a rate rise now until September,

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

Dean Stanley

Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Alan Mulally

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

Camille Paglia

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Arthur Scargill

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arne Duncan

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Scott Moody

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

John Beilein

Now we just go back and teach. We start over.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Marco Buechel

If Bode wants to start winning, he could start winning tomorrow, immediately.

Karel Bruckner

I can tell you that the starting lineup will be very different this time.

Melissa Carlson

Get out there and start talking to people.

Kevin McHale

Getting Marko was something we really wanted to do. It's all starting to come together.

Deepak Chopra

What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Barbara Tuchman

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.