Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Shimkus

We're home, we're accessible, ... They're the final arbiter on Election Day.... In all reality, they could oust me before I get to the term-limit pledge.

Jon Benjamin

I think the message one would hope the mayor would take away from this is that he is not the sole arbiter of standards in public life, that an elected official can nevertheless go beyond what is acceptable.

John Roberts

He did what a judge should do, not give any indication on any specific case or how he might look at that because if he does, he's not going to be the impartial arbiter a judge should be,

Robert Schaeffer

Standardized testing has become the arbiter of social mobility, yet there is more regulation of the food we feed our pets that of the tests we give our kids

Phil Klay

I think that just because you've been through an experience doesn't make you the ultimate arbiter of what it means. We figure things out; we work things out through the help of other people who can engage with us but also be intelligently critical.

Kerry Greenwood

Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.

John Battelle

The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement, that publication's brand will be weak. A good publication is a convener and an arbiter - it expresses a core narrative that becomes a badge of sorts for its readership.

Ben Bernanke

I think it's generally a bad idea for the Fed to be the arbiter of asset prices. The Fed doesn't really have any better information than other people in the market about what the correct value of asset prices is.

Martin Jacques

Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world could be remade in the American image, that the previous bipolar world could be replaced by a unipolar one in which the U.S. was the dominant arbiter of global and regional affairs.

Tom Schrader

I think the unemployment report is the main indicator people are waiting for this week.

Susan Blake

I think that the more information we have on a student, the better indicator we have of their prospective success.

David Littman

Our leading indicator - the one that's never lied to us like the politicians - suggests only 23 percent probability of recession over the next 12 months, that's very low.

Jim Calhoun

I don't have a number, but I have a strong indicator that it will be settled before we play next weekend.

David Weinberger

How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.

Bob Hill

When you're playing playoff teams, it is more of an indicator of where we are and how we're playing.

John Cornyn

The Pew report is another indicator that the immigration system is broken.

Neville Isdell

It's not an indicator one way or another.

Julius Peppers

It's an indicator of what's happening, but (the numbers) really don't tell the whole story,

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles de Gaulle

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

John Schneider

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

Mike Hargrove

I don't know that he was awe-struck, but he was terribly excited.

Oriana Fallaci

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

Anna Chancellor

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

Antony Gormley

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Phil Dinsky

There's nothing terribly wrong with it. It's going to be re-formatting it and updating a little bit.

Roilo Golez

I'm terribly disappointed with (Marcos). But that is her prerogative,

Nastassja Kinski

I'm not terribly consistent, and that worries me.